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No funds for new operating theatres
Chandigarh, August 6
Monsoon is the worst time of the year, both for the patients as well as doctors at the PGI, as a heavy shower is enough to bring the operating theatres in the Nehru Hospital to a grinding halt.

PU for early student bodies’ poll
Chandigarh, August 6
The recent spurt in violence among student groups has forced the authorities to rethink on the matter of elections to student bodies. While certain college principals have outrightly opposed the holding of elections, Panjab University has sought an early date from the Chandigarh Administration for holding the elections.

Verma’s visit speeds up road repair
Chandigarh, August 6
A bus ride by the UT Administrator, Justice O.P. Verma (retd), into the southern sectors to see the extent of damage due to the recent rain has resulted in orders for repairs of all roads and bridges in the area.

Schools ban Coke, Pepsi
Chandigarh, August 6
Schools in the city have decided to play it safe as far as the health of their students is concerned, as some of them will be banning sale of Coke, Pepsi and other popular soft drinks in their canteens from tomorrow itself.

Gp Capt Kahlon cremated
SAS Nagar, August 6
The body of Gp Capt J.S. Kahlon (retd), Commissioner, Civil Aviation, Jammu and Kashmir, who died in a helicopter crash in Ganderbal yesterday, was consigned to the flames here today. The son of Group Captain Kahlon, Mr Sarpreet Singh, lit the pyre.

• Local admn officials absent

Avneet Kaur pays last tributes to her husband Gp Capt J.S. Kahlon (retd), who had died in a helicopter crash in Jammu and Kashmir along with four Amarnath pilgrims at SAS Nagar cremation ground on Wednesday. — Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma

Ranbaxy fire case adjourned till August 13
Chandigarh, August 6
Amidst conflicting reports filed by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and the Deputy Director, Factories, about the cause of the fire at the Ranbaxy factory, SAS Nagar, nothing substantial has come out to pin-point the possible cause of fire even after two months of the incident.

Making an ass of police post
Deppar, (Lalru), August 6
Accident victims are devoid of medical care on the stretch between Dera Bassi and Jharmari on the Kalka-Ambala highway due to lack of any police assistance and first-aid post.

POST NEGLECT: Donkeys enjoy a siesta at a first-aid post that was set up by the Punjab Police to provide immediate assistance and first-aid to victims of road accidents on the busy Ambala-Kalka highway in Dappar in June 1999. — Tribune photo Karam Singh

Helmetless scooterist dies in accident

COMMUNITY

Sex-abuse victim restored to parents
Chandigarh, August 6
After being sexually abused by two youths for eight months in Delhi, the Maloya girl who had gone missing on December 7 last year enroute her school, returned home this Saturday.

Buddhists to set up Centre for Meditation
Chandigarh, August 6
After patronising the small Buddhist temple located in the vicinity of Chandigarh for some years now, the Thai Buddhist community has evinced greater interest in its expansion process.

Abandoned mill gutted
Chandigarh, August 6
An abandoned flour mill was gutted in a massive fire in Industrial Area, Phase I, in the wee hours here today. “The flames were so high that they were noticed by people at Mani Majra, Sectors 17, 19 and even 25,” Chief Fire Officer G.S. Bajwa told Chandigarh Tribune.

An abandoned factory destroyed by a fire in Industrial Area, Phase I, of Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Question on denial of jobs to UT’s disabled
Chandigarh, August 6
The Lok Sabha was today told the Chandigarh Administration had received representations from disabled persons of Chandigarh that they were not being considered for appointment to the posts reserved for the handicapped persons in Punjab and Haryana.

RLA office to be more visitor-friendly
Chandigarh, August 6
The office of the Registering and Licensing Authority located in Sector 17 has decided to provide more amenities to visitors.

Bird slaughter in Sector 21 Meat Market banned
Chandigarh, August 6
The Citizens Welfare Association, Sector 21, yesterday claimed that the Administrator Justice O.P. Verma had issued directions to ban the slaughter of birds in the Sector 21 Meat Market.

NCC activities reviewed
Chandigarh, August 6
The Additional Director-General, National Cadet Corps (NCC), Maj-Gen S.V. Thapliyal, today reviewed the NCC activities being carried out in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh.

Rotarians celebrate Teej
Chandigarh, August 6
Rotary Chandigarh Shivalik, which has 74 clubs spread over parts of Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, celebrated Teej here yesterday.

Family jumps out of burning car
Panchkula, August 6
A fiat car caught fire near Sector 12 yesterday afternoon when its petrol pipe suddenly burst.

Tribunal mooted for NRIs
Chandigarh, August 6
A proposal for setting up a tribunal for the speedy disposal of cases of NRIs pertaining to civil, criminal, matrimonial and property disputes was mooted at a meeting presided over by the Parliamentary Secretary, NRI Affairs, Mr Ravinder Singh Sandhu (Babbal), today.

Artificial lake at Chandi Mandir
Chandigarh, August 6
The Western Command with the help of the Haryana Government has developed an artificial lake at Chandi Mandir, near here, skirting Panchkula under the Water Conservation Project.

SDM launches tree plantation drive
Dera Bassi, August 6
As many as 4500 saplings of various varieties will be planted in a 10-day tree plantation campaign launched by the local civic body, here today.

EATING OUT
Chowmein complements butter chicken
Chandigarh, August 6
Sher-e-Punjab, the airconditioned restaurant in the Sector 35 lane of hotels, has been spruced up in deference to popular wish — both in terms of the menu and set-up. While the elders still dig in for the good old Punjabi butter chicken and dal makhani, the youngsters and kids like to have variety on their plate.

EDUCATION

PU engg students boycott classes
Chandigarh, August 6
Students of the Panjab University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) today boycotted their classes and staged a dharna in front of the office of the Vice-Chancellor.

Prof K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University, makes a point to the agitating students of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

• Inquiry into assault

• Results declared

Re-interview for B.Ed course
Chandigarh, August 6
All Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) candidates, who had appeared for admission under the Chandigarh quota in the recent admissions, will be re-interviewed. A high-level probe has found irregularities in the ongoing admission process. Students who have studied in Chandigarh enjoy 85 per cent reservation in Chandigarh colleges.

From the Schools
Students protest war in colour, words
Chandigarh, August 6
Students of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46-D, expressed their views on the horrors of modern warfare at a painting, slogan writing and paper reading contest held to observe the Hiroshima-Nagasaki and Quit India Day, here today. Children of the literacy centres run by the World Peace Mission also participated in the function.

Students of GMSSS Sector-46, display posters against war to mark Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day which was observed at the school in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

I-Day functions in schools only on Aug 15
Chandigarh, August 6
Independence Day would be celebrated in all schools, government and private, on August 15. The decision has come after the Punjab and Haryana High Court had taken a serious note of the celebrations by some private schools on August 14 last year.

COURTS

High court for panel on monkey menace
Chandigarh, August 6
Taking up a public interest litigation on monkey menace in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the formation of a committee to suggest measures for the eradication of the problem.

Further remand for Bhardwaj
Chandigarh, August 6
Suspended UT Judicial Magistrate (First Class) S.S. Bhardwaj was today further remanded in judicial custody by a local court in a corruption case registered against him by the CBI.

• Bail denied

Police remand for 2 in fraud case
Kharar, August 6
Ranjan Kumar Khullar, Judicial Magistrate here, send two persons — Harjeet Singh and his father Ramesh Singh, both residents of Barampur Bhagomajra village, near Kharar, to police remand.