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CBSE draws class XI formula
Nine-point system to decide stream
Chandigarh, May 27
Putting an end to the confusion regarding class XI admissions, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has spelt out its admission formula.

Strawberry Fields School
UT overrides panel nod for recognition
De-recognises ICSE school for not complying with CBSE norms
Chandigarh, May 27
The recent withdrawal of provisional recognition of Strawberry Fields School, Sector 26, has brought to the fore the arbitrary methods adopted by the UT education departments.

Auction Recorder Recruitment Case
Babla gets bail, finally
Chandigarh, May 27
Nearly five months after Congress councillor Devinder Singh Babla surrendered before the police, he will be set free tomorrow.

Rathore doing well at new abode
Chandigarh, May 27
Convicted child molester and disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore today spent his day studying copies of the verdict of enhancement of sentence and a draft of the revision petition that his servant delivered to him at the Model Jail, Burail.

3 charged with reviving terrorism walk free
Chandigarh, May 27
Three persons accused of revival of terrorism in Punjab and conspiracy to kill prominent political leaders and police officials were acquitted by the district court here today.

COMMUNITY

A day of casualties
Docs accused of negligence 
Chandigarh, May 27
High drama prevailed at the Government Multispecialty Hospital, Sector 16, this morning after relatives of a 55-year-old patient, Tara Devi, a resident of Mauli Jagran, raised a hue and cry following her death under mysterious circumstances in the hospital’s female ward.

Man jumps to death

Relatives of the deceased protest against the GMSH-16 authorities in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo

Greenbelt inauguration rakes up controversy
MC Commissioner ignores Mayor, councillors
Chandigarh, May 27
The inauguration of a greenbelt at the Mauli Jagran by MC Commissioner Roshan Sunkaria without the concurrence of Mayor Anu Chatrath is likely to develop into a major confrontation between the bureaucracy and the elected representatives.

Daria panchayat flouts admn orders
Continues to levy entry tax
Chandigarh, May 27
In an act of highhandedness, the Daria village panchayat continues to mock at the orders of the Chandigarh administration on the imposition of entry tax in the village.

Cops indifferent to safety after truck overturns
Chandigarh, May 27
While the Chandigarh police keeps boasting of its motto - ‘We care for you’, the ground reality speaks otherwise. The ‘why should we care’ attitude was evident following yesterday’s incident in which a truck turned turtle and disgorged the stones and boulders loaded in it at the roundabout connecting Sectors 29, 30, 32 and 31.

Gravels strewn on a road after an overloaded truck overturned on Wednesday night at the roundabout connecting Sectors 31, 32, 30 and 29 in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Ruchika Case
Madhu Parkash moves HC
Chandigarh, May 27
The complainant in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, Madhu Parkash, today moved an application in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for being made a party in the revision petition filed by SPS Rathore against the sentence awarded to him.

Hasya kavi sammelan enthrals audience
Chandigarh, May 27
In their endeavour to adorn the City Beautiful with the sobriquet of city intellectual, the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi had been actively organising literary programmes, creative writing workshops, contests and national seminars, thereby reaching out to the literary lovers and invariably involving them in giving a vibrant soul to this “pathron ka shehar”.

LIGHT OF FAITH

Buddhists celebrated Buddha Purnima, the birthday of Lord Buddha, on Thursday with a large number of the devotees thronging the Budh Temple at Khuda Alisher in Chandigarh. A special prayer was held on the occasion. The temple was decorated in a tasteful manner.Tribune photo:Pradeep Tewari

Pre-hospital trauma technician course to begin at GMCH-32
Chandigarh, May 27
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given a nod to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, for starting a certificate course on “pre-hospital trauma technician” here today.

Drill to check reaction time of police personnel
Panchkula, May 27
Panic gripped residents of Ramgarh when hundreds of armed police personnel descended the area and took positions around Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) near here today.

‘Vilakshan yog helps treating stress’
Patiala, May 27
Yuva Privar Smiti, Patiala, and Divya Jyoti Jagrati Santhan (DJJS), a social spiritual organisation based in New Delhi, organised a five-day camp on Vilakshan Yog from May 24 to 28 at Dhillon Colony, Patiala.

Department store gutted in Mohali
Mohali, May 27
Fire broke out in a department store in Phase VII last night reducing the entire stock worth lakhs to ashes.

A divider in the middle of a road at Industrial Area, Phase 3, Mohali, which has become a reason of frequent accidents. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

310 get jobs at fest
Mohali, May 27
Polytechnics and ITIs in Punjab should be taken over by the industry so that the required training could be given to students to enable them to easily get absorbed in the industrial sector reducing unemployment in the state.

Hoteliers told to pay tax by May 31
Zirakpur, May 27
The excise and taxation department has told the hoteliers to deposit luxury tax and excise revenue till May 31.

Ram Niwas visits Sector 3
Chandigarh, May 27 On the complaint of Rohtak MLA BB Batra, UT Home Secretary Ram Niwas, along with senior officials, visited Sector 3-A here.

Summer club for children
Chandigarh, May 27
The eighth annual summer club has kicked off at all Eurokids school branches in Chandigarh and Panchkula.

EDUCATION

Vivek school challenges 15 pc reservation for EWS
Chandigarh, May 27
The Independent School Association, Vivek High School, Sector 38, through president HS Mamik today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the requirement of reserving 15 per cent seats for the children from economically weaker sections (EWS).

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Drunken man beaten up by son, dies
Kharar, May 27
A man from Jhungian village beat up his father mercilessly following which he died here today. In his complaint to the police, 75-year-old Rulda Singh, father of the victim, stated that his grandson Hardeep thrashed Angrez Singh yesterday.

Seized substance not cocaine: Report
Ambala, May 27
In another case, a report from the Madhuban Forensic Laboratory shows that no narcotic substance was found in the samples of “cocaine”, which was recovered from three college students.

Census
Team from Capital visits Kalka
Kalka, May 27
A census team from New Delhi, headed by PS Chikara, research officer, Registrar General Office of India, today visited offices of Kalka and Pinjore Municipal Committees and various rural areas of adjoining villages.

Shelja visits kin of dropsy victims
Ambala, May 27
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Shelja here today visited the relatives of dropsy victims at Samlehri village, which claimed the lives of two girls.

COURTS

Illegal detention case
Functioning of SHO under scanner
Chandigarh, May 27
Justice TPS Mann of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed judicial probe by Mohali Additional District and Sessions Judge in an illegal detention case.

CRIME

Woman hurt in auto-scooter collision 
Chandigarh, May 27
A woman was injured after an auto-rickshaw collided with her scooter near the Sectors 29, 30 traffic lights point.

Gold, cash stolen
Mohali, May 27
Thieves decamped with gold, cash and foreign-made liquor from a house in Phase XI here today.

SPORTS

ACA defeat IPCA
Patiala, May 27
The Agra Cricket Association (ACA) defeated Indian Power Cricket Academy (IPCA), Yamunanagar, by 14 runs, which concluded at the YPS ground today.

Hockey tournament from May 30
Chandigarh, May 27
The city will be hosting the Olympian Sardar Dharam Singh Memorial Hockey Tournament at the Hockey Stadium, Sector 18, from May 30 to June 5.

Commonwealth Games
Nagra appointed technical official
Chandigarh, May 27
KDS Nagra, chief coach of Sports Authority of India (SAI), currently posted in the city, has been appointed as the technical official in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games-2010 to be held at New Delhi in October.

Chandigarh to face Patiala in semis
Chandigarh, May 27
Relying on their in-form players, including skipper Simrat Bawa, opener Manan Vohra, Gurinder Singh and Anshul Tripathy, the Chandigarh team is all set to take on their traditional rival Patiala in the first semifinal of the Under-22 Inter-District Cricket Tournament, starting tomorrow at Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium, Patiala.

Regional coaching centres for women in 6 districts
Mohali, May 27
The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) is all set to promote cricket among women in the state. During a meeting of the women cricket sub-committee of the association, it was decided that the women cricket should be promoted in Punjab on the pattern of men’s cricket.

2 wrestlers to be honoured
Chandigarh, May 27
Two local grapplers, Jagmeet Singh Lucky and Vijay Pal, would be felicitated at a function by the Chandigarh Alysh Wrestling Association (CAWA) on June 13 at the Wrestling Coaching Centre, Sector 30, here.

Cricket meet from May 30
Patiala, May 27
The DMW Cricket Club, Patiala, is organising the U-16 Cricket Tournament from May 30 at the DMW cricket grounds.