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Pakistani spy arrested
Chandigarh, July 10
The Chandigarh Police today arrested Kashif Ali, a Pakistani national, for spying from Sector 44.


Kashif Ali, a Pakistani spy, being taken for medical examination to a hospital in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Record Misplaced
11 yrs on, court reader gets 3-year jail
Chandigarh, July 10
Shravan Kumar Puri, a court’s reader, had to pay for misplacing the record. Nearly 11 years after the police had registered the case; court of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Ranjeev Kumar has sentenced him to three years imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on him.

PU moots early students’ poll
Chandigarh, July 10
Panjab University is planning to hold student elections early this year. In the wake of protests by different student organisations every day, which has now become a routine, the authorities are working on this idea.

ESIC goes online, to issue smart cards
3 lakh city residents to benefit from this scheme
Chandigarh, July 10
More than 5 crore beneficiaries of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), including 3 lakh from Chandigarh, will now be able to avail the health facilities provided by the corporation at any of its 2,210 health centres across the country.

Fans just wanna party
Chandigarh, July 10
Even as the football frenzy has reached its crescendo with the FIFA World Cup final scheduled to be played tomorrow, the members of the top-notched Holland and Spain teams appeared to have no fan following among the local residents.

Hotels woo soccer lovers
Chandigarh, July 10
City soccer fans are ready to watch the World Cup final between Spain and Netherlands. Despite the prediction of Paul Octopus of Spain winning the final, soccer fans would support their favourite team.

Lone PGI lab non-functional
Chandigarh, July 10
The region’s lone swine flu testing lab, started in the PGI’s Virology Department last year to lessen the burden of tests being conducted at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, and to reduce the delay in the receipt of the reports, has been lying non-functional for the past few months. As a result, the throat swabs for confirmation of the swine flu are once again being sent to New Delhi.

Floods in Punjab, Haryana
Stop blame game, focus on relief: Ex-MP
Chandigarh, July 10 Former MP Suresh Chandel, who is the convener of the BJP’s committee to assess damage due to the floods, today stated that Punjab and Haryana should focus on providing relief to the people affected by floods and not indulge in blame games.

COMMUNITY

PEC Counselling
Final-yr students lend helping hand
Chandigarh, July 10
Far from the concept of ragging the new entrants in engineering colleges, the fourth-year students of PEC University of Technology today were spotted guiding the new aspirants on the first day of the joint counselling for six engineering colleges in the city.


Students at counselling for admission to engineering colleges at PEC campus in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

PU plans smart cards for teachers
Chandigarh, July 10
Panjab University authorities are planning to introduce smart cards for teachers at its affiliated BEd colleges in UT and Punjab.Drawing a clue from the directions issued by the Dental Council of India (DCI) to all dental colleges, PU is mulling over implementing the same at certain colleges. This proposal also includes introduction of biometric attendance, which will ensure maintenance of authentic attendance record.

216 donate blood
Chandigarh, July 10
The Thalassaemic Children Welfare Association (TCWA), Chandigarh, organised a blood donation camp at Zakir Hall, Block A, PGI, here.

Bill on higher education opposed
Chandigarh, July 10
The Guru Gobind Singh Foundation today opposed the centralisation of higher education through the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research Bill 2010 being brought for enactment before the next session of Parliament. 

Humility unplugged
Chandigarh, July 10
An epitome of humility and simplicity, and an apostle of love, literature and visual arts, Imroze is a phenomenon adored by amateurs, connoisseurs, critics and the elite.

Imroze 

Pet lovers protest against admn’s bylaws
Chandigarh, July 10
The Chandigarh Pet Lovers Association today demonstrated against the Chandigarh Registration of Pet Dogs Bylaws-2010. The recently-announced bylaws have annoyed pet lovers in city.



Members of the Pet Lovers’ Association protest against the pet dogs bylaws-2010 at Sector 22 in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Old is not gold for MC
Chandigarh, July 10
Ignoring the completion of approved projects of road recarpeting in various sectors, the municipal corporation is busy getting new projects approved.Interestingly, a majority of road recarpeting projects which are in process these days are those sanctioned by the MC general house last year.

The construction of a rubber road near the cricket stadium roundabout at Sector 16 in Chandigarh is still incomplete. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Vision centres to provide eye care services
Chandigarh, July 10
The health department has operationalised four vision centres under the National Rural Health Mission.According to health officials, these vision centres are functional in the civil dispensary, Industrial Area; civil dispensary, Sector 38; civil dispensary, Sector 34; and polyclinic, Sector 45, under the National Programme for Control of Blindness.

Citigroup told to pay costs, issue NOC
Chandigarh, July 10
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed the manager of Citigroup Services Limited, New Delhi, to issue a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the complainant on the car loan amount that he had paid. The forum also told the group to pay Rs 5,000 as costs of litigation to the complainant.

Industry body poll
Mohali, July 10
The Mohali Industries Association has unanimously elected its office-bearers. KS Mahal has been elected president of the association. 

Residents bear ‘powerless’ night
Chandigarh, July 10
Residents of southern sectors of the city were again at the mercy of the electricity department, with no power supply last night.The residents had another round of struggle, with innumerable phone calls to to the complaint number, followed by another round of phone calls to the electricity subdivision concerned.

Morning drizzle greets city
Chandigarh, July 10 An overcast sky and drizzle greeted the city and its surrounding areas early morning today, but soon the Sun shone bright. Most parts of the city and some parts of adjoining Punjab and Haryana also received drizzle during the early hours today.

11 booked for developing illegal colonies
Mohali, July 10
The police has registered three separate cases against 11 persons, including a woman, for allegedly developing illegal colonies in Dera Bassi and surrounding villages.

EDUCATION

SOI demands single girl child quota
Chandigarh, July 10
The Students Organisation of India (SOI) today protested against the Panjab University authorities for not introducing single girl child quota in several departments, including law department.

PU Notes
Invite to present research
CHANDIGARH : Jitendra Mohan, a professor emeritus of psychology, Panjab University, has been invited to present his recent research in the field of psycho-social aspects of Chandigarh at the International Congress of Applied Psychology at Melbourne, Australia, from July 10 to July 16.

New biotech course, a hit
Chandigarh, July 10
A postgraduate degree course in microbial biotechnology (PG microbial biotechnology), which started this year in Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, has proved to be a hit with admission seekers.

DAV College
Hostels fail to attract girl students
For about 200 hostel seats, the college has so far received only around 70 applications
Chandigarh, July 10
The girls’ hostels, which started in DAV College, Sector 10, seemed to have failed to catch the fancy of the fairer sex admission seekers.While the college courses have educed a huge response amongst girls, not many seem to be interested in taking up the hostel accommodation.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

hands up, sans power

Residents of Sunder Nagar, Rajpura, protest against the frequent power cuts imposed by the Powercom on Saturday. Tribune photo: JS Virdi

Rs 1.85 lakh looted from bank
Patiala, July 10
In a daylight robbery, approximately Rs 1.85 lakh was today looted from the Punjab National Bank at Baran on the Sirhind road, about eight km from here.Around 11 am, six unidentified motorcycle-borne persons, with their faces covered, barged into the bank. They were armed with weapons, including a revolver, a pistol and a .12-bore rifle.

Rail traffic not fully restored
Ambala, July 10
Normal rail traffic could not be restored on the Ambala-Delhi rail section today as the breach on the rail track near Shahbad could not be repaired properly.

COURTS

Rape Case: Accused gets 7-year jail
Panchkula, July 10
A 19-year-old youth, Dilpreet Singh, a resident of Baltana village near Zirakpur, was awarded seven-year imprisonment on the charges of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl of Panchkula.

CRIME

Gang of thieves busted, 7 cars recovered
Mohali, July 10
The Mohali police busted an inter-state gang of thieves, who targeted luxury cars. SSP Mohali, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said seven luxury cars had been recovered so far from two members of the gang, namely Jovanjeet and Maneel Dhuria. The stolen cars are worth Rs 33 lakh.

Criminal breach of trust
Security guard, 3 others booked
Zirakpur, July 10
A private company’s security guard posted at the Baltana BSNL telephone exchange and other three unidentified persons were booked on charges of criminal breach of trust here late this evening. The case has been registered on the complaint of Mukul Chaudhary, a senior official posted at the Baltana BSNL exchange.

SPORTS

Soggy grounds keep sportspersons grounded
‘The grounds are wet and we are not allowing anyone to play on these fearing damage’
Chandigarh, July 10
Incessant rain in this part of the region has brought sports activity, particularly outdoor games, to a grinding halt in the city.Almost all grounds in the city have been affected, making it difficult for sportsperson to even continue with their practice sessions.


A view of the wet athletics track. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Boxers for national meet
Chandigarh: Ten city-based boxers will represent the city in the Senior National Boxing Championship. — TNS