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Crime Imperfect
Yet another bid to break ATM
Chandigarh, July 19
In yet another bid, miscreants tried to break ATM (automatic teller machine) of the State Bank of Patiala at Sector 35 in the wee hours here today. This was the third incident in the city this month. Though miscreants had never been able to take cash from ATMs, the police had failed to achieve any breakthrough in half-a-dozen incidents reported in the recent past.

The automatic teller machine at Sector 35 in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: S Chandan

Netting innocence, pocketing profits
Innovators promise exposure to budding cricketers
Chandigarh, July 19
“Want to earn quick bucks? Just organise a national or foreign trip for budding cricketers.” This tested mantra of minting money is being adopted by ‘innovative businessmen’ in the city and its periphery by and large nowadays.

GMADA notices to religious establishments 
Mohali, July 19
To check encroachments by various religious establishments on the public land worth crores of rupees in Mohali, the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has issued notices to at least 30 religious institutions in the town. The organisations have been asked to explain their position in the next two weeks.

Collegians more savvy on STDs than other ailments
Chandigarh, July 19
College goers in the city may have taken American hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa’s 1992 song, ‘Let’s talk about sex baby…’ rather too seriously. Well, that is what it appears from a recent study conducted by the Government Medical College & Hospital, Sector 32, which reveals when it comes to awareness of health issues sex related diseases top the list and other illnesses, including heart and dental, being relegated to lower slots.

Gallantry in khaki gets quota
Admission Of Awardees’ Dependants To Professional Colleges
Chandigarh, July 19
According to a directive of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the wards, dependants and spouses of all those awarded the police gallantry medal by the President or the ministry will now get reservation in admission to various professional colleges under the UT administration.

Rodrigues’ ex-ADC ‘swung’ key admn decisions
Chandigarh, July 19
The larger-than-life figure of Maj Nirvikar Singh, ex-ADC to former Punjab governor & UT administrator Gen SF Rodrigues, who along with his mother and brother were booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a disproportionate assets case, loomed large over the UT administration during his four year tenure from 2005.

Major Nirvikar Singh

Sec-17 parking project caught in gridlock
Chandigarh, July 19
The Chandigarh municipal corporation’s much touted pilot project of multi-level parking in Sector 17 has been hanging fire for the past four years. Inordinate time taken by the authorities to hand over the land allotted for the construction of parking to the builders has led to the delay.

The site of the proposed multi-level parking at Sector 17, Chandigarh, that has been closed to the public for the past one year. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

5 new AC buses to roll out today
Chandigarh, July 19
Five new air-conditioned buses will hit city roads tomorrow. Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) director ML Sharma said 35 more such buses were to be inducted into the CTU’s fleet by Independence Day. The new air-conditioned buses will have more seats in comparison to the existing fleet of AC buses. The floor of buses can be lowered to touch the road so that those with medical problems can board the bus with ease.

‘Project Foundation’ to tide over health problems
Chandigarh, July 19
The UT health department has recently launched a new venture “Project-Foundation” with an aim to address local health problems and create awareness about public health.

Councillor’s son injured in accident
Mohali, July 19
Son of local councillor landed in a hospital after the Toyota Innova he was driving crashed into a bus queue shelter in Phase V here last night.



The badly damaged vehicle of a councillor after it crashed into a bus queue shelter at Phase V of Mohali on Monday. A Tribune photograph

MC panel meeting
Estimates for work on drain inlets approved
Chandigarh, July 19
The meeting of water supply and sewerage disposal committee of the municipal corporation was held under the chairmanship of Vijay Singh Rana here today.

Punjab border areas to have mobile health services
Mohali, July 19
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Health Department to provide mobile hospital services in the border and kandi areas, which had remained deprived of medical facilities as doctors failed to reach such places.



Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal flags off one of the 39 ambulances at Mohali on Monday. A Tribune photograph

Special drive to check water-borne diseases
Panchkula, July 19
In order to check spread of water-borne and vector-borne diseases during the rainy season, the health department has launched a special drive in the district.

90 saplings planted
Chandigarh, July 19
The municipal corporation (MC) and the State Bank of India (SBI) planted about 90 saplings at a park in Sector 15-C here recently. According to a press note, Mayor Anu Chatrath, MC Commissioner Roshan Sankaria and SBI Chandigarh circle Chief General Manager SK Sehgal were present. The SBI’s ‘Go Green Campaign’ was formerly launched by Pawan Kumar Bansal, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources, at Sector 48 on July 1.

EDUCATION

Plantation drive at primary school
Chandigarh, July 19
Rare varieties of medicine and herbal plants were planted along with some fruit and shady tree saplings at Government Primary School, Burail, here today.


Teachers of Government Primary School, Burail, tell students the importance of trees during a plantation drive in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari

Contractual Lecturers
UT to make candidates’ score public
Chandigarh, July 19
After having rechecked the credentials of candidates who had appeared for interviews of contractual lecturers in city government colleges, UT higher education department will make their concerned score public and take up the objections, if any.

Award ceremony at Khalsa College
Patiala, July 19
Khalsa College organised a golden jubilee honour ceremony to mark the golden jubilee celebrations of its establishment on the college campus here today.




The building of the Khalsa College lit up to mark its golden jubilee celebrations at Patiala on Monday. Tribune photo: Rajesh Sachar

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Villagers block road over labourer’s death
Rajpura, July 19
Villagers from Roh Majra, around 10 km from Rajpura, today blocked the Patiala-Rajpura road after a labourer died under mysterious circumstance late last night.



Agitated villagers block the Patiala-Rajpura road to protest against the mysterious death of a labourer near Rajpura on Monday. Photo: JS Virdi

Met Department Warning
Patiala admn on high alert
Patiala, July 19
Following the warning issued by the Met Department of isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, New Delhi and Chandigarh in the next 48 hours, Patiala Deputy Commissioner Dipinder Singh has put the district administration on high alert.

Rs 8.2 cr given in loan to farmers
Bassi Pathana, July 19
Various agricultural development branches (ADB) of the State Bank of Patiala organised a kisan meeting-cum-loan mela here today.

CGC-Gharuan offers diploma courses in engineering
Kharar, July 19
Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Mohali, today announced opening of Chandigarh Polytechnic College on Gharuan campus.

Aggrieved people gherao the tractor-trailer of the MC and (right) illegal khokhas being demolished by the municipal council during an anti-encroachment drive on the Ambala-Chandigarh highway at Dera Bassi on Monday. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal 

200 selected at job fest
Ambala, July 19
As many as 200 students were selected during a placement drive organised by Guru Nanak Institutions at Mulana.

PMO tells Chief Secy to act
‘Stepmotherly treatment to Shivalik area’
Kalka, July 19
Taking a note of a letter sent by the Shivalik Vikas Manch (SVM), the Prime Minister office has directed to the Chief Secretary, Haryana, to take an appropriate action in connection with the various demands.

COURTS

Parking Blues
HC notice to HS, SSP
Chandigarh, July 19
Just over two months after the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the UT administration to expedite the process of setting up a multi-level parking for lawyers, litigants and other visitors, city lawyer Ranjan Lakhanpal today placed the UT Home Secretary (HS) and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in the dock by filing a contempt petition.

CRIME

Minor boy dies mysteriously
Zirakpur, July 19
A minor boy died under mysterious circumstances last night. The police said Monu, a resident of Dhakoli, had a sudden stomach ache and was rushed to the Government Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula, where he was declared dead on arrival.

SPORTS

Jharkhand puts city to 10-0 rout
HP take 30-0 pounding from Sikkim
Chandigarh, July 19
Continuing with their dismal showing, city junior girls’ soccer team got a sound 10-0 thrashing at the hands of Jharkhand in their last league match of the ongoing 9th Junior National Championship for Girls here today.



A Sikkim player charges during their match against Himachal Pradesh in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Rusty Chandigarh eves crash out
Chandigarh, July 19
Two defeats, one draw and the Chandigarh soccer team is out of the fray. The journey of the local team in the 63rd Senior National Football Tournament for Santosh Trophy ended following the 1-2 defeat at the hands of Andhra Pradesh in their last league match at Howrah Stadium, Kolkata, today.

Aditya claims backstroke gold
Chandigarh, July 19
Aditya Gulati of Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, secured first position in boys’ (under-19) 50m-backstroke category of the District-Level Swimming Competition being held at Gymkhana Club, Sector 3.

Goyal sisters strike gold in China
Chandigarh, July 19
Chandigarh’s golden Goyal sisters — Tarini Goyal and Arunima Goyal — created ripples by bagging gold medals in two Asian chess meets that concluded at Beijing, China, recently.



Tarini and Arunima Goyal pose with former world champion Anatoly Karpov during the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Beijing.

Tandon, Bawa on dope panel
Chandigarh, July 19
City-based Rajeev Tandon and Harmanpreet Singh Bawa have been selected as technical officials of the doping committee in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games-2010 to be held at New Delhi from October 3 to 14.

Farheen, Aakansha book semifinal berth
Chandigarh, July19
Ankush Taneja defeated Shail Shikhar 20-0, 16-0 in the second round of the XII Raj Kumar Babuta Prize Money Carrom Tournament organised by the Chandigarh Carrom Association at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, here today.


A match in progress during the XII Raj Kumar Babuta Prize Money Carrom Tournament in Chandigarh on Monday. A Tribune photograph