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Administration in a fix
Chandigarh, August 25
The UT Administration is caught in a dilemma over implementing its proposal to reduce the misuse charges for building violations in residential and commercial property from Rs 500 per sq ft to Rs 100 per sq ft.
Khushpreet case trial begins
Chandigarh, August 25
The trial in the kidnapping and murder case of five-year-old Khushpreet began in the Chandigarh district court today.
Five prosecution witnesses deposed before the court. Witnesses Mehndi Hasan, Gian Singh, Govind Ram, Banwari Lal and Subhash Chander informed the court that accused Sukhwinder Singh had taken huge loan from them and was under debt.
PU student council poll likely on Sept 2
Chandigarh, August 25
Elections to the Panjab University students’ council will in all probability be held on September 2 with the varsity, the local police and the UT administration all having given their assent. A decision in this regard was reportedly taken at a meeting between PU dean of students’ welfare AS Ahluwalia and assistant superintendent of police (central) Deshraj Singh.
Organ donation picks up in city
Chandigarh, August 25
In medical terms, a brain-dead individual is defined as one “who has no clinical evidence of brain function upon physical examination. This includes no response to pain and no cranial nerve reflexes, no response to the caloric reflex test and no spontaneous respirations”. And in a layman’s language it would mean a person who is literally dead, expect having a heart beat, and is practically a worthless case.
After PNB, fire at Mani Majra house
Chandigarh, August 25
A major tragedy was averted in a residential area at Mani Majra today due to the timely intervention by the fire department to control a fire that broke no due to the blast of an LPG cylinder in the backyard of a duplex here.
Anxiety @ clients
Chandigarh, August 25
Anxiousness was evident among clients of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch at Sector 17, where fire gutted the inspection branch and server yesterday, as bank officials got hundreds of phone calls from account holders, enquiring about the loss in the incident.
Fire effect: Surprise checks at banks soon
Chandigarh, August 25
All banks of the city will be under the scanner of the municipal corporation’s fire and emergency department, with surprise checks slated to be conducted soon for ensuring the installation of fire safety measures on the premises.
Unsung heroes beam with passion
Chandigarh, August 25
Unmindful of yesterday’s six-hour exhaustive struggle to control the devastating fire that struck the Sector-17 circle office of the Punjab National Bank (PNB), Dalip Singh, a fireman with the Chandigarh fire and emergency services, and his spirited team of firemen were beaming with passion after having risked their lives to save the lives and property of others.
Absenteeism unlimited
Chandigarh, August 25
The UT administration’s indifference to environment issues was on display this morning, with most top officials failing to turn up for the workshop on preparation of an action plan for climate change, organised by the department of environment and forests in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the Botanical Garden in Sarangpur today.
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Student leaders campaign for the forthcoming elections at the Khalsa College campus, Sector 26, on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Vinay Malik |
RTI query forces UT admn to enforce office
hours
Chandigarh, August 25
Reporting late for office, extending lunch breaks and playing truant during office hours will cost employees dear, with an RTI query forcing the UT Administration to enforce prescribed working hours.
‘Environment? What’s that!’
Chandigarh, August 25
Environment features nowhere on the priority list of the UT administration. Even five months after March 31, the deadline of submitting its action plan on climate change, the UT environment department finds it hard to sensitise the authorities concerned of nine UT departments whose cooperation is necessary to achieve the objective.
Duronto late by 20 minutes
Chandigarh, August 25
The departure of the evening Duronto from Chandigarh to Amritsar was delayed by 20 minutes by a passenger train when the Churu-Takrala-Nangal-Ambala train was made to stop at platform No 1 owing to signal failure.
Residents force demolition team to beat a retreat
Chandigarh, August 25
Stiff resistance by residents of Kaimbwala village forced the UT estate office team to postpone the demolition at least 14 houses constructed on agricultural land in violation of the Periphery Act.
Kaimbwala residents block the road to the village to stop officials from carrying out a demolition drive of illegal structures at the village on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Vinay Malik
190 hutments demolished
Chandigarh, August 25
At least 190 hutments spread over two acres in the area adjoining Indira Colony at Mani Majra were demolished in a special drive carried out by the municipal corporation here today.
This ‘posh’ locality no better than others
Panchkula, August 25
The locality of Sector 6, which is otherwise known as a posh area of the town, has turned into a place of wild growth, bumpy roads and heaps of garbage. Even the General Hospital of the town situated in the sector is surrounded by garbage near its boundary wall.
Commuters ply on a damaged road at Sector 6 in Panchkula. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
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| (Left) Construction material covers more than half of a road in front of a house, causing inconvenience to commuters;
(center) an entrance to a park lacks proper footsteps; and
(right) garbage dumped near General Hospital, which could prove hazardous to patients, particularly during monsoons, at Sector 6 in Panchkula. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal |
Panchkula to have ISBT in Sector 10 also
Panchkula, August 25
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has decided to start construction of the new Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) here. The ISBT would be constructed in Sector 10-A, near Majri chowk here. HUDA has also decided to develop Sector 1-A as a commercial complex of Panchkula.
Man suffers heart attack at HC, dies
Chandigarh, August 25
A 50-year-old resident of Amritsar died after he suffered a heart attack on the premises of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today.
Members of the Physically Handicapped Association, Punjab, protest outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner in support of their demands in Mohali on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu |
Fissures among Anna supporters
Chandigarh, August 25
Local Anna Hazare supporters, the India Against Corruption (IAC) and Aawaaz, engaged in a blame game.
SGPC Poll
‘Depute observers from outside Punjab’
Mohali, August 25
Election observers for the SGPC election should be deputed from outside Punjab as candidates did not trust observers being appointed by the ruling SAD government in the state.
Special lok adalats tomorrow
Mohali, August 25
Special lok adalats will be held at three places in Mohali district on August 27 for disposing of cases linked to family disputes.
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Map quiz
A preliminary round of INCA Map Quiz-2011 was conducted at Survey of India, Sector 32-A, here on Thursday. As many as 32 teams, comprising three students each, from different schools of
Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali participated in this quiz.
poll time
A week to go, students don’t know candidates
Chandigarh, August 25
Even though the Panjab University student elections are just a week away, over 11,000 prospective voters are yet to have a rendezvous with the contesting candidates.
A students election campaign on the PU campus.
Tribune File photo
PEC students protest over retention criteria
Chandigarh, August 25
A student organisation, Students For Society (SFS), members of which were formerly associated with the Revolutionary Youth Association
(RYA) organised an indefinite day and night dharna outside the PEC administrative block.
Members of the Students for Society, a student body, protest outside the administrative block at the PEC University of Technology. Tribune Photo: S Chandan
60 MCA students of SD College left stranded this placement season
 Chandigarh, August 25
A year after being shifted to the Department of Computer Science and Applications
(DCSA) from the disaffiliated MCA department of SD college, over 60 students who protested in front of Vice Chancellor office today claimed that they had been left stranded this placement season, as PU failed to provide them the long-promised placement coordinator.
Students of the Department of Computer Science and Applications protest in front of the
VC office at Panjab University in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik
150 units of blood donated
Chandigarh, August 25
The AIDS and Health Awareness Society in Association with the Rotary and Blood Bank Society Resource Centre of Postgraduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, organised a blood donation camp on the college campus on Wednesday.
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Parsvnath Developers Ltd and the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) on Thursday gave an undertaking before the UT Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission to repay money to depositors. The development came following a complaint filed by one of the depositors, Sudeep Budhiraja, who had moved the panel by filing an execution application against both Parsvnath and the CHB.
