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Gang promising ‘easy’ loans busted, 4 held
Ludhiana, February 2
With the arrest four suspects, including one from Mohali and another from Kharar, the Khanna police today claimed to have pulled the lid off a multicrore rupee financial scam here today. According to the cops, the fraudsters had conned thousands of people, especially those from south India, on the pretext of providing them “easy” loans at low interest rates.
Saving lives, working in UT for peanuts
Contractual doctors worse off than Class IV staff
Chandigarh, February 2
Doctors working on contract with the UT health department are not being treated better than Class III and Class IV employees as far as their pay scales are concerned.
‘I was duty bound to implement RTI Act’
Pvt schools have no reason to crib, says Ram Niwas
Chandigarh, February 2
The UT administration’s move to relieve Ram Niwas as education secretary has been seen as a fallout of the latter’s conflict with the city’s privately run schools, whose ire he earned for “pushing them against the wall” on various issues, particularly implementation of provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. In an interaction with the Chandigarh Tribune he put across his point of view on the sundry controversies that have dogged his tenure.
PU to confer PhD in literature on Khushwant Singh
Chandigarh, February 2
Panjab University is all set to confer an honorary PhD in literature on celebrated author and former journalist Khushwant Singh.
Underage, Drunken Driving
Police directed to carry out effective monitoring
Chandigarh, February 2
For applying brakes to the menace of underage, drunken and dangerous driving in the city, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the top brass of the Chandigarh Police to carry out effective monitoring.
An overview of a traffic jam on the road separating Sectors 18 and 19 in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Pollution-free N-choe by August-end: MC
Chandigarh, February 2
Nearly a year after The Tribune raised a storm over sanitation concerns going down the drain, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today assured the Punjab and Haryana High Court that a Rs 562.85-lakh project to make N-choe pollution-free would be completed by August-end.
A file photo of pollution in the N-choe.
PGI OT technicians on strike from today
Chandigarh, February 2
Patients to be operated upon in the PGI are in for tough time as the Operation Theatre Technical Staff Association has decided to go on a three-day mass casual leave from tomorrow.
Police buildings to go solar
Chandigarh, February 2
In order to save on cost and energy, the Chandigarh Police is considering a proposal to install solar system in all police buildings in the city.
R-Day Parade
Dancers from city win cultural trophy
Chandigarh, February 2
Around 168 bhangra dancers trained by NZCC at Kalagram have brought laurels to the city and Mohali by winning coveted cultural contingent trophy. The dancers participated in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi.
‘Will change political map of Punjab’
Chandigarh, February 2
In a face-to-face interaction with the general public at Panjab University’s English auditorium, former Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal today pledged to uproot corruption and drug-addiction from the state.
Former Finance Minister of Punjab Manpreet Singh Badal during an interaction at Panjab University’s English auditorium. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
No loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am
Mohali, February 2
A ban has been imposed on the use of loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am. Amit
Talwar, SDM , said at a meeting here today that despite the ban orders, music was being played at a high pitch at marriage palaces and even at private functions like ‘jagratas’
Handing over maintenance of parks to MC
GMADA sets April 1 deadline
Mohali, February 2
Even as the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) today set April 1 as the deadline for taking over the maintenance of parks by the Municipal Corporation, the civic body plans to involve welfare associations in the maintenance work in order to reduce the number of complaints.
159 get jobs on compassionate grounds
Mohali, February 2
As many as 159 persons were given letters of appointment on compassionate grounds by Punjab Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan at a function held on the premises of the Punjab School Education Board here today.
People look at their employment letters in a function at the Punjab Education Board office in Mohali on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph
Haryana power board staff strike work
Seek regularisation of daily wage workers
Panchkula, February 2
On a call given by the joint action committee the members of the Haryana State Electricity Board Employees Union
(HSEBEU) today went on a strike at the power station in Industrial Area Phase II, here today.
Members of the HSEB Workers Union protest at Industrial Area, Phase-2, Panchkula, on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
CHB employees’ stir enters Day 2
Residents visiting board office face inconvenience
Chandigarh, February 2
Strike by employees of the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) entered the second day today with more employees joining in. Work remained suspended for the second consecutive day even as employees threatened to continue with their strike until their demand of implementing pension scheme was met.
Sitar wizard casts spell
Chandigarh, February 2
With his cultivated technique of planting musical notes, technical virtuosity and adroit mastery over sur, laya and tal, acclaimed Sitar wizard Padmabhushan Debu Choudhary created a spell in a musical soiree at the CSIO auditorium here today.
Exploitation of women laid bare
Chandigarh, February 2
The third annual edition of Katha Manchan-3, a theatre festival celebrating the magic of women theatre directors, commenced with the staging of a Punjabi play “Firangiyan di Noonh” at the Randhawa auditorium here today.
Teachers voice anger over non-payment of salary
Panchkula, February 2
Expressing anger over the non-payment of salaries, a large number of teachers staged a protest against the government at the District Elementary Education Office (DEEO), Sector 7, here today.
Traders up in arms against Sector-17 flyover
Term it wastage of public money
Chandigarh, February 2
In a development that bodes ill for the construction of second flyover in Sector 17 from Hotel Taj to the local head office of the State Bank of India
(SBI), the traders are up in arms against the project and term it “wastage of public money”.
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Lurking danger |
Loose electricity wires in various parts of the city have become a common sight. Despite several incidents of fire and mishaps being reported in the past, it seems that the authorities do not bother to take any safety measures. Tribune photos: S Chandan |
From Schools & Colleges
Wetland day
Chandigarh:The Environment Society of India celebrated International World Wetland Day at Sukhna Lake today. Around 100 students of Shastri Model School, Mohali (Punjab), Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 7, Panchkula
(Haryana), and Government High School, Sector 11, Chandigarh, participated in the poster-making competition. Dr RC
Mishra, DIG, Haryana, was the chief guest.
PU Notes
Invited
Chandigarh: Dr Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, professor at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
(UIPS), and Dean, alumni relations, Panjab University, has been invited to deliver a keynote address at an international conference on “Pharmaceutics and Novel Drug Delivery Systems” being organised by the OMICS publishing group in June 2011 at Las Vegas, CA, the USA. He will speak on “Optimised drug delivery using designed experiments”.
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Students of the HSJ Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Panjab University (PU), organised a rally, followed by protests, here today to express dissent over the ‘misbehaviour’ of director-principal GK Gauba with a female intern.
Chandigarh, February 2
