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PU student bodies under party pressure, struggle for promises
Chandigarh, August 26
Student bodies in fray for the forthcoming elections to the Panjab University Campus Students Council are digging old election agendas for preparing a list of new promises to the voters.

Inspector Sukhpal Rana stops INSO activists from putting up posters of their presidential candidate on the Panjab University campus in Chandigarh on Friday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Students show little zest for poll
Chandigarh, August 26
Campaigning for the election to the Panjab University Students Council is yet to catch up at the university. As time is short to woo the voters, each party has its own agenda and hopes to reach out to as many students as it can in the most effective way.

Going may be tough in colleges
Chandigarh, August 26
Winning votes and goodwill of students will not be easy for the students’ unions even in the city colleges this time. The sudden decision of the college authorities to hold elections to student councils on September 3 has left no time for canvassing and campaigning for the student unions.

• Dahiya ABVP candidate

Great rush at temples
Chandigarh, August 26
Janmashtami, birthday of Lord Krishna was celebrated today with fervour in the city. Devotees in large numbers thronged various temples of the city and made offerings. The temples were decorated tastefully. Many devotees observed a fast on the day.

Planning panel directs Health Ministry to restructure CGHS
Chandigarh, August 26
Mired in irregularities and controversies, the Central Government Health Scheme is all set for a makeover with the Planning Commission directing the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to restructure and reform the scheme.

Passing Thru

COMMUNITY

Service lanes in bad shape
Panchkula, August 26
The Haryana Urban Development Authority and the Municipal Council have locked horns over who is to maintain the service lanes near all sector dividing roads in the township. As a result, all service lanes are in bad shape.

Open manholes: no one is just bothered Chandigarh, August 26 Chandigarh residents continue to risk their lives at the open manholes and dug-up ditches at numerous points in the city. The Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation continue to play the ‘blame game’ and shift responsibility on the other. But the fact of the matter is that there could be many more constable Jaswinder Kaur kind of tragedies that can shatter families. The picture of this open manhole was taken on the dividing road between Sectors 24 and 25 by the Tribune lensman this morning. Hundreds of students and commuters from Mohali, west of Sector 38, Dhanas, Sector 39, etc commute on this road daily to get to Panjab University, PGI and other places of work. In fact anyone could fall into this manhole large enough for any able-bodied person.

Aeronautical society to hold space centre contest in city
Chandigarh, August 26
The Aeronautical Society of India will be organising the second Asian Region Space Settlement Design Centre Competition in Chandigarh shortly. This competition is meant for senior secondary students and the winning team will be going to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration centre in Florida for participating in the finals.

Misery begins for shoeshiners Chandigarh, August 26 Miseries have just begun for the motley bunch of cobblers and shoeshine boys, who were asked to leave the Sector 17 ‘corridor’ by a Municipal Corporation order. Raju lives in Sector 25 and has six children to feed. Job loss: The Municipal Corporation’s decision to remove all hawkers from in and around markets of Chandigarh has rendered cobblers and shoeshine persons of Sector 17 jobless. — A Tribune photograph

Clicking for a cause: documenting impact of female foeticide
Chandigarh, August 26
Ruhani Kaur is a young Delhi-based freelance photo-journalist. The name of the project that she is working on in the villages and towns of Punjab and Haryana is a telling one. The photography project that she has been commissioned to do by the National Foundation of India, New Delhi, is called ‘The Invisible Woman of India.’

Geri route unsafe
Chandigarh, August 26
Geri route — running through the city’s history — continues to be unsafe. Though the Chandigarh police had announced a series of measures — including intensification of patrolling on the road cutting through Sector 10 and 11 — the “efforts” have proved futile, apparently.

Traffic disrupted at Kalka for 12 hours
Panchkula, August 26
Traffic on National Highway-22 (Panchkula-Shimla) remained disrupted for around 12 hours today after two trucks carrying apples overturned on the highway at Kalka. Traffic moved at a snail’s pace till the highway was cleared.

Philatelist with British Era ‘Black Penny’
Chandigarh, August 26
It is those little bits of paper that fascinate him and he has spent a lifetime collecting them. For Capt Gulab Israni is a philatelist with a passion spanning 55 years.

Emotionally still bonded to Pak
Chandigarh, August 26
Even after 58 years of painful adieu to his birthplace, Narah, in Pakistan, the tormented heart of Manmohan Sethi still beats for his native place.

Scheme for slum women, kids mooted
Chandigarh, August 26
With a view to empowering women and children of the city’s slums and rural areas of the city, an innovative programme for making the women economically self-reliant and equipping disadvantaged children with quality academic education and vocational skills has been drawn up by the Chandigarh Administration.

Makhan Singh’s kidnapper Punjabi
Mohali, August 26
While the police has failed to rescue Makhan Singh of Kumbra village here from his kidnappers in South Africa, it has been alleged that the victim is in the custody of a Punjabi youth hailing from Kakrala village, near Samana Patran.

SBOP celebrates ‘Vanmahotsav’
Chandigarh, August 26
State Bank of Patiala, ADB Patiala, celebrated Vanmahotsav at Government School, Shekhupur, on Wednesday. Mr J.S. Brar ADC Development, Patiala, was the chief guest and Mr K.S. Sandhu, Assistant General Manager, presided over the function.

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CRIME

UP labourer in need of help
Chandigarh, August 26
Aged parents of Charan Singh, a 23-year-old migrant labourer who is dying a slow death at the PGI here, are running from pillar to post to get justice and bring to book the culprits behind the condition of their son.

Teenager held on rape charge
Panchkula, August 26
The police has arrested a 19-year-old youth, Satish Kumar, on charges of abducting a 13-year-old daughter of his neighbour from Rajiv Colony.

• 8 arrested
• Police raids to arrest murderer
• Minors held

CULTURE

A Londoner in tune with times
Chandigarh, August 26
Neil Boorman has much to tell about music, especially of his country. As a founder of the top five clubs of England, he begins with a rather curt remark, “The club scene in England has three essentials - music, drinks and drugs.

LEISURE

We’ve been cheated by music piracy, say Punjabi singers 

“All that glitters is not gold,’ applies to the plight of Punjabi singers, as many of them feel that only Punjabi folk music is flourishing commercially but not the singers who gave their best to come up with such music. Punjabi singers oppose the trend of deejays using their songs to make hit music without paying any token money to them. They demanded a ban on the use of their music at a press conference of Press Club, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

A promising artist at 15
Chandigarh, August 26
Meet Harpreet Suri, a 15-year-old promising and versatile artist who has got creditable achievements in diverse fields. A Class X student of DAV Public School, Mohali, Harpreet has surprised all with her superb performances of kathak on stage or otherwise.

A scene from a Punjabi play, Saka-e-Harmandar, staged by the Shingar Kala Manch at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Friday. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma

Sahara One acquires Boney Kapoor’s films
Chandigarh, August 26
Sahara India Mass Communication has acquired satellite and pay TV broadcast rights to the library of Boney Kapoor’s films. SaharaOne CEO Shantonu Aditya said the films acquired included the yet unreleased multi-starrers ‘No Entry’ and ‘Paanch’. Mr Aditya added, “The movie content of our latest acquisitions will further boost our businesses, SaharaOne TV and SaharaOne Motion Pictures.” Mr Sandeep Bhargave, COO, SaharaOne Motion Pictures, said, “We are now the biggest player in the motion pictures arena.

HEALTH

Patient dies after operation, hospital denies negligence
Mohali, August 26
The Kathpalia family of Sector 18, Chandigarh, has alleged that their father Trilok Chand died at the Fortis Hospital here due to “negligence”.

SPORTS

Surjit Academy hog the limelight

Chandigarh, August 26 Surjit Academy, Jalandhar, registered a thumping victory over Rock Rovers, Chandigarh, to clinch the title in the final of the S N Vohra Memorial Hockey Tournament held at Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, here today. The final match between Surjit Academy, Jalandhar, and Rock Rovers, Chandigarh, in progress at the Sports Complex in Sector 42 in Chandigarh on Friday. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Balomajra team win kabaddi title Rural sports meet
Chandigarh, August 26
On the final day of the two-day annual rural sports mela organised at Guru Dronacharya Stadium in Dadu Majra village, near here, athletics and kabaddi tournaments in various categories were held today.

Hukam an upcoming handball player
Chandigarh, August 26
A local handball player, Hukam Singh, is creating waves in the game circle by taking part in competitions at the international level. He was the only city player who could make it into the junior national handball team, which had participated in the Junior Asian Championship, held at Bangkok in July.

Fine knock by Manan
Chandigarh, August 26
A superb knock of 53 off 64 balls by Manan Vohra enabled St John’s Cricket Academy to beat Guru Nanak School Cricket Academy in the 3rd SN Vohra u-13 Cricket Tournament played at St John’s High School, Sector 26, here today.

Sanjay Public School win
Panchkula, August 26
Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, Chandigarh, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, by 2-1 in the final of CBSE Football Tournament (Cluster XIII) played at Satluj Public School, here today.