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Foreign students’ enrolment looks up
Chandigarh, March 9
The enrolment of foreign students in Panjab University (PU) has almost doubled in the current academic session compared to the past few years.From a mere 48 enrolments in 2008-2009 and 66 in 2009-2010, the PU has attracted 107 foreign students on the campus this year for different courses.
Neha murder
3 suspects taken to Gujarat for narco test
Chandigarh, March 9
Three of the five suspects in the sensational murder of 21-year-old Neha Ahalwat in July last year were taken to Forensic Science Laboratory,
Gandhinagar, in Gujarat for brain mapping test today.The Court of Judicial Magistrate Palwinderjeet Kaur had allowed the brain mapping and narco analysis test of five suspects, including Bitesh Kumar, Sachin Kumar, Hitanshu
Saini, Sunesh and Sagar, after they had agreed and given their consent for the same on January 3.
Fireworks likely at emergency Syndicate meet today
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Fireworks are likely at an emergency Syndicate meeting summoned by the Panjab University authorities tomorrow on the contentious issue of reinstating a teacher to his parent department.
Honour for PGI doc on medical illustrations
Chandigarh, March 9
Not many will be aware of the fact that art and medical science go hand in hand. Nearly 4,000 illustrations of Frank H. Netter, an artist and a physician, remain the most frequently used pictures globally by medical doctors and teachers for their lectures and other purposes.
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STRIKING BEAUTIES |
Students of Dev Samaj College, Sector 45, at a farewell function in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
Property rates touch a new high
Chandigarh, March 9
A couple of days after the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) fixed Rs 90 lakh as the price for two BHK flats under the assured allotment scheme, property rates across the tricity have touched a new high.
Prices soar in city’s periphery too
Panchkula, March 9
The boom in the realty market has also swept this satellite town of Chandigarh where the prices in the residential property have increased between 20 and 40 per cent in a short span of six months.
Chhabra slaps legal notice on Shergill
Chandigarh, March 9
Former Mayor and Municipal Corporation councillor Pardeep Chhabra, who has been named as a part of the “booth mafia” in Chandigarh in the magisterial inquiry by former ADC PS
Shergill, today slapped a legal notice on the latter.
UT consumer panel chief to attend national conference
Chandigarh, March 9
The newly appointed president of the UT State Consumer Commission, Justice Shyam Sunder (retd), will represent the city at the National Consumer Conference to be held in New Delhi on March 15 on the occasion of the World Consumer Rights Day.
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Perfect gift on Women’s Day |
Mothers with their daughters, born on the International Women’s Day, at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh. A business house presented gifts to the babies. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
‘Asbestos causes lung cancer’
Chandigarh, March 9
Asbestos, a fireproofing and insulating material used in corrugated cement sheets, plasters and building material in India, is responsible for causing lung and pleural cancers, especially in smokers.
LPG cylinder bursts, family unhurt
Panchkula, March 9
A family escaped tragedy in the slum area of Rajiv colony in Panchkula when an LPG cylinder burst in their house during the wee hours here today.The blast was so powerful that it damaged the roof of house and goods were gutted.
Zirakpur roads chaotic sans bus stand
Zirakpur, March 9
For the past several years, Zirakpur’s residents are awaiting a designated bus stand to solve their travelling woes.Residents rue that
Zirakpur, known for its multi-storey buildings and malls, is still lacking a proper space for a bus stand.
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Speed of light |
A pattern created by light from vehicles on Madhya Marg, Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu |
Sharp bend warning signs put upon flyover
Zirakpur, March 9
Following the news report in this column on March 5, titled ‘Curve becoming accident hotspot’,
GMR, the firm undertaking maintenance of the Ambala-Chandigarh highway, has installed warning signage on streetlights to alert motorists about the sharp bend on the Zirakpur flyover.
Police conducts surprise checks
Mohali
: The police today carried out surprise checking of vehicles at the Industrial Area, Phase VII, ahead of the ICC World Cup match between West Indies and Ireland in Mohali tomorrow.
PU hosts first e-seminar
 Chandigarh, March 9
Panjab University hosted its first e-seminar, which was live podcast yesterday, to celebrate 40 years of the University School of Open Learning (USOL) also known as the department of correspondence studies.
Renu Vig, director, UIET, addresses a seminar at Panjab University on Tuesday.
A Tribune photograph
Govt college teachers to get laptops
Chandigarh, March 9
UT government college faculties are all set to get laptops as part of the higher education department’s ambitious e-learning project.The project aimed at doing away with chalk-and-talk classrooms and is keen on replacing traditional teaching with hi-tech e-learning.
Cultural bonanza at PU
Chandigarh, March 9
Panjab University is upbeat with plenty of extra- curricular activities, fests and programmes this month, which are keeping students, staff and organisers on their toes.
SOPU announces panel for student poll
Chandigarh, March 9
The Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) today announced its new party president and panel for student election on the campus in 2011-2012.Robin Brar was named as the SOPU president at the student centre today in the presence of nearly 200 members of the party.
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