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PGI crisis: Meeta relieved of major duties
Chandigarh, September 27
The administrative crisis in the Post Graduate Institute here has further deepened as Deputy Director Administration Meeta Rajivlochan has been relieved of major duties by Director Prof K.K. Talwar.

Bypass inaccuracies in history books: NCERT
Chandigarh, September 27
Putting the controversy over the use of the “saffronised” history textbooks prescribed by the previous NDA Government to rest, the NCERT has directed the teachers to use the existing history textbooks while avoiding the “inaccuracies” in them.

• Some inaccuracies

Tributes paid to Tibetan martyrs
Chandigarh, September 27
Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Chandigarh, today took out a candle-light procession in memory of those who had laid down their lives in the struggle for freedom in Tibet. It was on this day 17 years ago that hundreds of Tibetans, monks and their supporters went out of their houses for a peaceful demonstration in the capital city of Lhasa but only a few returned.

Tibetans take out a candle-light procession on the Panjab University campus in Chandigarh on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

PU students bodies over spend on poll
Chandigarh, September 27
The Panjab University Students’ Council elections proved to be an expensive affair this year. The final expenditure for all three students organisations, Panjab University Students Union (PUSU), Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), stood at over Rs 6 lakh, way off the estimated budget of Rs 30,000 to Rs 1 lakh made before campaigning began.

HOMEWARD BOUND: Birds return to their nests at the dusk on Monday in Sector 22, Chandigarh. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Government College Principal suspended
Mohali, September 27
The Punjab Government has suspended Mr Harkuldip Singh, Principal, Government College, Mohali. Mr Harkuldip Singh was placed under suspension on September 22, following the initiation of a departmental inquiry on the charges of maladministration levelled against him by the Kharar MLA, Mr Bir Devinder Singh. Following a checking at the college on September 16, the MLA had, in a letter to Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, stated that punitive action be taken against the Principal and other erring officials, who had messed up the affairs at the college.

Inside information about cops just a click away
Chandigarh, September 27
Inside information about police personnel is now just a click away. Following the launch of 'Human Resource Information System', top cops can simply press computer keys for knowing the details of promotions, training, rewards and punishments granted to police officials.

New rules for listing of cases before judges
Chandigarh, September 27
The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued fresh guidelines for listing of cases in which relatives of sitting Judges of the High Court appear as advocates.

CHANDIGARH CALLING Wards of policemen suddenly started queuing up before senior police officers to get a certificate that they were children of serving men in khaki. The increasing number of wards of policemen was noticed a few days after the physical test for the Chandigarh police started in the Sector 26 Police Lines. Quilt season Residents demand UFO in Mohali Membership open Improving PGI

COMMUNITY

Tourist Information centre opened
Chandigarh, September 27
A Tourist Information Centre with a touch screen kiosk was inaugurated by the Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Tourism, Mr R.S. Gujral, at Sector 17 today. Tourist information centres already exist at the Railway Station and the Bus Stand in the city. Mr Gujral said that such touch-screen kiosks shall be installed at other places like the air port and the ISBT, Sector 17, for the benefit of the tourists.

Conclave on tourism industry
Chandigarh, September 27
To celebrate the World Tourism Day, a conclave on ‘business opportunities in entertainment and tourism industries in northern India’ was held at Sector 10 today. It was organised by the Institute of Tourism and Future Management Trends ( ITFT), Sector 17. 

TV and film artistes, including Kanwaljit Singh, Kirandeep Kinmmi, Gurpreet Guggi, Arshveer Bajwa and Harbhajan Maan, at a seminar to celebrate the World Tourism Day at Sector 10 on Monday. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma

Run for tourism organised at Panchkula
Chandigarh, September 27
Haryana Tourism Corporation celebrated the “World Tourism Day” throughout the state. A number of events were organised in this connection. Ms Navraj Sandhu, IAS, Managing Director, Haryana Tourism Corporation, stated that a ‘Run for tourism’ at Red Bishop Tourist Complex, Panchkula, was held today.

Quality assurance unit observes Raising Day
Chandigarh, September 27
The Senior Quality Assurance Establishment (Electronics and Systems), a locally based defence organisation under the Directorate-General, Quality Assurance (DGQA), observed DGQA Raising Day by organising a get-together for its serving and retired staff here today.

PNB to help villagers form self-help groups
Chandigarh, September 27
Punjab National Bank will motivate residents of Kaimbwala village to form self-help groups, especially in dairy sector, so that individual dairies being run from houses be brought together and run in a cooperative form. Kaimbwala in collaboration with PNB will be the first village to form self-help groups in the Union Territory.

Gunners attend anniversary celebrations
Chandigarh, September 27
A social get-together marked the 177th anniversary celebrations of the Regiment of Artillery at Chandimandir cantonment today. Hosted at the Shivalik Officers Institute by Major-General Artillery, Western Command, Major-Gen A K Sakhuja, a large number of serving and retired gunners attended the function.

Better deal sought for physically challenged
Mohali, September 27
The National Handicapped Welfare Council has demanded immediate implementation of the Persons with Disability (PWD) Act, 95, to safeguard the rights of the physically challenged.

Fauji Beat
Will killings in Kashmir ever stop?
THE answer is no because we are trying to find a military solution to a political problem. Those who are pinning hopes on the current official level talks are living on false hopes. We have fought four wars with Pakistan, besides having many rounds of talks with it. 




A croquet tournament at the Defence Services Officers’ Institute, Chandigarh. — File photo

Power shutdown
Chandigarh
Power supply will remain suspended to parts of sector 24 and 25 from 10am to 4pm, parts of sector 56 from 9am to 5pm, Village Daddu Majra and Daddu Majra Colony from 10 am to 7pm, Sector 52, village Kajheri, Nehru Colony from 9 am to 4pm due to urgent maintenance work.

Tribune staffer bereaved
Chandigarh, September 27
Mrs Sita Devi, 87, grandmother of Ms Kanchan Vasdev, Staff Correspondent, The Tribune, passed away after a brief illness at her residence at Jujhar Nagar in Patiala last evening. 

CRIME

Loan company official held on fraud charge
Chandigarh, September 27
The economic offences wing of the Chandigarh Police today arrested the Regional Manager of a Sector 34 C-based Solutions Group for allegedly cheating a businessman from Panchkula.

Domestic help of Punjab ex-officer commits suicide
Chandigarh, September 27
A 27-year-old Nepalese domestic help of a former Deputy Director of the Industries Department of Punjab today allegedly hanged himself to death, leaving behind his wife and one-and-a-half year old daughter.

Cash, gold stolen from Sector 71 house
Mohali, September 27
Thieves decamped with cash and gold from two households in the same house in Sector 71 here today. The landlord, Mr H.S. Chopra, and his wife Surinder were out when thieves entered the house by breaking the back door.

BUSINESS

Biz Clips
INAUGURATED: Orra, a diamond manufacturing company, has opened its store in Chandigarh. Inaugurating the showroom, Mr Vijay Jain, CEO, said keeping in view the preference of Indian women, Orra has introduced a new range of designs which is a synthesis of Indian tradition and Western style.

EDUCATION

B.N. Goswamy is Plan panel group member
Chandigarh, September 27
Art historian and critic, Dr B.N. Goswamy, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Panjab University, has been made a member of the consultative group on culture of the Planning Commission, Government of India.

Students of the junior wing of Satluj Public School, Sector 2, Panchkula, during a visit to The Tribune office in Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

HEALTH

‘30 pc of 12-20 yr age group diabetic’
Mohali, September 27
Thirty per cent of the children in the age group 12 to 20 years are facing problems of blood pressure and diabetes in certain cities. This was stated by Brahma Kumari Shivani of Om Shanti Retreat Centre, Delhi, while addressing officials of the Punjab School Education Board here today.

SPORTS

Guru Harkrishan School win skating meet
Chandigarh, September 27
The Inter-School Roller Hockey Skating Tournament organised by the Chandigarh Education Department concluded at the skating rink, Sector 10, here today.

The hockey team of DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, which won the Pre-Nehru Hockey Tournament.

• Softball meet

• Pre-Nehru Cup

• PU shuttlers shine

• Athletics meet

Punishment posting of 2 SIs ends
Chandigarh, September 27
Two Sub-Inspectors recently shifted to Police Lines under punishment have been transferred to police stations again.