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10-year-old commits suicide
Chandigarh, May 3
In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his Manimajra residence here today.
ncert books
Shortage has students, parents fuming
Chandigarh, May 3
Though High Court’s recent verdict mandating the prescription of the NCERT books in schools has got a thumbs up from city parents, the persistent unavailability of the same has left them with no choice but to go in for overpriced private publishers.
i-t raids
Rs 4-cr, gold ornaments seized
Chandigarh, May 3
Over Rs 4 crore and a huge quantity of gold was seized during raids by income tax (I-T) officials on four prominent real estate companies here today.
A dream powered by air
Chandigarh, May 3
At a time when the fuel prices have gone sky-high and everyone is looking for cost-efficient and pollution-free means of travelling, three Punjab Engineering College (PEC) students have come up with a compressed air-powered bicycle which doesn’t even require physical effort to pedal it.
Interestingly, the bicycle can go up to a speed of 20 km per hour. The three-member
team, comprising Abeer Sharma, Harparinderjit Singh and Jatin Sharma of the mechanical engineering department, is the brain behind the innovative bicycle.
The students of PEC with their compressed air powered bicycle in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Sale of correction fluid, thinner to be controlled
Chandigarh, May 3
Nearly two years after theatre personalities, social activists and NGOs joined hands to seek a ban on correction fluid and thinner, increasingly being used by addicts for feeling euphoric, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to control and ban its sale in bottles.
Invitation to accident
Two-wheeler riders risk their lives by crossing the road separating Phases I and II of the Industrial Area in
Panchkula. Tribune Photo: S Chandan
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Bogus dwelling-unit allotment detected
Chandigarh, May 3
The UT estate office today detected the bogus allotment of a dwelling unit at the rehabilitation colony in Sector 25 here. It had been made on the basis of a bogus document.
Deadlock over garbage continues
Chandigarh, May 3
No fruitful result emerged today from a number of meetings between members of the finance and contract committee (F&CC) of the municipal corporation (MC) and door-to-door garbage-collection employees, who had been protesting in front of the MC office for the last three days.
This one seems special
Despite cuts on main roads having been closed, the one leading to the two filling stations at Sector 21 from the Dakshin Marg remains to be in use. Tribune Photo: Manoj Mahajan
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94 more challaned
Chandigarh, May 3
Continuing its drive of issuing challans late at night, the PCR wing of the traffic police issued 94 challans last night. In the last one week, the police had issued more than 400 challans. The PCR wing also arrested six persons for gambling at a public place in Mani
Majra.
Regional planning board in offing
Chandigarh, May 3
Punjab and Haryana have agreed to form a regional planning board.
DC reviews road construction
Mohali, May 3
The link road, connecting the district’s remote villages, Tanda Tandi and Masol, located in the Shivalik hillocks near Pinjore, with the main road would be completed by this monsoon. Mohali DC Varun Roojam reviewed the project worth Rs 5 crore, underway at the site.
Violating traffic rules
A car and a motorcyclist take a wrong turn on a highway near Sector 4 in Panchkula. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
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women power
P’kula gets woman DCP
Chandigarh, May 3
Filling up the single missing link of all women in top positions of Panchkula Administration, Parul Kush Jain has been appointed as the Deputy Commissioner of Police, said sources here today. She was currently serving as the SP (Kurukshetra).
Head Constable suspended
Mohali, May 3
A head constable, namely Dilbagh Singh, an in-charge of the Industrial Area police post has been suspensed for allegedly thrashing up a watchman of the industries department here.
evening dept
Protest against academic panel
Chandigarh, May 3
The Panjab University Students Union (PUSU) today staged a protest outside the Vice-Chancellor’s office against the academic committee of the evening department for recommending phasing out of police administration as the optional subject at the undergraduate
level at the evening department from the coming academic session.
PUSU activists raise slogans outside the Vice-Chancellor’s office at Panjab University
on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
‘Implement childcare leave’
Chandigarh, May 3
The Panjab University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) along with faculty members today staged a protest outside the Vice-Chancellor’s office, demanding implementation of childcare leave (CCL) as per the UGC notification.
Members of PUTA protest outside the Vice-Chancellor’s office at Panjab University on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
School teachers demand promotions
Chandigarh, May 3
A meeting of the Government Teachers Union (Regd), UT, was held yesterday to discuss the long pending demands of teachers working in government schools. Issues relating to promotions were prominently raised in the meeting.
Manual on health-promoting schools released
Chandigarh, May 3
Months after giving accreditation to 20 city schools as health-promoting schools on pilot basis, Governor of Punjab and UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil released a manual on health-promoting schools here today.
Studying hard
Students study at the new block of the AC Joshi Library, which is now officially opened, at Panjab University on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
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Implementation of RTE Act
Department sends ‘last warning’ to pvt schools
Chandigarh, May 3
The UT education department, which remained silent over implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsary Education Act (RTE Act) even weeks after the Supreme Court uphelding its constitutional validity, has sent another letter to city private schools as their “last warning”.
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Patient care at the PGI here was suspended for more than one and a half hours this evening when doctors went to the office of the hospital Director with the complaint of a doctor being roughed up.
