STOVE BURST: Sangeeta (26) suffered burn injuries when a stove burst this morning. She was admitted to the PGI with 80 per cent burn injuries. Sangeeta was making tea on the stove when the incident occurred. Her husband tried to save her and also received burns in the process. She was immediately rushed to General Hospital from where doctors, assessing her serious condition, referred her to the PGI. The police said Sangeeta had given a statement today saying that it was a mere accident and nobody was responsible for the incident. Sangeeta was married three years ago and has no children.
ARRESTED: The local police has arrested Narinder Singh, of Maloya Colony from the locality this morning. He was accused of stealing a number of cycles from the city. The police has recovered four stolen cycles from his possession. A case under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC was registered against him in the Sector 39 police station.
MISBEHAVED: Sudarshan Pahwa, a of Sector 35-D filed a complaint to the police that he had bought a Petro Card issued by Bharat Petroleum from its petrol station in Sector 21-C. He was told that when he received the card all entries of petrol he had purchased from the company outlet would be enter later. But when he got the card it refused to enter the old entries and allegedly misbehaved with him.
NSS CAMP: A 10-day NSS camp began at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, here on Friday. The Principal, Ms Suman Sharma, inaugurated the camp. NSS volunteers will work for the cleanliness of environment and other related activities.
CAMP: A 10-day NSS camp began at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 19, here on Friday, which was inaugurated by the youth officer, NSS Regional Centre, Ms Madhu Bala. She asked volunteers to work for the welfare of society. The principal of the school, Ms Saroj Gupta, welcomed the guests and applauded the role of NSS units in keeping school campuses clean.
RAIL TICKET: The Indian Railways and Hutch have launched “Railway ticketing on Hutch”, a service that allows Hutch mobile phone users of the Punjab circle to book railway tickets through voice commands.
NEW RANGE: Milton Global Ltd has come up with a new range of products, including microcooker, idli-maker, lotus steamer and microaster, according to Mr Sandip Sinha, Vice-President, Marketing and Business Development.
BLOOD CAMP: As many as 160 persons donated blood at a camp organised by the Chamber of Chandigarh Industries
(CCI) at the Community Centre, at Industrial Area on Saturday.
PROGRAMME ORGANISED: Brahma Kumaris Rajyog Meditation Centre, Sector 21, organised a “Women Self-Awareness” programme in Sector 20, here on Saturday. Mr
B.K. Mukesh of the centre, speaking on anger management, highlighted the different forms of anger, its ill effects and remedies. She urged people to lead an anger-free
life.
ADMN’S MOVE HAILED: A joint meeting of the representatives of the Architects Association, Chandigarh, the Property Owners Welfare Association, Chandigarh and the Samadhaan held on Saturday welcomed the administration’s move to streamline the building plan sanction system. It would save hundreds of hours and trips in time, manpower and cost, and lead to greater efficiency.
SEMINAR: A seminar on studies in Canada was held at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Institute of Vocational Studies, Sector 27, Chandigarh on Friday. The seminar was organised by the DLA Overseas Study Centre. Dr Roger
Barnsley, President of the University College of the Cariboo, Thompson Rivers University, was the chief guest of the seminar.
EFFORTS LAUDED: Ms Jean
Rodrigues, wife of UT Administrator , appreciated the efforts of Mr Jagdish Lal Ahuja, engaged in serving free food to the poor patients at PGI premises and visited his camp today. Ms Rodrigues also distributed langar packets, blankets and clothes to the attendants of the poor patients.
