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Report on ’84 riots damned

Mohali, August 8 “Three thousand murders, but not a single murderer identified or punished till now. Is this what you call justice?” questioned an agitated Hardeep Singh, a victim of the 1984 riots here today.
Victims of the1984 riots protest in Mohali against the Nanavati Commission Action Taken Report which was tabled in Parliament on Monday. — Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan.

7 ITBP jawans hurt as grenade explodes
midair during training
Panchkula, August 8
Seven ITBP jawans were injured when a fellow jawan, undergoing arms training, lobbed a grenade which exploded in midair.

Yog Raj’s petrol station account sealed
Chandigarh, August 8
The Sales Tax Department of the UT Administration today sealed the bank account of the National Service Centre, a Bharat Petroleum petrol pump in Sector 17 owned by Yog Raj Singh, a former cricketer, for failing to deposit the tax of over Rs 1 crore, sources said here today.

City wakes up to newborn care
Chandigarh, August 8
A high neonatal mortality rate is the latest challenge for the health authorities in Chandigarh. Currently, 14 per 1,000 births, the rate may be slightly better than the national neonatal rate of 26 per 1,000 but it is high for a city like Chandigarh which has three well-equipped medical institutions.

Beant case trial resumes
Chandigarh, August 8
The Beant Singh assassination trial resumed today at the high security Burail jail here, almost after three months.

Inspector helping accused in Naya Gaon gang rape case shifted
Chandigarh, August 8
The infamous Naya Gaon gang rape case took a dramatic turn today with the Special Investigating Team (SIT) revealing that Inspector Jagjit Singh, Station House Officer of Kurali police station, was also taking extra pains to help the accused.

Chandigarh Calling It’s a poor track record THE city is growing and the traffic blues are growing with it. The number of automobiles in the city is phenomenal. Driving is no longer hazard free and more so in the peak hours. The cycle and rickshaw tracks have been made in the city to tackle the traffic hassles and also ensure safety for those pedalling along high-speeding vehicles.

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COMMUNITY

Row over Daria road alignment

Chandigarh, August 8 A recent demolition drive by the Chandigarh Administration near Daria village to clear the passage for widening a road which will provide a direct link between the IT park at Kishangarh and the airport, has kicked up a controversy regarding the alignment of the proposed road. Steel wires stored precariously close to an overhead high-tension wire pole in a godown in Daria village. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

City remembers Major Shankla Panchkula, August 8 Rich tributes were paid to Maj Sandeep Shankla, Ashok Chakra, on his 14th death anniversary at Sandeep Shankla War Memorial in Sector 2 today. A contingent of Major Shankla’s unit, 18th Battalion of the Dogra Regiment, presented a guard of honour to the gallant soldier. The GOC-in-C, Western Command, Lt- Gen S.Pattabhiram, shares a moment with Lt- Col J.S. Kanwar, on the 14th death anniversary of the latter’s son, Maj Sandeep Shankla. — A Tribune photograph

2,000 transformers to be installed
Chandigarh, August 8
The Electricity Department of the Chandigarh Administration has planned a total revamp of the electricity distribution system in the city and villages, involving the installation of at least 2,000 distribution transformers.

Beauty campaign for a noble cause
Chandigarh, August 8
This is a sensitivity campaign with a difference. For Pammy Kaul, international hair stylist, beauty and nail exponent, life is about “collecting good memories” and that is precisely what she intends to do at a workshop that she is holding for residents of the city.

Couple, son hurt in LPG cylinder fire
Panchkula, August 8
It was a miraculous escape by five members of a family after their one-room house at Railla village caught fire because of an LPG cylinder leak. Though the couple and their five-month old son was injured, their two daughters escaped unhurt.

Rekha and her son lie on a hospital bed in Panchkula after they received burn injuries.
— A Tribune photograph.

Kidney patient needs help
Chandigarh, August 8
Prem Kumari, wife of Kishen Singh, resident of BPO, Andora, Amb, Himachal Pradesh, is undergoing treatment for failure of two kidneys. She is also a patient of diabetes and is being treated at the PGI, Chandigarh.

MC building nears completion Mohali, August 8 An architecturally attractive building of the Municipal Council, being built at a cost of more than Rs 7 crore, is nearing completion. The building, being built on a 1.10 acre allotted by PUDA in Sector 68 here, has been designed on a modern concept. Work in progress at the Municipal Council building, Sector 68, Mohali. — A Tribune photograph

HUDA blind to 20-foot pit Panchkula, August 8 The rains have once again exposed the poor quality of work being done by HUDA. The aftermath of the rains have led to large portions of land, right behind a row of houses, to cave in, thus threatening the foundations of the rear walls of these houses. A 20-foot pit has emerged behind house number 283 after the rains led to the caving in of the plinth put by HUDA. The pit is at least 10-foot in diameter and is located on the footpath behind the houses. A 20-foot pit that has emerged after the land behind a row of houses caved in Sector 17, Panchkula. — A Tribune photograph.

Raids across Ropar to nab killers
Mohali, August 8
The Punjab police is on the trail of a criminal tribe that is reportedly responsible for the gruesome attack on a dairy farmer’s family at Chajju Majra village in Kharar yesterday.

Problems aplenty for complex residents

Chandigarh, August 8 Modern Housing Complex in Mani Majra is not so modern even though a large number of VVIPs and VIPs from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh have been residing in this part of the city since long. Haphazard parking outside duplex houses in Modern Housing Complex, Mani Majra, Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

150 structures demolished
Panchkula, August 8
HUDA demolished over 150 structures that had mushroomed on the government land in Sectors 11, 14, 9, 10 and 15, here on Monday. Apart from this, four shed of house shuttering material have also been removed from Sector 25.

CRIME

4 held for murder of watchman
Mohali, August 8
Four persons, including a woman, were arrested today in connection with the murder of a watchman in Phase III Industrial Area, here yesterday.

Man alleges mother set him afire Chandigarh, August 8 A 28-year-old man allegedly set himself on fire at his mother’s house in Sector 28-C this morning to reportedly implicate his mother and siblings in a false case. He sustained 8 per cent burn injuries and was discharged from the hospital. A part-time mechanic, Jaswant Singh, a resident of Sector 33, was booked for attempt to commit suicide under Section 309, IPC, on the basis of a complaint filed by his mother Satya Devi. Jaswant Singh shows his injuries in his house in Chandigarh. —  A Tribune photograph

Driver stabs employer
Chandigarh, August 8
Following a heated argument a three-wheeler driver allegedly stabbed his employer late last night in Mauli Jagran here. In another incident son of a landlord allegedly abducted the minor daughter of his tenant.

Chain-snatcher nabbed
Chandigarh, August 8
A chain-snatcher was caught by resident after the accused sped away on a bicycle after snatching a chain in Sector 44 here. The incident happened this afternoon when Julie Anand was on her way back home.

Goods worth 6 lakh stolen
Mohali, August 8
Thieves decamped with grocery worth Rs 6 lakh from a store-cum-godown in Balongi village last night. The store, Tamanna Enterprises, is on the Kharar-Mohali national highway and deals in the wholesale of grocery items.

Women Army officers welcome tenure extension
Chandigarh, August 8
The government’s formal approval to extend the tenure of short service commission officers, including women, by four years has brought in a cheer for ladies in olive green.

BUSINESS

Developing IT at the cost of industry
Chandigarh, August 8
Chandigarh has emerged as the hottest information technology destination of South Asia, not because of the available infrastructure here, but due to the manner in which the Chandigarh Region has been projected as an IT destination. This has sent the price of real estate in and around the city to an astronomically high figure.

EDUCATION

Election bugle sounded at PU
Chandigarh, August 8
The beginning of the academic session at Panjab University is synonymous with a lot of activity (read dharnas) as the campus readies for the run-up to the students’ poll in September. It seems, various students’ organisations have already sounded the election bugle.

Students put up physics models Chandigarh, August 7 Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, organised a physics exhibition on the school campus to comemorate the international year of physics as declared by UNESCO. The Principal, staff and students also paid homage to Albert Einstein. Students of Sanjay Public School at a Physics exhibition on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

College given Rs 38 lakh for IT lab, stadium
Mohali, August 8
A sum of Rs 38 lakh was given to Government College, here for the construction of a stadium and setting up of a computer lab by the Kharar MLA, Mr Bir Devinder Singh, here today.

COURTS

Judicial remand for 4 in rape case
Mohali, August 8
A Kharar court today remanded the four arrested by a special investigation team of the Punjab police in connection with a rape and abduction case, in judicial custody till August 22.

Arrest of prime prosecution witness Mathews Samuel ordered
Chandigarh, August 8
The general court martial trying Brig Iqbal Singh for professional impropriety in the Tehelka case today directed the prosecutor, Lieut-Col Sanjay Sitanshu, to arrest Mathews Samuel for failing to depose before the court as a witness and produce him on August 17.

CULTURE

Mangal Pandey lookalike contest
Chandigarh, August 8
Do you look like Mangal Pandey? If yes, here is your chance to walk down the red carpet with Aamir Khan at the premiere of “Mangal Pandey — The Rising” in Mumbai. The movie is scheduled for release this week.

Faakir shatters some myths that surround him
Chandigarh, August 8
The favourite poet of the last phase of ghazal queen Begum Akhtar, who sang five of his ghazals, and the co-traveller Jagjit Singh in an association that began with ‘Woh kagaz ki kishti, woh barish ka pani’ in 1982, there is reason for many myths to be built around Sudarshan Faakir.

SPORTS

Indian hockey team honoured

Chandigarh, August 8 “We have worked hard at the camp here and our well- balanced team can do wonders in Holland “, commented Rajinder Singh, chief coach of Indian hockey team at the function organised by the newly formed Sports Journalists Association, Chandigarh, here today. The Indian hockey players being welcomed at a function held at Hotel Shivalikview on Monday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik.

Powerlifting c’ship
Chandigarh, August 8
Public Sports Club, Sector 56, Chandigarh, bagged the senior and sub-junior boys trophy for the sixth time in a row by obtaining 179 points in the 21st Senior men/6th Sub-Junior boys Chandigarh Powerlifting Championships that concluded here today at the weightlifting coaching centre, Sector 42.

Table tennis tournament
Chandigarh, August 8
The Prof R.S. Mehta Memorial Open Table Tennis Tournament will be held from August 13 to 15 under the aegis of the Chandigarh Table Tennis Association. The tournament will be played at the Sector 23 table tennis hall.

ADMINISTRATION

SCOs, SCFs can gain height
Chandigarh, August 8
The Chandigarh Administration has allowed an increase in the height of shop-cum-offices, shop-cum-flats which have been converted to SCOs and guest houses, an official press note said here today.