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Theft Fallout
PEC teachers want grills for windows
Chandigarh, May 18
Such is the fright of mischievous students at the PEC University of Technology, who steal answer sheets and question papers from teachers’ offices, that nearly half a dozen requests have been made to the authorities for iron grills on office windows.
Beer sales jump as mercury soars
Chandigarh, May 18
Boasting the highest per capita income in the country, city residents are saying cheers over mugs of beer like never before this summer. Blame it on their changing lifestyles or the early onset of hot weather, beer guzzlers are having a ball as can been seen by an unprecedented rise in sales of beer this season.
In fact, a look at the figures for April is sufficient proof, if one were needed, that beer has caught the fancy of the city’s tipplers. Compared to 125,000 cases in April 2009, sales have jumped by 18,000 to 143,000 cases in the same period this year.
With the mercury hovering at over 40 degrees Celsius for several days last month, the spurt in beer sales was understandable.
CBSE Class XII, CISCE results today
Chandigarh, May 18
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be declaring its Class XII board exam results for
Chennai, Ajmer and Panchkula regions tomorrow.
Desilting at Sukhna picks up
 Chandigarh, May 18
With the monsoon barely a month away, the UT administration has sped up desilting at the Sukhna lake, with men and machines working all night to remove the maximum silt.
The move comes following the recent installation of CCTV cameras to keep a watch on the progress of
desilting.
Desilting work at the regulator end of the Sukhna lake in full swing on Tuesday night. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
Visit to community centre
Staff fail to recognise Mayor
Chandigarh, May 18
Officials of the municipal corporation, including Mayor Anu Chathrath, Commissioner Roshan Sunkaria, Joint Commissioner TPS Phoolka and others were in for a shock when on a visit to one of the community centres today, the staff did not recognise them.
Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari with Bhupinder Singh Hooda and senior officials of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari |
Drizzle brings respite from heat wave
Chandigarh, May 18
Just when the heat wave seemed to be at its zenith, with people preferring to remain indoors, came a drizzle, a dust storm and plenty of clouds this afternoon to lower the temperature marginally in some parts of the city and neighbouring areas of Punjab and Haryana. Light showers brought down the day temperature slightly by 0.8 degree Celsius to 40.2 degree Celsius.
Fighting vitiligo stigma
Chandigarh, May 18
Vitiligo, also known as “leukoderma”, “phulwahri” or “safed daag” is not infectious and can’t spread from one person to another by any kind of contact as presumed by majority of the people rendering the patients as untouchables.
Ushmeet first in painting
Mohali, May 18
On-the-spot painting competition was organised by the Punjab Pollution Control Board for schoolchildren at Shivalik Public School, Phase VI,
Mohali, here today.
Marksheet Preparation
PU gives power to depts
Chandigarh, May 18
In a crucial step to minimise errors in marksheets, Panjab University today decided to decentralise the process of preparing the detail marksheet (DMC) of students to its departments.
No academic counsellors for decade
Chandigarh, May 18
With Class X results being declared in a couple of days, UT students struggle to find an academic counsellor to help them in choosing their streams in Class XI. Though the administration claims to have done its job by announcing an aptitude test at the State Institute of Education (SIE), Sector 32, and hiring 110 counsellors so far for the purpose, the ground reality is far from fine.
IGNOU announces BA in 3D animation
Chandigarh, May 18
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced a new course of BA in 3D animation and visual effects in collaboration with Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematic (MAAC). It is a specialised course of three years duration and application forms are available at MAAC, Sector 33 centre.
UIHMT students to be awarded ‘Bachelors of Hotel Mgmt’ degree
Chandigarh, May 18
Students pursuing their graduation degree in the University Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism
(UIHMT) at Panjab University would be awarded degrees of “Bachelors of Hotel Management” and “Bachelors of Tourism” rather than a degree of Bachelors of Science
(BSc).
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