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Boys bag top positions in plus two exams
Anurag secures 96.8 pc in commerce, Anuj 93.6 in arts
Chandigarh, May 23
This year it were the boys who bagged the top positions in the city in the different streams of the Class XII CBSE result which were declared today morning. All toppers have secured more than 90 per cent. The toppers this year have secured more than the toppers of the last year.

Mehak Dhande who topped in the medical stream (93.2 per cent), Anurag Sangar in commerce (96.8 per cent) and Anuj Malhotra in arts streams (93.6 per cent) celebrate with their parents after the declaration of Class XII results by the CBSE in Chandigarh on Tuesday. — Tribune photos by Manoj Mahajan

Commerce achievers dominate in Panchkula
Panchkula, May 23
Students of commerce stream have outshone those of science and humanities stream in the Class XII examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in Panchkula.

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Failing to get through, GMSSS-10 student ends life
Chandigarh, May 23
After failing to clear his class XII CBSE examination, 17-year-old-Rahul Kaushal, the only son of his parents, ended his life by consuming a pesticide at the family’s Sector 22 residence in Chandigarh soon after seeing his result on the website of the CBSE this morning.

Mourning relatives of Rahul Kaushal, who commited suicide at his house in Sector 22, Chandigarh, after his bad result in the CBSE plus two examination on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Twins spell double celebration
Chandigarh, May 23
It was double celebration for a few in the city after the class XII CBSE results were declared this morning. Making their parents proud were two set of twins who secured more than 90 per cent in their class XII examination.

CPUJ not to invite Capt Amarinder any more
Despite consent, CM fails to attend union’s meeting
Chandigarh, May 23
A last-minute cancellation of his scheduled programme by the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, irked members of the Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists (CPUJ) here today and created a controversy.

The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Mrs Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, at the fourth state meeting of the Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists in Chandigarh on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Celebrating 125 years of glory
Chandigarh, May 23
Caretakers and employees of The Tribune assembled on the office premises this morning to take the newspaper’s 125th anniversary celebrations to another level.

Mr R.P. Bambah, Trustee of The Tribune Trust, pays floral tributes to The Tribune founder, Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, at a function to mark the 125th anniversary of the newspaper in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Justice S.S. Sodhi, Trustee, Mr H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief, Mr Sanjay Hazari, General Manager, and Mr J.S. Sidhu, president of The Tribune Employees Union, are also seen in the picture. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

COMMUNITY

Zirakpur to get facelift, courtesy private sector
Zirakpur, May 23
The Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat is all set to exploit its strategic location. In an innovative plan aimed at sprucing up the fast-developing township, the civic body has decided to tie-up with the private sector to beautify the strategic areas and link roads.

Civil Hospital docs protest over police inaction
Mohali, May 23
Doctors of the local Civil Hospital staged a dharna here today in protest against police inaction over an attack by a group of students on three other students at the hospital yesterday.

Poland woos Punjab entrepreneurs
Chandigarh, May 23
A delegation from Poland today wooed the entrepreneurs from Punjab, asking them to invest there as Poland is the “gateway to Europe”.

Family takes back HIV infected boy
Chandigarh, May 23
First abused as a child by his brother, Parvesh grew up rearing confusions about his sexuality. It all started when he was just 10-year-old, and too young to understand the implications of an experience he had secretly  started to enjoy.

MNCs to encourage IT entrepreneurs in city
Chandigarh, May 23
Leading international software companies are interested in setting up their facilities in the city. This is the feedback provided by Mr S.K.Sandhu, Finance Secretary-cum-Secretary, information Technology, who has returned from the recently held annual conference of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), 2006, held in Santa Clara, California.

219 challaned for traffic rules violation
Chandigarh, May 23
The Chandigarh Traffic police has challaned 219 persons for violating various traffic rules and regulations in the past 24 hours. The traffic police has also impounded 17 vehicles.

Overspeeding, drunken driving prime cause of accidents
Chandigarh, May 23
City residents continue to transgress traffic rules despite special challaning drives and awareness camps organised by the traffic wing of the Chandigarh Police from time to time. Nothing else can explain the occurrence of average 40 accidents every month.

Monkey menace spreads to more city areas
Chandigarh, May 23
Residents of different localities in the city are complaining about the unabated monkey menace as is evident from the increasing number of calls being received by the Forest Department and also the police.

Monkeys use a live electricity wire to cross over from one house to other in Sector 44, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Army observes liberation of Tithwal Day
Chandigarh, May 23
The Liberation of Tithwal in Jammu and Kashmir was commemorated by the Army and the civilian population of Tandhdar. It was on May 22, 1948, that Tithwal was wrested from the control of Pakistani raiders.

Land acquisition begins for IT Park road
Chandigarh, May 23
The Chandigarh Administration has started the process of land acquisition for the widening of the road leading to Kishangarh Information Technology Park at Mani Majra village, an official press note said here today.

CRIME

Teenager’s body found hanging
Chandigarh, May 23
The body of an unidentified teenaged boy was found hanging near a public toilet along the jogging track at the Sukhna Lake here early this morning.

Cash, jewellery worth Rs 7 lakh stolen
Zirakpur, May 23
Burglars struck at a house at the Wadhawa Nagar in Dakoli here and decamped with cash and jewellery worth about 7 lakh on the night of May 20.

EDUCATION

7 students in Class VIII exam merit list
Mohali, May 23
Seven students from local schools figure in the merit list of the middle standard examination results of which were declared here today.

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COURTS

Dy Mayor’s wife denied bail
Chandigarh, May 23
In a significant development, the Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ), Mr B.K. Mehta, today denied bail to Ms Harneet Singh, wife of the Deputy Mayor, Mr H.S. Lucky, in a case of theft of clothes from a Sector 17 garment shop. The interim bail earlier granted to Ms Harneet by another the ADSJ, Mr RS Baswana, ended today.

HEALTH

Parallel OPDs swell as docs continue stir
Chandigarh, May 23
Patient rush at parallel OPDs in PGIMER continued as the protest by striking medicos against reservation entered the ninth day here today. While resident doctors participated in a scooter rally to religious places, the relay fast, started by medicos at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, entered its second day.

Docs unrelenting
Chandigarh, May 23
Dismissing the formula on reservation worked out by the Union Government, medicos of the PGIMER; the General Hospital, Sector 16; and the GMCH-32 tonight said their strike would continue till the demands of a complete rollback on reservation were met.

SPORTS

Netball players elated over game’s inclusion in C’wealth Games
Chandigarh, May 23
The netball girl players, who have been toiling in the 20-day camp being held at Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, here, are in high spirits. Since the game has been included in the Commonwealth Games and will be a part of its 2010 edition in Delhi, the players could get a chance of being recognised at the international level. Expressing happiness over the development, Panchali Tatke, a former international netball player, said, “ The Netball Federation of India (NFI) is preparing a long term plan for the big event but at the moment we are concentrating on the forthcoming 5th Youth Asian Championship to be held in Bangalore from July 24 to 31.

Netball girl players practise in the training camp being held at Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, on Monday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

ADMINISTRATION

Senior Standing Counsel
Chandigarh, May 23
The Chandigarh Administrator has appointed Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer Anupam Gupta Senior Standing Counsel.