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Eradicating Polio |
A child being administered the polio vaccine as part of a government campaign to eradicate the disease in Chandigarh on Sunday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
Outsiders on campus yet again
Chandigarh, January 23
Acting on a Tribune report, the police arrested three persons, including two outsiders, who indulged in a brawl on the PU campus yesterday.
The police traced the three on the basis of their vehicle number published in these columns and arrested Jhujar Singh, Rajbir and
Dilawar under preventive measures.
Education dept goofs up on school uniforms
AIE students supplied shorts in chilly winter
Chandigarh, January 23
In a move that seems to defy logic, the UT education department’s ‘Sarv Shiksha Abhiyaan’ unit distributed shorts to hundreds of students enrolled with the AIE (alternate innovative education) centres as part of their uniforms in the bone chilling weather last December.
With UT rudderless, tourist potential goes untapped
Chandigarh, January 23
Several ill conceived projects to attract more visitors to the city launched by the UT administration during the past few years have revealed a paucity of professional leadership required for a specialized area like tourism.
23-yr-old killed in mishap
Chandigarh, January 23
A 23-year-old youth died after the motorcycle he was riding rammed into the 43-44-51-52 roundabout late last night.
The victim, Bhaskar Joshi, suffered severe head injuries and died on the
spot.
Business establishmets encroaching highway
Mohali to act tough against violators
Mohali/Zirakpur, January 23
The Mohali district administration has initiated action against the business establishments for causing serious traffic hazard by allowing parking of vehicles on the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway.
open house
 Stray dogs, simian menace in UT
Not brushing aside the voice of animal rights groups for protection of stray animals, there can be no dispute over the increasing unrest among the public over the menace of stray dogs and monkeys in the Union Territory.
Emergency telephone handlers in the wildlife department, fire brigade and even
the police confirm the trouble by the increased number of calls they receive
daily.
Hi-tech system for parking lots
MC Chief Engineer’s office sits on project
Chandigarh, January 23
The municipal corporation’s pilot project to make parking lots hi-tech in the city has been hanging fire for the past six months due to the failure of the Chief Engineer’s office to allot the work.
A parking lot in Sector 17, Chandigarh, still awaits a hi-tech system to be set up by the municipal
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Now, costly medicare to be within reach of BPL families
Chandigarh, January 23
Costly medicare is set to be within the reach of below poverty line (BPL) persons, with the UT administration planning to tie up with major hospitals.
A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting to review the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) by the Home-cum-Health Secretary recently.
Mercury to rise, but chill to stay
Chandigarh, January 23
Although a clear and sunny day brought some respite from the cold this afternoon, the chill returned towards the evening. The night temperature dipped to 5.8 °C, 1.5 °C below yesterday’s 7.3 °C.
Railway to spice up travel with magazine
Chandigarh, January 23
As part of the move to make train travel more enjoyable, the railways has decided to launch an all-colour magazine - Rail Bandhu - to be provided free of cost to passengers of elite trains.
Project mgmt crucial for economic growth: Experts
Chandigarh, January 23
The Project Management Associates (PMA), a non-profit body of project and business managers working towards strengthening project management in India, opened its sixth chapter at a function here today.
MC moots night shelter for poor
Zirakpur, January 23
The Zirakpur municipal council is mulling over constructing a night shelter for the homeless. The proposal was mooted after the local government had forwarded a letter to the engineering wing for making the provision of the shelter.
Repatriation
Officer crunch ails administration
Chandigarh, January 23
UT babus are groaning under the routine administrative work with “official crunch” plaguing the UT administration in the wake of repatriation of three officers to their parent cadre recently.
 Reporters' Diary
A dusty welcome
Those coming from Zirakpur to Chandigarh have to face a lot of inconvenience due to dust rising from loose earth near the entry point to the City Beautiful.
Maj (retd) Ranbir Singh, a resident of Jammu, whose car rammed into a truck, said “I was not able to see anything as the visibility had become zero due to the dust rising from the earth.
Bittu gears up for ‘Nav Inquilab’ yatra
Mohali, January 23
Riding high on the feedback from the masses on the “Nav Inquilab Pad Yatra” recently undertaken in Punjab, the Punjab Youth Congress president and Member of Parliament (MP) from Anandpur Sahib Ravneet Singh Bittu is gearing himself for the next phase of “Nav Inquilab” campaign that would be crucial in mounting pressure on the Akali Government to perform.
Days of UPA govt numbered: Chautala
Panchkula, January 23
The days of the Congress led UPA government were numbered and it would have to face the mid-term election as it had failed to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee to bring out the truth in the 2G-Spectrum scam.
68,000 kids administered polio drops
Mohali, January 23
The district health authorities today administered polio drops to 67,835 children below the age of five years as a part of the national immunisation programme beginning today.
Goods worth lakhs gutted
Panchkula, January 23
A major fire broke out in a house in Sector 21 here this afternoon, which damaged furniture and other wooden articles.
The owner of the house, Preeti Chaudhary, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, and wife of Sub-Divisional Officer in the irrigation department Attar Singh, said she was in the front lawn of the house as there was no power at the time of the incident.
Police tells jewellers to secure shops
Chandigarh, January 23
In view of the recent Tanishq dacoity case, senior police officers today convened a meeting with prominent jewellers of the city and urged them to take adequate security measures to prevent any untoward incident.
‘Patriyan’ marks end of theatre fest
Chandigarh, January 23
The weeklong sixth TFT Winter National Theatre Festival organised by the Theatre for Theatre Academy in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Culture,
DPR, Haryana and Chandigarh, concluded at the Tagore Theatre here today.
Artistes stage the play ‘Patriyan’ at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Sunday.
Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
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Stress on need to protect nature
Chandigarh, January 23
Prof R Ramamurthy, eminent zoologist and former Vice-Chancellor, SV University, Tirupati, has stressed the need to protect nature for the protection of mankind.
Rashtriya Vidyalaya wins parliamentary debate
Mohali, January 23
Getting educated without a teacher is meaningless and the status of an educator is next to God, said Justice Swantantar Kumar of the Supreme Court of India, while addressing participants on the concluding day of the three-day “Asia Parliamentary Debate Championship: The Pitch 2011” organised at the Army Institute of Law in Sector 68 here today.
Kiran Bedi visits city
Chandigarh, January 23
Dr Kiran Bedi visited the city yesterday to interact with students of the Aryans Group of Colleges
(AGC), Chandigarh, during a seminar on “In search of Civility: Broom and Groom India”.
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