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PGI technicians go on indefinite strike
Chandigarh, March 14
Patient care at the PGI is once again set to be affected as operating theatre technicians went on an indefinite strike from this evening. It has been barely a month that the technicians observed a strike for five days against the delay in the acceptance of their demands.

Heritage Buildings: City’s commercial hub in decay
Chandigarh, March 14
The architectural heritage of the city’s main commercial hub, Sector 17, is in a state of decay with no uniform policy being formulated for its repair and restoration over the years.




Leakage from a rainwater pipe is damaging concrete structures in Sector 17-C of Chandigarh. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan

Mahila Bhavan
Shoddy ground work stalls construction
Chandigarh, March 14
The construction of a mahila bhavan, a key project of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC), is in the doldrums. Reason: After seven months of allotment of work, the authorities are redesigning after they found that the design was not suitable for the project due to the foundation.

Skipping Classes
Tuition centres make up liberally to schools
Chandigarh, March 14
While the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) mandates a minimum attendance of 75 per cent for students to appear in class XII boards, over a thousand students from across the city have managed to make it to board centres despite of being short of lectures, all thanks to the easily available medical certificates.

COMMUNITY

Punjab Budget a mixed bag

Adjourning House over booth allotment scam gets thumbs down

Augmentation of water supply on cards
Chandigarh, March 14
The water scarcity problem in the city will be solved soon, with the UT administration going ahead with phases VII and VIII of the Kajauli scheme.

Pressure eludes second floor'
Panchkula, March 14
With the onset of summer, residents on the second floor have started facing water crisis in view of low pressure in many sectors of the town.

Road widening has residents fuming
Chandigarh, March 14
The ongoing widening of internal roads of Sector 36 has become a source of inconvenience and harassment to residents of the area.



Water accumulated on the road opposite MCMDAV College due to road widening at Sector 36 in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

‘Fatal’ Medication PGI sets up panel
Chandigarh, March 14
The PGI has constituted a two-member committee comprising Dr Ajay Bahl and Dr Sanjay Jain from the departments of cardiology and internal medicine, respectively, to investigate into the allegations of the family of Anil Kumar, who allegedly died in the PGI due to wrong medication on March 3.

Protest rally by guest teachers
Panchkula, March 14
High drama prevailed at the Mini Secretariat today when members of the Haryana Atithi Adhyapak Sangh (HAAS) held a protest rally against the indifferent attitude of the district administration towards the acceptance of their memorandum.

Efforts fructified

Students in a jubilant mood after receiving prizes at the annual function of MCM College for Women in Sector 36, Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Building Maps
MC hikes approval fee for plots
Zirakpur, March 14
Local residents will have to shell out more for getting building maps approved from the municipal council, as the civic body has hiked the approval fee for residential and commercial sites.

Panchkula MC allows advertisement hoardings on electricity poles
Panchkula, March 14
In order to generate more revenue, the Panchkula municipal council (MC) has decided to allow advertisement hoardings on electricity poles throughout the town from April 1.

Irregularities in PF accounts
Take action or face agitation, BJP to MC
Panchkula, March 14
Alleging grave irregularities in the provident fund accounts of sanitation employees of the local municipal council, the BJP has threatened to launch an agitation if the guilty are not brought to book soon.

EDUCATION

Rs 88 cr more in PU’s kitty
Chandigarh, March 14
Panjab University (PU) is in a peculiar situation, it has been sanctioned ` 88 crore by the UT administration, but it does not know how to use this money.

First-ever by schools
4,000 to take Class X exam today
Chandigarh, March 14
More than 4,000 city students will appear for the first-ever school conducted Class X board examination tomorrow. These students have opted out of the CBSE exams and decided to take school exams instead, while a majority of their counterparts chose to stick to conventional system just to be on the safer side.

Mass Copying
Education minister blacklists exam centre
Mohali, March 14
Students were found copying during their second semester Class XII examination being conducted by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) at Sant Isher Singh School, Sector 70. Punjab Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan conducted a surprise check at the school.

Punjab Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan (right) at Sant Isher School, Sector 70, Mohali. The minister conducted a surprise check at the school, where students were found copying. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

Tussle over nomination of PUSU president
Chandigarh, March 14
The rift between the two lobbies of Panjab University Students Union (PUSU), which led to a violent clash at student centre on the campus last year, has resurfaced. Nomination of a new president and other office-bearers of PUSU resulted in the tussle.

‘ARCHO-2011’ gets off to a flying start
Chandigarh, March 14
A tree-plantation drive and a sports meet marked the commencement of‘ARCHO-2011’, an 18-day annual event, at Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA) today.


Students of the Chandigarh College of Architecture during the inauguration ceremony of ARCHO-2011 on Monday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Pensioners a harried lot
Ambala, March 14
Resentment prevailed among pensioners of aided colleges of Haryana with regard to non-payment of pension. The pensioners said they had not received pension for the past three months.

Bugged, tehsil staff stage dharna
Khamano (Fatehgarh Sahib), March 14
The working at the local tehsil came to a standstill today after its employees staged a dharna over the storage of bug-infested foodgrain in the complex.

Steel units expect waiver of entry tax, VAT
Mandi Gobindgarh, March 14
The steel-manufacturing units, re-rolling units and furnace industry expects waiver of entry tax and reduction in VAT (Value Added Tax) and special package besides strengthening of the basic infrastructure.

Suicide by Cong leader
Ambala, March 14
The body of a Congress leader of Naraingarh was found near SA Jain College at Ambala City this afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mahavir Kapoor, whose father is a senior officer-bearer of the district Congress committee.

‘Digital access to handwritten documents needed’
Patiala, March 14
Researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of information technology in Indian languages deliberated upon various issues related to major Indian languages such as Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil during the three-day international conference on “Information Systems for the Indian Languages (ICIL-2011)” organised by the computer science department, Punjabi University.

CRIME

Assault on child: Catering staff questioned
Chandigarh, March 14
Moving ahead with investigations into the sexual assault on a five-year-old girl reported two days ago, the police today procured the video recording of the wedding ceremony that was held in the community centre of Sector 40 on March 12.

Abandoned vehicle was stolen on Mar 11
Panchkula, March 14 The two persons who robbed a Sector-11 resident of his Swift Dzsire car and a mobile at gunpoint at the Sector 4-11 roundabout late last evening may be part of a gang of auto lifters. In its investigation, the police has learned that the car left by the snatchers belonged to a sub-inspector of the Panjab Police, Harpreet Singh, who is currently posted at the Zirakpur police station.

Man gets 10-year jail for raping minor
Panchkula, March 14
The local court today awarded 10-year imprisonment to a rape accused who had violated an 11-year-old daughter of a labourer in Sector 26.

One held for killing father
Chandigarh, March 14
The police today arrested a resident of Bapu Dham Colony in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 of the IPC. The police arrested Amarpal as an accused for killing his father.

2 robberies, 4 thefts reported in city
Chandigarh, March 14
Two robbery and four theft incidents, including one with a West Mumbai resident, who came to attend the second Chandigarh Marathon here, were reported in the city on Sunday night.

SPORTS

Exams fail to ‘ground’ budding cricketers
Chandigarh, March 14
As cricket is treated as a religion in our country and no one can change its status here, it seems that even exams fails to stop budding players from following it.

Passing the baton

Students take part in a relay race on the concluding day of a three-day sports meet at the Punjab College of Engineering and Technology in Lalru on Monday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal

Godrej and Boyce XI win by 9 runs
Chandigarh, March 14
Godrej and Boyce XI and ICICI Bank XI registered victory in their respective league matches during the IXth Bharat Kesho Gupta Memorial Cricket Tournament being organised by the Cricket Federation of Haryana at Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium, Sector 3, Panchkula, on Sunday.

Junior golf camps to meet summer rush
Chandigarh, March 14
With the summer vacations round the corner, the Chandigarh Golf Club has opened its greens to young golf enthusiasts of the tricity to learn the basics of the game under EGTF coach Ajay Gujral who is also the joint director of the club's golf academy.