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Mortar shell blast unfolds jawan-scrap dealer nexus
Panchkula, October 6
The alleged smuggling of a mortar shell from the Chandi Mandir Cantonment area by two Army personnel, which caused a blast in a scrap dealer’s shop in Old Panchkula on Friday night, was not a stray incident of smuggling.

• Prime witness confirms Army men’s involvement

Holiday is a play time for these Royal Bengal Tigers as Chhat Bir Zoological Park, near Chandigarh, remained closed for public on Monday. — Tribune photo by Karam Singh

PUDA’s attempt to ‘promote’ education
To allot vacant govt school sites to private parties
SAS Nagar, October 6
Notwithstanding the national planning priority of providing equal opportunity of education to all, the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) here has recommended that government school land sites lying vacant in the township be given to private parties to construct and run private schools.

• Sikh college gets land possession

Special one-hour MC session today
Chandigarh, October 6
As the city basks in the glory of its past, apprehensions about future have become a cause of concern for those who associate themselves with this urban conglomerate.

Sushma praised for action against Sharma
Chandigarh, October 6
Member Parliament Suresh Chandel today praised Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj for “taking the bold step of asking the Director of the PGI, Dr S.K. Sharma, to proceed on leave after being held guilty by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Vigilance Committee”.

Sentence bargain?
Chandigarh, October 6
Accused in criminal cases may soon be able to bargain their way into lesser sentence after admitting their guilt, for the Union Ministry of Law and Justice is working out the modalities for introducing the concept of “plea bargaining” in the country.

Baring poetry in Corbusier’s designs Chandigarh, October 6 When the world’s greatest architects mention Le Corbusier as a poet-architect, one is forced to trace the magical elements that inspired the visionary to perfection. The search for Corbusier’s genius was made easy today, with India’s leading architect Raj Rewal, who lately executed the magnificent Parliament library project in Delhi, introducing Corbusier as an artiste first and an architect later.

Raj Rewal

• Don’t blame Corbusier: M.N. Sharma
  
  

• City vignettes: The other foreign architects in Chandigarh

• Verma to open exhibition on city today
  

No Big Boys at IAF parade
Chandigarh, October 6
While the IAF has lined up an impressive array of aircraft for the fly past to mark Air Force Day on October 8, the IAF’s most noticeable formation, the Big-Boys, will be conspicuous by its very absence this time.

Major-Gen Moorjani is AOC Col-Commandant

COMMUNITY

City-Chennai train by Dec: minister  Chandigarh, October 6 Chandigarh Railway Station, which is being upgraded to develop it as a model station, today caught attention of the Minister of State for Railways, Mr A.K. Moorthy, for inadequate user-friendly facilities. The Minister of State for Railways, Mr A.K. Moorthy, inspects the quality of drinking water at Chandigarh Railway Station on Monday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Man alleges harassment by UHBVN officials
Chandigarh, October 6
A bank officer at Panchkula has alleged attempts of extortion by officials of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVN) and his subsequent implication in a case of power theft.

Rs 1 cr aid for seven villages Dera Bassi, October 6 During her visit to seven villages of this subdivision, Ms Preneet Kaur, MP, today distributed cheques worth Rs 1 crore among sarpanches of the villages. Ms Preneet Kaur, MP, gives a cheque for Rs 35 lakh to Mr Chand Rana, Sarpanch of Mubarikpur village, during a function at the village, near Dera Bassi, on Monday.

Body for the blind threatens immolation drive Chandigarh, October 6 The Netraheen Jagriti Sangh, Haryana, today threatened that its activists “may resort to self-immolation” if their demands are not met within the next seven days. The sangh activists will start a relay fast from tomorrow to press the government to accept their demands in Sector 17.
Activists of the Netraheen Jagriti Sangh, Haryana, shout slogans against the Haryana Government in support of their demands at Matka Chowk in Chandigarh on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

CITU workers hold rally in Sector 17
Chandigarh, October 6
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has shown “deep concern” on a recent judgement of the Supreme Court regarding right of the government employees to go on strike.

Viewers prefer TV soaps to Ramlila
Chandigarh, October 6
You may find it hard to believe, but "Tulsi saas" is still more popular than "bahu" Sita. While the residents sat in front of the television sets to see if 'Tulsi' of the "Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi" fame would return home after escaping from the abductors, hardly anyone went to the nearby ground for watching Sita being rescued from the clutches of Ravana.

ISKCON ‘padyatra’ reaches city
Chandigarh, October 6
A ‘padyatra’, which was started by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) from Dwarika (Gujarat) in 1984, reached here today. It was accorded a rousing reception by people from all walks of life and ISKCON devotees at Hare Krishna Dham, Sector 36-B, Chandigarh.

Panchkula round-up
Land record information system inaugurated
Panchkula, October 6
The Commissioner, Ambala division, Mr Maha Singh, today inaugurated the Haryana Land Record Information System (HLRIS) at the tehsil office here.

Police orders on stickers for tinted glasses
Chandigarh, October 6
The Chandigarh Traffic Police today asked the holders of old black film authorisation stickers to remove these from their vehicles.

FAUJI BEAT Price of security lapses IT is learnt that an order has been issued by the Army top brass that a commanding officer of a unit who fails to prevent a suicide attack on his camp will be immediately relieved of his command (in other words, will be sacked) and his superior officer will get an adverse remark in his report. Ms Madhu Mehta, president, AWWA, interacts with organisation members at Command Hospital, Chandimandir.

• Widows’ welfare

• Soldiers’ woes

Seminar on noise, smoke pollution
Chandigarh, October 6
A seminar on noise and smoke pollution was organised at Palsora Colony by the Public Welfare Association in collaboration with the Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, here today.

EDUCATION

Minority students allege discrimination
Chandigarh, October 6
Minority students studying in Chandigarh in various colleges have alleged discrimination because of their status as tribals and said that this is experienced mainly in the lower rungs of the administration in these colleges.

Transferred teacher takes legal recourse
Chandigarh, October 6
“My name was in the newspapers for the release of my book on music and a successful seminar on the same a month back. The agitation has brought me a bad name and for no fault of mine. Legal action was the only way out,” says Dr Saubhagaya Vardhan Badal, recently transferred to Government College for Girls, Sector 42.

NSS camp concludes with cultural show
Chandigarh, October 6
A 10-day NSS camp concluded at the GGS College for Women with a cultural show today. The programme had items that focused on the problems being faced by NSS volunteers. The Principal of the college, Dr Harinderjit Kaur, urged students to work for the betterment of the society.

Experts for uniform civil code
Chandigarh, October 6
Stating that the debate on a uniform civil code in the country was loaded with emotions rather than reason, Prof Virendra Kumar, Emeritus Fellow, at a special lecture on “Uniform civil code revisited: A judicial analysis of three-judge bench decision of the Supreme Court in John Vallamattom Case (2003),” said it was desirable to go in the direction of the code.

CAMPUS NOTES
PU sops for Kashmiri displaced to continue 
Panjab University will extend the concessions in admissions being given to the wards of Kashmiri displaced persons in the forthcoming academic session. The matter pertaining to the concessions comes before the university Senate for a formal clearance later this month.

	Senate meeting Army Institute of Law Vivekananda Studies Adult education Jubilant members of the Panjab University football team that beat the team from PAU, Ludhiana, in a league match at the All-India Sports Festival of the Non-Teaching Employees Federation played in Chandigarh on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

COURTS

Badal case adjourned for November 11
Chandigarh, October 6
Former Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal today did not appear before the court in a defamation case filed by him against the Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh, accusing him of spreading and publishing false reports about his assets and property.

PVGV founder gets pre-arrest bail
Panchkula, October 6
Founder of the Peoples Voice Gods Voice Group, B.L. Tandon, who was recently booked by the police on charges of forgery and misrepresenting facts, was granted anticipatory bail by a local court today.

District Courts
Tara Chand’s remand extended
Chandigarh, October 6
A local court today further remanded the suspended Registrar (Additional) of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Tara Chand, in police custody till October 9 in a case registered against him for possessing assets disproportionate to known sources of income.