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RC issue
July 31 is new deadline
Chandigarh, July 11
The city residents today heaved a sigh of relief after the Chandigarh Administration extended till July 31 the deadline for getting the addresses changed in the vehicle registration certificates.

BJP goes into election mode
Chandigarh, July 11
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, today set the BJP’s poll agenda for next year’s parliamentary elections and declared that the party would seek a fresh mandate on the basis of its performance on the twin issues of development and security of the country.

• Advani discusses demolitions with Verma
  

Car on Advani’s route bursts into flames
Chandigarh, July 11 A car bearing the registration number HR-26G-2561 burst into flames due to a suspected short circuit near Hallo Majra on the route of Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani minutes after the cavalcade of the VIP passed from the Technical Airport to the Punjab Raj Bhavan.	Five minutes after Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani left this road, a car burst into flames near Hallo Majra on the Chandigarh-Zirakpur national highway on Friday. — Photo Pankaj Sharma

Delhi man murdered in city hotel
Chandigarh, July 11
The body of the executive director of a Delhi-based private security agency, Group 4 Securitas Guarding Ltd, Mandiv Sapra, was found in a room in Mount View in Sector 10 here this morning.

Empty soda and whisky bottles in a room in Mountview Hotel, Sector 10, Chandigarh, where the Executive Director of a security agency was murdered on Friday. — Photo Pawan Sharma

Hotel murder befuddles cops

World Population Day
People outnumber facilities in city
Chandigarh, July 11
Statistics say it all. In Chandigarh, the population has astronomically increased from 2,57,251 in 1971 to 9,00,914 in 2001, but the facilities have more or less remained the same.

Students holding placards take out a rally on the World Population Day in Chandigarh on Friday. — A Tribune photograph

• Illiteracy dubbed root of rising population

COMMUNITY

Secular forces ‘weakening’ against communalism
Chandigarh, July 11
Eradication of poverty, unemployment, regional imbalance, economic and social disparity and price rise have been pushed out of the agenda of political parties to let communalism, casteism and corruption threaten national integrity.

7 villages cut off as bridge collapses
Manoli (SAS Nagar), July 11
Over 6,000 persons living in seven villages beyond Manoli village here were cut off from the rest of the subdivision when the 12-foot wide bridge over the choe crossing through the village collapsed last night.

Schoolchildren on one end of Manoli village wait for their classmates on the other side, who could not make it to the school today following the collapse of the Manoli bridge, in SAS Nagar on Friday. — Photo Manoj Mahajan

SAS Nagar Diary
190 stray, pet dogs vaccinated
SAS Nagar, July 7
The Society for Prevention Cruelty to Animals organised a free anti-rabies camp for dogs on the occasion of World Zoonosis Day at Phase XI here. Over 190 stray and pet dogs were vaccinated against rabies.

• Summer workshop
• Office-bearers

MC nod to adopt sanitation, public health bylaws
SAS Nagar, July 11
It is time for persons creating unhygienic conditions at public places to mend their ways failing which they will have to pay fines as the general house of the municipal council has cleared a proposal to adopt the Punjab Municipal (Sanitation and Public Health) bylaws 2003 at its meeting held here today.

Expert warns of falling farm yields
Chandigarh, July 11
Magsaysay awardee environmentalist Rajendra Singh, who is known for his water harvesting efforts in Rajasthan, has warned that the present water management policy has failed to check the depletion of water. This had led to increase in salinity and soil pollution.

One doc appears for Rs 700 job Panchkula, July 11 Poor remuneration offered by the state Health Department for the posts of house surgeon has put off doctors with one candidate appearing in the interview at the office of the Civil Surgeon today.

Fighting battle for disability pension
Chandigarh, July 11
Exchanging shots with the Pakistani troops in 1965, Captain Pokh Raj lost his power to hear. Soon after the incident, the defence authorities turned a deaf ear to his plight.

Don’t give natural resources to MNCs, says expert
Chandigarh, July 11
If the government continues with its ‘flawed’ policy on water management, the groundwater reserves will get depleted in large areas of the country. And the salinisation of the soil, compounded in many cases by increasingly saline or ‘poisoned’ (chemically polluted) groundwater, will seriously affect land that has been highly productive in recent decades.

Roads, parks to go to MC
Panchkula, July 11
Various parks, community centres and maintenance of roads will be transferred to the Municipal Council by the Haryana Urban Development Authority within a week.

AIATF protest against Lahore bus service
Chandigarh, July 11
The local unit of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) today protested against the resumption of bus service to Pakistan, in Sector 17 here today.

Members of the local unit of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front protest against the resumption of the Delhi-Lahore bus service, in Chandigarh on Friday. — A Tribune photograph

Admn steps up vigil against vendors
Sale of substandard food items
Chandigarh, July 11
In just over a fortnight after Cholera was first reported in the city, the UT Health Department is getting in touch with their counterparts in the states of Punjab and Haryana for checking the sale of sub-standard food items in the city.

British Council team formalises library expansion plan
Chandigarh, July 11
The matter of expansion of the British Library in Chandigarh was formalised today when a high-level team of officials from the British Council visited the city to inspect the prospective site along Madhya Marg in Sector 9.

Selection of company for garbage disposal begins
Chandigarh, July 11
The municipal corporation today decided to restart the process of selecting a private party to dispose of its garbage in an environmentally friendly manner.

Platform: Save water
Water has been quenching the thirst of all and satisfying the parched earth. But this elixir which is indeed a fabulous gift from nature is being wasted recklessly.

1 hurt as scooter collides with bull
SAS Nagar, July 11
One person was injured when the scooter he was riding collided with a bull in Phase V here this evening.

EDUCATION

NCC seeks varsity recognition for C certificate
Chandigarh, July 11
In an endeavour to increase the scope of C certificate beyond the military perspective and help NCC cadets to avail benefits across a wider spectrum, the NCC authorities are seeking recognition for the certificate by universities.

534 admitted in schools
Chandigarh, July 11
In the ongoing centralised admissions to Class XI in government schools of the UT Administration, a total number of 534 students were admitted today. The admissions are being made in Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23.

Date extended

SCHOOL WORLD: History
Inauguration of Indo-American Trade
The American contact with India is very old. The first Americans came to India via the English East India Company. After independence from the English on the 4th July 1776 they began to come here as traders from an independent country.

School World Helpline
Encouraging play in children
Play is one of most important and engaging social activity of children. Children spend most of their time outside of school playing with toys and with friends than they do in any other activity.

COURTS

Satinder remanded in police custody
Chandigarh, July 11
A clerk with the UT Labour Department, Satinder Singh, alias Babu, who was yesterday arrested by the CBI in an alleged corruption case involving two judicial officers was today remanded in police custody by the UT Duty Magistrate this evening.

Gupta granted bail
Chandigarh, July 11
Following the CBI’s failure to file a challan against suspended District and Sessions Judge R.M Gupta in a stipulated period of 60 days he was today granted bail by a local court in a corruption case registered against him. He remained in custody for two months.