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September 22, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Massive PUSU victory in Government College-46 Chandigarh, September 21 The unique feature of college elections this year was the absolute peace with which these were carried out. No college was witness to any ugly scene of violence, thanks to the strong police deployment in all colleges and the total involvement of the college principals and staff in these elections. Maximum voter turnout was reported at GGDSD College, Sector 32. Following the day-long apprehension of voting and counting, screams of joy and hugs marked the declaration of results for the winning candidates everywhere. Bhangra processions with dholis in tow were also reported from some colleges. While SOPU candidates won at the Government College for Girls both at Sector 11 and Sector 42, all four ABVP candidates won at DAV College, Sector 10, and the complete PUSU panel won at Government College, Sector 46. Candidates of Khalsa College Students Union (KCSU) swept the four seats at SGGS College, Sector 26, while SD College Students Union (SDSU) candidates won on all seats at GGDSD College Sector 32. At Government College, Sector 11, the team of Ramandeep Singh Pannu (president), Sandeep Singh Sandy (vice president), Gaurav Goyal (general secretary), Ravinder Singh Sheokand (Joint Secretary) was elected unopposed. Prerna Puri, a topper of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, has been nominated by the Principal as the president following cancellation of nomination papers of the two candidates standing for the post of the president. The rest of the winning team includes Ruby Charak (VP), Nidhi Takiar (GS) and Annapurna Singh (JS). The team of Harpreet Singh Shahi (P), Devinder Singh Negi (VP), Vikas Kaushik (GS) and Satyam K Singh (JS) will be representing the students at DAV College Sector 10. At the GGS College for Women, Sector 26, the team of Meghna Rana (P), Amanbir Kaur (VP), Sakshi Anand (GS) and Gopika Karol (JS) was elected unopposed. The class representatives elected here include Pragati, Anuradha, Aditi Sood, Nisha, Jeevan Jyoti, Richa Sharma, Vaneet Kaur, Megha Chawla, Shailini Verma and Yashmin. Amandeep Singh would be president of SGGS College, Sector 26, with his team of Akanksha Makkar (VP), Vishaldeep (GS) and Amrinder Singh Virk (JS). Jaswinder Singh, Kirandeep Singh,Vikramjit Singh, Abhinav Saikia, Manisha Gupta, Manjot Singh, Anshuman Sharma and Nitin Aggarwal were elected representatives of their classes. At GGDSD College, Sector 32, the team of Jagdeep Singh Bablu (P), Manisha Singh (VP), Raman Sangra (GS) and Divya Sharma (JS) will be representing the college. Jatinder Kumar, Sarbjit Singh, Varun Bhatia, Yadvinder Singh, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Navin Kwatra, Prashant Anand, Harshjit Singh, Saurabh, Vikram Gosain, Gurpreet Kaur, Gaurav, Harpreet Ghumman, Arshdeep Singh, Nidhi Jasuja, Gaurav Bansal and Paramjot will be representing their classes. At Government College, Sector 46, Upkar Singh has been elected as college president with his team of Harpreet Singh Sekhon (VP), Gaurav Rajdev (GS), Ravinder Singh (JS). Anup Mohanty, Amandeep Singh, Geetika Arora, Devesh Kumar, Bhupinder Singh, Puneet Kaushik, Ranbir Singh, Vinny Arora, Apurav Bhalla, Niranjan Singh, Satish Khurana, Arvinder Singh and Vasu Gambhir will be representing their classes. At the Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45, Ruby won as the college president along with her team-mate Harpreet who will be the college joint secretary. Geeta Goel of the opposing team was declared elected as vice-president along with her team mate Jatinder Kaur (GS). Sarabjeet, Naiya, Nisha, Suman, Avnish, Shikha, Jasmine, Simrat, Ravinder, Monika and Aarti will be representing their classes. At GCG, Sector 42, the team of Harpreet (P), Komal Sekhon (VP); Surbhi Singh (GS), and Prem Lata (JS) will be representing the college while Poonam verma, Harpreet Kaur and Abha Chauhan will be representing their classes. At M.C.M DAV College, Sector 36 Sukham Sidhu won the post of the college president. Her team has Gurbinder Sidhu (VP), Jyotsna (GS) and Ashima Sood (JS). At Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, Jagbir Kaur was elected as president. Her team has Shalini Sharma (VP), Parul Sood (GS) and Ravneet (JS). Vaishali Sharma, Gaganjot, Neetu Kapoor, Sapna Sharma and Manjot will be representing their classes. |
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High resolution satellite launch in Oct Chandigarh, September 21 Stating that the satellite would have a resolution of one metre, Dr Murthy added that this satellite would considerably enhance our imaging capabilities. The IRS series already in orbit have a resolution of five meters and above. This implies that while the present series can provide image of camps and settlements through a large field of view, a satellite with a resolution of one metre can pick up and identify objects of the size of car. Smaller objects can also be identified with image enhancing technology, which is already available in the country. It may be pertinent to mention here that following the failure to detect intrusions by Pakistani intruders in the Kargil conflict in 1999, which led to a limited border conflict, the armed forces have been clamouring for a high resolution satellite for intelligence gathering. ISRO is also working to use the PSLV to launch satellites into geosynchronous orbits. PSLV, which is the launch vehicles for the IRS series, is used to inject satellites into orbits 800 - 900 kms above the earth, while geo-synchrous satellites orbit at a height of 36,000 km. This is the first project of its kind in the world. Dr Murthy said that this could be achieved by reducing the weight of the satellite to less than two tonnes to enable the PSLV to carry it. Satellites in geosynchronous orbits like the INSAT series are used for communication as well as weather forecast. Dr Murthy said that the geo-synchrous satellite to be launched by PSLV would have only one of the functions, that is weather forecasting, to reduce its weight. The proposed launch for the single function satellite for weather forecast is stated to be the second or third quarter of next year. While India has been supplying images and data derived from the IRS satellites to other countries, it has, in addition, supplied space sub-systems and critical components to several European and Asian countries worth about Rs 40 crore. Dr Murthy added Japan recently procured solar sails from ISRO worth about Rs 5 crore. |
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MC in financial mess, needs Administration’s help Chandigarh, September 21 Two days back, the Mayor Ms Harjinder Kaur, had called on the UT Administrator to seek an immediate grant of Rs 20.5 crore to cope with the financial crisis. The Administrator reportedly assured her that he would find a way out to help the MC. The matter is also likely to be deliberated in the next meeting of the vital Finance and Contract Committee on September 24. Sources further reveal that certain unforeseen liabilities, which were not budgeted have added to the woes of the MC. For instance, it has to pay a sum of Rs 3.25 lakh as dearness allowance (DA) to its daily wagers from January 1, 1996 to July 31, 2001 in
accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A sum of Rs 1 crore is to be paid to to the families of 250 deceased employees, arrears to the tune of Rs 99,000 to the ITI diploma holders tubewell operators working in Public Health circle due to grant of higher pay scales. Besides this, the MC has to bear an additional expenditure of Rs 1.04 crore to comply with the directions of the High Court regarding the installation of new water meters, a sum of Rs 70,000 due to increase in pension contribution, another Rs 3.3 crore for the
maintenance and operation of tubewells, water works including Kajauli water work, and a sum of Rs 2.14 crore is to be refunded to the UT Electricity Department as electricity dues from February 22, 2001 to March 31, 2001. Sources add if MC does not make these payments within the stipulated time, it may have to face
contempt of court. Hence, the MC has to perforce make these payments. Since the coffers of MC are empty and it has failed to generate its own financial resources to meet these unforseen expenditures, it has to look upto to the Administration for help. A senior official of the Union Home Ministry, Mr P.D. Shenoy, had announced a grant of Rs 5 crore to enable the MC tide over the crisis, but this amount is yet to be received by the MC. The Assistant Commissioner-I, Ms Ashok Vashistha, has only a few days back in a letter written to the UT Administration demanded that the promised grant should be made available to the MC at the earliest. This money will be used to complete all pending developmental works in the city. |
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Housefed may get
land for flats soon Chandigarh, September 21 The Board of Directors of Housefed have passed a resolution which will be forwarded to the Chandigarh Administration as well as the National Cooperative Housing Federation. The Housefed will also send the same demand for incorporation into the Model Coop Housing Societies Act which is being framed by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation. The idea to seek land came up at the Housefed here after a three-member delegation comprising the Chairman, Mr Sunil Parti, the Finance Director, Mr Bhupinder Singh Badheri, and the Executive Director, Mr Surjit Chaudhary, was a party to discussions at a national-level meeting held in Goa last week. The scheme to allot land to Housefed for the construction of flats is in vogue in Punjab and also in Andhra Pradesh and Maharasthra. Firstly, such a scheme allows for flats at competitive rates as Housefed is a cooperative movement and also brings in revenue for the Housefed. In the past two weeks Punjab Housefed has offered flats at highly competitive rates in Ludhiana while builders have been charging much more. In Chandigarh, Housefed is just a loaning agency for member co-operative housing societies. Allotment of land for individual plots and also for multistoreyed flats in the southern sectors has been made through cooperative societies. Housefed will be seeking land in the upcoming Sectors like 54, 55 or 56. Since land will be allotted in these sectors for prospective Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) schemes and the Housefed will be seeking a project for itself. The Chairman, Mr Parti asserted, ‘‘We will be competitive and give another alternative to affordable housing for the salaried class and also for the self-employed.’’ |
Driven by hunger, undertrial
raises slogans Chandigarh, September 21 The accused was produced in the court of UT Judicial Magistrate at about 4 pm.The accused prayed before the court that he was feeling hungry and should be provided tea or food in the makeshift jail. Later, he was sent to judicial remand. As per the jail rules the prisoners are provided food twice a day — in the morning and evening. The city police had arrested the accused along with four others on August 12 and registered a case under Sections 153(A), 153(B), 295(A) and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector 34 police station. Sources informed that undertrials have been facing various basic problems at the makeshift jail. The UT District and Sessions Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate had inspected the makeshift jail on August 19 on the complaint of an undertrial about drainage problem in the jail. The undertrial had complained that the water was collecting in the wards because there was no outlet. The undertrial had also prayed to provide pots in the wards of the makeshift jail. The Supreme Court in the case Sunil Batra-II vs Delhi Administration observed that “ prisoners are also persons and they do not lose all their basic rights because they are put in jail. When their rights either under the Constitution or under any other law are violated, the writ power of the Supreme Court or the High Court should run to their rescue. Whether inside prison or outside, a person shall not be deprived of his freedom except by method “right, just and fair”. The court has a continuing responsibility to ensure that the constitution purpose of the deprivation is not defeated by the jail administration. The court also stated that the Prison Act was in need of total overhaul and correction and rehabilitation should be made the objective of the punishment. The jail authorities must keep grievance deposit boxes in prominent places and the prisoners should be given access to them. The District Magistrate should open them periodically and take suitable remedial action. |
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EATING OUT Chandigarh It is at such times that eateries like Uttam Fast Food and Restaurant, Sector 46, come to your rescue. It gives you the option of home delivery of meals free of cost on a minimum order of Rs 100 and charges Rs 10 for bills less than that in Chandigarh and the surrounding Mohali sectors. As Sharda, a working girl says, “They have often bailed me out, leaving me and my guests happy as far as taste and budget are concerned.” Mr Balwinder Singh, proprietor, says they deliver the order within 30 minutes of the call (phone numbers 600123, 645487). Besides the reasonable rates, the other plus point of this joint is that it offers a huge variety of items to choose from. Ranging from the ever favourite North Indian daal, subzi, panir and non-veg fare, tandoori tikkas and kabab delights, South Indian delicacies like dosa, idli, vada and uttapam with sambar, Chinese noodles, chopsuey and the amazing fried rice to fast food like pizzas and burgers and bakery products likes cakes and pastries, it is all a just a phone away. But remember: the last order is taken at 10.30 p.m. The dessert includes ice-cream, cold rasgullas or hot gulab jamuns from their sister concern, Uttam Sweets. And you can be sure that you will enjoy your pick as the food comes piping hot in neat packets. Though, of course, if you prefer, you may go to Uttam Restaurant and enjoy their hospitality. The fast food joint on the ground floor and the restaurant in the basement are air-conditioned and done up ostentatiously. It is frequented by the Sector 46 college students during the morning and lunch hours while at dinner time, most of the tables are occupied by families. For parties and functions with up to 70 guests, you may use their banquet hall on the first floor. The rate is Rs 80 per plate for veg and Rs 110 for non-veg. While Uttam Sweets has been around for 10 years, the restaurant, two shops away, started one-and-a-half years ago. It is run by a team of father and two sons from Nabha. The third son continues to manage their dairy in Nabha. In fact, their daily supply of milk comes from back home. |
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Traffic
restrictions Chandigarh, September 21 According to information available, the road segment of Uttar Marg and Sarovar Path (between the roundabout of Sectors 5, 6, 7 and 8 and the outer limits of parking areas of MCC and Lake Club) would be a vehicle-free zone on Saturdays and Sundays between 4 pm and 8.30 pm. The traffic bound for the area from southern and eastern parts of the city coming via the roundabout of Sectors 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been advised to take the Vigyan Path upto Sectors 8, 9, 4 and 5 roundabout and then turn right to reach Uttar Marg and then turn right towards the parking areas. Road users from High Court, Chandigarh Club and Punjab Secretariat bound for southern or eastern side of the city via Uttar Marg have been asked to take Jan Marg or Himalaya Marg for Vigyan Path. |
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Order on clubs, pubs extended Chandigarh, September 21 |
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Ajay
Nawinder Chandigarh, September 21 |
Man booked for tricking women into marriage SAS Nagar, September 21 Talking to mediapersons, she said she was cheated of Rs 7 lakh by Raghbir Singh who had promised to send her abroad. She said the man was already married to Surinder Kaur. One of the sons of Raghbir Singh, Randhir Singh had married two women, Misar Jeet Kaur of Karnal and Amarjeet Kaur of Moga. Another son of Raghbir Singh, Ranjeet Singh had married Sukwinder Kaur of Karnal and then again married Ranjit Kaur for sending her abroad after charging Rs 3 lakh. The victim, Harbans Kaur, was then made to marry her daughter, Navdeep Kaur to the third son of the Raghbir Singh, Gurinder Singh . So that she could send sponsorship for her mother. She claimed that a sum of Rs 10 lakh was paid to the family. She said a relative of Ragbhir Singh, living in Phase V was also involved in the conspiracy. The local police has already registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC against the suspects. |
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Five thefts reported in city Chandigarh, September 21 A motor cycle (DL-4SV-1189) has been reportedly stolen from the Sector 30-D residence of Sandeep Aggarwal, while a Hero Puch moped (CH-01L-2498) was stolen from the Sector 17 parking. In another case, a bag containing Rs 15,000 a PAN card, RC and an identity card was stolen from the car of Mr M.P. Singh, while it was parked near the Sector 22 police station. The police has registered FIR’s under Sections 379 of the IPC in these cases. Also, a fan, some clothes and Rs 2,500 was reportedly stolen from the Daddu Majra Colony residence of Rohtas. A case under Section 380 of the IPC has been registered. Meanwhile, Rajinder Kumar was allegedly nabbed stealing Mr Puran Singh’s cycle at Burail during the intervening night of September 20 and 21. He has been booked under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC. Kidnapped: A minor girl was allegedly kidnapped by Purshottam from Mauli Jagran on September 19. A case under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC has been registered. Identified: The scooterist who was crushed by a truck (HR-37-8818) near the ITI turning on Thursday has been identified as Chunni Lal, a resident of Sector 35. The truck driver had fled the spot, leaving the truck behind, which has been impounded by the police. A case under Sections 279, 337 and 304-A of the IPC has been registered. Burglary: A burglary of Rs 14,000 and some electrical goods was reported by an industrialist, Rajneesh Gupta from his factory in the Industrial Area, Phase II, here on Friday. The police has registered a case under Sections 457 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code. Died Panchkula  |
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3 booked
for assault on fellow scribe Patiala,
September 21 According to a complaint filed by Shailender Gautam, a
correspondent with a Jalandhar-based daily, he was thrashed by Raju
Timar Haran, a correspondent with another daily, in the CBI courtroom
last afternoon. In his complaint, Gautam said two other journalists
— Jaspal Singh Dhillon and Vinay Shouri two other dailies caught
hold of him when he tried to save himself and held his hands. The
police registered a case under Sections 323, 341 and 506 of the IPC
and started investigation. Gautam was examined at the Model Town
dispensary. Doctors referred him to the Government Rajindra Hospital,
where he was admitted. He was told to undergo X-ray of the left cheek.
He has also been admitted to the Rajindra hospital. |
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Jewellery,
cash stolen Panchkula, September 21 According to the police, the thieves struck at 10:45 a.m. when Mr Ram Saran was on tour and his wife was away from the house. |
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Lawyer
trying to help woman beaten up Chandigarh, September 21 According to an FIR registered under Sections 506 and 323 of the IPC, Mr Anshuman Narula was beaten up and threatened by Rajesh Kumar, Raj and her daughter Seema at about 4 pm today. The three were reportedly assaulting Rani and Mr Narula tried to help. Rajesh Kumar was married to Rani a few months back, but revelations about his alleged affair with Raj had rocked the marriage. Rajesh Kumar, alias Raju, and Rani were also fighting a legal battle in the district courts. An altercation between Rani and Raj in the courts earlier today provoked the three accused to assault Rani in the evening. Rajesh Kumar, Raj and Seema were later arrested. |
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Woman alleges molestation Chandigarh, September 21 However, PGI officials said the complaint was the result of some misunderstanding and had been withdrawn after intervention. |
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