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Overall pass percentage declines in region
City govt model schools disappoint; private ones put up a good show in CBSE Class X exam
Chandigarh, May 24
Ankit Gupta of Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, topped CBSE’s Class X examination in the city and its satellite townships, scoring 97.4 per cent marks. Manu Sharma of St John’s High School bagged the second position, securing 96.6 per cent marks, followed by Piyush Goswami of DAV Public School, Sector 8, Rashmi of Manav Mangal School, Panchkula and Inderdeep Kaur of DC Model Senior Secondary School, Panchkula, who shared the third spot with 96.4 per cent marks.

Jubilant smiles: CBSE Class X toppers (from left) Ankit Gupta, Manu Sharma, Inderdeep and Rashmi with their parents in Chandigarh on Saturday, and Saloni Gupta from Ambala.
— Tribune photos Manoj Mahajan

EARLIER STORIES

	Govt schools fare better than private ones May 24, 2003
	90 shops, 76 kiosks razed at Attawa May 23, 2003
	PTU gives jitters to CET candidates May 22, 2003
	Burail’s ‘blue-eyed’ prisoners May 21, 2003
	Celebration and jubilation time for ICSE Class X toppers May 20, 2003
	Police putting pressure to withdraw cases: Samra May 19, 2003
	CBI fails to get Gupta’s police remand May 18, 2003
	Gupta’s police remand extended May 17, 2003
	CBI forcing me to name seniors: Gupta May 16, 2003
	Man, daughter electrocuted May 15, 2003
	30 tolas of gold found from judge’s locker May 14, 2003

CBI told to file reply by May 27
Case fabricated, says judge
Chandigarh, May 24
Acting on the regular bail application moved by the suspended Jalandhar’s District and Sessions Judge R.M. Gupta, in a corruption case, the UT CBI Special Judge, Mr Balbir Singh, today issued a notice to the CBI to file a reply in the case by May 27.

HIGH COURT
Bhardwaj moves HC for pre-arrest bail
Chandigarh, May 24
Claiming to having been implicated in a false bribery case, Chandigarh’s suspended Judicial Magistrate S.S. Bhardwaj today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking the grant of anticipatory bail.

Samra case

Police nakas to check drunken driving
Chandigarh, May 24
Commuters on the Chandigarh-Panchkula road were caught unawares by the UT Traffic Police, which had to everyone’s surprise, put up over-speeding and drunken driving nakas late in the night.

Everest hero for study of glaciers
Chandigarh, May 24
Study of glaciers in the Indian territory can be of immense help in drafting projects of water management for the future times. There is no separate institute of study of glaciers in the country. India has approximately 5,000 glaciers and 38,000 square metres of ‘permanent’ ice sheet.

COMMUNITY

FOLLOW-UP
No FIR in NRI assault case yet
Chandigarh, May 24
The police is dilly-dallying in registering an FIR against two motor cycle-borne youths who assaulted a Canada-based NRI, Mr Ranbir Singh Dhanjal, on May 20, just outside his residence and robbed him of Rs 35,000 and documents pertaining to a case of cheating with him.

86 illegal structures demolished
Chandigarh, May 24
A team of the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) demolished 86 illegal structures, including illegal shops and boundary walls built on government land in Sector 45 today.

Factory worker electrocuted
SAS Nagar, May 24
A worker was electrocuted in a packaging factory in the Phase VII Industrial Area here today.

34 women trained in stitching
Panchkula, May 24
As many as 34 women from the economically weaker sections were given certificates by the Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Haryana, Ms Promilla Issar, on their successful completion of stitching and embroidery course.

Meat seized

CRIME

Jeweller commits suicide
Chandigarh, May 24
A 35-year-old man of Manimajra committed suicide by hanging himself in his house here this morning. The wife and his two children were at home when the deceased committed suicide.

Married woman commits suicide
SAS Nagar, May 24
A woman in her late 20s committed suicide here tonight. According to the information available, the woman, a migrant labourer, who was working with her husband in an industry in Phase VII here, committed suicide by setting herself afire.