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Woman murdered in Panchkula, another raped in city
Panchkula, September 22
A woman was allegedly raped and murdered after her head was smashed with a marble slab late last night. Her body was recovered from near Saarthak Government School, Sector 12-A, this morning.

Policemen collect blood samples from the spot where Meena was found murdered in Panchkula on Thursday morning. — A Tribune photograph

City unsafe for women
Chandigarh, September 22
The city continues to be unsafe for maidens. Ask them and they say “it’s impossible to move out late in the evenings. For, the local police has miserably failed to prevent hooligans on bikes and cars from raping Chandigarh’s chaste image.

A mock drill was carried out in the city on Thursday, a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives for an overnight stay. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

IT raid at plantation
company’s office
Chandigarh, September 22
The Income Tax Department today carried out searches at the Sector 22 premises of Pearl Green Forest Private Limited, a plantation campaign. A search was also conducted at the residence of one of the Company’s Directors in Mohali. Claiming that the searches were part of a nation wide drive, a senior IT official said the same had no connection with volatile movement in the stock market.

Rain hits preparations for PM’s visit
Chandigarh, September 22
With the weather playing truant on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s arrival here, officials of the Chandigarh Administration and all other concerned are apprehensive, but keeping their fingers crossed and hoping for no more rain.

PM’s food habits no chef’s delight
Chandigarh, September 22
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is not a fussy eater. Both he and his wife Gursharan Kaur have spartan eating habits. So it seems from the eating habits of the Prime Minister that have been conveyed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to the Chandigarh Administration and Punjab Raj Bhavan that will host him during his overnight stay in the city.

PM’s stay may be extended by an hour
Chandigarh, September 22
Stay of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Chandigarh is likely to be extended by almost an hour on Saturday.

Artistes perform at “Sanjhi Sham”, an evening of folk music and dances of Punjab and Haryana, at the Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Man hacked to death
Mohali, September 22
A 55-year-old man was hacked to death by four persons at his house in Rampur Taparian village near Kurali last night. The victim, Darbara Singh, was killed after the rest of his family was locked inside a room in the house by the assailants. The victim’s family alleged that he was murdered by Sukhvinder Singh of the same village who had developed differences with Darbara Singh over the issue of his marriage.

Passing Thru

COMMUNITY

MC staff threat to intensify stir
Mohali, September 22
Threatening to intensify their on-going agitation, employees of the local Municipal Council presented a memorandum to the president of the civic body here today.

Committed to restoring natural heritage
The legacy of our rich heritage and cultural traditions has given us something of eternal value to hold on to, in the diverse forms of customs, traditions, folk arts and monumental treasure capturing the life during the ages. In the depths of our heart we still seek the eternal glory of the past in the ephemeral and ever changing world, opined Intach Chairman S.K. Mishra, the pioneer crusader dedicated to the restoration and conservation of the cultural and natural heritage of India.

PSEB staff stage dharna
Mohali, September 22
A dharna was organised by the Mohali circle employees of the Punjab State Electricity Board in protest against the move of the government to privatise and unbundle the board.

Navratra fair arrangements reviewed
Panchkula, September 22
A meeting to review the arrangements for the forthcoming Navratra fair at the Sri Mata Mansa Devi shrine was held here under the chairmanship of Mr Parveen Kumar, Additional Deputy Commissioner.

A tree uprooted in Sector 32, Chandigarh, following rain on Wednesday night. — A Tribune photograph

Milkfed sperm station gets BIS certification
Chandigarh, September 22
Milkfed sperm station at Khanna has been awarded IS/ISO : 9001-2000 certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards.

Kishangarh residents to question validity of CTP
Chandigarh, September 22
Residents of Kishangarh village would be filing a petition before the National Environment Appellate Authority, New Delhi, questioning “the validity” of the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park.

Villagers hold dharna against Admin move
Chandigarh, September 22
Representatives of various UT villages, including Deep Complex in Hallomajra, today staged a dharna along the Zirakpur-Chandigarh highway here today in protest against the move of the Chandigarh Administration to acquire around 33 acres on which Deep Complex had come up on the outskirts of the village.

Fresh survey of tenements allotted to slum-dwellers
Chandigarh, September 22
The Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh, has ordered a fresh survey/ physical verification of tenements allotted to slum dwellers under the rehabilitation scheme by the administration.

Readers Write
When violator is UT Administrator
The Chandigarh Administrator makes surprise checks to curtail violations made by his official machinery. And the police too is not far behind for it has bought cameras to book traffic violators.

CRIME

15-yr-old re-arrested
Chandigarh, September 22
The local police today managed to rearrest a 15-year-old boy, who ran away from the juvenile home in Sector 15 last month.

BUSINESS

CNBC-TV18 camp coming to city
Chandigarh, September 22
CNBC- TV 18, India’s premier business channel, will for the first time host the CNBC-TV18 Investor Camp in the city on September 24 at the Panjab University Auditorium.

EDUCATION

Debate on youth’s vulnerability to AIDS
Chandigarh, September 22
The Department of Youth Welfare, Panjab University, organised the North the Zone inter-university debate contest on “Youth is more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in India” which was inaugurated by Prof K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor, here today.

Mixed response to proposed MBBS curriculum
Chandigarh, September 22
The National Medical Curriculum Committee’s proposal to include ayurveda, yoga and other traditional treatments in the MBBS curriculum has drawn a mixed response from the medical fraternity in the city.

Series of road shows held
Chandigarh, September 22
As part of the Education UK Initiative, the British Council organised a series of road show in various schools and colleges of the city with a view to establishing a direct connect with the student community here today.

New Zealand woos Indian students
Chandigarh, September 22
Film-related courses is the next big thing after bio-technology that is attracting students to New Zealand. This was stated by Mr Paul Vaughan, Trade Commissioner, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, at Hotel Taj here today.

Board officials join stir by
non-teaching staff
Mohali, September 22
Supporting the agitation of the Punjab School Education Board (Non-Teaching) Employees Association, officials of the board also joined the protest here today.

Punjab School Education Board employees protest in Mohali on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Vivek students to attend Round Square Conference
Chandigarh, September 22
Students of Vivek High School, Sector 38, will leave for the Junior Round Square Conference at Assam Valley School (AVS), Tejpur, from September 24-30.

COURTS

High court
Details on Pakistani prisoners given to court
Chandigarh, September 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court was today informed that of the total of 62 Pakistani prisoners kept in Central Jail, Amritsar, 32 have already been released and handed over to the Pakistan authorities.

Attack on ex-SSP: charges to be framed on Sept 29
Chandigarh, September 22
District and Sessions Judge M.M.S. Bedi today fixed September 29 as the date for the framing of charges in a case relating to the attack on former Chandigarh SSP Sumedh Singh Saini, involving Khalistan Liberation Force militant, Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar.

City set to have special CBI court
Chandigarh, September 22
After Ambala and Patiala, the city is all set to have a special CBI court for a quick disposal of corruption and other cases.

Judicial custody for 4 in rape case
Mohali, September 22
The four persons, arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy by the Special Investigation Team of the Punjab police probing into the rape of a minor girl at Nayagaon three years ago, were sent to judicial remand till September 27 by a Kharar court today

CULTURE

New Release
Romesh Sharma’s return as director
Actor Romesh Sharma makes a comeback to production and direction with “Dil Jo Bhi Kahe” after hibernating for more than a decade. Produced by Entertainment One in association with Romesh Films, it is the first Indian film that has been shot in Sweden at expensive shooting locations like Royal Palace, Stockholm and the City Hall. It will be released today at Kiran, Chandigarh and Fun Republic, Manimajra.

Amitabh Bachchan, Revathy and Karan Sharma in “Dil Jo Bhi Kahe”

LEISURE

Shiv Singh’s ‘Tantra’
Sublime with a harmonious luminosity depicted in myriad colours; each work signifying the beginning of the cosmic universe, that single point of creation, which then explodes with life both inward and outward, is what marks sculptor and painter Shiv Singh’s latest water-colour painting exhibition — ‘The Art of Tantra’.

Art lovers at an exhibition of watercolours by Shiv Singh, which was inaugurated at the Government Museum and Art Gallery on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

“Jungle fun” at St Joseph’s
The tiny tots of the kindergarten block of the St. Joseph’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, presented an educative and entertaining show which highlighted the “animal kingdom” in its myriad forms here on Thursday.

Play breaks “jinx” for Anant Mahadevan
For this man, who “forgot to get married” in his passion for the arts, the most difficult part of doing the play “Mujhe Rang De” was “actually doing this play”! 

Anant Mahadevan talks about his passion for theatre in Chandigarh on Thursday after the staging of his theatrical directorial debut, “Mujhe Rang De”. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari

HEALTH

Talk on drug abuse among youth
Chandigarh, September 22
As part of the new generation month programme of the Rotary Club (Chandigarh Shivalik), a talk on drug addiction was organised today.

Dr B.S. Chavan, Head of the Psychiatry Department, GMCH, Sector 32, delivers a talk on drug addiction in Chandigarh on Thursday.

Conference on liver diseases at PGI
Chandigarh, September 22
A two-day conference on “Current perspectives in liver diseases” will be organised by the Department of Hepatology at the PGI from September 24, in collaboration with the Department of Gastroenterology, AIIMS, New Delhi.

‘Delivery Hut’ opened at Ramgarh
Huts at Barwala, Kot in October
Panchkula, September 22
With an aim at reducing the maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate (MMR and IMR) by promoting institutional deliveries, the Health Department today inaugurated the first “Prasuti Greha” (delivery hut) in  the district, at Ramgarh village.

A section of participants during the inauguration of the first ‘Delivery Hut’ at Ramgarh in Panchkula on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Docs examine old-age home inmates
Chandigarh, September 22
A team of doctors from the Community Medicine Department, GMCH, Sector 32, conducted a medical camp at Sri Sathya Sai Old Age home in Sector 30 here today. The team was headed by Dr H.M. Swami.

An inmate of Sri Sathya Sai Old Age Home being examined at a medical camp on Thursday. — A Tribune photo

SPORTS

Pargat’s appointment a cue for Chandigarh
City has civil servants heading sports
Chandigarh, September 22
The recent appointment of the two-time olympian and a world-renowned hockey player, Pargat Singh, as Director, Sports, Punjab, has sent positive signals for the improvement of sports.

BBSBEC team lift kabaddi trophy
Mohali, September 22
The Inter-College Kabaddi Tournament of Punjab Technical University organised by Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology, Derabassi, ended here today.

Powergrid thrash Power Finance in kabaddi
Chandigarh, September 22
The Powergrid team defeated Power Finance Corporation team in Pool A by 50-17 points in the three-day Inter-Central Power Sector Undertakings Kabaddi tournament which started at Sports Stadium, Sector 17 here today.