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‘Bengal Tiger’ in city
Chandigarh, November 21
Former Indian cricket captain and “Bengal Tiger” Saurav Ganguly arrived in city here late tonight.
The West Bengal cricket captain will lead the star-studded team comprising among others Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dass Gupta and Shiv Shankar Pal, against Punjab during a Ranji Trophy match at the PCA stadium on November 23.
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| LIFT KARA DE: Saurav Ganguly frowns as an overloaded lift in Hotel Mountview refuses to go up. Or, was Dada feeling weighed down by thoughts of an uncertain future? In cricketing terms, that is?
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik |
CCTVs find little use in Estate Office
Chandigarh, November 21
It seems that the close-circuit cameras, installed to keep a watch on public dealing by employees, has found little use in the building branch of the Estate Office.
Sec 61 MIG flats nobody’s baby
Chandigarh, November 21
The geographical location of 504 MIG flats in Sector 61 is proving to be bane for residents of the area. Surrounded by marla houses in Phase VII, the development of the area has been a causality, as neither the Chandigarh Administration nor the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation is ready to own the responsibility of providing the basic amenities there.
Watch out
Rakesh Sharma, president Swami Ram Tirtha Memorial Society, Punjab, will be in Delhi on Wednesday in connection with the expansion
activities of the society in other parts of the country. A prominent poultry farmer of Punjab and son of Hans Raj Sharma, former Finance Minister of Punjab, Mr Sharma will also explore the possibilities of co-operation in the poultry sector with the representative of the other states.
In Town
Mr Craig Mckenzie, who is managing the International Division of Australian National Airline College in Melbourne, will be in Chandigarh from Wednesday for two days to educate youngsters about careers in aviation, in general, and flying, in particular. He will be visiting various schools and colleges in the city and its periphery. India needs about 4,000 commercial pilots during the next few years, say experts.
Passing Through
Girl’s molestation: parents cite another unsavoury incident
Chandigarh, November 21
Ten days after the case of alleged molestation of a Class XI girl student by a physical education teacher of the Sector 16 Government Model Senior Secondary School hit the headlines, now it seems to be drawing to a conclusion.
MC Poll
Tussle over ticket in Cong, seat sharing in oppn
Chandigarh, November 21
Only two days are left for the filing of nominations for the Municipal Corporation elections. However, the BJP-SAD-CVM alliance is yet to decide on seat sharing.
Being considered as the biggest opposition to the Congress-led MCC this indecision on part of the alliance is not going down well with the voters, who don’t even know which candidates from the party would be fielded in their wards.
Common front to field candidates
Chandigarh, November 21
A few of the small parties of the city have decided to join hands and form a common front to field candidates for the upcoming Municipal Corporation elections. The parties which have joined hands are the Akali Dal (1920), Akali Dal (Longowal), Akali Dal (Ramoowalia), Janata Dal (U), Janata Dal, Jan Morcha, Lok Jan Shakti, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Bharatiya Jan Shakti, CPI and CPM.
Small parties yet to make it big
Chandigarh, November 21
Though it is the third election to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) since its inception in 1995, the fact that candidates, who belong to smaller parties and are not part of the Congress or BJP alliance, are yet to open their account in the civic body speaks volumes of the popularity of these parties in the city.
Govt has failed to tackle unemployment: MLA
Dera Bassi, November 21
Terming unemployment as Punjab’s number one problem, Capt Kanwaljit Singh, Shiromani Akali Dal leader and Banur MLA, yesterday alleged that the Amarinder Singh government had failed to tackle this problem during the past about five years.
Cong activists join BJP
Dera Bassi, November 21
Predicting a win for the BJP-SAD alliance in the forthcoming elections to the Punjab Assembly, Mr Avinash Rai Khanna, president of the Punjab unit of the BJP , has said the alliance will contest all seats in the state.
Coming up: housing bonanza for slum-dwellers
Chandigarh, November 21
The Ministry of Urban Development has shown keen interest in ‘The Chandigarh Small Flats Scheme-2006’, a rehabilitation scheme for slum-dwellers. Under the Rs 1,200-crore scheme, 23,321 single-room tenements are to be built in the southern part of the city.
Safety audit ‘must’ to check deaths on roads
Panchkula, November 21
The new president of the Indian Roads Congress, Mr Subhash Patel, said today that road safety was emerging as an important part of project preparation in the making of roads. “We strongly recommend the case of road safety audit within the framework of project preparation,” he stated.
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Designer Aparna Chandra’s breezy designs kick off the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2006 at Hotel Mountview in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik |
Reach trouble spots fast, says IGP
Chandigarh, November 21
Taking a serious note of the incident of hooliganism in the Sector 15 market here last night, UT Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Shanti Kumar Jain today asked his men to reach the spot immediately after receiving information about such incidents. He made it clear that hooliganism would not be tolerated.
Sources in the police said the delay on the part of the police — it was a free-for-all for about 30 minutes — prompted the IGP to pull up his men for quick action under such circumstances.
Suspended zoo Director’s house vacated
Dr Vinod Sharma lodges complaint of trespass
Zirakpur, November 21
The vacation of the official residence of Dr Vinod Sharma, suspended Director of the Mahindra Chaudhary Zoological Park at Chhat village, near here, by the Wildlife Department today kicked off a row, with Dr Sharma and the zoo authorities coming out with contradictory versions about the events leading to the vacation of the house.
Wildlife employees take out household items from the house of
suspended Chhat Bir Zoo Director Dr Vinod Sharma at Chhat Bir in
Mohali district on Tuesday. — Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan |
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Govt money goes down drain
Chandigarh, November 21
Even as work on laying of concrete roads in Tribune Model Gram, Baltana, near here, is yet to be accomplished, the newly laid roads have developed pits.
Almost on all concrete roads upper layer has come off, leaving behind pits with loose “rori” and sand. There have been instances of persons getting hurt after their cycles or vehicles skidded on the loose sand.
Poor shape of newly laid concrete roads in Tribune Model
Gram, Baltana, speaks volumes of NAC’s working in Zirakpur.
— Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan |
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Lucky child
Chandigarh, November 21
A young couple from the city, Sunil Dudani and Upasana, have been in the news, thanks to their baby,
Mihir. Sunil is an exporter while Upasana is a housewife. Mihir was not only adjudged winner of the Cutest Baby contest held at Kala Gram last week but also won several prizes. A raffle ticket picked by Mihir got his parents a return air ticket to Malaysia in another contest last week.
Mihir with his proud parents at the ICICI Cutest Baby contest. |
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