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fiza’s death
It was murder: Alvi
Mohali, August 11
Local media was once again on its toes when social activist Salim Alvi, a resident of Bulandshahr, who was close to Anuradha Bali aka Fiza, turned up all of sudden at Fiza’s house in Sector 48 about 5 pm today.
Police recovers Fiza’s medical bill from Scorpio
Ambala, August 11
The Ambala police has recovered a medical bill issued by a chemist at Government Medical College Hospital, Sector 32,
Chandigarh, in the name of Anuradha Bali from the Scorpio found abandoned on Jarot Road near Ambala City on Thursday.
 Security agency owner abandoned Scorpio at Ambala
Extortion continues in P’kula
Panchkula, August 11
Extortion from small vendors and ‘rehri
walas’ at Sector 15 in Panchkula continues. However, the police has turned a blind eye to the menace.
It was a day back when the vendors got a case registered against a youth who
used to extort money daily from 30 to 35 vendors at gunpoint. But the police
instead of taking any concrete action against the accused snubbed the vendors.
The vendors suffer due to police ‘inaction’ at Sector 15
in Panchkula. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Monkey catchers give up after 2 months
Chandigarh, August 11
It seems the simians are too smart for the trained monkey catchers hired by the UT Administration. The experts, who were awarded contract to catch monkeys in the city, finally gave up before these smart simians and left the contract as they failed to catch even a single monkey for the past two months.
For the past two months, Gurgaon-based trained monkey catchers were trying to
catch the monkeys by laying traps in the various parts of the city, but these
monkeys always outsmart them. The UT Administration had awarded the contract to
catch monkeys in June and it was decided that it would pay catchers Rs 550 per
monkey.
Laying of paver blocks
No policy to monitor work
Chandigarh, August 11
Sounds strange, but it is a fact that the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC), which is spending crores of rupees on laying paver blocks and widening of roads annually in the city, are not monitoring the quality of work, as their is no policy in place for it. The authorities fritter public money on these works without any proper planning and coordination between roads and paver blocks wings.
Sand being used to fix tiles in Sector 21, Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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Instead of maintaining the already laid tiles, the MC is wasting public money on laying another row of paver blocks in Sector 19; and (right) paver blocks laid in Sector 21 have been removed for widening of the road. Tribune photos: Manoj Mahajan |
More rain likely in next two days: Met department
Chandigarh, August 11
As dark clouds made their presence felt over the city, the meteorological department has been expecting good rainfall for the next two days in
Chandigarh. The city received rainfall close to 11 mm on Thursday and about 13 mm yesterday, which according to met officials was reasonably a good figure considering the drought-like situation looming large over the region.
| Young talent |
Singers perform during an award ceremony organised by the Yaadgar-e-Rafi Society at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: s chandan |
Anupama’s parents to move consumer forum
Chandigarh, August 11
The parents of 17-year-old Anupama, who died three weeks ago at the PGI, have now planned to move the consumer forum against the tertiary care institute.
Baby’s Death
Parents withdraw complaint
Chandigarh, August 11
A day after a two-year-old baby died at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, the parents have
withdrawn their complaint wherein they had alleged negligence on the part of hospital staff nurse.
Family fails to get response
Chandigarh, August 11
Even after announcing a reward of Rs 20 lakh on August 4 for giving clues regarding the sensational murder of Amarjit Singh Khurana, owner of Sham Mall in Sector 34, the family has failed to get any response.
Research quality goes in 3 yrs: PGI dean
 Chandigarh, August 11
The PGI today marked its first-ever research day as a part of the ongoing golden jubilee celebrations. Addressing a gathering of senior researchers from various institutions and PGI faculty, dean, Dr Amod Gupta, pointed out that the quality of research at the PGI has moved down over the past three years.
Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar (left) interacts with PGI Director Yogesh Chawla at the research day in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: S Chandan
Police fails to learn a lesson
Panchkula, August 11
Two incidents of car robbery were reported in the city in the past 15 days. However, the Panchkula police is yet to learn its lessons. The tank chowk where the robbers struck on Friday morning is a high profile area, with Chandimandir Cantonment on one side and VIP Sector 6. Yet no PCR service is available there to curb crime.
No security man on duty at a police shed near the Sector 2-5 roundabout in Panchkula on Saturday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Mohali gets another Suvidha Kendra
Mohali, August 11
The chairman of the District Planning Committee, Harbhajan Mann, inaugurated a Suvidha Kendra on the premises of the Municipal Corporation office at Sector 68 here yesterday.
Windowpanes of three vehicles smashed
Mohali, August 11
Unidentified miscreants broke the windowpanes of three cars at Sector 71 on Friday night. This is the second such incident in the past couple of days.
A resident shows the brick with which the windowpane was broken at Sector 71 in Mohali on Saturday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Chandigarh scan
Talk held
The First Friday Forum organised a talk on “Learning from life” by Vanita
Arora, a freelance journalist. She emphasised on how one can tap his or her fullest potential while serving humanity and how one should go about inculcating
divine qualities like love, respect, and faith in one’s character.
At Risk: A fallen tree dangles dangerously above the gate of Government High School, Sector 52, Kajheri village, Chandigarh, on Saturday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan |
PU student Elections
Police to track poll expenses
Chandigarh, August 11
Not just the Panjab University (PU) authorities, but the Chandigarh police too will appoint observers to keep a tab over the money spent by the student leaders in university elections. The Chandigarh police also recently held a meeting with taxi operators and contractors providing tents, chairs etc in the area and asked them to inform the police about the student parties hiring their services.
Scheme to improve secondary education fails to take off in UT
Chandigarh, August 11
Centrally-sponsored Rash-triya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) that was started in the UT about three years ago to support secondary education in government schools has not taken off well. The scheme is found largely on papers since not many activities as envisaged under this scheme have seen the light of day.
government schools
Option to change school, stream still open for students in 3rd counselling
Chandigarh, August 11
There is still an opportunity for candidates to apply for their desired streams or change their schools as the third counselling begins from Monday.
Financially weak students might never make it to pvt schools under RTE
Mohali, August 11
The dreams of children from poor families of attending reputed private schools in the district under the RTE Act are not coming true as none of them have so far been
recommended by the education authorities for the privilege.
Panjab university
Exhaust waiting list before converting sports seats to general, demand parents
Chandigarh, August 11
Parents of the applicants who had applied for Joint Admission Counselling (JAC) for admission to six engineering institutes in the city under the sports category today made a representation to the Panjab University Vice Chancellor demanding that a counselling session must be held if seats under the category become vacant again.
500 students take part in traffic awareness programme
Chandigarh, August 11
The Traffic Awareness and Road Safety Society of Post Graduate Government College-11 organised an awareness
programme-cum-exhibition regarding the traffic rules today among the students.
More than 500 students participated in the programme during which chief traffic
marshal Grewal, traffic marshal Harman Sidhu, along with traffic police
inspector Tripta Kumari and head constable Vinod Kumar delivered an extensive
lecture about traffic signals, rules, causes of accidents and safety measures.
Traffic police officials interact with students at the PGGC-11 in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo: S Chandan
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