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Age comes to the rescue of art gallery ex-assistant curator
Chandigarh, May 21
Age has come to the rescue of Government Museum and Art Gallery’s former assistant curator. Held guilty of suppressing material facts, he has managed to get away with just Rs 10,000 costs because of his age, even though the Punjab and Haryana High Court
ruled his act was contemptuous and would have led to the ordering of criminal prosecution.
Textile students may design uniforms
Chandigarh, May 21
Subject to approval, a proposal is afoot to engage students of fashion designing and textile management in various government-run schools to redesign
school uniforms and to even stitch them.
Driver robbed of car at PGI
Chandigarh, May 21
Two unidentified persons robbed the driver of an Innova car after offering him eatables laced with intoxicants in the PGI today.
The police has registered a case of criminal breach of trust and causing hurt by poison under Sections 406, 328, 120-B of the IPC
against the accused.
UT does not woo officials anymore
Chandigarh, May 21
It seems that Chandigarh is no longer a plum posting for Punjab and Haryana cadre officials for the post of excise and taxation inspector.
Two months after the UT administration’s Excise and Taxation secretary on March 15 sent a communiqué to the Financial Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary, Punjab and Haryana governments, asking them for a panel of inspectors to fill three posts of excise and taxation inspectors, the latter is yet to oblige.
Govt biased against P’kula residents: BJP councillors
Panchkula, May 21
BJP councillors threatened not to allow the operation of the express highway “National Highway No 22” if proper entry or exit points were not established to connect Sectors 20 and 21 with other parts of the city here today.
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Rain affects power, water supply in Panchkula
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Panchkula, May 21
High velocity winds accompanied by heavy showers late last night affected the power and water supply in the town.
The town and its peripheral villages plunged into darkness on Friday night as the high velocity winds damaged two 66-KV electricity towers in Azad Colony and Ambedkar Colony near Sector 3.
Wrecked Electricity towers damaged following strong winds on Friday night at Ambedkar Colony, Sector
3, Panchkula. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal |
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Commission holds CHB guilty of deficiency
Chandigarh, May 21
The UT Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has set aside the order of the Consumer Forum, holding Silverton Cooperative Housing Building Society and the Chandigarh Housing Board
(CHB) liable to deficiency in services and ordering refund of Rs 29,800 to a city resident, Surinder Sharma.
TRICITY SCAN
CHANDIGARH SCAN
Workers of the Chandigarh Territorial Janata Dal (United) held a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Sector 17 on Saturday. They claimed that the residents were facing inconvenience due to the shifting of food and civil supplies office from Sector 17 to Mani Majra.
REGION SCAN
Mohali: Satinderjit Singh Manta, an aide of former Finance Minister Manpreet
Badal, was sent to four-day police remand after being produced before the Mohali senior division-cum-chief judicial magistrate DP Singla here today.
Sec 144 imposed at GMSH-16
Chandigarh, May 21
The UT administration has imposed Section 144, CrPC, within the 500-m radius of the Government
Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, premises till May 28.
Tabla maestro enchants audience
Chandigarh, May 21
Benaras gharana maestro Madhuresh Bhatt extracted a cohesive melody through varied rhythmic patterns during a special classical solo tabla concert organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations
(ICCR) under their “Horizon series” in collaboration with the Pracheen Kala Kendra at the kendra auditorium here today.
PU library faces acute space crunch
Chandigarh, May 21
Finding a vacant chair at the Panjab University’s AC Joshi Library during the peak examination season has become a nightmare for most students. For a library with a membership that has grown from 5,000 only a few years ago to 12,000, the recent expansion of the outer reading room from 500 to 650 seats has served precious little to solve the problem. |
AHEAD OF EXAMS The AC Joshi Library’s overcrowded outer reading room in Panjab University.
Tribune photo: S Chandan |
PEC to start three new postgraduate courses
Chandigarh, May 21
The PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, is starting three new postgraduate courses, master of engineering (ME) in total quality engineering and management, master of engineering in industrial design and master of science
(MSc) in mathematics and computing from the academic session 2011-12.
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Vocational art from govt schools finds display after a decade
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Chandigarh, May 21
After almost a decade now, over 500 Vocational Studies students of city government schools got their due in form of a two-day exhibition-cum-sale at Panchayat
Bhawan, which saw a massive footfall on its second and last day today.
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in business A student of vocational studies from
a government school shows her work at an exhibition-cum-sale at
the Panchayat Bhawan in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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