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Police forcing Mehak’s family to compromise
Panchkula, August 23
If a woman conceives a month before her marriage, it is acceptable to the Panchkula police if she dies in pregnancy. This seems to be the case for the police in Mehak’s mysterious death as senior police officials are advising her family to strike a compromise as she was “characterless”.
Mehak
Mehak may have conceived after marriage, say experts
Chandigarh, August 23
Did Mehak conceive before her marriage? The answer is in the negative going by the technicalities of calculation of weeks of pregnancy. While the Panchkula police has been casting aspersions on her character, claiming Mehak, who died due to strangulation on August 20, was five-month pregnant and she was married only four months ago, medical experts today stated that she could have conceived after the marriage only.
ruckus at lake club
Police, admn still groping in dark
Chandigarh, August 23
The UT Administration and the UT police are yet to identify the youngsters who had participated in the pool party at Lake Club on Sunday.
Lake Sports Complex
better known for high-profile parties
Chandigarh, August 23
It seems that the Lake Sports Complex (Lake Club) is more known for
high-profile parties than for promoting sports activities, for which
it had been set up.
A view of the Lake Sports Complex where the contoversial pool party was organised on Sunday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Victim shocked at neighbour’s act
Chandigarh, August 23
More than the injury, it’s the shock of betrayal by her neighbour’s son that is not allowing 60-year-old Hira Devi to come to terms with the reality.
Hira Devi at her daughter's residence on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
ATMs run out of cash
Chandigarh, August 23
Most of the bank ATMs ran out of cash on the second day of the bank strike today. The ATMs of private sector banks, which were operational, witnessed long queues of people waiting to withdraw money.
People line up outside an ATM booth to withdraw cash at Sector 17 in Chandigarh on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Flat possession delayed by 5 years
Chandigarh, August 23
A city-based telecom executive has moved the UT Consumer Forum against a Mohali-based builder for delaying the possession of his flat by five years.
MC in slumber over community parking
Chandigarh, August 23
Ironically, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC), which has Rs 1.5 crore in its kitty for the construction of community parking in residential areas of the city, has no proposal in the pipeline for their execution for the time being.
Cars parked in the residential area of Sector 45 and Sector 41 in Chandigarh. Tribune photographs
Jaswinder needs emotional security: Doctors
Chandigarh, August 23
Loud cries of the 28-year-old woman, Jaswinder Kaur, who was rescued from her house after being found detained in a dingy room for months, rocked the PGI’s emergency ward yesterday.
Shortage of spare parts haunts CTU officials
Chandigarh, August 23
As the impasse between CTU Workers’ Union and CTU’s general manager SP Parmar continues over the latter now allegedly making advance arrangement for bus tyres, the issue of shortage of spares for the ageing fleet of CTU buses has come to haunt officials. Because of the shortage of tyres alone, around 40 local and long route buses were stranded at the Phase 1 workshop.
Take villages in confidence: Govt
Mohali, August 23
The Punjab government has asked the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC) to get clearance from villages whose land will fall in the extended limits of the civic body before sending the case for approval to the authorities concerned.
UT admn appoints regular doctors at civil dispensaries
Chandigarh, August 23
Acting on the issue of shortage of regular doctors in government civil dispensaries in Chandigarh, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has pulled up the UT Administration for not deploying the doctors.
Anupama’s family gets Rs 3-lakh compensation
Chandigarh, August 23
The UT Administration today released Rs 3-lakh compensation for Anupama’s family, the 17-year-old girl, who died due to alleged negligence on the part of staff at the PGI last month.
The compensation was announced by the administration a few days ago and the Deputy Commissioner approved of the amount today.
Anupama
student elections
PU fails to set house right
Chandigarh, August 23
Despite the Chandigarh Police preparing a list of 26 'troublemakers' who can disrupt peace during the forthcoming student council elections at Panjab University, following which the Sub-Divisional Magistrate gave a dressing down to eleven of them who appeared before him yesterday, the university authorities are yet to figure out as to who among these 26 are PU students. The outsiders, meanwhile, continue to participate in political activities on the campus that could lead to violence.
CBSE to stop sending question bank CDs
Chandigarh, August 23
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is discontinuing the practice of sending compact disks (CDs) containing a blue print and sample question papers for Classes IX and X effective from the summative assessment-II of the current academic session. The system, however, will remain the same in the summative assessment-I that is to be conducted in the second week of September, CDs for which will be sent to schools by September 10.
Students demand library facility
Chandigarh, August 23
Demanding the facility of getting books issued from Panjab University's AC Joshi Library, students of the department of evening studies staged a protest outside the Vice-Chancellor's office here today.
National honour for Sanskrit teachers
Chandigarh, August 23
Apart from being the only two government school teachers selected from the city to receive this year's national award for teachers, Rajender Kumar Sharma and Priti Garg have another thing in common. Both the teachers have been popularising the Sanskrit language among school children for over 20 years.
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shots at his neighbour’s vehicle with his licensed revolver and flattened its tyres when it was parked in front of his house at Phase VI here today.
