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Passing off murder as natural death
Reveal name
of probe officer: HC
Chandigarh, March 20
The Chandigarh Police is in the dock for its attempt to pass off a murder as natural death.
Taking a serious view of the attempt to “hush up the truth” involving Mohali district resident Shamsher Singh’s death, Justice Mahesh Grover of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today asked the counsel for the UT to reveal the name of the officer involved in the investigations of the matter.
Proposal for urban arts panel junked
Chandigarh, March 20
The proposed urban arts commission, conceived on the pattern of the Delhi Arts Commission last year, has been scrapped.
Sources said the commission, believed to be the brainchild of union minister of state for finance Pawan Bansal to check the powers of the local bureaucracy, has been scrapped owing to “lack of initiative” of the Chandigarh administration and the ministry of home affairs.
Woman hospitalised after bee attack
Chandigarh, March 20
A woman was hospitalised after being attacked by a swarm of bees in Sector 27 this afternoon. A resident of
Bahadurgarh, Tribha was admitted to the General Hospital, Sector 16, where her condition was said to be stable.
The incident occurred outside Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Sector 27, where Tribha
was waiting for a bus.
‘Give the girl child equal importance’
Mohali, March 20
The killing of an ‘unborn daughter’ has to be stopped. A girl child should be given equal importance as a male child and not be harmed in any way, said Adity
Dua, a communication expert and wife of H.K.Dua, Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune group of newspapers, after inaugurating ‘Fortis Paalna’, a complete obstetrics and maternity division at Fortis Hospital,
here today. |
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| Adity Dua along with Shivinder M. Singh, MD Fortis Healthcare, after the inauguration ceremony of ‘Fortis Paalna’ in Mohali on Thursday.
— A Tribune photograph |
Computerised project to help MC save water
Chandigarh, March 20
Turning to information technology (IT) to conserve water in a bid to provide round-the-clock water supply to the city, the municipal corporation will commission a Rs 20-crore unique computerised project — Surveillance Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) — next month.
Chandigarh-Jaipur
Spl train cleared in place of Garib Rath
Chandigarh, March 20
Instead of a Garib Rath between Chandigarh and Jaipur that the railway minister had announced in the railway Budget, the Railways has cleared a special train for just three months beginning April 4.
Child Labour
Admn warns offenders
Chandigarh, March 20
The Chandigarh administration has announced strict action against those found guilty under the Child Labour Law, 1986.
UT home secretary Krishna Mohan today said employment of any child of 14 years of age or less on payment or otherwise would be considered as crime under the aforesaid law.
Woman receives burns, dies
Chandigarh, March 20
A 26-year-old mother of one received severe burns after she accidentally caught fire from a stove while cooking at her Mauli Jagran residence this morning. She was taken to the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, where she succumbed to her injuries.
NRI body opens local chapter
Chandigarh, March 20
The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin, an international NRI
organisation, opened its Chandigarh chapter today. Advocate Ranjit Malhotra has been appointed as the head of the chapter. Other founder members are Punjab Advocate General Hardev Singh
Mattewal, Professor Virendra Kumar, Ved P. Venayak and automobile businessman
H.L. Vij.
MC poll: 26 withdraw nominations
Panchkula, March 20
The stage for municipal committee elections has been set as 185 candidates are left in the fray after 26 people submitted papers to withdraw their names, here today.
‘Need to integrate language
depts’
Chandigarh, March 20
“The very idea of a unified Indian nation was suspect considering that Indian nationalism is governed more by constitutional imperatives than by a homogenous sentiment of nationalism.
India never had one language which could facilitate a transformation into an
official nation state,” said Prof Aijaz Ahmad, a noted Marxist scholar, in his
inaugural address during a national seminar on ‘Making of India as a nation:
An inter-language dialogue’ organised by the Faculty of Languages at Panjab
University here today. |
Prof Aijaz Ahmad
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Felling of trees at PU illegal: NGO
Chandigarh, March 20
Panjab University has auctioned 120 trees within the campus by declaring them a threat to people and building. The Burning Brain Society (BBS), an NGO, has objected to such unmindful and illegal cutting of trees in the university.
PU Notes
World Punjabi Conference from March 30
Chandigarh, March 20
A two-day World Punjabi Conference will be organised at the university on March 30-31. The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will inaugurate the conference while Governor of Tamil Naidu Surjit Singh Barnala will preside over the function.
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Students of Panjab University celebrate Holi at Student Centre; and (right) students
from various colleges celebrate Holi with children of Prayas in Sector 38, Chandigarh, on Thursday.
— Tribune photos by Pradeep Tewari |
Fire damages students’ answer sheets
Mohali, March 20
Hundreds of answer sheets of students who appeared in the Classes X and XII examinations of the Punjab School Education Board were damaged in a fire that broke out during the wee hours here today.
VC changes statement
Chandigarh, March 20
The Panjab University vice chancellor today backed out from his statement with regard to the unadjusted advances of about Rs 20.74 crore a day after The Tribune reported the matter.
Angry students stone bus
Mohali, March 20
A PEPSU bus going from Chandigarh to Faridkot was stoned by students of Government College
Mohali, here today. Students were venting their anger over the fact that these buses do not pick them up, due to which they have to wait for hours for private and CTU buses. |
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The bus damaged by students of Government College, Mohali, on Thursday.—A Tribune photograph
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