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Sunday, March 31, 2002, Chandigarh, India

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Unregistered property dealers thrive
Now, their licences won’t be renewed
SAS Nagar, March 30
The practice of allowing unregistered property dealers to negotiate deals continues here. The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority has been losing lakhs of rupees due to this, as officials of the Estate Office do nothing to stop it.

Holi revellers have field day
61 injured in clashes in Panchkula
Chandigarh, March 30
All roads led to celebrations yesterday as youngsters, armed with water pistols and balloons, took to streets on their bikes and cars to play Holi.

WE’RE HAVING FUN: How was your Holi?
— Photos Manoj Mahajan

REGIONAL BRIEFS

EARLIER STORIES

	Rationals vs radicals on ‘jyotir vigyan’ in PU March 29, 2002
	Compartment cases at PU: third time lucky? March 28, 2002
	Board to revamp examination system March 27, 2002
	‘Lagaan’ creates history, despite losing Oscar March 26, 2002
	PM halts at city airport March 25, 2002
	Support POTO, Jaitley counsels Cong March 24, 2002
	3 per cent quota for the disabled in educational institutions March 23, 2002
	PGI becomes costlier March 22, 2002
	Professional courses to cost more at PU March 21, 2002
	SAS Nagar Council awaits fiscal aid March 20, 2002
	Cheers! Beery times ahead March 19, 2002

PU divided over complaints
Chandigarh, March 30
The Panjab University Syndicate and Senate seem to be divided over how the PU should process complaints against the university or its officials, teachers or students.

Telecom services restored after 18 hours
Chandigarh, March 30
The telecom system which collapsed in the southern parts of the city around 8 p.m. on Thursday night could be restored only after 18 hours yesterday. And that too after advice was sought from Japanese experts over telephone.

A day of victory for shoeshine boys
Chandigarh, March 30
The past 25 days had been days of acid test for them. Right from March 5 when five shoeshine boys from Janata Colony broke a record of sorts by becoming the first-ever slum children from the city to take Class V examination, they had all been awaiting the declaration of results with bated breath.

COMMUNITY

Narrow escape for car driver

Chandigarh, March 30
The driver of a Maruti Esteem car, Suresh Kumar, had a narrow escape when his car over turned after colliding with a Haryana Roadways bus near the Labour Chowk on Dakshin Marg here in the afternoon. Mr Kumar was the lone occupant of the car. THIS SIDE UP

THIS SIDE UP: Passers-by lend a helping hand to put this car on its wheels on Dakshin Marg, Chandigarh, after it collided with a bus on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

READERS WRITE
Sorry state of affairs at PU dispensary
THE Panjab University dispensary is in a terrible mess. Instead of a dispensary, it looks like a slum mela. People would be able to know the true state of affairs in this dispensary if some representatives of PUTA, PUSA and students, either individually or in groups, visit it and meet doctors and patients.

House building society committee members
Chandigarh, March 30
Major-Gen, Bachittar Singh (retd), Brig Harmel Singh Bath (retd), Mr P.S. Malik, Lieut-Col Kanwar Singh (retd), Mr Vijay Uppal, Mr Atul Vig and Ms Rita Kathuria were elected members of the managing committee of the Shivalik Environ Cooperation House Building Society Limited, Saketri (Panchkula).

Press Club poll today
Chandigarh, March 30
The annual election for the office-bearers of the Chandigarh Press Club will be held tomorrow. The election will be held on the Press Club premises. Polling will start at 9.30 a.m. and close at 3.30 p.m.

CRIME

Suicide bid by two
Chandigarh, March 30
A resident of Sector 22, Babu Lal, reportedly tried to commit suicide by pouring kerosene on his body and setting afire. He was rushed to the PGI with 90 per cent burns.

2-yr jail for taking bribe
Chandigarh, March 30
The special CBI judge at Patiala has convicted a Telecom Department functionary for demanding and accepting bribe from a Ropar resident for installing a telephone connection at his place.

EDUCATION

The first day at school

Chandigarh, March 30
Tiny tots in colourful gear, lugging turtle-shaped bags and Tupperware bottles with parents in toe is a common sight at most nursery school gates. Yet, in spite of all the positive thoughts and preparation, which go into equipping children for their first day at school, the scene at the gates and in the classrooms is often chaotic. Children of Strawberry Fields

Children of Strawberry Fields delightfully watch a monkey show at school in Sector 24.

Pall of gloom in hostel
Chandigarh, March 30
A pall of gloom descended over the Sarojini Hostel for Girls at Panjab University today when news about the death of a hostel resident arrived from her residence at Nawanshahr in Punjab.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
Order to speed up investigation
Chandigarh, March 30
Taking serious note of the delay in probing criminal cases, Mr Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that there was definite need to develop and follow a “better mechanism for implementing the right to speedy investigation”.

JBT teachers

Coffee gets back its house
Chandigarh, March 30
A local court on Thursday restored to the Sector 17 Indian Coffee House the possession of its premises by ordering a stay on eviction.

28 nominations for Bar elections
Chandigarh, March 30
Twenty-eight advocates have filed their nominations for various posts of the District Bar Association which goes to poll on April 12. Those who have filed nominations for the post of president are: Mr N.K Nanda, Mr S.P.S Bhullar, Mr Rajinder Mahajan, Ms Kulwant Kaur and Ms Anita Ahuja.

CULTURE

Weak music link mars love story
‘Kitne Door Kitne Paas’ (Batra) is a clean love story minus the crippling family bondages and estranged lovers who are nothing more than stepping stones hampering the progress of a predictable end. Fardeen Khan and Amrita Arora make a cute pair.

WESTERN FILM REVIEW
Not a block-buster, but Americans will like it
Chandigarh
On October 3, 1993, an elite squad of US troops stationed in war-ravaged, famine-hit Somalia was rushed to the capital Mogadishu.

HEALTH

Arogya 2002 begins today
Admn plans to promote health tourism
Chandigarh, March 30
Chandigarh and neighbouring states are planning to follow the Kerala pattern and promote health tourism in a big way.

20 vendors challaned under PFA Act
Chandigarh, March 30
The Department of Health carried out raids near Neelam Cinema in Sector 17, Grain Market, Sector 26, Bajwara Market, Sector 22, Bapu Dham Colony, Khuda Lahora, Rehri Market, Sector 15 and other places and challaned 20 vendors under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act.

SPORTS

Servo Super Cross Meet today
Chandigarh, March 30
All is set for the Servo Super Cross Meet which will be held here tomorrow at Circus grounds, Sector 17. According to Mr Shashi Garcha, president of the Chandigarh Motor Sports Association, the one-day extravaganza will have events in four classes.

Tennis tourney
Volleyball
Dart Board meet
Cricket matches

An evening with Dinesh Mongia
Chandigarh, March 30
It was a lovely Thursday evening at the Chandigarh Golf Range, Kishangarh, where the star cricketer and hero of the recent India- Zimbabwe series, Dinesh Mongia was honoured for clinching the man of the series award.