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UT Admn earns Rs 4.03 lakh from RTI applications
Chandigarh, January 18
The Right of Information (RTI) Act has become a tool for ensuring transparency, accountability and tackling corruption with residents using this Act to procure information from various departments of the Chandigarh Administration.
Licence of 13 liquor vends suspended
Chandigarh, January 18
The Excise and Taxation Department of Chandigarh today suspended the licence of 13 liquor vends for their failure to deposit fee of over Rs 10 crore.
UT excise officials seal a liquor vend at Hallo Majra in Chandigarh on Friday.
A Tribune photograph
Seeking blessings
Devotees pay obeisance on the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh at the Sector 34 gurdwara in Chandigarh on Friday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
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idnapping case
Accused spend night at Panipat hotel
Chandigarh, January 18
The accused couple in the kidnapping case of a three-year-old girl stayed at a Panipat hotel last night with the girl. A police team raided the hotel today, but the accused had left the place by the time the police reached there.
A separate police team has also been dispatched to Kaithal where the accused had
stayed on Wednesday night with the girl and at the hotel in Panipat, sources
said. The police today formed a special investigating team (SIT) under the
supervision of Satbir Singh, DSP (Crime), for follow up on the case.
School yet to be inaugurated
Chandigarh, january 18
Government Smart School that was constructed in Sector 53 over a month ago is yet to be inaugurated.
It is the second smart school in the city. The school has high-tech facilities. Projectors have also been installed in all classrooms.
Government Smart School in Sector 53, Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Inclement weather slows down speed posts, mails in city
Chandigarh, January 18
Bad weather for the past fortnight in the region has adversely affected the postal department services in the city. Due to cancellation of flights and delay in trains, the mails which are usually received by residents in three to four days have been delayed by a week or more. The worst affected are the speed post mails, which have been delayed by a fortnight.
Complainant HC Sachdeva with his speed posts that were delayed for more than a week . A Tribune photograph
Mohali resident tests positive for swine flu
Chandigarh, January 18
A Mohali resident tested positive for swine flu today. The patient has been admitted to the PGI, Chandigarh.
UT to form panel to keep check on functioning of clubs
Chandigarh, January 18
The UT Administration has decided to form a committee consisting of officials of the estate office, excise department and finance department, to keep a check on the functioning of the city clubs.
Road safety week observed
Chandigarh, January 18
As part of the 24th Road Safety Week-2013, the Chandigarh traffic police yesterday organised road safety workshops at Government College, Sector 46, Government Home Science College, Sector 10, Government College of Commerce and Business Administration, Sector 42, Infosys’s IT Park, Institute of Hotel Management, Sector 42, Chandigarh, and DAV College, Sector 10.
Chandigarh scan
Teachers awarded
The Prof DN Trikha Excellence in Research Publication Award-2010 has been conferred on Prof A Manna, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof Vasundhara Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.
PU Controller of Exams joins as Deputy DPI
Chandigarh, January 18
The newly appointed Controller of Examinations (CoE) at Panjab University has joined as Deputy DPI (College and Planning) with the Punjab Government. The CoE would now be joining PU after taking relieving orders from the government.
New Academic Session
SOPU announces panel
Chandigarh, January 18
The Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) today announced its new panel for the upcoming academic session. The new panel would lead the party in the student council elections.
Zirakpur students prepare radio show for BBC
Chandigarh, January 18
Students of Dikshant International School, Zirakpur, scripted as well as enacted a captivating radio drama to be broadcast worldwide by BBC London in association with NASA as a Mars awareness programme.
From Schools and Colleges
1,000 take part in painting contest
About 1,000 students from various schools across the tricity of Panchkula, Chandigarh and Mohali participated in the young artist painting competition at The British School,
Panchkula.
Children take part in a painting competition on “oil gas conservation” at The British School in Sector 44, Chandigarh, on Friday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
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Minutes before 24-year-old Jyoti gave in to Doon
MLA Ram Kumar Chaudhary and his three accomplices on November 22, she was jabbed with
knees and kicked while she was being strangulated in a car. She put up a brave front for seven minutes before losing her fight for life.
The trauma suffered by the victim moments before she died came to the fore during the questioning of the assailants.
