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Boys cool themselves off on a roundabout in Panchkula on Saturday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal |
GMCH discount clause has chemists fuming
Chandigarh, April 30
The authorities at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, and the Chandigarh Chemists Association are at loggerheads over the discount at a chemist outlet on the hospital premises.
Motorcyclist, pedestrian killed in mishaps
Chandigarh/Zirakpur, April 30
Road accidents claimed two lives in Chandigarh and Zirakpur since last night. While an employee of the UT health department died after his motorcycle was hit by an unidentified truck near Peer Baba ‘majar’ on the Zirakpur-Patiala highway, a 60-year-old pedestrian was crushed to death by a Punjab Roadways bus in Colony No. 5 in the wee hours today.
Disputed amount just Rs 75!
Forum tells Airtel to pay Rs 2,000 as relief
Chandigarh, April 30
For most persons, Rs 75 will mean little and not worth claiming by going to court and wasting close to two years, but a city resident, Vivek
Singla, has not only managed to get the paltry sum back from telecom giant
Airtel, but has been compensated handsomely (Rs 2,000), if one goes by the amount under question, by the UT Consumer Forum.
Encroachments to be recorded on camera
HUDA goes in for videography
Panchkula, April 30
Encroachers at markets in the town, beware now! Getting tough with encroachers squatting on prime government land, including cooridors and open spaces, the Haryana Urban Development Authority
(HUDA) has decided to videograph the encroachments.
Vendors squatting in a corridor at the market of Sector 7 in
Panchkula.
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Shifting of meat market
Citizens threaten to move court
Chandigarh, April 30
The Citizens’ Association Executive Committee unanimously decided that if Municipal Corporation (MC) didn’t enforce the amended meat, fish and poultry bylaws and if no action was taken to shift meat market from Sector 21 to Sector 41, the association would file a PIL in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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The police recovered 95 boxes of liquor from a truck in Sector 17, near the
ISBT, on Saturday. The police arrested the driver of the truck, Kulwinder Singh. The liquor was apparently being taken from the city to neighbouring states by contractors whose licences for the financial year 2011-12 were not renewed. A Tribune photograph
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Consumer Courts
Hind Motors penalised Rs 25,000
Mohali, April 30
The Mohali District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has penalised Hind Motors, Mohali, for passing off a 2008-model Indica Vista car as a 2009-model one. The dealer has been directed to pay Rs 25,000 for unfair trade practice and deficiency in service.
PGI's trauma centre partially open for use
Chandigarh, April 30
The new 169-bed Trauma Centre constructed at a cost of around Rs 55 crore was opened for partial use at the PGI on Thursday night. A total of 33 patients from old trauma ward were shifted to the general ward on fifth floor.
 Tribune employees retire
Chandigarh, April 30
Ashok Kakkar, Assistant Manager (Accounts), The Tribune, retired today after putting in 32 years of service. He joined The Tribune in 1979.
Will fill all key posts within a month, says Sobti
Chandigarh, April 30
Making a bold declaration at Panjab University Syndicate Meeting today, Vice-Chancellor RC Sobti asserted that he will fill all key posts such as Registrar, Dean, College Development Council, director, public relations, and Controller Examination within one month.
 Golden chance to PhD candidates
Felicitation
Imposition of Section 144 draws flak
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Has lyrics by alumnus Irshad Kamil
