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Colleges witness admission rush
Chandigarh, July 1
City colleges witnessed frenzied activity as hundreds of students lined up to seek admissions to various professional and academic courses being offered by them. The admission process began today.

• Cut-Off percentage

Change in RCs: UT extends date
Chandigarh, July 1
The Chandigarh Administration today announced an extension in enforcing the new order pertaining to change of addresses in registration certificates of vehicles plying in the city.

Students’ no to re-test
Chandigarh, July 1
None of the BA III students, whose answersheets were lost during the evaluation process by Panjab University, has opted for a re-examination. 

• Students suffer due to colleges’ laxity

Brick comes off, plaster peels in new hospital building
Panchkula, July 1
The newly constructed building of the General Hospital has started showing signs of decay. A brick came off and the plaster from a wall of the minor operation theatre, where emergency surgeries are performed, peeled off today.

All set for school admissions
Chandigarh, July 1
The UT Education Department is all geared up to meet yet another admission rush for seats of Class XI in the 28 model and non-model government schools of the city at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23.

• Govt schools reopen
  Chandigarh, July 1
  Government schools reopened in the city today after a month long summer break. Returning from the break, the children were in high spirits. Books, classrooms and teachers seemed to charm each one of them.
  
  
  
  Students of GMSSS, Sector 19, Chandigarh, in a joyous mood at their school on Tuesday. All government schools in the city have reopened after a summer break. 
  — photo Manoj Mahajan
  

COMMUNITY

Flaw detected in tabulation of accident data
Chandigarh, July 1
Information about the actual number of fatal and non-fatal accidents that have occurred on city roads has been suppressed over the years. This is due to the fact that the data regarding compromise cases has never been entered into the accident records.

Encroachments removed in booth markets
Chandigarh, July 1
The authorities today launched a campaign to remove encroachments in booth markets in Sectors 19, 22 and 15. At least 30 unauthorised shops and tin sheds in the passages were removed.

Unauthorised tin sheds being removed in Sector 19 Sadar Bazaar, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Another water sample ‘fails’ test
Chandigarh, July 1
With another water sample from the Vikasnagar area in Mauli Jagran, where this year’s first cholera case was detected failing the bacteriological test, the Municipal Corporation, today launched a special drive to check such contamination at other points in various colonies, vulnerable to cholera, dengue and malaria.

Devotees take part in rath yatra
Chandigarh, July 1
Chanting hymns, a large number of devotees pulled the flower-bedecked chariot of Lord Jagannath during a 'rath yatra' today taken out in the city by the Utkal Sanskrutik Sangh.

Devotees pull the chariot of Lord Jagannath during a rath yatra in Sector 31, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

MC to provide fodder at cattle pounds
Chandigarh, July 1
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has decided to provide green fodder to the cattle at the cattle pounds in Sector 25 and Industrial Area. A decision in this connection was taken at a meeting of the Finance and Contract Committee of the MC held here yesterday.

Traders’ protest continues
Chandigarh, July 1
Traders of the city, under the banner of the Commercial Tenants Association, continued with ‘silent protest’ against the Rent Act notification by sitting on the roadside on Jan Marg this morning. They were also carrying banners. About hundred traders parked their cars on the pavements and sat on the kerb of the road.

PLATFORM: Save water
The presence of water has made Earth an oasis in the desert of planets. However, deforestation, pollution and reckless use of water, not repairing leaking and broken pipes is fast depleting the water resources.

Tribune employee retires
Chandigarh, July 1
Mr Dashrath Yadav, senior head havildar (cash ), retired yesterday after more than 37 years of service in The Tribune. He joined The Tribune at Ambala on April 25, 1966.

Management of canteens changed
Chandigarh, July 1
The management of canteens at the PGI and the General Hospital, Sector 16, was changed today. Professional support will be provided by the Institute of Hotel Management and the Food Craft Institute. 

Bal Sadan kids get gift
Chandigarh, July 1
The State Bank of India could not have made a better offering on the occasion of its Foundation Day today. Continuing to don the humble mantle, the SBI authorities celebrated their success not by listing their achievements but by coming to the aid of the less fortunate ones.