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BBMB wants better power deal with Chandigarh
To put Rs 30 crore burden on Admn
Chandigarh, April 25
The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) has asked the Chandigarh Administration to start paying more for the power it gets from the BBMB. If this happens the power purchase bill of Chandigarh will rise by around Rs 30 crore annually.

Admn orders fresh poll to housing panels
Chandigarh, April 25
In a move which will change the way real estate worth a few hundred crore is handled by cooperative housing societies, the Chandigarh Administration has ordered fresh election to 93 societies. Also all societies have been bifurcated into three parts.

1 cr given to Mohali civic body
SAS Nagar, April 25
A sum of Rs 100 crore will be spent on the development of towns and cities in Punjab during the current financial year, which has been declared as ‘Development Year’.

Mentally challenged excommunicated for suspected murder
Chowki (Panchkula), April 25
A mentally challenged man here has been excommunicated by village elders for one year, after he was suspected of killing an 85- year- old man in February. Though the village panchayat has denied this move, the police today began investigations into the episode.

Owner catches up with car thief
Panchkula, April 25
Mr Atul Malik could not have hoped for better luck. After his Maruti Esteem car was driven away by a youth in Sector 8 here last evening, he had little hope of finding his car, and that, too, all by himself.

Anmol Rattan is Bar body chief Chandigarh, April 25 Dr Anmol Rattan Singh Sidhu was today elected president of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association after defeating his nearest rival advocate Rupinder Khosla by a margin of 425 votes. Dr Sidhu is also member of Punjab and Haryana Bar Council.

Anmol Rattan

Satraj Singh

Varsity concession for displaced Kashmiris
Chandigarh, April 25
Panjab University will continue the concessions for wards of Kashmiri displaced persons even in the forthcoming academic session(2003-2004). The candidates are required to fulfill the minimum academic requirements for admission to the course and under no circumstance “the requirement of entrance test, wherever applicable, will be relaxed.

MC drive to capture cattle
Chandigarh, April 25
The Municipal Corporation today captured 68 animals as part of the biggest ever drive to rid the entire city of cattle kept “illegally” by dairy owners.

• MC men uncertain over cattle drive’s success

COMMUNITY

Mannu, Jennat Gargi pay homage to their father
Chandigarh, April 25
Balwant Gargi would have given anything to be at the Department of Indian Theatre this evening. In attendance at the department today were his two children, Mannu and Jennat, who were coming home together after decades.

Mannu and Jennat, son and daughter of Balwant Gargi, pay homage to their father at the Department of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, in Chandigarh on Friday.
— A Tribune photograph

Swiss national Bosshard cremated
Chandigarh, April 25
Edwin Bosshard had his last wish fulfilled. His chosen friends who stood by him after his death today consigned to flames the mortal remains of the 43-year-old Swiss national at the Sector 25 crematorium here. Bosshard had been found dead in a room of Panchayat Bhavan, a week ago.

Taking the road least travelled
Spreading awareness about leprosy
Chandigarh, April 25
The road to service is invariably strewn with difficulties. That is precisely why it is the least taken. But just as there is a flip side to every coin, there are people in this world who will do anything to follow the path of service.

Father Antony shares moments of joy with children from Nayee Asha, his Meerut-based school which houses and educates children of leprosy patients. Father Antony visited St Stephen’s, Sector 45, Chandigarh, to spread awareness about leprosy on Friday. — Photo Pankaj Sharma

Woman seeks help for ailing son
Chandigarh, April 25
“Even after selling off our land and house in Patna, I failed to save the life of my two sons who died due to kidney failure. And in case I do not get financial help now, my youngest son will also die,” says Kanta Devi from Bihta village, near Patna, in Bihar.

Seminar on learning disability held
Chandigarh, April 25
The fourth annual seminar of Optimising Development in Education (ODE), an organisation working in the field of “Specific Learning Disability” since1999, founded by Ms Bharati Kapoor, “I can’t to I can” was held at Indra Holiday Home in Sector 24.

Run-for-peace marathon tomorrow
Chandigarh, April 25
Airtel, India’s leading cellular service, is organising the “Airtel run-for-peace” on Sunday (April 27) in association with The Tribune. The marathon will be flagged off from Rock Garden at 6 am by Mr Vinod Sawhny, CEO, Bharti Mobile (North), and the finish line will be 2.5 km away at the KB DAV Centenary School, Sector 7.

Gurdwaras told to follow code of conduct
SAS Nagar, April 25
Almost a week after two women allegedly razed to the ground cemented benches constructed in the main hall of Sacha Dham Gurdwara in Phase 3B1 here, the gurdwara coordination committee, SAS Nagar, has in a meeting condemned the construction of benches in the gurdwara’s main hall which houses Guru Granth Sahib.

Mock drill: 2 constables honoured
Panchkula, April 25
The Superintendent of Police, Mr Ranbir Singh Sharma, gave commendation certificates and cash reward of Rs 200 each to two constables, Darshan Singh and Pradeep Kumar, for their quick response in nabbing two motor cycle-borne youths in a mock drill.

SAVE SUKHNA
Year-round mechanical desilting must start
All year round mechanical desilting must start without delay even as experts on soil conservation and matters regarding stoppage of silt continue doing their bit. A floating platform with a hydraulic or mechanical excavator is needed to lift the silt and load it onto a floating bucket or barge.

EDUCATION

St Xavier's adjudged best
Chandigarh, April 25
The hosts, St Xavier's Senior Secondary School, clinched the best team award in the Frank Anthony Memorial All-India Inter-School Debate for the North Zone held here today. The topic of the debate was "Nothing is good or bad. Thinking makes it so”.

35 complete computer training
Chandigarh, April 25
The Adviser to the Administrator, Mr Virendra Singh, today gave away certificates to students on the completion of their respective training courses at the SPIC-Microsoft Centre of Excellence in Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, here.

COURTS

DISTRICT COURTS
Statements in Beant case recorded
Chandigarh, April 25
Statements of two witnesses in the Beant Singh assassination case, Thakur Das and Himat Singh, were recorded before the UT Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr Balbir Singh, in a special court room in Model Burail Jail here today.