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IT’S A SUNNY DAY, TIME TO GO OUTDOORS AND ENJOY WARMTH IN THE LAP OF NATURE |
Children pick scattered flowers (left) and a tourist captures his wife on camera at the Rose Garden in Sector 16 of Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan |
Recounting Partition pangs
 Chandigarh, January 19
Apart from meaningful entertainment, theatre festivals bring alive diverse regional cultures. Trilingual play “ Ghar Wapsi Ke Geet” presented by Alternate Living theatre group from Kolkata on the third day of the ongoing sixth TFT festival at Tagore Theatre too was significant in thisregard.
Artistes stage the play ‘Ghar Wapsi Ke Geet’ at Tagore Theatre in Sector 18, Chandigarh, on Wednesday.
Tribune photo: Pravesh Chauhan
Rs 12 crore sanctioned for three new schools
Chandigarh, January 19
Putting its own house in order to implement the Right of Children To free and Compulsory Education (RTE) ACT, the UT administration today approved around `12 crore for the construction of three new schools in the city.
Job fest gets underway in Panchkula
Panchkula, January 19
Hundreds of boys and girls converged on a stall set up by the Army at a three-day Haryana Employment Development Fair that commenced today at the Sector 5 parade ground.Young boys and girls could be seen enquiring about the recruitment process at the stall.Various software companies had also put up stalls at the fair.
Students at the job fest in Sector 5, Panchkula, on Wednesday.
Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Two new hostels to come up at PU
Chandigarh, January 19
All set to introduce 20 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC), Panjab University today approved construction of two new hostels on its Sector 25 campus.
Development course for medicos
Mohali, January 19
The eighth professional development course (PDC) in management, public health and health sector reforms for district-level senior medical officers was inaugurated today by Prof Laxmi Kanta Chawla, Health and Family Welfare Minister, Punjab.
Stopgap Measure
2-acre land for dump sought at Jheuriwala
Panchkula, January 19
After facing protests from Sector-23 residents over the dumping of garbage in the sector, the municipal council has urged the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to allot two acres of land at Jheuriwala village as a stopgap arrangement.
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Over the top |
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Commandos rehearse a formation on a bike for the Republic Day ceremony at Parade Ground, Sector 5, Panchkula, on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
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Draftsmen’s protest
Mohali, January 19
Members of the Punjab Draftsmen Association staged a dharna in support of their demands here today. The protesters raised slogans and asked the government to keep their welfare in mind and accept their demands or face protest. They alleged that the government had failed to do justice with them.
LPG Cylinder Blast
Victims yet to receive admn’s help
Mohali, January 19
Two days after an LPG cylinder blast damaged houses in Phase XI here, victims are yet to receive assistance from the administration.There was panic among residents of the LIG houses in the locality as some buildings had become unsafe. While the house in which the blast took place was badly damaged, adjoining houses had also developed cracks.
Police gropes in the dark
Panchkula, January 19
Even after two days of the murder of Berkeley Automobiles security guard and robbery of Rs 14.5 lakh in cash, the local police is groping in the dark.The police is waiting for the fingerprint report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Madhuban, to match with the criminals active in the state, Punjab, UP and the national capital region of New Delhi.
Illegal construction stopped
Panchkula, January 19
Fearing a possible collapse of two residential buildings, residents of Abheypur village protested against the illegal construction of additional floors by their owner here today.
Admn’s confession to Planning Commission
Infrastructure crumbling
Chandigarh, Janaury 19
It is now official. The city’s infrastructure, primarily health and education, is crumbling.Candidly confessing this to the Planning Commission of India, the UT Administration today sought to justify an enhancement of their planned budget to Rs 934
crore, marking an increase of Rs 473.09 crore over the existing Rs 450.91 crore, for the next financial year (2011-2012).
Warmer day, but icy winds continue to sweep city
Chandigarh, January 19
Chilly winds continued to blow through the city as well as several areas in adjoining Punjab and Haryana today. However, residents could take heart from the slight increase in minimum temperature in Chandigarh to 5 degrees Celsius, which had plummeted to 4.3 degrees on Tuesday.
22-yr-old woman commits suicide
Chandigarh, January 19
A 22-year-old resident of Manimajra committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence here today.The victim,
Mayawati, a housewife, was found hanging from the ceiling fan by her niece,
Pooja, in the afternoon.She took the extreme step in the morning when she was alone at home. No suicide note was found
from the spot.
Sub-committees’ Elections
11 file papers for chairman
Chandigarh, January 19
Eleven councillors have filed their nomination papers for posts of chairman of 12 sub-committees constituted by Mayor Ravinder Pal Singh Pali on January 12.Seven councillors have filed their papers for posts of vice-chairman. Today was the last date for filing papers for the road, water supply and sewerage disposal, electricity, environment and city beautification, house tax and apni mandi sub-committees.
Ranchi Mayor visits MC
Chandigarh, January 19
A three-member team of the Ranchi municipal corporation (MC) visited the MC office here today to study water supply, sewage treatment, garbage collection and maintenance of green belts and parks.
Car firm, dealer told to repair or refund
Chandigarh, January 19
Acting on a complaint of a Mohali resident, the UT District Consumer Redressal Forum has directed Tata Motors and Joshi Autos to either repair the complainant’s Indigo car or refund its value to him and pay him a compensation of Rs 20,000.
Insurance firm, bank told to pay Rs 18.75 lakh
Chandigarh, January 19
In a significant judgement, nailing the evasive attitude of insurance and credit card companies, the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Limited and Citi Bank to pay Rs 18.75 lakh to a Panchkula resident, Ritu Sodhi, whose husband died in a road accident in the city in July 2007.
Demand for freehold bidding grows
Chandigarh, January 19
In the backdrop of the forthcoming auction of commercial property, the demand for the auction of commercial property on freehold basis like residential property has staged a comeback.
Tanishq Heist
SI, 4 others promoted
Chandigarh, January 19
Senior police officers today promoted a Sub-Inspector and four constables, lauding their effort in cracking the Tanishq heist.Sub-Inspector Ranjit Singh of the Crime Branch was promoted as Inspector while constables Kanwar Pal, Durjan Singh, Jasbir Kumar and Jaswinder Singh were promoted to the rank of head constables.
7 health staffers fall ill
Mohali, January 19
Seven employees of the health department were taken ill here on Wednesday after they drank tea that had been prepared using a chemical which they mistook to be water. The employees, most of whom were women, worked under the revised national TB control programme at the town’s Civil Hospital.
Two health employees at the Phase VI hospital in Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
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Dangerous greenery |
| The City Beautiful, which is known for its greenery is facing a problem of irregular growth of trees, with some leaning on to the roads at several places across the city. Heavy vehicles avoid using these roads as such trees obstruct their movement. A majority of the trees are on the Museum Road of Sector 10 in front of the UT Secretariat, which has a separate horticulture department, but nothing concrete has been done to check their haphazard growth. The overgrown trees have formed a canopy on the road separating Sectors 18 and 19, and Sectors 20 and 21, and have not been pruned for a long time, posing an obstacle to the flow of heavy traffic. The same is the case of Dakshin Marg. |
The road separating Sectors 18 and 19 ;The road separating Sectors 20 and 21. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan |
LURKING DANGER: Museum Road of Sector 10 in front of the UT Secretariat;Dakshin Marg |
PU Notes
Seminar
Chandigarh: The department-cum-centre for women’s studies of Panjab University will organise a seminar on “Women and Culture: Embodied Realities and Social Constructions” on January 21 at the ICSSR Complex.
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The Chandigarh Police’s callousness in handling the case of five-year-old Khushpreet’s kidnapping followed by his murder is now official. Acting on a magisterial inquiry report submitted today, an embarrassed police finally cracked the whip against the guilty officials. Two Inspectors and a Sub-Inspector were suspended and the DSP (South) transferred to the Police Lines.
The organisers of ‘Arsenal Tata Tea Jaago Re Stars’ picked up five local soccer players for their Arsenal India camp after their two-day event in the city here today.The names of the selected players are
Timohi, Arjit, Daniel, Gursimran and Anuj Yadav.