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TRIBUNE DEBATE
PU needs to learn from Pammi episode
More discretion needed in the selection of senators, say dons
Chandigarh, April 29
Several questions have arisen about the credibility of Panjab University after it took no action against its Senator, Paramjit Singh Pammi, for his alleged involvement in the infamous appointment scandal run by the Punjab Public Service Commission, Chairman, Ravi Sidhu.

Prof Sahib Singh Prof S.V. Kesar Prof S.K. Kulkarni Prof A.C. Jhulka Prof K.N. Pathak Prof N.K. Oberoi Mr G.C. Chatrath

Sector 17 sits on a virtual fire bomb
Parking area gives no access to fire tenders
Chandigarh, April 29
The commercial hub of the city, Sector 17 market, sits on a ticking fire bomb as parking arrangements leave no dedicated space for fire tenders to climb elevated platforms to quickly respond to a distress call.

Shruti eyeing Miss World crown
“My motto is to uplift the girl child”
Chandigarh, April 29
She is no ravishing beauty, but there is something delightful about her charms. Plain in complexion, they enhance the honesty of her being, arming her with all that takes to be at the zenith of the glamour world. No wonder Shruti Sharma is right there — as the reigning Miss India World, 2002, notwithstanding her miserable failure last year.

Shruti dances with NIFD students

Chandigarh, April 29 For students of the National Institute of Fashion Designing, Sector 8, it was a moment to cherish. As they celebrated the collaboration of NIFD with Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Femina Miss India World Shruti Sharma celebrated along with them. As brand ambassador for NIFD, Shruti will be launching all significant events the institute organises in the future.
Femina Miss India World 2002 Shruti Sharma dances with students of NIFD to celebrate the collaboration of the National Institute of Fashion Design with Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University at Chandigarh on Monday. — Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma

When subordinates overwhelm bosses Chandigarh, April 29 Who runs the Chandigarh Police: the Inspector General of Police or his subordinates? Well the IG is the supreme authority but a recent case has opened the eyes of the top brass in the police as well as the Chandigarh Administration making officials sit up and take notice.

Terrorist, accomplices held

Panchkula, April 29 A terrorist, who had jumped parole, was arrested by the local police along with his four accomplices, including an SPO of the Punjab police, here last evening. The notorious terrorist, Harjit Singh, jumped parole on January 26, this year. He did not report to the Patiala jail after spending 28 days on parole. He was undergoing life imprisonment. Harjit Singh (centre) was nabbed along with members of his gang by Panchkula police on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

COMMUNITY

Internet telephony picks up
Chandigarh, April 29
Launched nearly a month ago in the country, Internet telephony is becoming popular with city residents. Though only a few operators have started providing calling cards, including Glide and Net 4 India, a tough competition in this industry is being foreseen in the near future.

Hope sustains father’s search for missing son
Chandigarh, April 29
Tears in the eyes of Mr Rajinder Singh, a Non-Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army, have dried up. His two sons Amit Kumar and Rinku alias Manoj Kumar, were allegedly “kidnapped” from his native village Kampil in Farrukhabad district in Uttar Pradesh on July 4, 2000.

FAUJI BEAT
Pakistan achieves mastery in one-upmanship game
WHEN our 2 Corps moved close to the border but well within the Indian territory in the first week of January, Pakistan raised a hue and cry and protested to the American government that we were about to launch an offensive against it.

Takeover of parking lots by May 1 unlikely
Chandigarh, April 29
Most of the paid parking contractors have expressed their inability to take over paid parking lots of Sectors 17, 8 and 9 from the Municipal Corporation by May 1. The corporation has given them time till May 3 to take over the lots but contractors are in favour of starting the arrangements from May 6.

MC to allocate 2 lakh for slum development
Chandigarh, April 29
The Slum Committee of the Municipal Corporation here today proposed to allocate Rs 2 lakh for open drains, schools, mobile toilets in colonies and transfer of animal rearers from Kumhar Colony to Dhanas.

MC depts asked to send expenditure account today
Chandigarh, April 29
With the Municipal Corporation departments dragging their feet on sending expenditure accounts of the fiscal 2001-2002, the Accounts Department has sent a reminder to them to furnish the information by tomorrow.

IRSLA awarded trophies Chandigarh, April 29 The local unit of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) Ladies Association has been awarded with the Best Performance Trophy and the Samajik Chetna Trophy (for welfare of women and children), by the apex body of IRSLA. The awards were given at a function in New Delhi on April 27.
Ms Sunita Sharma (fourth from left), president of the local unit of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) Ladies Association with the trophies awarded to the association for carrying out welfare projects in Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

CEVA to conduct workshop
Chandigarh, April 29
The Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi will organise an interactive workshop for people who either work or want to work with children and young people. The 15-day workshop will be held from May 1 at Government Model School, Sector 10 between 5 pm and 8.30 pm daily.

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CRIME

Two arrested for bootlegging
Chandigarh, April 29
In different incidents, two persons have been arrested for bootlegging and 48 pouches and nine bottles of liquor were seized from their possession. A resident of Dadu Majra colony, Ram Mehar, was arrested from Sector 38 (West) with 48 pouches, while Braham Dutt, a resident of Dhanas, was arrested from Sector 38 while he was allegedly selling liquor bottles.

Inter-state gang busted, four held
Chandigarh, April 29
With the arrest of four persons from the Sector 17 ISBT, CIA staff of the local police today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang involved in thefts at various bus stands and railway stations.

Panchkula house burgled

Panchkula, April 29 A gang of burglars struck at the house of Mr Sandeep Sehgal in Sector 17 late last night and took away goods and valuables worth Rs 25,000. Sources said the robbers broke into the house of Mr Sehgal who had gone to Delhi along with his family to see his brother two days ago. Mr Sandeep Sehgal, a resident of Sector 17, Panchkula, shows goods scattered in a room after a burglary at his house on Sunday. — Tribune photograph

BUSINESS

• BIZ CLIP

EDUCATION

St Kabir School win debate contest Chandigarh, April 29 St Kabir School, Sector 26, the host team of “Frank Anthony Memorial All India Inter School Debate Competition 2002”, won the preliminary round in category II, which was meant for students of Class X and below, beating four other schools today. Manbir Singh and Yachika Dhawan, winners of the Frank Anthony Memorial All-India Inter-School Debate Competition-2002, at St Kabir Public School, Sector 26 in Chandigarh on Monday.  — A Tribune photograph

Dev Samaj ‘honours’employees
Chandigarh, April 29
“Employer-Employee day” was celebrated on Dev Samaj campus, Sector 36, here yesterday. The day is celebrated to honour employees for their credible service to the society and is a part of the philosophy of promoting human relationships.

Annual ‘sanman samaroh’
Chandigarh, April 29
The Guru Harkrishan Educational Society organised its 10th annual ‘sanman samaroh’ at the Rotary Club Hall, Sector 18, here yesterday. As many as 37 students from various universities and institutions were honoured for topping in the fields of engineering, medicine and other professional courses.

Manav Mangal School win trophy
Panchkula, April 29
Manav Mangal School, Sector 11, has won the inter-school declamation trophy and on-the-spot painting competition conducted by the Sathya Sai Seva organisation at Sector 7.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
Notice to CM on probe panel
Chandigarh, April 29
Taking up a petition challenging a notification issued by the Punjab Government, appointing a one-member commission for looking into the allegations of “irregularities, illegalities, corruption and other misdoings” of the previous government headed by Mr Parkash Singh Badal, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Punjab Chief Minister and the state of Punjab, besides another respondent.

DISTRICT COURTS
Three get bail in illicit liquor case
Chandigarh, April 29
The UT District and Sessions Judge, Mr H.S. Bhalla, today granted bail to Surjit Singh, Ramesh and Azad, in a case of manufacturing an illicit liquor. The accused were granted bail on the furnishing bond of Rs 1 lakh each with two surety of the same amount.

CONSUMER COURTS
Institute told to pay Rs 5,400 to student
Chandigarh, April 29
A consumer court has directed Software Solution Integrated Limited, Sector 9, to pay Rs 5,400 to a student for deficiency in its services. Mr Varun Katyal, a city resident, stated in a complaint that he had enrolled in the Software Solution Integrated Limited Institute for a 10 weeks’ course commencing on June 29, 2000, for one-and-a-half hours’ duration daily.

CULTURE

A man devoted to music
Chandigarh, April 29
He may not have earned the fame which Hans Raj Hans did, but he has managed to earn the honour of being rated as the “most melodious singer of Punjab.” Least affected by the fact that fame keeps eluding him, Sabar Koti still devotes most moments of his day to music.

Music cassette of ‘Shaheed-e-Azam’ released
Chandigarh, April 29
The music of “Shaheed-e-Azam”, a film based on the life of Sardar Bhagat Singh, was released by SAS Nagar-based Catrack music company. The cassette comprises eight songs by singers Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Jaspinder Narula, Sardool Sikander, Sadhna Sargam and Naseeba Lal.

HEALTH

Workshop on AIDS opens
Chandigarh, April 29
A two-day workshop on HIV/AIDS was inaugurated at Punjab Red Cross Bhavan by Mr Rajan Kashyap, Principal Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, here today.

Telemedicine system for doctors
SAS Nagar, April 29
The field trials of telemedicine system, an ambitious project of the Union Ministry of Information Technology, today began at the local Centre for Electronics Design and Technology of India. The system would enable doctors stationed across the country to share opinion about patients amongst themselves through video conferencing

SPORTS

Captain’s Day golf a big draw

Chandigarh, April 29 Two hundred and twenty members took part in the stableford competition in their respective categories in the Captain’s Day golf tournament here yesterday. The youngest golfer to take part was five-year-old Seerat and the oldest Capt Shamsher Singh, who is now 82. The winners of different categories after the prize distribution function at the Chandigarh Golf Club on Sunday evening.

CRSB beat SBOP in TT meet
Chandigarh, April 29
The Central Revenue Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Tournament was declared open by Mr S.C. Grover, IRS, Chief Commissioner, Income Tax (North West region), here today at the Sector 23 TT Hall. Mr V.K. Sharma, Commissioner, Central Excise Commissionerate, Chandigarh, said the tournament had acquired a larger appeal as institutions like Punjab State Electricity Board, State Bank Of Patiala, Reserve Bank of India, Accountant General (Audit), Oriental Insurance Company, Railways, etc. were taking part in it.

ADMINISTRATION

Councillor for change in sweeping timings
Chandigarh, April 29
The Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation are exploring the possibilities of cleaning certain parts of the city in the night on experimental basis due to ‘’failure’’ of morning and evening duties in keeping the city clean.