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Food inspector held for accepting bribe
Chandigarh, August 24
Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today caught red-handed a food inspector of the UT Health Department while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2000 from a juice vendor in Sector 7 here.
Mr Sanjay Kumar Bharol, Food Inspector, in the custody of CBI officials in Sector 7, Chandigarh on Thursday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Four of family killed in road accident
Ropar/Panchkula, August 24
Celebrations over the approaching marriage of the eldest daughter of the family at the Gupta household came to an abrupt end, here today, when news of the death of its four members in a road accident near Ropar came in.
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| Four of a family (left to right) Renu (mother), Anchal, Megha ( daughters) and Pradeep Gupta (father), who were killed in a mishap near Ropar on Thursday. |
Mohali boy found dead with head injury
Mohali, August 24
A pall of gloom descended on a Phase-VII house here following the death of a young medical student in Patiala today.
Vivek Gupta, alias Jimmy, aged 23 and a final year student of MBBS, was found
dead under mysterious circumstances in the Senior Boys Hostel of the Government
Medical College. The body of the deceased was brought to his house in Mohali at
1 pm from Patiala after a post-mortem
examination.
Vivek Gupta
Cops search city hotels for jehadis
Chandigarh, August 24
Following a tip-off from Central intelligence agencies, the Chandigarh Police scrutinised guest booking registers in some top hotels of the city in the past 10 days. Senior police officials confirmed that they had received specific information that certain Islamic fundamentalists had held a meeting in the city this month.
UT starts talks on solar energy project
Chandigarh, August 24
Faced with a peculiar situation of having no independent source of energy, the Chandigarh Administration has initiated work on important projects to harness non-conventional sources of energy.
Rain comes as a respite
Chandigarh, August 24
Rains came in as a welcome respite from the sweltering heat as the day temperatures fell down by around one degree as compared to yesterday’s temperature. The day was more pleasant due to clouds and the accompanying gentle breeze.
Seminar on Science of Belief
Chandigarh, August 24
A seminar on the ‘Science of Belief’ was organised by The Tribune for the parents and students of the schools associated with the Tribune in Education programme here today.
Lalru incident: PSEB engineer shifted
Lalru, August 24
The Punjab Government has found another scapegoat for August-11 Lalru incident, which snowballed into a major confrontation between the ruling Congress and the Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ahead of the February 2007 Punjab Assembly elections.
PUDA booths lying unused
Mohali, August 24
Booths worth crores of rupees constructed by the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) are lying unutilised even as applicants are eagerly waiting to shift to these.
Booths constructed by PUDA in Phase III-B-1, Mohali, in a state of neglect.
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Juhi, Divya excited to work in Waris Shah
Chandigarh, August 24
Spunky and bubbly, quite like champagne, epitomise these two beautiful actors. As Juhi Chawla and Divya Dutta exchange affectionate banter in the midst of a motley gathering of people, their camaraderie and liveliness is unmistakable.
Juhi Chawla and Divya Dutta in the city
on Thursday. — Tribune photos by Pradeep Tewari
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