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Prideasia Project
Applicants claim interest on earnest money
Chandigarh, July 14
Another controversy hovering around the Parsvnath housing project, Prideasia, has surfaced, this time over the issue of interest on the earnest money.
Tippa murder: Accused convicted
Chandigarh, July 14
Two years after the murder of a youth Akali leader from Muktsar in the city’s Sector 9 market, the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Shalini Nagpal today convicted 30-year-old Minkel
Bajaj, alias Balwinder Singh, a businessman from Muktsar, for the murder. The quantum of sentence will be announced on July 17.
The spot where Tripat Deep Singh was shot at in Sector 9 on July 12, 2010; and
(right) Tripat Deep Singh (sporting turban) and convict Minkel Bajaj.
Home Guards volunteer’s son hypnotised, duped
Chandigarh, July 14
A 13-year-old son of a Home Guards volunteer with the Chandigarh Police was allegedly hypnotised by a ‘tantrik’ in Sector 20 to the jewellery from his house on Saturday evening.
damaged pipeline
No respite from water shortage
 Chandigarh, July 14
Residents of Sectors 48 to 52, who have been facing shortage of water since a week, have to wait for a few more days for the normal supply. At least 20 per cent of the work on the damaged pipeline that supplies water is yet to be completed, said officials.
MC officials visit the site where the pipeline is damaged in Sector 53, Chandigarh, on Saturday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Councillors support residents’ cause
Chandigarh, July 14
On the sixth day of fast, the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) Federation campaign received support from councillors of the BJP, Akali Dal and BSP, as they sat on a daylong fast with members of the CHB and rehabilitation colonies at two different places.
Verandah encroachment rampant
Mohali, July 14
Verandahs in the market areas have been encroached upon with impunity with the Municipal Corporation failing to evict the offenders, much to the annoyance of the residents who are denied the usage of these verandahs during rain.
Encroachments by shopkeepers on the verandah in a market of Phase II in
Mohali. Tribune photo: vicky gharu
Bodies at loggerheads over community centre site
Panchkula, July 14
The residents welfare society and the Eco Friendly Association seem to be at loggerheads over the setting up of a community centre at Sector 2 with the latter opposing the centre tooth and nail stating that this would disturb ecology of the area.
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Bharatanatyam dancer Savitha Sastry performs ‘soul cages’ at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan |
‘Home Minister’s visit to city disappointing’
Chandigarh, July 14
Satya Pal Jain, a former MP of Chandigarh, said Home Minister P Chidambaram’s visit to Chandigarh has been a total failure and disappointing for residents of the city.
He said residents of the city had been hoping that the Home Minister would make
announcements regarding long pending issues of traders, employees, residents of
villages and colonies, allottees of the Chandigarh Housing Board and other
sections of the city.
Cadaver donation need of the hour
Chandigarh, July 14
A movement of cadaver donation of brain dead patients is need of the hour, as a donor can save many lives through the organs so donated. This was stated by PGI director YK Chawla while addressing a gathering on the installation ceremony of the Rotary Club,
Chandigarh, on Friday.
237 donate blood
Chandigarh, July 14
More than 237 persons donated blood at a camp organised by the Thalassaemic Children Welfare Association
(TCWA), Chandigarh, today. The camp was held to help the needy,
especially during the summer, when there is an acute shortage of blood.
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Trucks parked on a road near a tax barrier at the entrance of Chandigarh can cause an accident.
Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal |
Constable of ITBP has fatal fall
Panchkula, July 14
An ITBP constable, Mahesh (29), who had recently participated in the ITBP pass-out parade, died after felling from a tree this morning.
Women urged to come forward
Mohali, July 14
Women will have to come forward to fight the problem of female foeticide and only then it will be possible to witness positive results because women were themselves responsible for female foeticide to a great extent.
Slum children take part in cultural programme
Panchkula, July 14
About 417 children from various slums participated in a cultural programme organised at Hallmark Pubic School, Sector 15, today.
Children sing ‘Hum Honge Kamyab’ during a cultural programme at Panchulka on Saturday. Tribune Photo: Nitin Mittal
chandigarh scan
Function at PGI
The staff, parents and children at the Nivedita Crèche of PGIMER celebrated the king of fruits-Mango Day in an event held there. The children sang rhymes and songs to glorify the fruit. They drew and painted various picture of mangoes. They were also quizzed about various aspects of mango such as difference between raw and ripe mangoes.
Soon, Road safety in CBSE curriculum
Chandigarh, July 14
In an effort to make students more cautious about safety in roads, the Central Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE) is going to integrate road safety in its syllabus.
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