2 foetuses removed from infant's body
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — In a rare feat, a team of doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here has removed two dead foetuses from the body of a 23-day-old girl.

Missing Shatabdi coaches
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — The summer holidays rush notwithstanding, the Northern Railway has been making last-minute cancellations of additional and even Tatkal coaches in the Shatabdi Express running between Chandigarh and New Delhi, for the past few days.

A truck gets stuck in the kutcha road which caved in due to rain on the Mullanpur-Siswan road at Mullanpur village on Monday afternoon. — A Tribune photograph by Parvesh Chauhan		Monsoon catches MCC on wrong foot CHANDIGARH, May 24 — Even as the monsoon is round the corner, the Public Health Circle of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh is not prepared for the disposal of rain water. In fact, the first major rainfall of the year yesterday caught the MCC on the wrong foot as it had started the cleaning of road gullies and chambers on May 22.
Choked sewers bane of villages	Rain water enters houses	Rain brings slush	Rain hits city phones

Voluntary Disclosure Scheme amended
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — The Electricity Wing of the Engineering Department of the Chandigarh Administration has made some amendments to the simplified Voluntary Disclosure Scheme for the regularisation of unauthorised load extension for domestic and non-residential supply.

Plea to CJI on foreign origin issue
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — A former Chairman of the Haryana School Education Board, Dr D.C. Saxena, has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India raising certain issues about the citizenship of the country in the context of recent controversy over the foreign origin of Mrs Sonia Gandhi.

Two held for rape
DERA BASSI, May 24 — The local police has arrested two persons on charges of rape in two different incidents during the past five days.

3 injured in group clash
DERA BASSI, May 24 — Three members of a family, including a women, received injuries in a fight on the issue of widening and stone-carpeting the village circular road, between two groups of residents of Kurranwala village, 2 km from here.

Dance dept in PU proposed
CHANDIGARH, May 24 —A significant decision with regard to opening department of dance in Panjab University and starting MA classes in the subject is likely to be taken at a meeting of the academic council, scheduled to be held on June 4.

Workers protest retrenchment
SAS NAGAR, May 24 — To protest against their removal from service, 49 workers of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research held a dharna in front of the institute here today.

Interface on population education

Radhika overshadows Pankaj Udhas

Telecom Dept told to shift phone

Vegetable prices fall

Junior tennis main draws settled

With the World Cup fever at its peak, the coaching centres in Chandigarh are attracting a lot of trainees: from left, coach Harish Sharma does some catch practice with youngsters at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium; coach Surinder Singh "Bhaijee" supervises batting at the nets at the Sector 19 Government High School; and coach S.S.Bawa watches the trainees do some stretching exercises at DAV Higher Secondary School. — Tribune photos by Manoj Mahajan

Grooming future Sachins, Kapils
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — Most of them come on cycles and some on scooters. But then there are quite a few who are dropped by doting parents. Yes, armed with water bottles and carrying their full cricketing kit, they descend on the cricket coaching centres hoping to be groomed into future Sachins and Kapils.

CBSE exams: only 14 UMCs reported
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — Students who appeared in the class X and XII examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education seem to have outsmarted the board authorities in copying, going by the figures available.

‘Art should be society-oriented’
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — Basically you should be very honest in what you are doing and your intentions should be clear. The challenges are many and great and I have to accept these in the interest of the community at large and the artistes in particular,” was the answer of Mr Gurcharan Singh Chani to the question as to what he planned to do after taking over as Chairman of the Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademy.

Theatre workshop for kids is back
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — “Working with children is like working within no parameters. They are more fidgety, more honest and more fun to be with. And obviously since they explore more, there’s got to be a tremendous amount of energy to keep up their concentration levels, which is very challenging”, said Lushin Dubey and Bubbles Sabharwal of the ‘Kids World’.