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MC locks out slum children
Evicts them from creche and vocational centre as lease of propety had expired
Chandigarh, July 30
Slum children in a crèche run by the Youth Technical Training Society (YTTS), a city-based NGO in Sector 25, and in a vocational training centre in Palsora, have found themselves on the road after they were forcibly evicted by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) yesterday. The latter justified it, saying the lease of the property had expired.
Children walk out of the Community Centre, with containers and sewing machines scattered out in the sun at the Palsora Centre on Friday after the municipal corporation forced them out of the centre. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
N-Choe
‘Effluents still beyond permissible limit’
Chandigarh, July 30
Less than six months after The Tribune raised a storm over sanitation concerns going down the drain, the Punjab Pollution Control Board informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that effluents discharged in the “N-Choe” were still beyond the permissible limit.
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CAUGHT IN THE RAIN |
Two girls caught unawares as heavy showers lashed the city on Friday evening, providing residents the much-needed respite from sultry conditions. The mercury recorded a maximum 35 °C and a minimum of 26.9 °C. Tribune photo: S Chandan |
CBI probe sought against Nirvikar
Chandigarh, July 30
The role of Major Nirvikar Singh, former-ADC to Punjab Governor-cum-UT Administrator SF Rodrigues in the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra came under the Chandigarh Municipal scanner during discussion in the House meeting today with certain Congress councillors demanding a CBI inquiry into the role of the former ADC in making the plant functional.
Newborn’s Death
Post-mortem report gives jitters to GMSH
Chandigarh, July 30
A blood clot found in the head of the Bulbul’s baby has put the Government
Multi-Speciality Hospital (GMSH) authorities in jitters. Bulbul lost her child due to medical negligence at the OPD counter on July 21.
ATM card-cloning case cracked, 1 held
Mohali, July 30
With the arrest of a conman, Kamaljeet Singh, the Mohali police has cracked the curious case of cloning of ATM cards in the tricity, leading to fraudulent withdrawal of money.The police is also on the lookout of the prime suspect, who is in possession of a special device used to clone ATM cards. So far, at least two major cases of fraudulent withdrawal of around ` 1 lakh have been traced down to the two thugs who had kept the Chandigarh and the Mohali
police on its toes for the last two months.
AS Bindra ‘unableto pay Rs 10 cr’
Chandigarh, July 30
Ace shooter-cum-Olympian Abhinav Bindra’s father AS Bindra today told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that he could not arrange the cash payment of approximately Rs 10 crore - the amount his company Punjab Meats Limited has to pay to Assets Reconstruction Company India Limited
(ARCIL).
Conmen posing as eunuchs beaten up
Chandigarh, July 30
Adopting a somewhat unusual method to dupe people, men posing as eunuchs are on the prowl in the city to prey on unsuspecting people. Two such swindlers who were not lucky enough in their attempt to hoodwink people ran for their lives when they were caught by an alert Sector 18 resident and given a sound thrashing on Thursday.
Flash Floods
Give Punjab, Haryana Rs 3,000-cr aid: BJP
 Chandigarh, July 30
National president of the Kisan Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) OP Dhankar today demanded a compensation of Rs 3,000 crore for the flood-hit Punjab and
Haryana.
National president of the BJP Kisan Morcha OP Dhankar (L) and party member Sukhwinder Singh in Chandigarh on Friday. Tribune photo: S Chandan
DAV College principal too ‘busy’ to check discipline
Chandigarh, July 30
Just when discipline at DAV College here has taken a back seat following the recent clashes and brawl on the college campus, principal BC Josan seems too busy with ‘other things’.
Committee to check outsiders staying in PU hostels
 Chandigarh, July 30
A special search committee, formed by Panjab University authorities, will now inspect hostel rooms to check if any outsiders are staying illegally.Senior faculty members of the university and former hostel wardens will be a part of the special committee.
Securitymen check vehicles at the entrance to Panjab University in Chandigarh
on Friday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
2-yr RI for PGI engineer for graft
Chandigarh, July 30
CBI Special Judge Darshan Singh today sentenced Sandeep Kumar, working as a hospital engineer in PGIMER, to rigorous imprisonment of two years in a graft case.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.
Allowances of PGI faculty hiked
Chandigarh, July 30
The agitating faculty members of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research has finally some reasons to smile as the institute’s standing finance committee
(SFC) has hiked several of its allowances including a fourfold increase in the monthly academic allowance from Rs 2,500 to Rs 10,000.
Ex-serviceman Shooting Case
Police clueless about robbers
Panchkula, July 30
Even after 24 hours, the police is still clueless about the robbers, who took away ` 78,000 from a cashier of the Uttar Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited after injuring him yesterday on the road separating Sectors 26 and 27 of the city.
130 more BCom seats in city colleges
Chandigarh, July 30
In a crucial decision taken by Panjab University today, 130 BCom seats have been approved for 11 UT colleges.
Draft of BCom syllabi finalised
Chandigarh, July 30
A special committee constituted by the Panjab University authorities today finalised the draft of new syllabi for BCom course offered in the affiliated colleges.The update course is likely to be uploaded on the PU website after August 15.
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Chandigarh, July 30
