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Patil’s Dream Team
43 members in rejigged advisory council
Chandigarh, April 1
Chandigarh has got a new-look and a more representative Administrator’s Advisory Council (AAC) with the UT Administrator Shivraj Patil reconstituting a 43-member committee, which seeks to give representation to a cross-section of society.

Graft: 5 officials in CBI net
Chandigarh, April 1
Sleuths of the CBI arrested five officials from the office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts  located in Sector 9 here for allegedly accepting bribes from a Ghaziabad-based private contractor who was seeking payment for providing sports equipment worth Rs 85 lakh. 
Five officials from the office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts in CBI custody in Chandigarh on Thursday. A Tribune photograph

Tribune Impact
GMSH doctors to face probe
Chandigarh, April 1
UT’s Director Health Services today ordered a departmental inquiry against two senior doctors, Dr Vinay Ved Vyas (medicine) and Dr NK Kaushal (surgery) working at the Government Multi Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, who were selectively recommending private diagnostic centres to patients for tests even though these were available at the hospital at far lesser cost.

Filial Duty
Father told to pay disabled son maintenance
Chandigarh, April 1
A man has been ordered to pay his 33-year-old mentally and physically challenged son a monthly maintenance of Rs 5,000 after the latter took him to court for shunning and treating him as a burden.

COMMUNITY

Mystery fever grips P’kula
24 affected; water found fit for human consumption
Panchkula, April 1
An undiagnosed disease in various sectors of the town has baffled residents. At least two dozen persons are down with fever. They say impure drinking water is the cause.

Industrial Area heads for disaster
Chandigarh, April 1
Development is coming at a heavy price for the Industrial Area in Chandigarh. Conceived to be the industrial hub of the city, the Industrial Area (Phase I and II) is heading for a major infrastructural disaster in the backdrop of the controversial conversion policy of the Chandigarh administration.

PGI probe into ceiling collapse
Chandigarh, April 1
It could well be called a day of inquiries at the PGI as the hospital authorities ordered two separate probes today -- one into the collapse of false ceiling of the mess on the old doctors’ hostel campus late last night and the other into the allegations of misbehaviour by some contractual sanitation staff with the attendants of a patient admitted to the advance cardiac centre for a bypass surgery.

Admn starts e-tendering
Chandigarh, April 1
The UT Administration has initiated the e-tendering process from today.

Plan to lure goesawry for ‘godmen’
Chandigarh, April 1
A ‘tantrik’ landed himself in trouble while two associates of his managed to escape when an alert resident foiled their bid to befool him at his residence in Sector 39 here.

Sofat to become PO
Panchkula, April 1
The worries for Dr Sumit Sofat, an accused of attempt to murder of his driver, are to increase again as the Panchkula police has decided to initiate proceedings to declare him a proclaimed offender.

Banks to give Rs 1,555-cr loan to Panchkula
Panchkula, April 1
In order to provide loans to agriculture sector and weaker sections of society in this district, the District Credit Plan (2010-11) was formally launched by Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Yadav here today.

Consumer gets Rs 4 lakh power bill
Zirakpur, April 1
A Dhakoli resident got the shock of his life when he received the residential electricity bill of about Rs 4 lakh from the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB).

EDUCATION

PU Senate
Students will have to wait for their ‘say’
Chandigarh, April 1
Panjab University students will have to continue waiting to get a “voice” in the university Senate with Vice-Chancellor RC Sobti ruling out any such “possibility” in the near future.

Class XII student held for impersonation
Chandigarh, April 1
In a peculiar case of impersonation and forgery, a Class XII student from Barnala was today caught appearing in a BA-III exam in place of another student.

April Fool’s pun on PU VC
Chandigarh, April 1
Vice-Chancellor RC Sobti, who was honoured by the President with a Padma Shri recently, became the “recipient” of a specially instituted award the “lifetime achievement award for enduring efforts in the field of befooling the entire university” on Thursday.


PU students walk past the posters that were pasted to play a prank on the VC at the Student Centre in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Murder of Pak national in Dubai
Indian students unhappy with sentence
Panchkula, April 1
The death sentence should have been awarded to only those Indians who murdered the Pakistani national and the rest who had assisted in the crime should have been awarded life-term and deported to India after the completion of their term.


Students of Indian High School, Dubai, tie friendship bands to students of The Gurukul at Sector 20, Panchkula, on Thursday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal

Maths is Greek to CITCO officials
Chandigarh, April 1
What is it that a class X student can do better than Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) officials? It is simple mathematics!

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Placement drive from today
Bassi Pathana, April 1
Cordia Group of Institutions will organise a mega job fair on the college campus at Sanghol.

Minor booked for raping 4-year old
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 1
The police today booked a minor boy for raping a four-year-old girl in Sirhind. The victim — a daughter of a daily wager — went missing few days back and was found at a secluded place in the wee hours the next day.

Boy found dead, parents allege foul play 
Rajpura, April 1
Parents of a 17-year-old boy, who died under mysterious circumstances late last night in a shop, allege foul play in the death of their son.

115-lakh MT wheat expected to arrive in Punjab mandis: Lakhowal
Banur, April 1
Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, chairman of Mandi Board, today said 115 lakh metric tonne wheat was expected to arrive this season in Punjab mandis. Lakhowal today inaugurated a shed in Banur Grain Market besides a cemented floor in the market. About Rs 2 crore have been spent for the construction of sheds and cementing the floor. He said 108 lakh metric tonne wheat arrived in Punjab mandis last year.
Punjab Mandi Board Chairman Ajmer Singh Lakhowal inspects wheat crop in Banur Grain Market on Thursday. A Tribune photograph

Retired DSP assaulted, dies
Patiala, April 1
Gurdarshan Singh (67), a retired DSP hailing from Sangrur, who was beaten by a rival group at Fatehgarh Channa village on the Samana-Bhawanigarh road, died yesterday.

COURTS

Coercive steps to arrest absconders on anvil 
Chandigarh, April 1
Convict Kuldeep Singh was released on parole for four weeks in January 2003. But, he never returned to the jurisdiction of law.

Abuse of domestic violence Act brought to HC notice
Chandigarh, April 1
Implemented in 2006 for the protection of the fairer sex, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act has apparently turned unfair for women.

Shooter Sorab Gill appeals over citizenship verdict
Chandigarh, April 1
International shooter Sorab Singh Gill’s aim is still not clearly within his sight.

Summons to Kolkata firm for forgery
Chandigarh, April 1
The district court has issued summons for May 1 to Kolkata-based Srei Equipment Finance Private Limited on a complaint of Panchkula-based Vaibhav Trading Company.

CRIME

Man held for illegal sale of Schedule-H drugs
Chandigarh, April 1
The police today arrested Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Sector 24, on charges of illegally selling Schedule-H drugs without a valid licence from a shop in Sector 23 here. The police said the accused was working as a salesman in the shop, which had no licence to store the drugs.

A man with the tablets seized at Sector 23 in Chandigarh on Thursday. A Tribune photograph

Drugs seized
Mohali, April 1
The district health authorities seized allopathic drugs worth Rs 1,216 from Puneet Medical Store, Kharar.

SPORTS

Anish clinches under-16 title
Mohali, April 1
Anish Goel and Nimrit Walia won double titles on the final day of the British School Total Tennis Championship being played at the school complex in Sector 70 here today.