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IAS officer’s car hits girls
Chandigarh, August 19
Two MA first year students of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, were injured after being knocked down by a Hyundai Accent car near the Sector 8 gurdwara here this afternoon.
Bulbul Case
Patil to decide on action against GMSH docs
Chandigarh, August 19
UT administrator Shivraj Patil will take the final call on initiating stringent action against the doctors of the Government Multispecialty Hospital, Sector 16, who were indicted for their role in the death of a newborn baby born to Bulbul, a native of Bihar, at the hospital on July 21.
Exodus of senior faculty from
PGI continues
Chandigarh, August 19
The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI), the premier health institution in the region, once again faces employee attrition with two senior faculty members having quit and another due to leave soon.
Mullanpur Urban Estate
Compensation unfair, claim landowners
Mohali, August 19
Landowners in Mullanpur are peeved over the recommendation of the Punjab cabinet subcommittee on land compensation to award compensation of Rs 1.30 crore an acre for the 500 acres of land being acquired for the Mullanpur urban estate. The amount is Rs 20 lakh an acre less than that offered for land acquired for the international airport at Jheorheri village in 2008 two years ago.
Wild growth dots road berms, parks
Mohali, August 19
Owing to the absence of a concerted campaign by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority
(GMADA) and the municipal council, the congress grass and other wild growth continues to spread in various parts of the town much to the annoyance and discomfort of residents.
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Congress grass and other wild growth continue to spread at Phase I and (right) Phase VI in Mohali. Tribune photos: Vicky Gharu |
Hospitals’ staff protest delay in salaries
Chandigarh, August 19
Protesting against the delay in disbursing of salaries, contractual employees of Government Multi- Specialty Hospital, Sector 16 (GMSH-16), and Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 (GMCH-32), observed a strike and sat on dharna here today.
Rainwater enters houses in P’kula
Panchkula, August 19
Water entered several houses as well as government offices as the town’s drainage system collapsed after heavy rain lashed the region late in the night yesterday. Residents woke up to find rainwater inside their houses and roads submerged in many areas.
A man wades his way through a waterlogged road at Mandi Bhawan in Panchkula on Thursday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Farmers protest against unscheduled power cuts
Panchkula, August 19
Thousands of farmers protested against long unscheduled power cuts in the rural parts of the state in front of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam
(UHBVN) headquarters here today. State Bhartiya Kisan Union president Gurnam Singh Chadhuni while addressing the gathering of the farmers threatened to intensify the stir if their demands pertaining to the power supply were not
met soon.
Farmers of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Haryana) protest against the shortage of electricity at Sector 5 in Panchkula
on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
Woman survives after 50 blood transfusions
Mohali, August 19
It was a second birth for the 36-year-old Rupinder Kaur of Ropar who was given 50 blood transfusions after she suffered from incessant bleeding while giving birth to her second child.
Now, sugar-free food on railways’ platter
Chandigarh, August 19
The railways may have proved to be uncaring about safety aspects as far as its operations are concerned, but it is now planning to go an extra yard to provide suitable food for those suffering from diabetes.
Free mobile clinic
Chandigarh, August 19
The Bharat Vikas Parishad (South-I), Chandigarh, has started a free mobile clinic at Gurdwara Sahib in Jagatpura village adjoining Sector 48, according to parishad’s general secretary GD
Sood.
Forum to raise awareness on climate change
Chandigarh, August 19
The British Council has organised a climate change forum in the city, which began today and will conclude on
August 21. The key highlights of the programme are film screenings, cartoon exhibitions and filmmaking workshops for beginners and lectures by UK sustainability expert, Dr Geraint Ellis.
Police recoveries exceed booty
Mohali, August 19
Mohali police has a reason to cheer, if the comparative crime statistics of the past seven months is to be believed.
Despite increase in the crime rate, the district police was able to crack several cases of vehicle theft, burglary and snatchings.
Publication of false ad
Pre-arrest bail plea declined
Chandigarh, August 19
Additional District and Sessions Judge Lalit Batra declined the anticipatory bail of Gagan Gupta, complainant in the recent case of arrest of SHO Industrial Area Dilsher Singh by the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI), here on Tuesday.
Team inspects aanganwari
Mohali, August 19
A Central government team inspected an aanganwari running from Government Elementary School, Phase II, here yesterday.
The team was headed by DK Seekri, secretary, department of women and child. The official gathered information regarding the food supplied at the centre and also about the medical check-up of children coming to the
aanganwari.
7 years on, man makes I-T Dept pay up Rs 150
Says fight wasn’t about money but principles
 Chandigarh, August 19
In these times of inflation when the purchasing power of the rupee is diminishing, what can a mere Rs 150 get? Neither three litres of petrol nor 1.5 kg of refined oil nor more than four kg of “channa dal”.
But ask Gurgaon resident Gulshan Jain and his octogenarian father Tara Chand and they will tell you that this small amount can get “satisfaction” which can be worth millions of rupees. This answer is bound to surprise many but not if one has fought for seven long years like this father-son duo, spending several hundred rupees and countless man hours to get a refund of this meagre amount from the Income Tax Department.
Tara Chand with his son
High SOPU drama at police station
Chandigarh, August 19
High drama prevailed at the Sector 11 police station today when over 200 supporters of Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) thronged it.
Candidates to submit declarations
Chandigarh, August 19
Going by the latest initiative of Panjab University, contestants for upcoming elections will have to submit declarations, specifying their party affiliations, along with their nomination papers.
Supporters of the SOI take out a car rally at Panjab University, Chandigarh, on Thursday.
A Tribune photograph
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Certificates awarded to Snehalaya pupils
Chandigarh, August 19
The Chandigarh Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes and Minorities Finance and Development Corporation organised a certificate distribution ceremony at Snehalaya - Vocational Training Centre, Maloya, here.
Student Harassment Case
Institute forms probe panel
Kharar, August 19
The Rayat-Bahra Group of Institutes has formed a disciplinary committee to look into the matter of alleged harassment of an electrical engineering student by his seniors and consequent registration of police case.
13 selected in placement drive
Ambala, August 19
The career guidance cell of DAV College, Ambala City, organised a campus placement drive today, in which 13 students got selected. A team of senior executives of IBM, an MNC, led by its deputy manager Mukul Bhardwaj interviewed around 100 students.
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Chandigarh, August 19
Close on the heels of a freak road accident in which two cousins lost their lives on Tuesday night, a collision around midnight between a Haryana Roadways bus and a Maruti Alto car left a 23-year-youth dead.
Chandigarh, August 19
