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Poor Result
15 govt school principals get notice
Chandigarh, July 7
The UT education department has issued a show-cause notice to around 15 government school principals for “lack of interest”, resulting in a poor show in the class X/XII board examinations.

Linguistic Error

PU admissions on, but no word on freeships
Chandigarh, July 7
Despite approval by the Senate regarding 5 per cent freeships for poor students from the new academic session, a majority of the departments are ignorant of any such order.

PU Deficit
Majority funding by Centre
Chandigarh, July 7
The consultative committee of the union ministry of human resource and development today accepted the report of the special task force formed to examine Panjab University’s financial condition.

Train service partially restored
Chandigarh, July 7
Hundreds of stranded passengers at the Chandigarh railway station got some relief as train services from city to Delhi and Kochivilli in Kerala were restored today.

Protesters face khaki rage
Chandigarh, July 7
The police today lathicharged members of the Chandigarh Industrial Area Joint Action Committee who were protesting on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway here today. Several protesters were injured.

Members of the Chandigarh Industrial Area Joint Action Committee being lathicharged by the police near The Tribune Chowk in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Flesh trade spreads its tentacles
Chandigarh, July 7
Poor and hapless women from Punjab are reportedly being pushed into prostitution by a well-organised gang of pimps in the city. These women are supplied to men’s bashes under the garb of bar girls and also to tourists in hotels.

Snakebites are here again
Chandigarh, July 7
With the onset of the monsoon, cases of snakebite have begun to surface at government hospitals, including the PGI and the GMCH.

COMMUNITY

Two Meetings, Same Agenda
MC on overdrive over women’s problems
Chandigarh, July 7
It is a classic example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, and vice versa. For a single agenda item of making the city woman-friendly, the municipal corporation (MC) convened two parallel meetings.

Housing schemes only, nothing concrete yet
Chandigarh, July 7
The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) continues to sit over the housing schemes floated by it in the recent years. Announced with much fanfare, most of these schemes have hardly moved any further after that.

MC plans more musical fountains Chandigarh, July 7 The municipal corporation is set to install at least four musical fountains in the city on the pattern of the one installed at the Terrace Garden in Sector 33 decades ago. People enjoy near the musical fountain at Sector 30 in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

PGI Foundation Day passes off peacefully

Chandigarh, July 7 Contrary to apprehensions that a section of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) faculty will stay away from the 47th Foundation Day celebrations today, despite the association withdrawing its boycott call, attendance of the members was near absolute and the function passed off without any disruption.
Dr T Ramasami (left), secretary, Dept of Science and Technology, honours an awardee at the PGI Foundation Day in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur is also seen in the picture. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

SOS to Bansal, Mehra on GPA holders’ plight
Chandigarh, July 7
The Chandigarh Administration is bent upon prolonging the agony of GPA holders in cooperative group housing societies. Over two months after the Administration seeking legal opinion on the alleged faux pas in interpreting an order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the transfer of flats, GPA holders continue to await the authorities’ decision.

• Double Trouble

700 saplings planted at 12 Wing Chandigarh, July 7 As many as 700 saplings of ornamental and medicinal species were planted during a special drive at 12 Wing here in which a large number of officers, air warrior and their family members participated. Members of the Air Force Wives Welfare Association take part in a plantation drive at 12 Wing in Chandigarh on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Major fire at SBoP branch Panchkula, July 7 A major fire broke out in the Sector 8 branch of the State Bank of Patiala during the wee hours of this morning. A veiw of the damaged server room in the basement of the main branch of the State Bank of Patiala in Sector 8, Panchkula, on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Landslides on trekking route in Morni
Panchkula, July 7
Landslides at various places on the trekking route from Tikkar Tal to Morni were reported in view of the heavy rains that lashed the region for the last three days.

Roads develop potholes, vacant plots flooded
Zirakpur, July 7
Even after 24 hours since the rain has stopped, many colonies of Zirakpur, Baltana and surrounding areas were submerged with rainwater and were facing major problem of waterlogging.

Rainwater entering houses
Level of footpath being raised
Mohali, July 7
The level of a footpath is being raised by the department of public health to stop rainwater from entering houses in a pocket of Phase III-B2 here.

Vehicles stall after refuel; water found in tanks
Chandigarh, July 7
Motorists at a Sector-26 petrol station were in for a rude shock yesterday morning when their vehicles stalled soon after refuelling. It was later found that rainwater had seeped into the underground tanks, stalling the engines of vehicles.

Apni mandi to get mobile toilet
Chandigarh, July 7
The municipal corporation will provide mobile toilet van facility at apni mandis and day markets. This was decided at a meeting of the Apni Mandi and Day Market Committee of the municipal corporation held under the chairmanship of Jagjit Singh Kang here yesterday.

EDUCATION

PU
Stage set for admission to master’s courses
Chandigarh, July 7
The second week of July will be the peak interview and counselling season on the Panjab University campus and students have already started thronging various departments to enquire about the dates of counselling.

BCom Counselling
Luck runs out for students with below 60 pc marks

Chandigarh, July 7 All commerce students who scored below 60 per cent marks in class XII examination returned disappointed on the third and final day of centralised counselling on Panjab University campus today. Students seeking admission to BCom await their turn at the gymanisum hall in Panjab University, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

GCG-11 offers add-on course on disaster mgmt
Chandigarh, July 7
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Postgraduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, has introduced a new undergraduate add-on course on disaster management.

CAT reprieve for lecturers on contract
Chandigarh, July 7
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Home Secretary, the director, public instructions, and principal, Government College for Girls, Sector 42, to consider the applicants who were lecturers on contract for regular appointment instead of fresh applicants.

Plymouth varsity for tie-up with local institute
Mohali, July 7
There is a need to bridge the gap between students of Asian and western countries and this can primarily be done through mutual collaborations between educational institutes, said Robert Mc Clellond of Plymouth University, New Hampshire, UK, who visited Sahibzada Ajit Singh Institute of IT & Research (SASIIT&R), here today.

Stone of science & technology institute laid
Chandigarh, July 7
Dr T Ramasami, secretary, department of science and technology, Government of India, laid the foundation stone of “Institute of Emerging Areas in Science and Technology, Block I, Bio-Technological Sciences” on PU south campus, Sector 25, here today.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Another youth drowns in flooded choe
Dera Bassi, July 7
Hansraj, a youth of Raiwali today drowned in the flooded choe near Jaula Kalan while searching the body of another youth, Balram, who had drowned in the choe on Monday.

Rain leaves villagers homeless
Bassi Pathana, July 7
While water has started receding in the town, normal life was thrown out of gear in its surrounding villages. Due to overflowing of water in Sirhind Choe and SYL canal, the rainy water had entered into the houses and thousands of acres of cultivated land has been flooded with rainwater and the paddy crop destroyed.

Man killed over land dispute
Kharar, July 7
Jung Singh (60), a resident of Pannuan village, was killed owing to a land dispute here late Monday night. Acting on statements of the deceased’s son Balwinder Singh, the police has booked Jaspal Singh, Jasneet Singh, Bhagwant Singhad and Bachittar Singh from the same village in murder case.

Woman crushed under truck
Rajpura, July 7
A newly wed 24-year-old woman got badly crushed under a speeding truck when she was being taken to her in-laws’ house by her husband on a bike.

COURTS

Judicial probe ordered into ex-gratia appointments
Chandigarh, July 7
Gaje Singh was appointed as clerk in Haryana against a vacancy for “dependant family members of deceased government employees”, though his father was neither dead, nor a government employee.

PU engineers remanded
Chandigarh, July 7
The CBI special court today sent Executive Engineer Satish Padam and SDO Nand Lal Kaushal in judicial custody. Earlier in the day, CBI sleuths arrested Kaushal from his residence. The CBI arrested Padam for demanding bribe from a contractor yesterday.

Bharti Airtel told to pay compensation
Chandigarh, July 7
Declaring that telecom company Bharti Airtel has handled the complaint of a petitioner in an unprofessional manner, a lok adalat has told it to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation for changing the bill plan of a broadband connection without consent.

CRIME

Two arrested on robbery charge
Chandigarh, July 7
The police yesterday arrested two persons, who allegedly robbed three women of gold ornaments using an airgun and a toy pistol on July 2.

Two bikers snatch gold chain
Chandigarh, July 7
Two unidentified motorcyclists snatched a gold chain of a woman in Sector 37 here this evening. In another incident, a scooterist made a bid to snatch a purse of a woman in Sector 22 here today.

2 held for drinking publicly
Chandigarh, July 7
The police arrested two persons on July 5 for consuming liquor at the district courts parking lot. They were identified as Ravinder Parshad Gupta of Sector 45-B and Jai Parkash of Dhanas. A case under the Excise Act was registered.

SPORTS

AITA Meet
Deepinder clinches nail-biter to reach semis

Chandigarh, July 7 Chandigarh lad Deepinder Singh sailed into the semifinals of the HTA-AITA Men’s and Women’s Tournament-2010 at Harvest Academy in Jassowal (Ludhiana) here today. Vishwesh Sinha plays a backhand during a match of the HTA-AITA Men’s and Women’s Tournament-2010 in Ludhiana on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Hockey
Chandigarh blank Vidarbha 10-0
Chandigarh, July 7
Continuing with their winning spree, Chandigarh demolished Vidarbha 10-0 in their second match of the 63rd Rangaswami Cup Senior National for Men’s Hockey Championship at Aishbagh Stadium in Bhopal here today.