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Karandeep
triumphs in
N. Carolina
golf tourney
Chandigarh, July 14
Karandeep is barely nine. But at such a tender age, he has made a mark for himself clinching the 9-10 age group title in the Coastal Junior Golf Tour held on the greens of the Beau Rivage Resort Golf Course at Wilmington in North Carolina last week.
Karandeep Kochhar with the winner and runner-up trophies he won in two 9-10 age-group tournaments held in North Carolina last week.
— Tribune photo by Himanshu Mahajan
Row with Xen
Register case against contractor, says MC secy
Chandigarh, July 14
P. K. Sharma, secretary, municipal corporation, today submitted his report to the commissioner recommending registration of a criminal case against the contractor for detaining and causing obstruction in the official duties of
Xen, electricity, last week.
SSA teachers protest education department’s move
Chandigarh, July 14
Over 100 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers today conducted a protest rally against the move of the Chandigarh education department to forfeit the salary during the summer vacations’ period and imposition of a new contract.
The SSA teachers hold a protest rally against the education department in Chandigarh on Monday.
— Tribune photo by Himanshu
Infant dies due to docs’ ‘negligence’
Chandigarh, July 14
Four months old Anchal lost her life today, not because of any life-threatening disease or incurable ailment but dehydration.
Nag to have air-launched version
Chandigarh, July 14
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is now developing an air-launched version of the Nag anti-tank missile. The user trials of the convectional ground-launched version of this missile are expected to be over this year.
A file picture of a Nag missile on display at a Def-Expo in New Delhi
Potential for
Indo-Canadian research ties
Chandigarh, July 14
A special lecture was organised by the Canadian Studies Centre, Panjab University, on “Canada-India Research Partnerships in the Field of Justice, Public Safety and Human Rights” by Prof Yvon Dandurand, associate vice-president, Research and Graduate Studies, University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
Mining Safety
‘Change in mindset needed’
Chandigarh, July 14
A week-long workshop on Mining Safety: EU Asia Coal Mining Industry Collaborations began at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) in association with United Kingdom’s Venture East Consulting Limited (VEC) today.
e wild wild web
Now, 50 megapixel camera
We hadn't heard much from Hasselblad since their last release - the H3DII-39 (a 39-megapixel camera) - but we know the big guns here relax a while, and so here they are.
Hasselblad’s H3DII-50
All about e-mail spam
If you have an e-mail account, you must be receiving a lot of spam messages, a majority of which would not come to your mail boxes as on the basis of your instruction, the Internet service provider (ISP) must have redirected such mail to the ‘spam box’ automatically.
80-yr-old scholar translating Pranami scripture
Chandigarh, July 14
The Pranami faith that originated around 300 years ago in Jamnagar, spreading all over Gujarat, then the entire country, Nepal and other countries as well, still has a long way to go to make its presence felt in a big way.
Dr Rajkumar Arora
Snakebite
MC responsible for negligence: GMADA
Mohali, July 14
Officials of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) today clarified that the authority was in no way responsible for the negligence that had led to the death of a five-year-old boy, Arjun, due to a snakebite in Phase XI yesterday.
Hi-tech check posts for Mohali dist
Mohali, July 14
Six computerised inter-state check posts will be set up in Mohali district sites for which are being identified by a five-member committee. The six sites will be located around Kharar or Balongi, Zirakpur, Lalru, Mohali, Mullanpur and Lakhnour and were likely to be finalised by this week-end.
 
Bodies of father, son retrieved from khud
Panchkula, July 14
The bodies of Devi Ram (70) and his son Dilip Ram (24), who were washed away in the Kwach khud near Baraotiwala on Saturday evening, were recovered today.
Thefts on the rise in Ram Darbar
Chandigarh, July 14
If the allegations of commercial plot owners of Ram Darbar are to be believed, the UT police has failed to curb the increasing incidents of theft in the area.
Doon is SP, Traffic
Chandigarh, July 14
Hardeep Singh Doon has been appointed as the Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Chandigarh.
CTCC office-bearers appointed
Chandigarh, July 14
President of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee B.B. Bahl today appointed office-bearers in addition to already appointed ones.
EC at it again
Chandigarh, July 14
Long infamous for bloomers, the Election Commission of India is at it again. This time it has erred in case of the photo identity card of Gurdip
Singh, a resident of
Khijargarh in Rajpura tehsil
of Patiala district.
Power shutdown
Power supply will be suspended on Tuesday to parts of Sector 45-A, 44-B, 18, 2 and Burail from 10 am to 3 pm and to parts of Dadumajra colony and motor market Sector 38 (West) from 9 am to 5 pm
Class XI Admissions
Counselling concludes
Chandigarh, July 14
Around 1,264 students with compartment cases were admitted to Class XI today, which was the last day of counselling for admission. The counselling was held at GMSSS-10.
Richa Gupta stood first in the B.Ed (Regular Chandigarh Colleges) Entrance Examination, 2008, by securing 55.75 per cent marks. The exam was conducted by PU. |
Central University Status
Professor resents slow pace of file work
Chandigarh, July 14
On the 99th day of the continuous agitation for the central university status for Panjab University, a large number of teachers and students from the departments of political science, philosophy, UIET, library science and sociology sat on the relay fast.
Vocational courses for EWS
Chandigarh, July 14
To make the persons belonging to the economically weaker sections (EWS) self-reliant, the Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Chandigarh, has initiated more than 20 vocational courses commencing from this session.
PU Notes
UIFTVD invites applications
Chandigarh, July 14
University Institute of Fashion Technology and Vocational Development (UIFTVD), Panjab University, has invited fresh applications for admission to the first semester of the five-year integrated BSc and
MSc.
School of pharmacy opens at Rajpura
Chandigarh, July 14
The Swift Fundamental Research and Education Society (SFRES), promoted by the
Ind-Swift Pharmaceutical Group, has established the Swift School of Pharmacy and Swift School of Nursing at
Rajpura, near here.
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