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FOR THEIR FUTURE: Schoolchildren carry placards against global warming on World Health Day in Patiala on Monday. Tribune photo: Rajesh Sachar
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CHB promotes engineer from back date
Now, three in fray for
chief engineer’s post
Chandigarh, April 21
With the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) promoting G.S. Rosha as superintending engineer from back date, the Chandigarh administration may have to revise the panel of eligible superintending engineers for the post of UT chief engineer.
The top post of the UT engineering department is lying vacant as the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has not been able to conduct the departmental promotion committee due to delay on part of the Chandigarh
administration.
Pay commission report ‘a disaster’ for defence staff
Chandigarh, April 21
Terming the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission to be “not a disappointment but an unmitigated disaster” for the armed forces, senior retired defence officers called for scrapping the recommendations and setting up a fresh panel having representation from the three services.
Former Vice-Chief of the Army Staff, Lt-Gen Vijay Oberoi (right), along with Air Marshal Randhir Singh
(retd) and Lt-Gen Harwant Singh (retd), at a press conference to highlight pay commission anomalies in Chandigarh on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Double-deckers, AC
buses in three months
Chandigarh, April 21
Decks have been cleared for air-conditioned mini buses on the inner sector roads in the city. The mini buses will link with the bigger buses that ply on the main roads referred to as grid system by the
CTU.
Earthen pots put on sale on Sohana road, Mohali, on Monday.Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu |
Arms Seizure: Police to probe source of weapons
Chandigarh, April 21
Germany-based global wholesale retailer Metro Cash & Carry will soon be launching its operations in Punjab. The Indian arm of the company proposes to invest Rs 900 crore for setting up its operations across four districts in the state.
Governor directs officials to focus on poor strata
Chandigarh, April 21
Officials of the municipal corporation were today directed by the UT administrator Gen S.F. Rodrigues
(retd) to solve the problems of disadvantaged sections and persons belonging to the poor strata of society.
PUDA employees on fast unto death
Mohali, April 21
Fifty four employees of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority
(PUDA) who have been relieved of their jobs today threatened to convert their on-going fast into fast unto death if the authorities concerned failed to accept their genuine demands.
CUP FULL:
A craftsman displays a giant cup and a saucer at a handicraft fair in Chandigarh on Monday. Reuters |
Diarrhoea cases on the rise
Panchkula, April 21
Even as dozens of diarrhoea cases were being reported at the city hospitals, the authorities are waiting for the epidemic to spread before taking any measures. The authorities find the number of cases as seasonal phenomena.
Woman tries to commit suicide
Mohali, April 21
A resident of Sector 68 tried to commit suicide after she was allegedly attacked by a person in Sohana village, here today.
Three cops suspended
Panchkula, April 21
Three police personnel were suspended when two of them were found under the influence of liquor. The third cop accompanying them was charged with dereliction of duty.
Memo submitted to finance secy
Chandigarh, April 21
A delegation of the Chandigarh Shop-cum-flats Welfare Association met the UT finance secretary Sanjay Kumar, here today.
Missing Councillor
HC dismisses wife’s petition
Chandigarh, April 21
Following surfacing of the ‘missing’ INLD councillor Gautam Prasad, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today dismissed as infructuous a Habeas Corpus petition filed by his wife Kunti Devi.
Standing pretty at 30 feet
Chandigarh, April 21
Surjit Singh of village Bhurreh, district Ropar, has earned a name for himself by planting a rose plant in his house that is a whopping 30 feet high.
Surjit Singh poses with his prized possession at his house in Ropar on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Four fire incidents in city
Panchkula, April 21
The fire incidents in the city and nearby areas kept the fire department on toes, here today. While three incidents were reported from jungle areas and fields near the city, the remaining one was at the backside of Sector 9 market.
Parampartik’s essay the best
Chandigarh, April 21
Parampartik Singh emerged winner in an English essay-writing competition held at Indira Holiday Home in Sector 24 here. The event was organised by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Sector 26, on the theme of science and technology.
New RWA members
Chandigarh, April 21
Office-bearers of the Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA), Sector 47-B, were elected here today.
These include, president-Sukhvinder Singh
Sukhi; general secretary-Hardev Sawhney; secretary-Vijay Sharma; vice-presidents-Ajay Singla and Harjeet Singh
Joshan; propaganda secretary-Mohinder Singh; secretary-R.D. Singh; legal
adviser-Yogesh Goyal; press secretary-Rajnish Walia; joint secretary-Rajneesh
Luthra. — TNS
Committee’s
president to be elected soon
Panchkula, April 21
The newly-elected Panchkula municipal committee is likely to elect its president and vice-president by April 28. The sub-divisional magistrate Virender Dahiya said, “The elections for the 31-member municipal council were held on March 30. The DC has authorised me to conduct the oath proceedings and I have decided to issue a notification soon to the municipal councillors in this regard.”
— TNS
Speaking Out
It’s only the patients who suffer
Letters
IPL, a damp squib
PUTA Fast
Technical staff join in
Chandigarh, April 21
Seven persons, including three teachers, sat on the chain fast being held at Panjab University today. The fast was started 15 days ago on the call given by the Joint Action Committee consisting of teachers, students and technical staff to press for the demand of the central university status to the
PU.
Volunteers sit on the chain fast that was started on the call given by the Joint Action Committee at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik
New courses in biophysics
Chandigarh, April 21
To keep in tune with the industry needs, the biophysics department of Panjab University has started two new postgraduate courses in nuclear medicine and medical physics. The university is the third institution in the country to start MSc (nuclear medicine) after BARC (Babha Atomic Research Centre), Mumbai, that runs a diploma in nuclear medicine and AIIMS, New Delhi. Similarly, MSc (medical physics) is run by BARC, Mumbai, and Annamalai Univeristy.
Paper out of syllabus, allege law students
Chandigarh, April 21
Fourth-semester students of the department of laws, Panjab University, today claimed that certain parts of the question paper on Transfer of Property Act-1882 was out of syllabus. The examination for the subject was held today.
 Reservation
Students burn Arjun’s effigy
Chandigarh, April 21
Students of Panjab University and Punjab Engineering College today burnt the effigy of human resource development minister Arjun Singh to protest against the government’s reservation policy.
Students burn effigy of human resource development minister Arjun Singh at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Appointment of matriculate teachers as principals
Govt school lecturers begin fast
Chandigarh, April 21
Members of the Government School Lecturers’ Union, Punjab, today started a fast to protest against the decision of the state government to appoint matriculate vocational teachers as principals in government senior secondary schools.
6 animation students get job offers
Chandigarh, April 21
Six students from the Chandigarh Centre of the Frameboxx Animation and Visual Effects Institute, Sector 34, have been picked up by the world’s leading animation studio Dreamworks Paprikaas Interactive for their Bangalore office.
From Schools
Kritika selected for exchange programme
Panchkula, April 21
Kritika Bhardwaj, a Class XII commerce student of Satluj Public School, Sector 4,
Panchkula, is selected under Japan East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youth
(JENEYS) programme.
Scholarship test on June 2
Chandigarh, April 21
Students willing to study in New Zealand can earn scholarships now. The Interactive Learning Institute
(ILI), along with West Highlander Consultancy and Partner NZ Institutes, is going to conduct the Interactive Learning International Scholarship test in Chandigarh on June 2.
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Gold Cup
