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Cholera spread unfortunate: Jacob
Promises measures to prevent recurrence
Chandigarh, August 15
The National Flag was unfurled at the Parade Ground here on the 56th Independence Day by the UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd) amidst tight security. Later, the General joined children presenting bhangra at a cultural show.

Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd) joins the bhangra team at the Independence Day function held at Parade Ground, Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — Photo Pankaj Sharma

Man kills sons, surrenders

Villagers and relatives of Hardev Singh and Lakhwinder Singh, who were strangled by their father, receive the bodies for cremation at Khurd Raipur village near Sohana on Thursday and (inset) Baldev Singh, father of the children. — Tribune photographs

MC plan to replenish ground water
Chandigarh, August 15
Faced with the alarming situation of depleting water table, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh is chalking out a plan to replenish ground water by digging up wells around the city.

HIV risk to medical staff: the threat is real
Chandigarh, August 15
One may term it as a professional hazard but with about 24 medical staff, including doctors nurses and paramedicals in the region, exposed to the risk of transmission of HIV virus through accidental pricking, the threat is for real.

COMMUNITY

Residents protest against power failure
Panchkula, August 15
Hundreds of residents of Housing Board Complex, Sector 14, here virtually took to the streets in protest against power failure in their colony and “indifferent attitude of the Housing Board officials”.

Samiti to fight for footpath workers
Chandigarh, August 15
Vows to launch a struggle for permanent workplaces for footpath workers, uniting the Congress, demands of a university for the city and its own education board marked the Independence Day celebrations organised by political parties, residents welfare associations and workers’ unions.

Punish corrupt officials: Forum
SAS Nagar, August 15
The Anti-Corruption Forum, here, has demanded that the on-going campaign of the state government against corruption should not be confined only to ministers and officers but also extended to officials at the lowest level in all departments.

City boy to represent IMF at Johannesburg summit
Chandigarh, August 15
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will soon come out with a book on adverse affects of corruption on growing societies. The book, which will contain as many as 18-20 research papers on various aspects of corruption, is being edited among others by Mr Sanjeev Gupta, an Assistant Director in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department.

TRIBUNE IMPACT
Probe into false certificates
Chandigarh, August 15
The Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob(retd), yesterday ordered an inquiry into the alleged false certificates submitted by trainees of the Chandigarh Football Academy.

Racket of forged documents
Chandigarh, August 15
In the case of two cars being run on fake registration numbers impounded by the CIA wing of the Chandigarh police, investigations have revealed that the forged documents had been submitted by the flourishing racket of financing vehicles on the basis of forged documents.

Chautala’s wife admitted to PGI

EDUCATION

Teachers learn computer to make teaching effective
Chandigarh, August 15
Use of computers as an additional tool to supplement classroom teaching found appreciation at the conclusion of the 23-day Intel workshop at the Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, here.

Brilliant start to PEC placements
Chandigarh, August 15
In a laudable achievement, Punjab Engineering College has already achieved placement of about 50 students in jobs for various reputed companies within a fortnight of the commencement of the new academic session.

Birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo celebrated
Chandigarh, August 15
The birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and Independence Day was celebrated by the Aurobindo Society at Sri Aurobindo School of Integral Education in Sector 27, here today.

SPIC signs MoU with Kadkraft
Chandigarh, August 15
The Society for Promotion of Information Technology in Chandigarh (SPIC), a society set up by the UT Administration under the aegis of its Information Technology Department, has signed an MoU with Kadkraft Systems Pvt — CAD/CAM solutions provider and an authorised autodesk advanced training centre.

Scholarship test

HC issues notice over plea on creches
Chandigarh, August 15
Acting on a petition filed by a city-based lawyer seeking directions to the Chandigarh Administration, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh and other respondents to frame bylaws for opening and maintaining creches in the city, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion for October 22.

Dressing down over coat
Chandigarh, August 15
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-II has directed Mangaldeep Stitchcraft, Sector 17, to refund the cost of a coat to a city resident and has held it guilty of deficiency in service.

Fathering a child 3 years after death
Chandigarh, August 15
If the allegation made in a writ petition filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court is to be believed, a dead man’s name was mentioned in father’s name column of the birth certificate of a child even though the man had made his final exit three years before the child was born.