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Register ‘Zero FIR’ or face action: MHA
Chandigarh, June 15
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued directions to the UT Administration to register Zero FIR immediately after receiving a complaint irrespective of the place of the incident and jurisdiction.
He came, unearthed scams and left
Chandigarh, June 15
After completing his tenure of seven years as the head of the anti-corruption branch of the CBI, DIG Mahesh Aggarwal will be joining his parent cadre Tamil Nadu as the Inspector General (IG) of Police.
GMCH-32 fails to update its online directory
Chandigarh, June 15
Even after two months of the appointment of Dr Atul Sachdev as the new head of the GMCH-32, the hospital has failed to update its directory which still mentions Dr Raj Bahadur as the Director-Principal of the institute.
PGI grapples with the problem of plenty
Chandigarh, June 15
Admitting patients to the PGIMER has become a tedious task for the hospital authorities as more than 80 per cent of the beds in all wards remain occupied throughout the year.
Showers wash away claims of MC officials
Panchkula, June 15
The township of Panchkula drowned in the pre-monsoon showers has highlighted various chinks in the drainage system. It was just the second rain of the pre-monsoon showers and the city could be seen flooded with water. Not only internal roads of the various sectors, like 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11,12A, Ralla and Rally village, Devinagar, Old Panchkula, 17, 19, 21, Maheshpur, but even the roundabouts and main roads could be witnessed with waterlogging.
Water enters industries as nullah overflows
Mohali, June 15
Filthy water from an overflowing nullah entered the industrial units in Phase IX, creating unhygienic conditions and leading to resentment among the owners, here today.
Fusion of sarod, flute marks Day 2 of summer fest
Chandigarh, June 15
The second day of the summer festival saw the fusion of the sarod and flute, besides another performance on “Gaudiya Nritya”, a Bengali classical dance form, at the Tagore Theatre here today. Kaushik
Mukherjee, a sarod player, and Manab Mukherjee, who played flute and sehnai, left the audience spellbound with the intricacies of their recital.
Facing abuse in twilight years
Chandigarh, June 15
Around 23 per cent of the elderly in the country are abused by family members everyday," revealed HelpAge India's latest survey report.
The organisation interviewed the elderly in 24 tier-I and tier-II cities across India.
District attorney terms it a non-cognisable offence
Chandigarh, June 15
The Deputy District Attorney in its report submitted to the UT police in connection with the alleged fee evasion case stated that as per the Punjab Agricultural Produce Market (PAPM) Act, market committee chairman Dinesh Mahajan had not committed a cognisable offence.
Bansal to attend party meet
Chandigarh, June 15
In order to regain political ground, former union railways minister and local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal will attend a meeting of the Congress workers.
Vocational training body gets nod
chandigarh, June 15
The Ministry of Labour and Employment, under which the Directorate General of Employment and Training operates, has approved the formation of Chandigarh Council for Vocational Training.
Chandigarh Scan
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It’s raining joy and chaos |
Girls have a blast at Sukhna Lake.
Tribune Photo: S Chandan |
(Above) JOYRIDE: Students enjoy scooter rides on the Panjab University campus in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan
Streetlights lying defunct on the road separaring Sectors 27 and 30; and (right) A damaged road at Industrial Area in Phase I, Chandigarh. Tribune Photos: Manoj Mahajan |
Tough competition for science, commerce in govt schools
Chandigarh, June 15
The competition for admission to science and commerce streams of Class XI in government schools is set to be tougher this year because the number of seats available for these two streams has hardly increased. Only, the arts stream has seen an increase in the number of seats in the UT’s government senior secondary schools for 2013-14 session.
Providing good experience to students
Infrastructure
The institute encompasses a total of 18 departments (9 dental and 9 medical) having 200 dental chairs and 11 pre-clinical and
para-clinical laboratories. The institute has state-of-the-art infrastructure with fully equipped diagnostic laboratories, which carries out innumerable tests in the speciality of biochemistry, pathology, haematology and microbiology.
2,000 students appear for entrance tests
Chandigarh, June 15
Combined Entrance Test (CET) for 38 postgraduate courses for Panjab University commenced today on the PU campus. Around 2,000 students appeared for different entrance tests on the first day of the CET. A total of 13,000 candidates had applied for various courses.
Panchkula students to visit NASA
Panchkula, June 15
As many as 15 students of The Gurukul, Sector 20, Panchkula, are all set
to attend the opening ceremony of Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) on June 29.
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The city received 32 mm of rainfall on Saturday,
taking the quantum of rainfall recorded in June to 155 mm. In June 2012, the city received 1.6 mm of rainfall. Met officials say more rain is expected in the next three days. The monsoon is expected to reach the region soon.
