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School-going children face ‘danger’
Rickety buses, rash drivers, callous Admn
Chandigarh, August 24
Rickety, overloaded and over-aged buses with no safety controls in place. Maverick drivers and kids handled by insensitive conductors. Speeding autorickshaws packed with children and their schoolbags. Sending children to school is getting risky. No one seems to be incharge. Schools pass on the buck around to the transporters. So between home and school the child is virtually on his/her own.

• Drive against erring school buses continues
  

Lion undergoes CT scan; report normal Chandigarh, August 24 A city laboratory resounded with screams but not of pain as one would have expected at a laboratory, but of excitement. The reason being, for the first time perhaps, a lion was brought to Mercury Imaging Centre in Sector 8 to check out the possibility of a tumor, clotting or growth in its brain. ROYAL TREATMENT: A lion being scanned for brain growth at a Sector 8 CT scan centre in Chandigarh on Saturday. — Photo Parvesh Chauhan

New-look museum has no space for martyrs’ portraits
Chandigarh, August 24
The recent move of the Government Museum in Sector 10, to add fresh sections, has provoked resentment among those who have been relentlessly trying to get the museum authority to allocate a suitable corner but have been denied the same. About 1,000 martyrs of Indian freedom movement are dying all over again at the National Gallery of Portraits for want of proper care.

Cholera cases count goes up to 10 Chandigarh, August 24 With five new cases of cholera being admitted to various hospitals in the city today, the tally has now gone up to 10, as the disease seems to be spreading its tentacles beyond the confines of Palsora, where it resurfaced last week, giving the authorities anxious moments.

IGNOU centre opened in Burail jail
Chandigarh, August 24
The inmates of Model Jail, Burail, will finally have access to academic information, thanks to IGNOU, which today set up its centre on the jail premises. The first of its kind in any jail across North India, the centre aims to fulfill the vision of spreading education among all segments of the society, including undertrials and convicts.

COMMUNITY

A ray of hope for slum children Get cookery lessons from CITCO chef Chandigarh, August 24 For slum kids of Janata Colony in Sector 25, this day came with the promise of hope. As CITCO set up a special canteen for them on the premises of Government Model School, Sector 24, the kids had a field day, taking cookery lessons from one of the famous chefs of Shivalik View, Mr Manoj Aswal.
Slum kids learn cooking from a Shivalik View chef at a special canteen set up for them by CITCO at Government High School, Sector 24, Chandigarh, on Sunday. — Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma

Residents protest PUDA decision on green belt area
SAS Nagar, August 24
Residents of EWS houses in Phase VII here staged a protest against the Punjab Government and the PUDA authorities here today. The agitated residents blocked traffic by squatting on the road leading from the YPS chowk towards the Madanpur chowk for about two hours and raised slogans. 

BJP to protest against water tariff hike
Chandigarh, August 24
The local unit of the BJP today said it would resort to a major agitation next week to protest against the Congress for having passed the water tariff hike and having scrapped the housing project for MC employees besides affecting an increase in charges for use of community centres.

SUNDAY SPECIAL
No women’s forum in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, August 24
One can imagine the plight of a young girl, staying alone in city, allegedly been raped by her employer. She fails to find a single person for help in the city. The police will wait till the accused “surrender” and media will debate whether she has actually been raped or has been involved in some conspiracy to implicate the employer.

DDR lodged against tour & travel co
Chandigarh, August 24
A city resident has complained to the police that his scooter’s key and Rs 700 were snatched by employees of a Sector 22-based tour and travel company, when he had gone to the latter’s office to ask for the refund of a bus ticket today. On the other hand, the company’s owner denied the allegations and alleged that the man had impersonated as senior police official on the telephone and issued threats.

Town to face erratic power supply
Panchkula, August 24
The town will face irregular power supply for two days starting from 7 a.m. tomorrow. One-hour unscheduled rotational cuts are likely to be imposed on some sectors and there will be no supply in certain sectors for three hours tomorrow. However, the supply is expected to become normal after 6 pm on Monday.

• PTL employee dies in mishap

• Improvement Trust demanded

READERS WRITE
Rectify the anomaly in road tax
I would like to thank The Tribune for highlighting the “Anomaly in road tax fixation” (August 4). The case has been hanging fire since March 1998 when I brought out the anomaly in my letter to the editor in The Tribune (March 26, 1998). The story is interesting and throws some light on the working of our bureaucracy.

• Postal services

• Incorrect report
  

CRIME

Man booked for beating wife
Chandigarh, August 24
Ms Carallel Thakur, a resident of Sector 49, has reported to the police that she was beaten up by her husband Ravi Thakur on the night of August 22. According to information, Ms Thakur developed a fracture in her nose. A case has been registered under Section 325 of the IPC after medical examination of the victim.