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Fee Waiver at PU
Staff’s ignorance handicap for
special students
Chandigarh, October 24
Belying Panjab University’s claim of providing free education to differently abled students, Kirti Agnihotri, a visually challenged girl enrolled at the music department was made to pay complete fee for staying at the hostel and for studying in MA (first semester).
Fire at HDFC Bank
Mohali, October 24
In a major fire that broke out in the Phase XI branch of HDFC Bank here this afternoon, furniture and computer peripherals worth lakhs of rupees were gutted.
An automated teller machine (ATM) installed in the bank was also damaged in the blaze.
Furniture and computer peripherals damaged in fire that broke out in Phase XI branch of HDFC Bank, Mohali,
on Sunday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
 Open House
Sweets alone not adulterated
Are only sweets in the market adulterated? If one goes by newspaper reports, one would definitely answer in the affirmative.
The Chandigarh administration has recently disclosed recoveries of adulterated sweets from different parts of the city. It has claimed to have destroyed at least 7,500 kilogrammes of alleged spurious and adulterated sweets. Earlier, it used to be spurious ‘khoya’ with unhealthy contents, now it is unclean surroundings that has marred the festive spirit.
Spurious product is brought from Uttar Pradesh and transported to different parts of the state. Anti-adulteration drives have also failed to curb the menace. Such drives are only carried out near Diwali or some other festival.
No policy on protection, maintenance of trees
Mohali, October 24
To the utter shock of tree lovers, the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority
(GMADA) and the Mohali Municipal Council, the government agencies maintaining the town for the last over three decades, do not have a policy on protection and maintenance of trees. More shockingly, neither agency has a count of the trees, dead, diseased, decaying and healthy ones.
No space has been left around these trees. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
Festive Season
Whitewashing charges touch the roof
Acute shortage of painters for houses,
business establishments
Chandigarh, October 24
With Diwali round the corner and people keen to refurbish their houses and business establishments, whitewashing wages have gone up
exorbitantly. Average daily labour that normally costs between Rs 200 and Rs 250 is now between Rs 300 and Rs
400.
A daring stunt by a jawan at the ITBP’s training centre in Bhanu, near Panchkula, on Sunday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
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Conference on radiology ends
Chandigarh, October 24
The 13th annual conference of the Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the PGI concluded here today.
In the morning session, interventional radiologists from various institutes presented research work, followed by discussions on
neurointerventions.
Incinerator gathering rust at GH-6
It is obsolete, says Civil Surgeon
Panchkula, October 24
The incinerator installed at the General Hospital, Sector 6, about 13 years ago, is gathering rust as has been lying unused for about nine years.
The building where the incinerator has been installed is in a dilapidated condition. The cost of the incinerator is about Rs 15 lakh.
Foreigners, too, gear up for Diwali
William Arthur, an IT professional from Belgium, working in a city-based IT company, is spending extra hours in the market to purchase candles, colourful lights and other handicraft material to decorate his rented house in Sector 9 on the occasion of
Diwali. Peter Thomas, another IT professional from the USA, is busy in the evening clicking photographs of temples and business establishments illuminated with lights.
Throwing all security norms to winds, people throng Sector 22 market, adjoining Kiran Theatre, in a large number these days, particularly on weekends. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
Chatrath, Bansal nominated to AICC
Chandigarh, October 24
Adding another feather to her cap, MC Mayor Anu Chatrath, is among four senior leaders nominated as All-India Congress Committee
(AICC) members by the party high command.
Land acquisition
BJP wants judicial mechanism
Chandigarh, October 24
With acquisition of land for mega projects raising a lot of dust in Chandigarh, the BJP has suggested setting up of a judicial mechanism to monitor the land acquisition to ensure a better deal to the farming community.
Work on sewerage project deficient, says Kang
Mohali, October 24
In a letter to local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia, former Congress minister Jagmohan Singh Kang has alleged that the quality of work on sewerage being executed in Kurali city by GMADA at a cost of Rs 36 crore was of substandard quality and not according to the requirement.
Protest by Sec-49 housing society
Chandigarh, October 24
Residents of the Labour Bureau Cooperative House Building Society, Sector 49, staged a demonstration at the society complex today.
They were protesting against the failure of the society mangement to deposit lease money with the Chandigarh Housing Board
(CHB).
PU re-advertises key administrative posts
Chandigarh, October 24
Competent educationists opt for jobs in private universities and the corporate sector rather than settle for senior positions in government aided institutions like Panjab University. This appears to be the line of reasoning of PU officials for not having found suitable candidates and, hence, advertising for certain top administrative posts again.
Light moments at St John’s
Chandigarh, October 24
Urging former students of St Johns’s High School, Sector 26, to serve the whole world as one family and think big in terms of contributing to the entire creation, Brother Philip Pinto, global head of the congregation of Christian Brothers, today interacted with members of the Old Boys Association of the school.
Brother Pinto, global head of the congregation of Christian Brothers, interacts with members of the St John’s Old Boys Association. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
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