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ICSE class X results
Sports, being focussed led Mohit to top
Chandigarh, May 18
Playing lawn tennis and focus on overall development played a key role in the success of Mohit Manchanda, the city topper in the Class X ICSE examination results which were declared this evening.

St Kabir, St Xavier’s students shine in Class X exam
Chandigarh, May 18
In the result of Class X, ICSE examination, students of four schools, St Kabir, St Stephen’s School, Tender Heart and St Xavier, have achieved high percentage.

Ramandeep Neetu of YPS secures 94.16 per cent
Mohali, May 18
A girl, Ramandeep Neetu, topped the list of successful candidates of Yadavindra Public School (YPS) here in the ICSE examination held this year by securing 94.16 per cent marks (all subjects). Ten students of the institution obtained more than 90 per cent marks in the examination.

ISC exam: Nehmat Kaur, Abhinav Goel excel
Mohali, May 18
Two students of Yadavindra Public School (YPS) here obtained 90 per cent or more marks in the ISC examination conducted this year. The results which were announced today placed Nehmat Kaur in the first position. She secured 94 per cent marks in the commerce stream. Abhinav Goel obtained the top position in the non-medical category with 90 per cent marks.

Students of Maharaja Jassa Singh Ramgarhia Public School, Sector 27, Chandigarh, celebrating the Founder's Day on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

	Sectors 22, 34, 35 to have paid parking May 18, 2005
	Little industry, all mall May 17, 2005
	Property dealer, official nexus deepens May 16, 2005
	Golf courses, shopping malls on anvil in UT May 15, 2005
	Corpn swallows poor man’s money May 14, 2005
	Ring road to decongest UT-Kharar stretch May 13, 2005
	Controversial DC on way out May 12, 2005
	3 clubbed to death in UT’s vicinity May 11, 2005
	Bypass to Patiala gets nod May 10, 2005
	Two women, labourer murdered May 9, 2005

Municipal Corporation begins regulating cable network
Chandigarh, May18
Following recovery of pending ground rent since May, 2003, recently, the Municipal Corporation has initiated another move to regulate the entire cable network in the city. In the first step all cable operators have been asked to submit an affidavit specifying their areas of operation.

Case against former sarpanch
Chandigarh, May 18
A former sarpanch of Hallo Majra, Tejinder Singh, was today booked by the local police on charges of misbehaving with and manhandling cops under the influence of liquor yesterday. He allegedly tore the uniform of police personnel.

Furniture unit gutted in fire Chandigarh, May 18 A big portion of the two-storeyed furniture factory in Industrial Area, Phase II, was gutted in a major fire here this evening. Huge flames could be seen leaping in the air from a distance. Furniture and accessories, except in Plot number 304, were doused in the fire. A labourer trying to save whatever he could from the massive fire said that the fire tenders were slow in arriving on the scene which resulted in big loss. He said the fire started in the lower storey.   A labourer tries to save the leftovers in a major fire that broke out in a furniture factory in the Industrial Area, Phase II, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Ex-employee of Lotteries Dept booked for fraud
Chandigarh, May 18
The police here has booked a former employee of the Haryana State Lotteries Department of the Chandigarh office on the charge of duping the department of more than Rs 35 lakh.

90 per cent deliveries carried out by untrained midwives, says expert
Chandigarh, May 18
He believes in improving the overall system without blaming individuals and institutions. That is, perhaps, the reason why Dr Brij Nandan Singh Walia chooses words with care and caution when he says more can be done for the disabled by the Centre and the state governments than what is being done at the moment. However, the Chandigarh Administration is doing quite a bit for them.

COMMUNITY

BJP forms panel on Municipal Act amendment
Chandigarh, May 18
In the wake of the failure of the Congress-dominated Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) to finalise the amendments to the Municipal Act, the Opposition BJP today formed the “Municipal Act Amendment Committee”.

June 30 due date for filing TDS returns
Chandigarh, May 18
The Finance Act (No 2), 2004, has made it mandatory for all government tax deductors to file their TDS/TCS returns in computer media. The due date of filing of TDS returns for financial year (FY) 2004-05 is June 30. Mentioning of new reformatted ten digits alpha numeric TAN in all TDS returns is mandatory and no returns will be accepted without it. No TDS returns in paper format of government departments will be accepted by Income Tax Department, according to a press release issued here today.

Respite for zoo animals
Chandigarh, May 18
With a rise in the mercury, animals at Chhat Bir Zoo, located along the Chandigarh-Patiala highway, around 20 km from here, are beating the heat by consuming glucose-mixed water and watermelons.

26 housing units demolished
Panchkula, May 18
In a demolition drive initiated by the Mansa Devi Shrine Board in association with the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), as many as 26 housing structures were demolished today which had been built on the government land even before 1993.

Digging of back lanes by Airtel resented
Chandigarh, May 18
Residents of Sector 8 resent digging of paved back lanes by the Airtel telecommunication company. The residents have expressed concern over opening of the steel gates of service lanes which can be a security threat.

Sector 9 shopkeepers observe bandh
Panchkula, May 18
Shopkeepers of Sector 9 market today observed a bandh following assault on the owner of M/s Bahar and Sons by a woman financer and her two accomplices last night.

CRIME

Flesh trade racket busted
Dera Bassi, May 18
The police has arrested seven persons, including two teenaged women, from a hotel for their alleged involvement in a flesh trade racket operating from the area in wee hours today.

Woman carrying pistol held Chandigarh, May 18 The police arrested a woman carrying an illegal country-made pistol, while a house was burgled here today. Mamta alias Dolly, of Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran was arrested and a countrymade pistol and two live cartridges were seized from the road at the back side the Police Lines, Sector 26, yesterday. Mamta, alias Dolly, in police custody at the Sector 26 police station, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

A silly way of losing car
Chandigarh, May 18
A Panchkula resident literally drove his car to a prearranged site so that it could be easy picking for auto thieves. Unbelievable? But it is true. The story may sound stranger than fiction but Mr Varinder Singh of Sector 11, Panchkula, fell for the silliest of ploys, and lost his car in the bargain.

Attempt to commit suicide
Chandigarh, May 18
Inder Singh (21), a resident of Mauli Jagran, was admitted to the PGI in a serious condition after he allegedly attempted to commit suicide at his residence this morning. His family members expressed ignorance about the reasons behind the incident. The police has registered a case of attempt to suicide against Inder Singh.

Proclaimed offender arrested
Chandigarh, May 18
The Economic Offence Wing of the Chandigarh police today arrested a travel agent, who was declared a proclaimed offender in 2004 for duping two Mohali residents of Rs 5.75 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad in 2003.

BUSINESS

‘India has more potential than China’
Chandigarh, May 18
The potential for expanding economic relations between the USA and Punjab is substantial, ranging from traditional agriculture to establishing high technology-based manufacturing sector linkages, said Mr Lee A Brudvig, Minister Counsellor of Economic Affairs, US Embassy, who was in the city today.

EDUCATION

Shiamak Davar’s Summer Funk
Chandigarh, May 18
Summer workshops are at their innovative best with practically every school, cultural organisation and performing artiste jumping onto the creative bandwagon with a plethora of offerings for children.

Workshop on life skills from May 20
Chandigarh, May 18
The Population and Development Education Cell in Regional Resource Centre, Panjab University is organising a five-day workshop on “Enabling Adolescents to Build Life Skills — Capacity Building of Facilitators’’ for the Programme Officers, Supervisors of JSS Chandigarh, Mohali, Ludhiana and Literacy functionaries of Chandigarh. The workshop will conclude in PU on May 20.

School students collect Rs 50,000 for kids
Chandigarh, May 18
The students of CL DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 11, Panchkula, have collected Rs 49,055 for the SOS Children’s Villages of India under the “Young Ambassador Programme”. A cheque for this amount was presented by Mr Brijendra Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, to Mr Jagir Singh, Assistant Director, SOS Children’s Villages of India, on behalf of the staff and the students of the school.

Summer workshop

HEALTH

NGO moves rights panel over working of hospital
Chandigarh, May 18
All is not well with the Mohali Civil Hospital. At least this seems to be true if an on-the-spot investigation report of a local NGO, the Lawyers for Human Rights International LHRI, is any indication.

• 150 students donate blood
• Blood camp

SPORTS

4 Punjab shooters for Czech meet
Chandigarh, May 18
Chetanpreet Nilon, Navdeep Dhillon, Amanpreet Singh and Harveen Sarao, all from Punjab, have been selected to represent India in the International Shooting Competitions (Olympic hopes) shooting tournament to be held in Plzen (Czech Republic) from May 30 to June 5.

Badminton camp draws poor response
Chandigarh, May 18
The under-19 badminton camp which began at Panchkula on May 15 has so far got mixed response with only six trainees reporting for the 21-day camp. As a result, it has given opportunity to the local players to avail of the expert training by four national level coaches.

31 selected for Dhaka football tourney
Chandigarh, May 18
The following players have been selected to attend coaching camp for under-16 (boys) team of Chandigarh to participate in the third BKPS Cup Football Tournament scheduled to be held at Dhaka (Bangladesh) in the last week of June, according to Principal Ravinder Talwar, President, Chandigarh Football Association.