Govt blind to gold shine
Villagers give hero’s welcome to kabaddi gold winner
Lalru, December 11
The tall claims of the Punjab Government as regard promoting sports fell flat today with Manpreet Singh Manna, member of the gold-winning kabaddi squad at the ongoing Doha Asian Games, ruing authorities’ apathetic attitude towards him and the game.
PGI extends visiting hours
Chandigarh, December 11
The PGIMER authorities have decided to extend visiting hours for attendants by half an hour.
The authorities had also decided to allow two attendants with one patient admitted either in the Emergency or General Ward. The decision is likely to be implemented from December 15. The visiting hours (from 4 pm to 6 pm) have now been changed from 5.30 pm to 8 pm daily.
Watch out
Raja K.S. Sidhu: The city-based former shooter Raja Sidhu is member of the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) delegation for Doha to bid for the Asian Games 2014 in India.
In Town
 'General secretary of the BJP dissident Uma Bharti’ party, Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party (BJSP),Vishwanath, will be in the city on Tuesday to give a fillip to the campaign for the December 20 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh.The BJSP, which has among its leaders several of the former top BJP leaders, is hoping to open an account in the civic body in the forthcoming elections.
Passing Through
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Dinner diplomacy:
Journalists are always in demand.With elections to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) round the clock, reporters covering political beats have suddenly become the most sought-after species.
Making the most:
Students bask in the sun at Panjab University after Sunday’s rain in Chandigarh.
— A Tribune photograph
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Mercury dips, but their business soars
Chandigarh, December 11
The mercury may go down further.
As the city shivered today with maximum recorded at 20.4°C (three degrees below normal) and the minimum at 7.4°C (one degree below normal), people preferred to remain indoors.
If not connivance, what else ?
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Chandigarh, December 11
Connivance---nothing else can explain the failure of the Chandigarh Police to move against a parking lot contractor for obstructing the free flow of traffic in the city’s downtown.
Traffic on the busy road comes to a standstill as UT SSP Gaurav Yadav’s car comes to a halt among illegally parked vehicles to allow him to disembark in Chandigarh on Monday.
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik
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Fauji Beat
What brought early end to 1971 war?
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By capturing Mymensingh town with a small force in the erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) on December
1,,1971, Brig Sant Singh accomplished the task that was allotted to him.
Kanwar Nirmal Singh with the memento presented by Col J.S. Gill (retd) at the Shivalik Officers’ Institute,
Chandimandir.
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Following RTI their own way
Chandigarh, December 11
Officials at the UT Estate Office have devised their own set of rules for answering queries under the Right to Information Act
(RTI). To write a four-line letter to a resident of Sector 22, Mr Vinod Sharma, who had sought information as regards the misuse of SCFs for running coaching centres, the Estate Office took over a month.
Woman falls off hotel parapet, dies
Panchkula, December 11
A 28-year-old woman, Abha, died after falling off from the terrace of a hotel in Kalka yesterday. Ruling out foul play, the police said her father told the inquiry office that she was making a phone call when she lost balance and fell down from the terrance. She died on the spot.
Parliamentary Secy’s office gutted
Chandigarh, December 11
A major fire broke out in office of the Punjab Government’s Parliamentary Secretary, Dr Harbans Lal, on the fourh floor of the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat Building here this afternoon.
Tourist info centre functional
Chandigarh, December 11
The Adviser to UT Administrator, Mr Lalit Sharma, today inaugurated a tourist information centre at the Sector 17 Plaza here today.
The centre would provide information about various tourists
places.
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