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Overcharging Innovated
Rs 7,700 for attesting report cards!
Chandigarh, March 28
A city school has charged an astounding Rs 7,700 for attesting photocopies of the Class IX and X report cards of its student, who needed it to apply for higher studies at a university in the United States.
Package: Missing Answersheets
Sec-18 govt school’s got mail!
Chandigarh, March 28
The class XI answersheets of music and computer science, which had gone missing from Government Model Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, here last week, reappeared in the mail on Saturday — almost around the time when a specially conducted re-test had been completed — just as mysteriously as these had disappeared, leaving teachers and the police equally baffled.
Clean chit to St John’s teacher
Justice Sodhi comes down heavily on Goyals
Chandigarh, March 28
“Malicious intent with a streak of vindictiveness is what the complaint by TK
Goyal, an officer of the Punjab Civil Services, and his wife Meeta against Michael Angelo Francis, the arts teacher of St John’s High School, smacks of” noted Justice SS
Sodhi, inquiry officer, in his order, signed today, into the controversial case that had rocked the city in the recent past.
 Rape Cases
Laws deter women from coming forward: Moily
Chandigarh, March 28
Speaking on the dire need to restructure legal education in India, Union Cabinet Minister of Law Dr M Veerapa Moily said today post 1990 there had been no reforms in legal education.
Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily interacts with students at Panjab University in
Chandigarh.A Tribune photograph
Dancing queen spells magic
Leela Samson continues despite power failure
Chandigarh, March 28
Blending the classical conservatism and dynamic spirit of innovation in the otherwise rigid Bhartnatyam dance genre, the acclaimed dance queen, Leela Samson enthralled the audience in a scintillating recital on the second day of the Arts and Heritage Festival at the Tagore Theatre.
Bharatnatyam dancer Leela Samson performs at the second Chandigarh Art and Heritage Festival at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Sunday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
Garewal elected press club president
Chandigarh,March 28
Naveen S Garewal of The Tribune and Pritam Singh Rupal of the All-India Radio were elected president and secretary general, respectively, of the Chandigarh Press Club, elections to which were held here today.
Bhardwaj is president of Mohali Press Club
Mohali, March 28
In a keenly-contested fight, Bhardwaj-Handa panel has won the annual election of Mohali Press Club. All nine contenders of this panel defeated Sarao-Sodhi panel with a huge margin.
Open House
Bloating periphery: A red alert for future of tricity
Chandigarh cannot sit with closed eyes like the proverbial horse of ancestral wisdom, expecting the trouble of rapidly changing population graph, particularly in the periphery, to tide over. A planned trip by officials to gauge the ground realities will be an eye opener and should shake them and force them to sit down, immediately.
The ground being cleared and venue being decorated to attract real estate investors on the Mullanpur road
beyond PGI. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Hotels riding piggyback on cricket mania
If you ask the waiter for the menu in any hotel or restaurant in the city and he hands you a cricket bat instead you might be totally nonplussed. But this is exactly what is happening at Hotel Mountview nowadays. However, the bat contains the menu of the various dishes and drinks served at the restaurant. Mount View, where members of the IPL teams are putting up while their matches are on in Mohali, appears to be completely under the grip of cricket fever. Visitors are offered cricket bats listing various items with names associating them with cricketing terminology.
PM panel to monitor small units
Chandigarh, March 28
A council on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), chaired by the Prime Minister, has been set up to review and formulate policy for this sector.
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Artist’s Impression |
In spite of a ban on smoking at public places, renowned painter Jatin Dass puffs away during a painting workshop at Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, Chandigarh. The workshop is part of city’s heritage festival and is being organised by the Chandigarh Lalit Kala
Akademi.Tribune photo: S Chandan |
Fire Safety
GMSH faces another notice
Chandigarh, March 28
The UT fire department is all set to issue yet another notice to the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital (GMSH) for failing to install requisite fire safety and detection mechanism at the hospital.
Hygiene a casualty at PGI
Chandigarh, March 28
There is no denying the fact that being the only hospital in the region providing tertiary care, the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is far better equipped to provide emergency care than the other two city-based government hospitals, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, and the Government Multi Speciality Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16.
Chandigarh Beopar Mandal Poll
Sahoonja wins, has miles to go
Chandigarh, March 28
With the trading community faced with the onslaught of the entry of MNCs and big corporates in the retail sector, trader-friendly building bylaws are high on the agenda of Diwakar Sahoonja, the new president of the largest representative body of local traders, the Chandigarh Beopar Mandal.
Mahavir Jayanti
Meat-sellers flout ban
Zirakpur, March 28
Despite the Mohali Administration implementing a ban on slaughter of animals and the sale of non-vegetarian products in the Mohali district on the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti today, the shops selling meat were seen open in Zirakpur and surrounding areas.
Don’t play with your life
No check on sale of unhygienic cut fruit, ‘banta’ bottles
Chandigarh, March 28
With the temperature rising, cut fruit and ‘banta’ bottles are in great demand, notwithstanding the unhygienic conditions under which these are prepared and served.
‘Banta’ bottles and cut fruit being sold openly outside a wine shop in Sector 22,
Chandigarh.Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Don’t binge on junk, say docs
Panchkula, March 28
“People should stop eating junk food,” said renowned ayurvedic doctors HK Mehta and Dr Giridhar on the concluding day of the six-day yoga camp held in Sector 10 here today.
Manjusha lights up sangeet mehfil
Chandigarh, March 28
The Pune-based classical vocalist Manjusha Sandeep Patil gave an absorbing recital at the Triveni Sangeet Sabha complex here today.
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Reckless felling of trees in the precious forest cover here has prompted residents of this village to file complaints with senior forest
officials.A complaint, filed last week, has forced the forest
officials to order an inquiry, which, interestingly, is being kept
secret from junior officials of the department.
