0001 goes for Rs 5.15 lakh
Chandigarh, June 23
The craze for owning a car with number 0001 comes at a high price. Though many would find the price - Rs 5.15 lakh - for the number exorbitant (you can get a Ford Icon or any other mid-segment sedan for the price), it may not be much for anyone who owns a Bentley that costs over Rs 3.5 crore.
Phonetic
slip-up
2 students score 60 in Punjabi, get 7
Chandigarh, June 23
Phonetic communication is useful in shorthand but it may at times end in a disastrous outcome.
Shatabdi halt cut to 5 min
Chandigarh, June 23
The travel time from Chandigarh to New Delhi by the two Shatabdi Express trains will increase in both directions by up to 13 minutes from July 1 when the new time table of the Indian Railways comes into force.
Fake Passports Case
Sleuths raid office in Jalandhar
Chandigarh, June 23
Officials of the crime branch today searched the office of Bipasha Aviation in Jalandhar and seized certain important documents pertaining to the stolen passports case.
TAKE A LOOK: The open air theatre at Bal Bhawan, Sector 23, Chandigarh, is in a dilapidated condition.
Tribune photo: Karam Singh |
Now, power bill payment at sampark centres alone
Chandigarh, June 23
To check bungling in the deposition of electricity bills, the finance department has decided to allow the deposition of bills only at e-sampark centres in the city. The decision will come into force shortly.
Vigyan Path Sinking
Engg dept looking into claim
Chandigarh, June 23
The UT engineering department is looking into the claim of a Karnal-based geologist who has warned that a stretch of Chandigarh’s Vigyan Path measuring 2.5 km in length and 15 m in width was sinking.
Cars, cricket drive her crazy
Chandigarh, June 23
Once famous for her ‘noodle-strap’ blouses and curly locks, Mandira Bedi, model turned television actress is crazy for cars and
cricket. In town for the promotion of newly launched Ford Fiesta, Mandira gave a low down on her latest fancies.
“I would rather pick up a magazine that gives latest information on cars than on fashion and lifestyle”, says the diva, who is a style icon for
many.
It comes as no surprise that BMW is her favourite car. “I am glad that I own one”, she says
flauntingly.
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Mandira Bedi. Tribune photo: Viney Malik
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Bus operators flouting rules: Janata Party
Chandigarh, June 23
The Chandigarh unit of the Janata Party, in a memorandum to the UT adviser and finance secretary, has pointed out that illegal plying of private buses has been causing huge financial loss to the UT’s exchequer apart from violating the Central Motor Vehicle Rules. The activity has also been a source of nuisance for residents of Sectors 22 A and B, it has added.
Central panel on 2-day visit
Chandigarh, June 23
A delegation of the standing parliamentary committee on urban affairs arrived on a two-day visit to the city today.
Sukhbir expels Sharma
Says party will act tough on rebels
Zirakpur, June 23
Taking serious view of party leaders filing nominations as Independent candidates in the forthcoming municipal elections in the state, SAD chief and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal today expelled rebel SAD candidate N.K. Sharma and his team from the party and said the party would act tough on all rebels in the state.
Rebel nurtures ties with BJP
 Zirakpur, June 23
A theatre of the absurd is now playing at Zirakpur. The run up to the municipal council elections here is unfolding a hilarious political drama of deception, double crossing and deviousness.
Former Zirakpur MC chief N.K. Sharma (right) shields BJP’s Navjot Singh Sidhu during a rally in Chandigarh on Monday.
Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
He treads an unusual path
 Zirakpur, June 23
In a campaign where SUVs and snazzy cars are ferrying candidates in the municipal elections here, there is at least one person who is yet to give in the air-conditioned comfort of campaigning.
Jagdish Singh Bhola during his campaign in Baltana, Zirakpur, on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Cong has no agenda for development: SAD
Zirakpur, June 23
Punjab cooperation minister and general secretary of the SAD Capt Kanwaljit Singh said the Congress had done nothing for the development of Punjab in general and Zirakpur in particular when it was in power during the last 5 years. Today it was seeking votes in the name of development whereas the reality was that it had no agenda for development, he added.
Seminar on national integration
Chandigarh, June 23
Members of the Muslim community organised a seminar on national integration for the welfare of humanity at Sector 35 here today. People of different faiths took part. MP Maulana Ubaid-Ullah-Azmi stressed the need to fight terrorism collectively.
— TNS
Letters
Traffic cops helpful
Finally, PU opens its
guidance cell
Chandigarh, June
23
After days of delay, finally, the Panjab University’s own guidance
cell for the students seeking admission to various courses was
inaugurated today on the campus. Vice-chancellor Prof R.C. Sobti,
inaugurated the cell in the old UIET building.
Prof R.C. Sobti (right) discuses a point with DSW Naval Kishore during the inauguration of the guidance cell at PU on Monday. A Tribune photograph
PUTA Fast
JAC threatens to go to Parliament
Chandigarh, June 23
“If the Punjab government is sleeping over a letter of offer of Central university status to PU by ministry of human resource development for the past one year, its implicitly means that the Punjab government is not opposed to the idea of Central status to PU but for political expediency does not want to openly admit to it,” said Dr Mohammed
Khalid, former Fellow Panjab University, while speaking from the dharna site. “If Punjab government is skirting around the issue, the Central Government too is shirking its responsibility as PU is predominantly a Central university in its character and structure,” rued Dr
Khalid.
From PU
PU prof is PhD examiner for Australian university
Chandigarh, June 23
Professor Daljit Singh, former chairperson of the department of chemical engineering and technology, and dean, faculty of engineering and technology,
PU, has been appointed as a PhD examiner for the Australian University at New South Wales. Professor Singh will be an examiner for the graduate school of engineering of the university.
Hi-tech boards for classrooms
Chandigarh, June 23
Chandigarh education department has introduced interactive boards in two government schools, GMSSS-35 and GMSSS-37, here today.
Education dept’s collaborations non-starters
Chandigarh, June 23
The Chandigarh education department seems to be on a collaboration spree with almost all the libraries in the city least bothering about checking the success rate of the collaborations done in the past.
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Chandigarh, June 23
