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Panchkula to be made slumless city
Panchkula, January 17
The Urban Development Department, Haryana, plans to develop Panchkula as a slumless city. On the other hand, the Union Territory is reviewing its 23-year-old policy of rehabilitating slum dwellers.

• National Slum Policy opposed

SYL ISSUE
City on the chopping-block again?
Chandigarh, January 17
Chandigarh may be on the chopping-block as a consequence of the Supreme Court direction to Punjab to complete its part of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal in a year.

‘Ladies of hope’ for the elderly
Chandigarh, January 17
The Punjab Governor and Administrator of UT, Chandigarh, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), underlined the need for setting up an institutionalised system to help the elderly sick people living alone in the cities.

Home Health Care workers interact with the UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), after receiving their degrees at a function organised by the Dr Vikrant Gupta Memorial Trust in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Photo Manoj Mahajan

BSNL revises FWT tariff
Chandigarh, January 17
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has, now, revised call charges for fixed wireless telephones. Earlier, the tariff for local call was Rs 1.20 per unit with 75 calls free every month and the revised charges are Rs 0.80 per call for 76 to 200 calls; Re 1 a call for 201 to 500 calls and Rs 1.20 a call for more than 500 calls with 75 free calls every month.

AFTERNOON SIESTA: Clouds hovering overhead, a man uses a roadside parapet to doze off for a while in the momentary sunshine near Parwanoo on Thursday. — Photo Karam Singh

Tax angle to gold theft
Chandigarh, January 17
The police has come up with a new angle to the case where a theft of about 10 kg gold was reported from the shops of two Sector 22 jewellers. The police says that gold of a much smaller quantity may have been stolen from the shops and jewellers may have shifted the remaining gold ornaments to their houses to avoid tax authorities.

Shopkeepers support paid parking system
Chandigarh, January 17
A large number of shopkeepers in Sector 17 have come forward in support of the paid parking introduced by the Municipal Corporation. In a statement here today, the shopkeepers numbering about 50, said, “We do not support the unnecessary calls for bandhs and strikes made by the numerous beopar mandals or the self-styled traders’ associations controlled by unelected non-entities.

SI Shiv Ram retired compulsorily
Chandigarh, January 17
A Sub-Inspector of the Chandigarh police, Mr Shiv Ram, has reportedly been retired compulsorily from service for professional impropriety, it is learnt. The order to this effect was passed by the UT IG, Mr B.S. Bassi, here today. This is the first instance of its kind in the Chandigarh police.

COMMUNITY

‘Liberalisation process needs to be intensified’
Chandigarh, January 17
The process of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation needs to be intensified but with an effective feedback system to overcome weaknesses. This was stated by Prof Ashok Mathur, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in his keynote address at the national seminar on ‘Second generation reforms in India: settled and unsettled issues’ being organised by Panjab University Business School here today.

‘Human clone not likely’
Chandigarh, January 17
“The early efforts to clone even a human-like animal like monkey have failed and there is a slight chance that successful human cloning can take place. However, human clones, if successfully produced, will have a nature different from that of the persons cloned,” said Prof Harry Griffin of Roslin Institute of Edinburgh (UK) in his lecture at the Institute of Microbial Technology here today.

Seminar on governance of civil society
Chandigarh, January 17
The ICSSR (North Western Regional Centre) and IAS Centre of Panjab University jointly organised a seminar on “governance of civil society: preparing to be a civil servant” here today.

Animal rehabilitation centre inaugurated
SAS Nagar, January 17
An animal rehabilitation centre of the local unit of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was inaugurated at the Civil Veterinary Dispensary at Mataur here today.

‘Think globally and act locally’
Chandigarh, January 17
“Think globally and act locally’’ was the message given to all participants on the conclusion of the two-day seminar-cum-workshop on “Face to face with degrading environment’’ held at Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, here today.

YOUNG VOICE
Learning to crack mysteries
IN an age when most young boys are hit by the information technology bug, Gaurav Sharma is concentrating on a rather unexplored field. He is taking an intelligence course in criminal specialisation from Glothial Detective Agency. The agency, which operates globally, has its branch headquarters in Sector 35 of the city.

NEW RELEASE
AFTER films like ‘Phool Aur Kaante’, ‘Suhaag’ and ‘Anari No. 1’, director Kuku Kohli is back with ‘Yeh Dil Aashiqanaa’. The film, a love story with plenty of action, opens today at Neelam, Chandigarh. The film stars Karan Nath, son of Madhuri Dixit’s secretary, and debutant Jividha.

Unscheduled power cut alleged
Chandigarh, January 17
The Sector 61 MIG Flats Residents Welfare Association today complained of an unscheduled power cut in the sector from 3 pm till sending the complaint to newspaper offices at 7.10 pm.

• Fault in level 63 telephones

• Decision hailed

CRIME

Sector 37 resident knocked down, killed
Chandigarh, January 17
Sector 37 resident Ram Lal was killed after he was knocked down by a truck near Government School, Sector 38. He was rushed to the PGI, where doctors declared him brought dead. The police has arrested truck driver Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of Bassi Pathana, and impounded the vehicle (PB-12-C-1875).

2 more car thieves held
Panchkula, January 17
The CIA Staff of the police has arrested two other members of the notorious gang involved in stealing Maruti cars. Lakhwinder Singh and Dheraj Kumar were arrested by the police late last night and a car was recovered through them.

EDUCATION

Academic Council poll today
Chandigarh, January 17
Elections to the Academic Council of Panjab University are to be held tomorrow. The council has 15 seats for teachers and 15 for college principals. It also has five Senators and professors of teaching departments on the campus as members.

Heavy participation in school board function
Chandigarh, January 17
The state-level cultural competition of the Punjab School Education Board saw a huge participation at Bal Bhavan in Sector 23 here yesterday. The three-day competition took off with a contest being held in four categories: vaar singing, kavishri, poetry and shabad singing.

Engineering courses results today
Chandigarh, January 17
Panjab University will declare results of certain engineering courses tomorrow, an official press release said here today. The examination were conducted during November-December 2001.

Stress on ‘adopting’ libraries and reading books
Chandigarh, January 17
‘Adopting’ of libraries and reading books was described as the key to success at the inter-school extempore speech competition on books and libraries organised at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, here today.

COURTS

Baby-sale case dismissed
Chandigarh, January 17
The alleged baby-sale case culminated today with Mr Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel of the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling that the petitioner — a Ropar district resident — had no locus standi to seek custody of the child she was claiming to be hers.

CULTURE

Jacob presents awards to four artistes

Chandigarh, January 17 The Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi honoured four promoters of art during its third annual award presentation function held at Tagore Theatre today. The winners of this year’s awards in the categories of theatre, folk dance, folk singing and comedy were Sardar Gursharan Singh, Baba Pokhar Singh, Gurmeet Bawa and Bhagwant Mann, respectively.
Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob, Governor, Punjab, with the awardees of annual Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi in Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, on Thursday.

‘Mahamari’ staged
Chandigarh, January 17
Violence, right from raging war to subtle violence in everyday life was the theme of the play “Mahamari” which was staged by Navchetna, the newly formed cultural wing Critique, the Students Discussion Forum of Panjab University in English Auditorium on the University campus here this evening.

HEALTH

• Help for heart patient

SPORTS

PU Campus team in semi-finals
Chandigarh, January 17
Garima Thakur, a postgraduate physical education student of Panjab University Campus, proved to be a key player for her team when she enabled them in beating the Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, 2-0, thus entering the semi-finals of the Panjab University Inter-College Badminton Tournament (Women) played here today.