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Diseased, leaning trees to be axed
650 sites identified in city
Chandigarh, September 23
A number of trees in the Union Territory face the axe for causing inconvenience to public at different locations in the city.

Tamiflu at chemist shops soon
Chandigarh, September 23
The antiviral drug Oseltamivir (Tamiflu), which is widely prescribed to treat swine flu, will now be available at city’s chemist shops.

Four killed in road accidents
Chandigarh, September 23
Four persons, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed in separate road accidents in the city during the past 24 hours.

Teacher’s suicide: Director’s removal sought
Chandigarh, September 23
The police today handed over the body of Sanjana, the computer teacher from Moga, who committed suicide in the office of Director-General School Education (DGSE), Punjab, in Sector 34, here, on Tuesday, to the family after post-mortem.

Another Bhavan student down with H1N1
Chandigarh, September 23
Another student of Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, here was tested positive for H1N1 today. This is the ninth case from the school.

Woman held for cheating
City resident duped of Rs 2.8 lakh
Chandigarh, September 23
The police today arrested a woman on the charges of cheating for duping a city resident of Rs 2.8 lakh, promising him to send abroad.

Rs 8 lakh, 35-tola gold stolen
Chandigarh, September 23
Thieves decamped with Rs 8 lakh, $ 3,000 and 35 tolas of gold after breaking into a house in Sector 46 in the wee hours today.

COMMUNITY

UT set to dismiss fake lecturer
Chandigarh, September 23
After almost two years of declaring Amar Singh, a teacher, guilty of enjoying the benefits of a lecturer for about 15 years on the basis of bogus degree from a university in Bihar, the administration is all set to order his dismissal.

Students go through a poster on “Save Water” at a school in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Students of the Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology with NSS cadets at an awareness rally ‘Go Green Save Earth’ in Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

Automation process at snail’s pace
Chandigarh, September 23
The much-hyped and long-promised automation process at Panjab University is not even half way through. The “online culture” is yet to pick up in the varsity due to an apparent slow pace of its implementation and acceptability.

Platform Nos 2, 4 in dark
Chandigarh, September 23
When night falls, security concerns rise at Chandigarh railway station, as almost half of the platforms remain dark with no proper floodlights due to the ongoing shed constructions.

Horticulture, tubewells panel formed
Chandigarh, September 23
For proper review of agendas relating to horticulture and installation of tubewells in any part of the city before being tabled in the Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC), Mayor Kamlesh constituted two committees here today under the chairmanship of the MC.

Encroachments in Manimajra, MC sleeps
Chandigarh, September 23
Going by the large-scale encroachments on public land along the main and internal roads of Manimajra due to utter disregard of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in enforcing hedge and fences bylaws, it is now quite clear that the corporation has abdicated its basic responsibility of ensuring orderly and planned growth of the city. It is widely admitted that the prime duty of the corporation was to launch deterrent action against those violating the hedges and fences bylaws and indulging in encroachment of pavements with impunity.

Diseases at 30! Blame jobs
Chandigarh, September 23
People are now more prone to diseases like hypertension, lower immunity and gastrointestinal problems.

Assembly Polls
Leaders to revolt against Cong’s decision
Panchkula, September 23
Local Congress leaders have decided to revolt against the decision of the Congress to field sitting MLA from Ambala Cantonment DK Bansal and Rajaund MLA Satwinder Rana from Panchkula and Kalka, respectively, here today.

Facing the demons: A girl takes a look at the effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkarana and Meghnath at Sector 37 in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal

Vehicles challaned at rly station
Chandigarh, September 23
Now, parking vehicles haphazardly at the Chandigarh Railway Station may cost you dear with the Government Railway Police (GRP) swinging into action recently. Some of those who couldn’t bother less about parking at the station got a good serving from GRP officials on Tuesday. Besides issuing challans to 25 culprits, the officials impounded four vehicles, including a Hyundai car, one three-wheeler ad two motorcycles, in the day-long drive.

Diwali bonus for CITCO staff
Chandigarh, September 23
The Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) has decided to give a Diwali bonus of Rs 12,500 to each employee. A decision to this regard was taken at the CITCO Board of Directors’ meeting held today under the chairmanship of Ram Niwas, Home Secretary and Chairman of CITCO.

Theatre festival from today
Chandigarh, September 23
The much-awaited Chandigarh Theatre Festival will start tomorrow at Tagore Theatre with the play “Taj Mahel ka Tender” written by Ajay Shukla and directed by Kuldeep Sharma.

EDUCATION

From Schools and Colleges
Grandparents paid respect at St Soldier
Mohali, September 23
To emphasise the importance of grandparents in our lives, a function “Just for you” was organised at St Soldier International Convent School. The show started with “Ocean of Love”, presented by the tiny tots of play group and pre-nursery group.

First Person Account
Getting form at PU counter an arduous task
Chandigarh, September 23
For those who are impressed by Panjab University’s tall claims of hassle-free admissions, the very step of buying an admission form can truly be an eye-opener. Riding high on the recent declaration of “no queue form sale”, I offered to accompany a friend seeking admission to the University School Of Open Learning Department.


Students wait for forms to be sold at the Sector 14 post office in Panjab University. A Tribune photograph

NEIGHBOURHOOD

180-quintal spurious khoya seized
15,000 litres of sauce and 30 drums of sweets also confiscated
Patiala, September 23
In a major crackdown on the cold stores in Patiala district ahead of the festival season, the police department, in coordination with the officials of the health department, today seized 180 quintals of spurious khoya, 30 drums of adulterated sweets and about 15,000 litre of spurious sauce from different cold stores located in Patiala.

Clerk suspended for taking bribe
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 23
A clerk deployed at SDM office, Khamano, has been suspended by Deputy Commissioner of Fatehgarh Sahib for usurping an amount of nearly Rs 1.30 lakh meant for pension of victims of terrorism.

Refresher course on Indian democracy
Patiala, September 23
Academic Staff College, Punjabi University, Patiala, conducted a valedictory function of the refresher course of political science organised on the theme, “Indian Democracy: Problems and Prospects”, here today.

Fatehgarh Sahib to purchase 4.84 lakh mt of paddy
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 23 A target of 4.84 lakh metric tonne of paddy purchase has been set here. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Yashvir Mahajan during a meeting here today. He said last year a target of 4.40 lakh metric tonne was set by the administration in Fatehgarh Sahib district.

200 donate blood
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 23
A blood donation camp was organised at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College to mark the birth anniversary of Jathedar Gurcharan Singh Tohra. The camp was inaugurated by Karnail Singh Panjoli, member of college trust and member, SGPC.

Govt employees hold rally
Patiala, September 23
Employees of various government and semi-government departments of Punjab held a rally outside Mini-Secretariat here under the banner of “Class Fourth Government Employees Union”.

Residents forced to consume muddy water
Mohali, September 23
Residents of some areas here have complained that muddy water was being supplied by the department concerned for the past many days.

Rayat eves lift TT title
Ropar, September 23
Girl students of Rayat College of Engineering and Information Technology (RIEIT), Railmajra, won the PTU Inter-College Table Tennis Tournament for the second consecutive year.A total of 44 teams of boys and 20 teams of girls participated in the tournament. Rayat girls’ team comprising Mamta Bhandari, Ritika and Kirandeep Kaur defeated IET, Bhaddal, by 3-0.

CRIME

Five arrested for power theft
Chandigarh, September 23
The UT vigilance department today conducted a raid at two taxi stands in southern sectors and arrested five persons on the charges of power theft. The authorities also said action would be taken against both the taxi stands for encroaching government’s land.

7 youth held drinking
Chandigarh, September 23 Seven youths, including five girls, were caught by the police for allegedly drinking at public place here tonight. One of the accused, identified as Manish Gulati is a resident of Sector 38, while the other boy Sunny was living with girls at a house Sector 44-A, said the police.

Liquor seized from confectionery shop
Zirakpur, September 23
The Excise Department today seized eight cartons of liquor and booked Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Badal Colony, Lohgarh, Zirakpur, under the provisions of the Excise Act for allegedly smuggling liquor from Chandigarh and selling it in Punjab.

SPORTS

Haryana Open
Over 120 pro-golf icons to tee off today
Panchkula, September 23
All top-ranked golf professionals of the country, including Asian Tour stars Anirban Lahiri and C Muniyappa, have converged on the greens of the Panchkula Golf Club for the Rs 30 lakh prize money Haryana Open, which will begin here from tomorrow.

SGGS College clinch softball title
Chandigarh, September 23
SGGS College, Sector 26, clinched the softball (men) title of the Panjab University Inter-College Softball Championship by thrashing SCD Government College, Ludhiana, by 14-1 at Panjab University grounds here today.

SGGS College, Sector 26, softball team in a jubilant mood after winning the final match in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Arrangements for ODI reviewed
Mohali, September 23
Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) officials today held a meeting to review the arrangements for the one-day international match to be played between India and Australia on November 2 here.

Double delight for Shivalik school
Mohali, September 23
On the third day of the ongoing CBSE North Zone Badminton Championship held at Shivalik Public School, in the under-19 category, boys of Chaman Lal DAV School, Panchkula, came out with flying colours after beating ASN Senior Secondary School, Delhi, both in singles and doubles’ category, respectively, by 2-1 here today.

Raninder hat-trick shapes IAF win
Chandigarh, September 23
A hat-trick by Raninder Singh lead the Indian Air Force (IAF) to an emphatic win over the EME in a league match by 3-1 during the 39th SN Vohra’s Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament played at the Sports Complex, Sector 42, here today.

A player in action during the match at the Hockey Stadium in Chandigarh on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Ashok’s team win pro-am title
Panchkula, September 23
Ashok Kumar, who is ranked second on the PGTI Order of Merit, led his team to victory logging a score of 52.6 to clinch the pro-am title of the Haryana Open at the Panchkula Golf Club today.

IN SYNC: Rowers power their way through waters of Sukhna lake while pactising their skills. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Netball trials on Sept 27
Chandigarh, September 23
The Netball Association of Chandigarh will conduct trials to select Chandigarh teams for boys and girls at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 20, on September 27 at 9 am.

Airtel League
Sushil is team liaison officer
Chandigarh, September 23
PCA spokesperson Sushil Kapoor has been assigned to work as team liaison officer for Victorian Bushrangers team for the Airtel Champions League Twenty-20 scheduled from October 8 to October 23.

Shooting championship from today
Mohali, September 23
The 45th Punjab State Shooting Championship (Pistol and rifle events) for senior, junior and sub-junior boys and girls’ categories is being organised by the Punjab Rifle Shooting Association at the Markfed Shooting Range from tomorrow to September 27 here.