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SE Dhingra caught taking bribe
Chandigarh, August 2
The Central Bureau of Investigation tonight caught a Superintendent Engineer of the UT Electricity Department while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 at his Sector 19 residence here.
Mr V.P. Dhingra, SE, UT, during a CBI raid at his residence in Sector 19, Chandigarh, on Wednesday night.
— Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari
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Raids in PGI end after doctors' protest
Chandigarh, August 2
The raids and inspection of lockers at the PGI here today came to an abrupt end after doctors lodged a strong protest against the “unwarranted search”.
The OT Technicians Association, on its part, alleged that the raids were called
off under pressure following recoveries being made from lockers of doctors.
Move to redraw UT boundaries
Chandigarh, August 2
The Chandigarh Administration plans to regularise a majority of constructions in the ‘pherni’ of villages, said Mr Lalit Sharma, Adviser to the UT Administrator, while addressing a press conference here today.
Cameras installed at Estate Office
Staff under watch
Chandigarh, August 2
Closed-circuit cameras will now keep a watch on public dealing by employees of different branches in the Estate Office.
As many as 16 closed-circuit cameras were today installed at different public dealing branches in the Estate Office.
Absent lady officer loses seniority
Chandigarh, August 2
In the first instance of its kind in the Army, a woman officer has faced a summary trial for going absent without leave. She has been awarded one year’s loss of seniority and a severe reprimand, it is learnt.
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Wife of Tribune employee killed in accident
Chandigarh, August 2
Sunita Sharma, wife of an employee of The Tribune, Sunil Sharma, was killed this evening in a road accident involving her scooter and a mini-truck at the Railway Traffic lights point here.
Sunita Sharma (41), an employee of the Haryana Women Development Corporation,
Sector 17, here, was on her way back home when the accident took place at around
5 p.m. According to eyewitnesses, Sunita was driving behind a Tata-407
mini-truck (HR-68-5649).
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Sunita Sharma
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Bus driver sans licence abandons schoolchildren after mishap
Chandigarh, August 2
The challaning drive of the Chandigarh police does not seem to have had any effect on school bus drivers. The driver of a bus overloaded with students of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, “abandoned” the bus along with the children when the bus met with a minor accident here this afternoon and was asked to show his driving licence.
Electronic dealers take customers for a ride
Chandigarh, August 2
Certain unscrupulous electronic dealers are taking gullible customers for a ride by giving misleading advertisements in newspapers.
This malpractice has come in for severe criticism at the hands of consumer
rights activists and a section of the electronic dealers, who allege that the
consumers laws are being violated with impunity.
Infant tests positive for cholera in GMCH-32
Chandigarh, August 2
The cholera scare is not yet over with the Health Department reporting another case today. Two-month-old child Santosh admitted to GMCH-32 has tested positive for cholera.
The child comes from a particularly vulnerable pocket in Hallo Majra,
where as many as 90 persons stay in just 20 rooms.
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Privileged treatment for underprivileged
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Mohali, August 2
Three-year-old Gautam Hari is a special child. In less than a week of being in the Fortis Hospital here, he has the whole staff eating out of his tiny hands. Although he is three- year-old, he weighs just 10 kg.
Dr Arvind Sharma (left), senior consultant, Opthalmology and Dr T.S
Mahant, Executive Director, Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, with underprivileged patients at Fortis Hospital in Mohali on Wednesday.
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Villagers complain of unhygienic conditions
Chandigarh, August 2
Residents of Kajehri village are being forced to live in unhealthy conditions. A seasonal “nullah” which passes adjoining the village is a source of nuisance as rag-pickers dump garbage along it, creating unhygienic conditions.
Garbage lies scattered along a seasonal rivulet in Kajehri village. |
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Awareness camp at Valmiki dharamshala
Chandigarh, August 2
A 10-day-long awareness generation camp for poor women at Valmiki
dharamshala, near kerosene oil depot, Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, was yesterday inaugurated by Lalit Joshi, chairperson, Chandigarh Social Welfare Board.
Yuvsatta, in association with the Chandigarh Social Welfare Board, is organising this awareness generation camp.
Cagers of Blue Bird High School, Sector 16, Panchkula, in a joyous mood after fetching gold in the district-level girls’ u-14 basketball competition earning 9-4 points, defeating Little Flowers Girls’ team.
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Residents, mandir committee settle dispute
Panchkula, August 2
The long-pending controversy of developing a park or a parking site in front of Pracheen Shiv Mandir, close to the main market in Sector 9 here, has been a bone of contention between sector residents and the temple management.
HAFED MD inaugurates plantation drive
Panchkula, August 2
Mr Rajan Gupta, Managing Director, Hafed, has inaugurated a tree plantation campaign at the Hafed corporate office in Sector 5, planting saplings of amaltas and gulmohar.
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