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No road tax to be levied on school buses
Chandigarh, July 16
No road tax will be levied on the buses which ferry school children in the city. The State Transport Authority (STA), Chandigarh, in a clarification to the Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA), Chandigarh, has stated that on the pattern of school-owned buses, no tax can be levied on the school buses which run on private service vehicle (PSV) permit.

Mohali man posing as journalist held
Chandigarh, July 16
The Chandigarh Police today arrested 49-year-old Chander Mohan Grover for impersonating as a journalist working with a news channel. Chander Mohan, a resident of Phase II, Mohali, was arrested on a complaint by Mr Paramjit Singh, Manager, Kisan Bhavan.

Plan for motorised rehris hits roadblock
Chandigarh, July 16
A few months ago, the Municipal Corporation had announced that it would be introducing motorised rehris, bringing hope to many roadside vendors.

Medicos protest against quota
Chandigarh, July 16
Students and interns of Government College and Hospital, Sector 32, staged a candlelight rally in protest against the government’s reservation policy today.

Fighting for his pension
Mohali , July 16
He is 92 , frail and bed-ridden. He gave his youth for the nation’s freedom, but is yet to receive his pension under the Swatantra Sainik Samman Scheme.

Baba Kartar Singh

Greater Mohali Development Authority opposed
Mohali, July 16
The PUDA Employees Federation has urged the government to reconsider the decision regarding the formation of the Greater Mohali Development Authority (GMDA).

COMMUNITY

Showroom allottees given notices
Chandigarh, July 16
The UT Estate Office has issued notices to the allottees of showrooms and booths in Sector 17, which were given on lease in the early 70s.

Minister seeks more investment in R & D
Chandigarh, July 16
The Ministry of Science and Technology has developed a special image-processing technology, which will help in getting three dimensional images of public places, especially those vulnerable to terrorist strikes.

Mr Kapil Sibal, Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, at the inaugural function of the fourth International Conference on Information Science, Technology and Management in Chandigarh on Sunday. — A Tribune photo

The fight for justice to continue
Chandigarh, July 16
Three years ago, 15-year-old Abhishek Ahluwalia, a Panchkula resident and student of St. John’s, fractured his left leg while playing football.

Questions raised on conduct of officials
Chandigarh, July 16
In the case of illegal substitution of five Punjab-cadre IAS officers as members of the Pink Rose Housing Society, the Pink Rose Allottee Members Welfare Society, Sector 49, has raised questions about the conduct of certain officials in the office of the Cooperative Societies, Chandigarh, in trying to misguide the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Cooperation, Mr Krishan Kumar.

Shoppers resent encroachments
Panchkula, July 15
Encroachments along the corridors of Sector 7 market here has led to a tug of war between shopkeepers and the Haryana Urban Development Authorities (HUDA).

Encroachments by shopkeepers in Sector 7 market, Panchkula, have extended up to the corridors . — Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh

Leadership development camp
Panchkula, July 16
The local unit of the Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) organised a leadership development camp here today. A large number of workers of the morcha attended the camp with great enthusiasm.

BJP condemns Mumbai blasts
Chandigarh, July 16
The local BJP unit today condemned blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar by staging a dharna at the round-about of Sectors 7 and 8. A memorandum was later submitted to Gen S.F. Rodrigues, Administrator UT.

CRIME

100 cartons of liquor seized
Chandigarh, July 16
The Chandigarh Traffic Police during a special drive against drunken driving had an unexpected success yesterday when they stopped a jeep for being driven with lights on high beam.

Two cops suspended for manhandling scribe
Chandigarh, July 16
The Chandigarh police today suspended an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) and a constable for allegedly manhandling a cameraman of the Siti Channel, who was covering a spot, near Attawa here last night.

Conman dupes businessman
Chandigarh, July 16
A conman ready to dupe the gullible motorists is reportedly on the prowl in the city. In the past less than three weeks, he has reportedly duped two city residents.

Two booked for assault
Dera Bassi, July 16
Two residents of Mahmadpur village were booked yesterday for assaulting a family of the same village.

Theft reported from Silver City
Zirakpur, July 16
A daylight theft has been reported from the Silver City on the Ambala-Chandigarh road here yesterday.

Two truck drivers booked
Lalru, July 16
Two truck drivers have been booked on the charge of parking their vehicles wrongly with a view to obstructing free flow of traffic.

BUSINESS

Bank celebrates silver jubilee
Chandigarh, July 16
The All India Vijaya Bank's Officers Association, Chandigarh Regional Unit, celebrated its silver jubilee today.

Mr A. Padmanabh Shetty, Officer- Director, Vijaya Bank (second from left) being honoured at a function in Sector 35, Chandigarh, on Sunday. — Tribune photograph

EDUCATION

Emphasis laid on school safety
Mohali, July 16
The SAS Nagar district administration in collaboration with the Institute of EHS Studies today organised a series of lectures for school teachers to mark the National School Safety Day.

Delegates at the lecture organised to mark National School Safety Day at Government Senior Secondary School, Phase 3B1, Mohali, on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu

Mask making contest held
Mohali, July 16
Swami Ram Tirath School organised a mask making competition for its junior students and a dictionary quiz’ for the senior students here today.

Rumours about next VC resented
Chandigarh, July 16
Some faculty members at the Panjab University have objected to the guess work going on regarding the next Vice-Chancellor of the university.

Polio patient clears PMET
Mohali, July 16
Hitesh Gaur, a student of the Saint Soldier’s International Convent School here, has cleared the Punjab PMET.

Hitesh Gaur with his parents at their house in Mohali on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

Orientation programme for B.Tech batch
Mohali, July 16
An orientation programme was organised for the second batch of India’s first B.Tech programme, specializing in total quality management, at PTU’s Gian Jyoti School of TQM and Entrepreneurship here today.

Repair work in govt schools begins
Panchkula, July 16
To improve the infrastructure at various government schools in the district, the state government has launched repair work costing a sum of Rs 70.49 lakh in 73 schools on a war footing.

COURTS

CAT’s directive for MES promotions
Chandigarh, July 16
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Engineer-in-Chief, Army Headquarters, New Delhi, to promote employees of the Military Engineering Service (MES) from grade II to grade I.

NK Jain case: more witnesses turn hostile
Chandigarh, July 16
In the case of corruption being heard by the CBI special court against a former UT Home Secretary, Mr N.K. Jain, more witnesses have turned hostile.

CULTURE

Practising theatre for passion
Chandigarh, July 16
Vivek Mishra is an idealist - a believer in the power of theatre to change things. But firmness of his beliefs apart, he can't condone the harsh reality of changing times where the worth of every product is determined by the price it fetches in the open market. At the National School of Drama, he was not taught the skill of packaging his art. But he has picked it up along the way lest his survival as an activist of theatre suffers.

Vivek and Sagarika Mishra

French artistes present music concert
Chandigarh, July 16
Credited for the promotion and propagation of Indian classical arts, the Pracheen Kala Kendra treated the city music lovers to a spell of western classical music by two artistes from south France in a special programme held at the kendra today.

Ms Marie Cecile and Aurelie Fery, western classical flute players, perform at Pracheen Kala Kendra in Sector 35, Chandigarh, on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

“No language can grow in isolation”
Chandigarh, July 16
The two-day national seminar organised by Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi to discuss the interaction between Indian languages concluded today with a presidential address by Prof Qaram Raise, a famous Urdu litterateur and former head, India Cultural Centre at Tashkent.

Experts deliberate on the concluding day of the national seminar on “Inter-action between Indian languages” at Government auditorium on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

HEALTH

108 donate blood
Panchkula, July 16
As many as 108 persons, including eight women, donated blood at a camp organised by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation at DC Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 7, here today.

SPORTS

Kinshuk wins doubles title
Chandigarh, July 16
Local tennis player Kinshuk Sharma made the city proud by winning the doubles title of Mercedes ITF-G4 Junior International Tennis Tournament at Bangkok today.