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GMADA cancels bids of three auctioned plots
Mohali, November 24
Within three days of the auction that saw bidders quoting rates for residential plots higher than their market value, the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has cancelled the bids of three of the auctioned plots as the buyers failed to deposit 10 per cent of the total bid money.
Ailing addict jumps off 4th floor at GMCH
Chandigarh, November 24
Sarbjeet Singh, a 52-year-old opium addict undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of the C-block this morning. He survived as he landed on the canopy of the second floor, but his condition is critical.
Burail Jail inmates to get STD facility
Chandigarh, November 24
In a special facility to the inmates of Burail Jail, the UT Administration has decided to install STD facilities there. The decision comes on the pattern of the facilities available at Tihar Jail in Delhi. The facility will benefit a number of prisoners languishing in the jail.
Trains running late by several hours
Chandigarh, November 24
Fog in the area delayed a majority of trains here today. While the railway authorities have already decided to cancel the Kalka-Ambala-Delhi passenger train, officials at the Ambala division have written a letter to the railway headquarters in New Delhi suggesting that Unchahar Express running between Allahabad and Chandigarh should be cancelled as soon as possible as it is running late by 16 hours.
The legend that is Ghulam Ali
Chandigarh, November 24
The indomitable ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali delighted the audience at a concert organised by an NGO, Naad Foundation, at the Tagore Theatre here today. Singing for a noble cause, Ghulam Ali doled out his choicest
ghazals.
Melodic verses:
Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali performs at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu
Only bane no gain for Mohali residents
Mohali, November 24
The formation of the Mohali Municipal Corporation has been of little benefit to the town and former councillors feel that they may find it very difficult to face the electorate during the civic body poll likely to be held after the Assembly elections in the state.
Two former councillors move HC
Mohali, November 24
Two former councillors of Mohali Municipal Council Manjeet Sethi and MS Lang have moved the Punjab and Haryana High COurt against the Punjab GOvernment for failing to constitute an elected body of the Mohali Municipal Corporation.
RTI ACT
CIC raps Admn for not providing info on time
Chandigarh, November 24
The Central Information Commissioner (CIC) has pulled up the UT Administration for not providing information sought under RTI Act within the stipulated time.
MC Ward Woes
Believe it or not — this ward is in City Beautiful
Ward No. 20 is the area where the residents are still waiting to get their petty issues like garbage collection, sanitation and maintenance of streetlights resolved. In fact, the works like laying of paver blocks and re-carpeting of a few roads which were conducted in the past five years are of very low quality. Most of those are a shambles and the public of this ward has not got much in the kitty in the past.
Ward No 13 remains neglected in Baltana
Zirakpur, November 24
Heaps of garbage, potholed roads, non-functional streetlights, improper drainage system, low-water pressure and congested roads are the hallmarks of Ward No 13 in Baltana. The ward is the oldest area of Baltana in Zirakpur where many residential colonies came up in early 80s.
The ward comprises Preet Vihar, Ganesh Vihar, Saini Vihar Phase-2, Anand Vihar, Tribune Colony, Prem
Vihar, Vishnu Puram and a street of Saini Vihar Phase-III ranks low on the development scale with much required to be done.
Meter box near the boundary wall of a house at Ward No 13 in Zirakpur. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal
Mock drill at airport
Chandigarh, November 24
Panic prevailed at the Chandigarh airport here this afternoon after the police received a telephone call that a bomb would explode there in a few minutes.
Admn hikes staff’s minimum wages
Chandigarh, November 24
The Chandigarh Administration has increased the basic daily and monthly rates of minimum wages for
its employees for the remaining half year, ending March 31 next year.
Young smoker? You may have a lung ailment
Chandigarh, November 24
With increasing number of youngsters picking up the habit of smoking, there is a rise in patients afflicted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a lung ailment. Doctors say there is a need for early diagnosis in order to ensure effective treatment of this disease.
Council for regulatory body on real estate sector
Chandigarh, November 24
The Chandigarh Consumer Council (CCC) wants a regulatory authority for the real estate sector to save gullible consumers from being duped of their hard-earned money by realtors who lure them to purchase apartments.
Another ‘sheesha’ bar raided in Panchkula
Panchkula, November 24
A day after two hukkah bars were banned in the town, the Food and Drugs Authority Department lifted samples of tobacco being used in another such sheesha bar here today. A team of officials led by Panchkula drug controller Pooja Chaudhary reached Mocha Sheesha Bar in Sector 8 and took samples of qehwa tobacco molasses cordinal punch.Mocha was opened recently.
An official takes a sample during a raid at a hookah bar in Sector 8,
Panchkula. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Regular raids must at ultrasound centres: DC
Panchkula November 24
In order to implement effectively the PNDT Act and to further improve the sex ratio, the district administration, has issued directions to the health department to carry out regular raids at various ultrasound centres running at different places in the district.
Phones still dead in Sec 70, 71
Mohali, November 24
Telephone subscribers of Sector 70, 71 and Phase 3B2 continue to suffer as damaged part of the underground telephone cable are still being repaired.
Tricity scan
Eco-friendly ‘Torero’ consumes less fuel
Chandigarh, November 24
Taking the technology one step ahead, a team of mechanical and production engineering students of PEC University of Technology are developing an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) that focuses on lesser fuel consumption and reducing emissions. The off-roader recreational vehicle is going to have a new form of transmission, which allows the engine to run at its maximum efficiency thus helping in reducing emissions as well increasing the mileage.
PEC students work on their dream machine ‘Torero’ at the college workshop in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Artistic touch
Students of Arts College, Sector 10, give final touches to floats on the eve of Chandigarh Carnival on the college campus on Thursday.
tribune photo: pradeep tewari
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rte act
Complete survey by Dec 25 or no RTE, say schools
Chandigarh, November 24
Brewing a fresh controversy, city private schools have given a final ultimatum to the UT education department to declare the child mapping results and finalise the corresponding reimbursement latest by December 25 failing which they will abort all plans to reserve 25 per cent seats under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.
2-day workshop on flow cytometry opens
Chandigarh, November 24
The two-day workshop on flow cytometry organised by the department of experimental medicine and biotechnology at the PGI was inaugurated by scientist PM Bhargava here today. The theme of the workshop was laboratory to clinic.
After the inauguration, Professor Bhargava delivered the RN Chakravarti Memorial Oration Lecture on “The likely scenario of medical and healthcare in 2050”.
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In an important development, Satinder Dhawan, wife of Harmohan Dhawan, former Member of Parliament, announced that she was withdrawing her candidature.
