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Nayagaon ASI suspended for beating up father, son
Nayagaon (Kharar), June 6
A Punjab Police ASI, Nirmal Singh, posted at Nayagaon, was today suspended for allegedly beating up a youth and his father in the Nayagaon police station. The ASI had picked up Mr Avtar Singh and his father without any formal complaint yesterday.

Security tents outside VIP homes to go
Chandigarh June 6
Security tents pitched outside the homes of protected persons are to be removed. The Chandigarh Administration, at a recent high-level meeting, asked the Punjab and Haryana Governments to get tents put up outside the homes of their officials or politicians, shifted inside the homes.

The Chandigarh Administration has asked the Punjab and Haryana Governments to remove security tents pitched outside VIPs’ homes.
— A Tribune photograph

TRIBUNE VIGIL
Card loses value, shopkeepers lose money
Chandigarh, June 6
India’s first multipurpose Pinnacle Value for Money (VFM) Card has turned out to be flop. With this, the hopes of about 75 shopkeepers of Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar, who had subscribed to the VFM card, have also been dashed.

SPECIAL STORY
Car financiers adopt cautious path
Chandigarh, June 6
Getting a car financed from any of the leading banking institutions or private financiers in the city has been turned into a profitable business proposition by a number of unscrupulous persons.

Panchkula has developed but not industrial estate Panchkula, June 6 A prolonged recession which has gripped the industry together with the exorbitant cost of power, primitive infrastructure, growth of “transport mafia”, which has become a law unto itself, and unimaginative taxation policies of the Haryana government are threatening to sound the death-knell of industry in what has been touted as the showpiece industrial estate of Haryana.

A view of a neglected road in the Industrial Area Phase II, Panchkula. — A Tribune photograph

COMMUNITY

TRIBUNE IMPACT
Bid to restore Shatabdi’s glory
Chandigarh, June 6
Hot water flasks are back in Shatabdi Express, the prestigious train running between Kalka and New Delhi.

Challaned ‘without violation’
Chandigarh, June 6
Chaos prevailed in the booth market of Sector 18 this evening when the traffic police posted in the area went on a challaning spree. The police was challaning vehicles for wrong parking. The cause of this confusion which lasted for well over an hour beginning at 7 pm today was that the police allegedly challaned two vehicles for wrong parking despite the fact that the drivers in their seats and the ignition was also on.

A tusker at its ‘branch’ office near Chhat Bir. — Photo Karam Singh

CRIME

Man duped at power bill collection office
Chandigarh, June 6
A man was duped of Rs 1,600 on the pretext of getting an electricity bill deposited and thus saving the complainant's time.

BUSINESS

Rally by transport union
Chandigarh, June 6
A rally was held by the UT Transport Workers Union in front of the office of the General Manager of the department in support of its demands.

EDUCATION

STATE OF THE HOSTELS
Contented girls of crafts institute
Chandigarh
Tucked in one corner of Sector 11 is the Central Crafts Institute for Women. But in spite of its inconspicuous presence, the place is full of activity. Students who are here to get their diplomas in various crafts are always busy.

CET exam on June 9, admit cards dispatched
Chandigarh, June 6
Panjab University has dispatched admit cards for applicants appearing for the CET examinations scheduled from June 9 to June 14, an official press release said here today.

Summer camp
SAS Nagar, June 6
A two-week long summer camp for children concluded at the local branch of Ajit Karam Singh International Public School today. Today the children came dressed in colourful outfits with shining paper caps and masks. They danced to music and had henna and tatoo designs on their hands, arms and cheeks.

Summer workshops
Chandigarh, June 6
Colourful balloons, festoons, flags and banners marked the beginning of summer workshops for children at Kailash Bahl DAV Centenary Public School, Sector 7, here today.

Scribes flay board’s attitude
SAS Nagar, June 6
The Mohali Working Journalists Association at its meeting held here today expressed serious concern over the lack of coordination among different officials of the Punjab School Education Board, thereby depriving the public of information through the media.

‘VC should quit’
Chandigarh, June 6
Mr K.D.S. Sodhi, President of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union, today asked the Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala to quit “for having caused ample damage to the academic life not only of the university but also of the state”.

PTA's gesture
Chandigarh, June 6
The Parent-Teacher Association of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 20, has congratulated the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school for showing excellent results in the class VIII, X and XII examinations.

MA (Indian Theatre), Urdu results
Chandigarh, June 6
Results of MA II ( Indian Theatre) and MA II (Urdu) conducted by Panjab University during April-May this year were declared here today.

COURTS

Court orders elections to bank board of directors
Chandigarh, June 6
Disposing of a writ petition, Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill of the Punjab and Haryana High Court here has directed the Chandigarh Administration and other respondents to hold elections to the Board of Directors of Chandigarh State Cooperative Bank Limited by April 30, 2002.

HIGH COURT
Recovery proceedings quashed
Chandigarh, June 6
Issuing notice on an application filed by Mr A.R. Dahiya — Chairman of Polo Hotels Limited, having its registered office at North Park in Chowki village in Panchkula district, Mr Justice Jawahar Lal Gupta and Mr Justice J.S. Narang of the Punjab and Haryana High Court have stayed the recovery proceedings against the petitioner.

Forum accepts complaint
Chandigarh, June 6
The UT Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-II has allowed the complaint moved by the Punjab Civil and Consumer Welfare Front, Patiala district and others through its President, Ms Jasjit Kaur, against the SAS Nagar Housing Complex, Cooperative House Building Society, Ropar district, through its Secretary and Punjab State Federation of Co-op, House Building Society Limited, Chandigarh.

HEALTH

Anti-malaria camp
Chandigarh , June 6
Keeping in view that month of June every year is observed as Anti-Malaria Month, the malaria wing of the Chandigarh Administration today organised a camp in the Dadu Majra Colony.

Are roadside clinics defaming ayurveda? Chandigarh, June 6 They have no professional degrees to follow their names. They boast of no palatial or air-conditioned buildings as their clinics. Nor do they have any modern laboratories or sophisticated equipment to aid and assist them in the work of diagnosing their patients. All these constraints notwithstanding, these wayside doctors claim to cure almost all maladies of the human body.

Various cure-alls displayed at a wayside clinic. — Photo Parvesh Chauhan

SPORTS

Golf training camp for beginners
Chandigarh, June 6
Thirtyfive children in the six to 18 age group are converging on the lush course of the Chandigarh Golf Club these days to attend the camp for beginners under the watchful eyes of Mr Jesse Grewal, a highly trained professional and member of the US Golf Teachers Federation.

Golf range to be floodlit tomorrow
Chandigarh, June 6
The newly constructed CGA Driving Range is rapidly taking its final shape with the installation of specially designed floodlights imported from the USA by Dev Musco. This will start an exciting new chapter in the daily itinerary of the golf loving residents of Chandigarh.

Abhinav ranked 15th in world
Chandigarh, June 6
The ISSF has introduced a world ranking system from last month, according to information available here. The ranking has been published for the first time on the ISSF website (www.issf.shooting.org). The world ranking will be updated on the first day of each month. Indian Olympian and world-record holder Abhinav Bindra has been placed at the 15th position in the world. Abhinav is currently the youngest shooter registered in the world today in his event.

City lad for Malaysia hockey meet
Chandigarh, June 6
Rajpal Singh a product of Shivalik Hockey Academy, SAS Nagar, and a student of Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, has been inducted as a member of the Indian junior hockey team for the Asian Junior Hockey championship at Ipoh (Malaysia).

Handball championship
Chandigarh, June 6
The Western Air Command will meet the Maintenance Command in tomorrow’s final in the Air Force Handball championships, which entered the penultimate day here today at 12 Wing Air Force station.

ADMINISTRATION

‘Drainage Dept lagging on flood protection works’
SAS Nagar, June 6
The Punjab Services Anti-Corruption Council today claimed that the state drainage department was yet to complete the process of inviting tenders for execution of flood protection works in the state. The work of repair and clearance of silt from drains had to be done by June 30 at a cost of around Rs 75 crore.