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‘Unhygienic’ meat seized from 5 stores
Chandigarh, March 13
The Municipal Corporation today seized around 3.5 quintal of, what it suspects to be "unhygienic", meat from Bhatia International Store, JDs, Peshawaris, MG Super Market, Sector 9, and Punjab Meat Sector 37.

Unauthorised and unstamped meat seized from one of the department stores of the city being taken for destruction by the municipal corporation staff in Chandigarh on Thursday.  — Tribune photo Parvesh Chauhan

• Chicken prices may come down

Farmers to block traffic today
Chandigarh, March 13
Six farmers’ unions of Punjab have announced that they will block traffic around the Sector 17 bus stand tomorrow to press the state government to accept their demands. The farmers have been holding an indefinite dharna at Matka Chowk since March 10.

Property tax rate may stay at 10 pc
Chandigarh, March 13
The property tax may still remain at the rate of 10 per cent as notified by the Chandigarh Administration, which has shown reluctance to replace the old order with a fresh resolution of the Municipal Corporation House at 2 per cent of the annual rateable rent.

BUILDING COLLAPSE
Plots may be resumed
SAS Nagar, March 13
Owners of the multi-storeyed building that collapsed in the Phase V market here on February 11, face resumption of both the plots from the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority. Other than this, PUDA is also likely to also cancel the licenses of the architect and the contractor of the building.

Cops out to curb road rage
Chandigarh, March 13
Residents beware! Next time you reverse your car out of the parking lot, make sure to depress the brake lever well in time. “Driving backward more than necessary for turning” can actually leave your wallet lighter. The men-in-white, peeping from behind the bushes, will take no time to issue you a challan.

Mohali Connect Nos. to be changed
Chandigarh, March 13
In the light of new guidelines from Department of Telecom, SAS Nagar will now be a part of the Kharar Small Distance Charge Area. The new STD code for both SAS Nagar and Kharar will be 0160.

PU restrained from filling post
Chandigarh, March 13
Admitting a petition filed by Panjab University lecturer Dr G. K. Malik challenging the re-advertisement of a post with amended qualification, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court restrained the University from filling the post.

COMMUNITY

Infant-bashing case to be probed
SAS Nagar, March 13
The local child protection unit will investigate the case of the beating up of a one-year-old during a scuffle between a landlord and his tenants in Sector 70 here. According to a complaint lodged with the unit yesterday, Mr Jaswinder Singh of Sector 70 alleged that his one-year-old child was beaten up along with his wife by their landlord, a resident of Phase 3B1, in October last and the police had not taken any action. He demanded action against the guilty.

Rape case: girl goes missing
SAS Nagar, March 13
After having registered a case of rape against five persons on charges of having illicit relations with a minor girl, the police here has so far not been able to trace the girl who after having delivered a child in PGI on March 1, had claimed to be a minor and given a statement to the UT police about her various relations.

5 women get together and agree

Chandigarh, March 13 As the debate on the power of women vis-a-vis men rages, one fact gets better underlined — that even in their criticism of women as equal partners in life, men only exhibit their helplessness in discounting the worth which women command. Why else would they bother to contest them? Debates surface only where issues demand balance, otherwise they never surface at all....
(From left): Ms Pushpinder Cheema, Ms Mangala Dogra, Ms Niti Sarin, Ms Neena Singh and Ms Neelu Grewal during a get-together dedicated to the women of worth at the CII conference hall in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Photo Manoj Mahajan

Body confuses cops
Chandigarh, March 13
Notwithstanding the medical opinion of forensic experts that the unidentified body brought to the GMCH, Sector 32 on March 2, was that of a male, police confusion over its sex is giving anxious moments to the hospital authorities as the body is still lying in a badly decomposed form in its mortuary.

ULTA PULTA
Greater the loss, greater the producer
THE Hindi film industry has suffered a massive loss of 290 crores for the year 2002. The beginning of 2003 doesn’t look too promising either. The question is who is to be blamed? An intelligent producer can either blame ‘‘time’’ (“time bahut kharab chal raha hai”) or blame the audience (“audience ka taste hi kharab hai”). They should never admit that the basic proposal was itself a blunder. They should never reveal that they were shooting for the film without a basic script.

Cops trained to manage stress
Chandigarh, March 13
A discussion on “Police station management and stress management” was organised at Central Detective Training School in Sector 36 here today.

HUDA extends last date

CRIME

Priest commits suicide
Chandigarh, March 13
A 23-year-old priest at a Sector 22 temple, Subash Chander Panoli, committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in the sector. His body was found lying on the floor by his neighbours this morning.

EDUCATION

FROM COLLEGES Jacob urged to get grant released
Chandigarh, March 13 A delegation of the Non-Government Colleges’ Management Committees, principals, teachers and non-teaching staff today met the Punjab Governor, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd.) and expressed anxiety over the reported move of college teachers to start an agitation in support of their demands and court arrest on March 20. Prize distribution function Blood Donation camp
Students of the Chandigarh College of Architecture after the prize distribution function that marked the conclusion of Archo-2003 in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Photo Parvesh Chauhan

Students’ parliament
Chandigarh, March 13
A students’ parliament was organised by Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad at the Panjab University, here today. According to a statement issued here, the aim of the event was to bring students’ representation from various colleges as well as the university on to a common platform for an exhaustive debate on students problems.

Stone laid for Ryan school
Chandigarh, March 13 The Director of the Ryan and St. Xavier’s group of schools, Madam Grace Pinto, today laid the foundation stone of the 73rd branch of the group at Sector 49-B here. Following the CBSE curriculum the school right now admits students from montessory I to standard VII, and with each passing year would go up to the senior secondary level with all three streams of science, humanities and commerce available.
Madam Grace Pinto lays the foundation stone of Ryan International School in Sector 49-B, Chandigarh, on Thursday.

DISTRICT COURTS
18 in fray for DBA elections
Chandigarh, March 13
Eighteen candidates have filed nominations for the posts of president, vice-president, secretary, joint secretary and treasurer in the elections to the District Bar Association on the last day of the filing of nomination papers here today.

• Plea rejected
• Two get bail

CULTURE

Rohtak’s rising star
Chandigarh, March 13
For Gorrav Ghai of Rohtak success came easy. It was just a chance meeting with Piyush Choudhury, the producer of “Puchho Mere Dil Se” and before he realised Gorrav was acting in the lead role of the movie, opposite Piyush Choudhury's daughter Diya Choudhury. He is anxiously waiting for the release of his debut film on March 21.

HEALTH

Sunning can save your bones: experts
Chandigarh, March 13
Having conducted a survey in the tribal area of Lahaul Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, PGI doctors say hill people are five times more prone to bone problems. So they require at least four hours’ exposure to sunlight so as to avoid having brittle bones and frequent fractures.

Diabetics' ignorance concerns docs
Chandigarh, March 13
With almost 15 per cent of diabetic patients prone to foot problems, even a simple infection or an ulcer if untreated could cause an amputation, leading to permanent disability, warn doctors.

Health care for elderly starts
Chandigarh, March 13
After successfully running a special geriatric clinic for the past three years, the Department of Medicine, GMCH, will soon be launching a WHO-sponsored multicentric study to identify the problem of people above the age of 60 years in the city.

SPORTS

UT rural sports tournament begins
Chandigarh, March 13 The kabaddi team of Kajheri villages beat the Maloya village team 32-28 while the Dhanas team outplayed Dadu Majra 19-17 in the fourth UT rural sports tournament, which began here today at Sports Complex, Sector 46. The tug-of-war team of Dadu Majra village during the rural sports meet at Sports Complex, Sector 46, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

• Vikas, Shikha win TT titles

• Delhi Audit team win

Season of transfers in Admn, police yet not over
Chandigarh, March 13
Major changes have taken place in the Chandigarh Administration and the Chandigarh police in the past three months and more are in the offing. At present everybody is waiting if Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd) will continue beyond April 17 when his tenure ends. As per the practice till a new man is appointed the Governor will continue and the length of this period depends entirely on the Government of India.

Notification for land acquisition
Chandigarh, March 13
The Chandigarh Administration today notified that it would acquire about 9 acres of land in Dadu Majra village located on the south-western tip of the city for setting up a solid waste treatment plant for the city. A dumping ground for city waste already existed in Dadu Majra and the treatment plant was a project of the Municipal Corporation.