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Windfall for Dera Bassi farmers as land prices shoot up
Mega housing projects bring prosperity to farmers
Dera Bassi, December 27
After Zirakpur, it is windfall for the Dera Bassi farmers. Though farming is not a lucrative profession yet farmers of certain villages bordering Dera Bassi are laughing their way to the bank, courtesy the major real estate players.

8 youngsters held after brawl
Chandigarh, December 27

Think twice before going out for a late night party in joints frequented by youngsters in the city. Chances are that you will have to run for your life as incidents of violence are on a rise at such places.
The accused coming out of local courts in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph.

Administration’s directive to pubs
Chandigarh, December 27
The Chandigarh Administration has banned the functioning of restaurants, pubs, discos, clubs and hawking of goods by the roadside and at public places between 1 a.m. and 4.30 a.m. in the city for a period of 60 days, an official presss note said here today.

Octroi collection on contract likely
Mohali, December 27
The Municipal Council is once again gearing up to give the work of octroi collection on contract. Auction in this regard will be held at the Municipal Bhawan, Sector 68, on January 16.

Prohibitory orders
Chandigarh, December 27
The Deputy Commissioner has issued prohibitory orders under Section 174 of the CrPC, wherein assembly of five or more persons in the sectors falling on the north of Madhya Marg has been banned.

Woman robbed
Mohali, December 27
A woman was robbed of her gold ‘kara’ and ring by two persons near Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Phase VIII here today.

International award for Tribune lensman Chandigarh, December 27 Tribune Staff Photographer Pradeep Tewari has won the prestigious third Annual International Photoshare Photo Contest on the theme of HIV/AIDS organised by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Centre for Communications Programs at Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.

Pradeep Tewari

COMMUNITY

Numismatic society’s annual conference
Chandigarh, December 27
On the third day of the 89th annual conference of the Numismatic Society of India various papers were read in the morning session on different aspects of coins. Prof Nisar Ahmad, an eminent numismatist, dwelled upon the coins of the Yaudheyas.

Punjab Raj Bhavan gets new mural
Chandigarh, December 27
Students of Chandigarh Architecture College have contributed to the city’s architecture in a totally different way. They have designed a mural that has been put up at Punjab Raj Bhavan, symbolically portraying folk traditions of depicting art in architecture of Punjab as well as representative of Chandigarh, its capital city.

Banks not to give jobs on compassionate grounds
Chandigarh, December 27
All public sector banks in the country have adopted a new scheme for payment of ex-gratia lump sum amount instead of offering appointments on compassionate grounds to dependents of employees dying in harness, or those being incapacitated.

Rs 2 lakh ESI aid for hip replacement Chandigarh, December 27 After being unable to generate Rs 2 lakh for being operated upon at the PGI for his hip replacement, Mr Suresh Kumar, an unemployed industrial worker, has given up hope of being able to walk without crutches. Suresh Kumar, an unemployed industrial worker, who has been given Rs 2 lakh for hip replacement at PGI by the ESI.

HUDA refunds ready
Panchkula, December 27
Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has begun the exercise of issuing refunds to thousands of applicants in the Mansa Devi Complex Sector 2 and 6 housing scheme. Cheques to the tune of Rs 454 crore have been prepared to be dispatched to the 32,927 unsuccessful applicants.

Mourned
Chandigarh: Staff members of Panjab University mourned the demise of Jagdish Lal Ahuja, Assistant Section Officer, who died on Sunday.

CRIME

Drug peddlers’ gang busted
Chandigarh, December 27
The zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh, today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of drug peddlers operating between Jammu and Punjab and seized a huge quantity of psychotropic drugs from three persons.

Woman duped of Rs 7,000 by youth
Panchkula, December 27
A 35-year-old woman was today duped by a youth of Rs 7000, outside the Sector 4 post office. The youth took her money for depositing in the bank, but he ran away with the money.

Cash stolen in daylight burglary
Chandigarh, December 27
Thieves decamped with Rs 10,000 and $400 from a house in Sector 43 in a broad daylight today. In a separate incident, a shop was burgled while the locks of the other two were broken in Sector 32 last night.

Maruti car stolen
Chandigarh, December 27
A white deluxe Maruti (CH-01-Q9279) belonging to Ms Suman Puri was stolen from the Lajpat Rai Bhavan parking in Sector-15 on Saturday. An FIR has been lodged at the police station in Sector 11.

BUSINESS

Bonanza on anvil for mobile phone users
Chandigarh, December 27
The New Year is all set to ‘ring in’ a bonanza for mobile subscribers in the region. With the cellular operators trying to beat each other by offering the best deal to the consumer to beat competition at the year end, the cellphone subscriber is the king.

RBI to issue new notes of Rs 100
Chandigarh, December 27
The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue new bank notes of Rs 100, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination.

EDUCATION

Children to perform Himachali dance in R-Day parade
Chandigarh, December 27
Their little feet run to keep together, while they try to keep step with the music. Their hands waving in the air, they skip through the 2 minutes 30 seconds effortlessly, you observe. Their instructor, however, thinks otherwise, after all they are preparing to perform at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26 and everything has to be perfect. Just perfect!

SAIF installed in PU
Chandigarh, December 27
Panjab University has revamped its sophisticated instrumentation facilities. Two new sophisticated instruments have been installed recently in SAIF (Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility) of Panjab University. Also, new service charges for various facilities of SAIF will become applicable with effect from January 1, 2006, the details of which are available on PU website of RSIC/ SAIF.

PU releases holiday list
Chandigarh, December 27
Panjab University (PU) employees will have 21 holidays in 2006.

From Colleges
165 patients examined at free camp
Chandigarh, December 27
A free dental and eye check-up camp was organised by the NSS unit of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College Sector 26, at Kaimbwala village in collaboration with the Sri Guru Harkrishan Sahib Charitable Trust, Sohana. A team of doctors examined 165 patients out of which more than 25 persons were detected with cataract.

Alumni meet of Chemical Engg Dept
Chandigarh, December 27
Twentyfive years after they graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, graduates of the 1980 batch have celebrated their silver jubilee at a function organised at Hotel Mountview. The function was attended by a group of alumni of the department and their spouses.

X’mas celebrations in schools
Chandigarh, December 27
Fun and frolic marked the Christmas Day celebrations held recently in various city schools. At Stepping Stones Secondary School, Sector 37, the students participated in the programme dressed in bright vibrant attires.

COURTS

Penal costs slammed on Fun Republic, Deputy Commissioner
Chandigarh, December 27
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-II has imposed penal costs of Rs 200 on the management of Fun Republic and the Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh, for failing to reply in a complaint of overcharging and wrong categorisation of seats in the multiplex.

CULTURE

Singla for Punjabi films based on folklore

Chandigarh, December 27 “The commitment and endeavor of the Punjab Government for promotion and propagation of Punjabi and our rich cultural heritage has been largely endorsed by art-loving Punjabis all over the world,” asserted Mr Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, Punjab. Kulraj Randhawa and Jimmy Shergil during the shooting of "Mannat" at North Park in Panchkula on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan