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City to have more nursing homes
Chandigarh, November 3
After having run into problems with the Medicity project (since scrapped), the UT Administration is planning to set up more nursing homes in the city.
See docs with appointment at GMCH-32
Chandigarh, November 3
Patients visiting government hospitals usually complain about doctors not giving enough time to hear their problems and treating them like commodities rather than human beings.
AAI fixes deadlines for start of work
Mohali, November 3
Even as the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has denied the proposed visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lay the foundation stone of the international terminal at the Chandigarh Airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has fixed the deadlines to commence the construction work at the site located in Jheorehri village here.
Duel for ticket
Old guard in saddle as parties struggle to find young faces
Chandigarh, November 3
Major political parties, including the Congress and the BJP, have no new faces to field in the forthcoming Chandigarh municipal corporation elections.
BJP-SAD alliance divided on seat sharing
Chandigarh, November 3
Hectic tussle is going on between the BJP-SAD alliance over the sharing of seats for the forthcoming municipal corporation elections.
After dengue, malaria rears its head
Chandigarh, November 3
After dengue, it’s malaria that is spreading its tentacles in the city now. Over 450 cases of malaria have been reported in the city so far this year, which is the highest in the past four years. However, the number of dengue cases has been on the decline and is below the figure of last year.
Students play policemen for a day
 Chandigarh, November 3
“I thought policemen only indulged in corruption and made money. Just
realised, they have so much work to do at a police station,” remarked Simaranjeet Singh, a class-X student of Moti Ram Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, after a visit to the police station-26 as part of Global Police Station Visitors Week today.
NCC cadet Mansi Sharma gets instructions from an officer on writing a daily diary report (DDR) at the police station-26 in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: manoj mahajan
UHBVN pays for ruling sans hearing
Panchkula, November 3
Penalising a consumer for power theft without even giving her a hearing has cost the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVN) dear.
Snehalya inmates ‘into theft of petty items inside complex’
Chandigarh, November 3
Snehalya inmates are reported to be engaged in petty thefts inside the premises of this home for destitute children.
Skit on drug de-addiction
Chandigarh, November 3
The Drug De-Addiction Society of Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, organised a skit on drug menace at Khuda Jassu, a village, adopted by NSS unit of the college.
Situation still the same in Sector 6
Panchkula, November 3
It seems that the Panchkula administration is not interested in listening to the grievances of residents. Their repeated pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
Efforts of health dept officials go in vain
Mohali, November 3
The health department officials are a worried lot as repeated efforts to get the Jan Aushadhi store at the Civil Hospital premises functional have failed to fructify.
Three flying squads set up
Panchkula, November 3
District Magistrate Ashima Brar has formed three flying squads for the conduct of the written examination of the Haryana teachers eligibility test, to be organised by the Haryana School Education Board on November 5 and 6.
PEC students come up with
all-terrain vehicle
 Chandigarh, November 3
A team of 23 PEC University students from mechanical engineering and production engineering course have taken the road less travelled by designing and manufacturing a 340 cc off-road recreational vehicle that can speed up to 70 km per hour.
PEC students with their designed and manufactured all-terrain vehicle in
Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
PEC students win laurels
Chandigarh, November 1
A team of PEC University of Technology has brought laurels to the college after succeeding in getting “Quake Resistant Certificate” at the year's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation-Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering in Schools
(APEC-IDEERS) international earthquake competition held at Taiwan, competing with 41 international teams in the undergraduate category.
Second day of Soch fest faces chaos
 Chandigarh, November 3
Second-day of ‘Soch’ annual fest organised by the school of communication studies was marked with controversy over the performances scheduled in the evening today.
Students during the face-painting competition at Soch fest at Panjab University on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Youth Fest: Rayat-Bahra bags overall trophy
Mohali, November 2
Rayat-Bahra Institute of Engineering and Bio-Technology, Mohali, bagged the overall trophy in the two-day Punjab Technical University Inter-College Zonal Youth Festival-2011 amidst applause and enthusiasm. Shivalik College of Pharmacy,
Nangal, was declared the first runner-up, while Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology,
Mohali, walked away with the second runner-up title.
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Chandigarh, November 3
Chandigarh, November 3
Chandigarh, November 3
