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Wednesday, August 21, 2002, Chandigarh, India

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Proposal for new road link to Panchkula cleared
Town and Country Planning Dept to begin work
Panchkula, August 20
The Town and Country Planning Department has decided to begin work on creating an alternate link between the township and Chandigarh, linking the Dakshin Marg to the township from Makhan Majra village in UT to the road separating Sectors 16 and 17 here.

Madhu challenges Pramod
‘Undergo lie detector test on four points’
Chandigarh, August 20
A defiant Madhu Sharma, after yesterday’s negative response of the National Human Rights Commission, today challenged the Union Communication Minister, Mr Pramod Mahajan, to undergo a lie detector test simultaneously with her to check the veracity of the Minister’s version on four points.

Land allotment for MPs’ society challenged
Chandigarh, August 20
Challenging the allotment of a 7-acre plot in Sector 40 to the Heritage Educational Society, a Punjab and Haryana High Court advocate, Vinay Kumar, today claimed that Members of Parliament, Ambika Soni and Pawan Kumar Bansal, had used undue influence on officials of the Chandigarh Administration to amend the rules for allotting the land to their society.

REGIONAL BRIEFS

EARLIER STORIES

	Drained MC set to hike water charges August 20, 2002
	Government Museum in for major facelift August 19, 2002
	New-look Shatabdi with German comforts August 18, 2002
	Free engineering seats for economically deprived in PU: on paper or reality? August 17, 2002
	Cholera spread unfortunate: Jacob August 16, 2002
	Killer rain showers destruction August 15, 2002
	UT IAS officer faces dismissal August 14, 2002
	Pauper MC given share in revenue August 13, 2002
	Watery grave for pilgrim brothers August 12, 2002
	Armed robbery in two houses August 11, 2002
	Teaching work remains paralysed on PU campus August 10, 2002

Young girl crushed to death
Chandigarh, August 20
As if the loss of the bread winner of the family was not enough, the cruel hands of destiny today snatched 15-year-old Azra, who was crushed to death by a school bus. Her father had died of illness two years ago.

MC panel cuts proposed hike
Chandigarh, August 20
The Finance and Contract Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh today announced reduction in the hike proposed by the Water and Sewerage Committee yesterday. It also completely struck down the huge reduction in tubewell monthly rentals and rejected paid parking for now in Sectors 34, 35 and 22.

Rape case: eyewitness goes underground
Chandigarh, August 20
As the mystery behind the case of alleged drugging and rape of a girl in her twenties thickens, the role of Mr Surinder Sharma, an eyewitness to the dumping of the girl near the Sector 33 petrol pump, has become all the more important. It was Mr Sharma who had informed the Police Control Room (PCR) about the girl.

Rights activists in action

PU in dilemma over Kang’s readmission
Chandigarh, August 20
Panjab University is still in a dilemma as to whether it will readmit the Panjab University Student Union president whose admission was cancelled by the Law Department for not having attended the required 33 per cent lectures in the first 10 working days of the current academic session.

COMMUNITY

Rajiv Gandhi remembered

Chandigarh, August 20
A prominent BJP activist Shambhu Banerjee joined the Congress on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi’s 58th birth anniversary here today. The Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress led by Harmohinder Singh Lucky organised a blood donation camp in which as many as 150 youth donated blood.

Students of GMSSS-33 participate in a rally held to mark Sadbhavna Divas in Sector 33, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Rise in crime worries Mohali residents
SAS Nagar, August 20
Residents gave vent to their grievances and presented their problems ranging from increase in incidents of theft to traffic hazards at a police-public meeting held here. Mr R.C. Jhingan, a resident of Phase VI, said crimes such as the removal of water taps and the spare wheels of two-wheelers and the snatching of gold chains from women were common in his area.

Punwire staff hold rally
SAS Nagar, August 20
Members of the Punjab Wireless Systems Employees Union held a rally at the Balongi chowk here today in protest against the indifferent attitude of the Punjab Government.

Concern over changes in building bylaws
Chandigarh, August 20
The Chandigarh Beopar Mandal has expressed concern over the amendments in building bylaws. In a press note issued here today, Mr Jagdish Arora, president of the Chandigarh Beopar Mandal, said, “According to the amendments, the tenants would be required to take consent from the landlord, even to make small changes in building. It would spoil the cordial relation between the landlord and tenants. ’’

BSP candidate wins market panel poll
Chandigarh, August 20
The Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Gurdev Singh today won the vice-chairmanship of the Market Committee 5-4 by defeating BJP candidate Rattan Chand, who was supported by Congress chairman Kuldeep Singh.

SOS Village kids meet Jacob
Chandigarh, August 20
It was a memorable day in the life of orphan children of the Save Our Society (SOS) Village near Rajpura. They were the ‘special guests’ of the Punjab Governor, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), at Punjab Raj Bhavan here today.
Punjab Governor, Lieut-Gen J.R.F. Jacob (retd), interacts with kids from SOS Village, Rajpura, at Punjab Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Doc commits suicide
Chandigarh, August 20
A 33-year-old woman doctor of Sector 32 GMCH was found dead in her house in the residential complex of the hospital here this afternoon. The victim, Madhulika, was declared brought dead at the hospital. According to information, the victim had come from Rohtak two months ago. The victim, whose husband is also a doctor in the Sector 32 GMCH, has left behind two children.

Girl electrocuted
Dera Bassi, August 20
A six-year-old girl was electrocuted when she fell on high-tension power cables passing adjacent to the terrace of her house at Kuranwala village on the Dera Bassi-Barwala highway this morning.

READERS WRITE
Misleading milk producers
I have gone through the Milkfed’s advertisement on bonus distribution in The Tribune carefully and critically and would like to share my observations with your readers as its projections in the said advertisement amount to misleading both milk producers and people.

Punjab’s share

Hike in cable charges

CRIME

Stolen cable wires recovered, 4 held
Chandigarh, August 20
Stolen cable wires and signal amplifiers worth over Rs 80,000 were recovered from members of a gang arrested by the Sector 39 police today. The gang used to steal cable wires and other equipments used in transmission of cable signals.

2 hurt in mishaps
Chandigarh, August 20
Two persons were injured in road accidents here yesterday. A pedestrian, Mr Ratti Ram, resident of Sector 52, was injured after he was hit by a scooter driven by a SAS Nagar resident, Lakhwinder Singh, on dividing road of Sector 61 and 52 here.

EDUCATION

Displaying colours of innocence
Chandigarh, August 20
About 1,000 students, including 50 special children, from 30 schools in Chandigarh gave an outlet to their creative skills through paint and brush during an inter-school painting competition organised by the Chandigarh Chapter of the Indian Council for Child Welfare in collaboration with the medical institute run by the State Bank of India, Chandigarh.

Talent search contest for orators
Chandigarh, August 20
Budding orators of MCM DAV College, Sector 36, were provided a platform to display public-speaking skills at the Ms Prakash Sharma Memorial Talent Search Contest held on the school campus, here today.

Shishu Niketan wins quiz contest
Chandigarh, August 20
Shishu Niketan was declared winner of the quiz competition organised during the Fanta Fiesta 2002 at Tagore Theatre, here today.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
Order against sack of corpn staff
Chandigarh, August 20
Acting on a bunch of petitions seeking directions to the state of Haryana and other respondents for quashing orders granting permission to close down Haryana State Minor Irrigation (Tubewells) Corporation, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed against passing further orders terminating the services of the employees.

Notice on MLA’s plea for bail
JE’s plea dismissed with costs
Notice to PAU

CULTURE

Treasuring rich arts and crafts of Orissa

Chandigarh, August 20
With a view to rehabilitate traditional artisans of Orissa who have been hard hit by the cyclone in the state, as also to target the responsive North Indian, Orissa State Co-operative Handicrafts Corporation today opened a special sales outlet of traditional Orissan handicrafts in Chandigarh.

Traditional art and craft products on display at Utkalika, the outlet of Orissa State Co-operative Handicrafts Corporation in Sector 35-D , Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

Tejaswini Kohlapure for NIFD function
Chandigarh, August 20
Leading star Tejaswini Kohlapure, who is all set to storm Bollywood with her movie ‘Paanch’, ready for release after a long tiff with the censor board, will give away Designer Awards in different categories, to student designers of National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFD), Chandigarh, on August 21.

Lampooning corruption through cartoons
Chandigarh, August 20
Eminent city-based cartoonist, Chander Malhotra, is out with another show and a fresh theme, the PPSC scam. After having participated in various cartooning contests in youth festivals during his college days, Chander Malhotra later went on to create many cartoon shows on relevant themes.

HEALTH

Artificial heart a hope for future
Chandigarh, August 20
One might be amazed at the advances made by medical science and though only a handful of people are today surviving on “artificial hearts, a few years down the lane having an artificial heart might become as simple as a bypass surgery.

SPORTS

Football tourney for girls gets under way

Chandigarh, August 20
The Second Chandigarh Junior Girls Football Championship began this morning at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45. The four-day meet is being organised by the Chandigarh Football Association.

The opening tie of the second Chandigarh Junior Girls Football Championship between IS Dev Samaj School, Sector 21, and Sacred Heart School, Sector 26, in progress in Chandigarh on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Sport kits distributed
St Kabir Trophy

ADMINISTRATION

MC accuses Health Dept of poor workmanship
Repair of storm water sewer project
SAS Nagar, August 20
Frustrated over the delay in the rectification of the Rs 21 lakh storm water sewer in Phase XI here by the Public Health Department (PHD), the Municipal Council has shot a letter demanding a high-level inquiry into the faulty project.