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Firefighting system, smoke detectors were out of order
Chandigarh, March 18
The firefighting system and smoke detectors at the Punjab Mini-Secretariat in Sector 9, where a major fire broke out on Sunday, were non-functional.
Years on, little headway in scam cases
Various departments of the Chandigarh Administration and the municipal corporation have been embroiled in controversies over various scams being reported over the years even as action is awaited against the guilty and the cases are yet to reach a logical conclusion. The Tribune reporter Rajinder Nagarkoti takes stock
Chandigarh’s Dolly bags 2nd big award
Chandigarh, March 18
It was city-based actress-designer Dolly Ahluwalia's lively character of a Punjabi mother in "Vicky Donor" that bagged her this year's National Film Award for the Best Supporting Actress. The awards were announced in Delhi today.
Dolly Ahluwalia
India not a pushover: Natwar Singh
Chandigarh, March 18
Former Union Minister of External Affairs K. Natwar Singh today delivered a lecture on "India, US, China and Pakistan" at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development
(CRRID) here.
The lecture was full of anecdotal details which Natwar Singh drew from his long career as a diplomat and then in politics. He started the talk by remembering the contribution of Jawaharlal Nehru to the India's foreign policy.
Former Union Minister K. Natwar Singh in Chandigarh on Monday.
UIET girl student suspended from hostel
Chandigarh, March 18
A final year girl student of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology
(UIET), who was reportedly found in an inebriated condition during the annual fest of
UIET, last Saturday, was suspended from her hostel by the PU authorities today till the further notice.
Lax security at city railway station
Chandigarh, March 18
Feel free to enter from any unmanned entrance of the Chandigarh Railway Station as the Railway Police Force
(RPF) has not deployed any security personnel to keep a check on the commuters.
Commuters enter the railway station from an exit point.
Mahant deposits bid amount
Chandigarh, March 18
Much to the respite of the Registration and Licensing Authority (RLA), Chandigarh, the elusive Mahant Yogi Chhotu Nath today deposited the bid amount for the
vanity number, “CH01 AR 0001”, which he had bought for Rs 10.05 lakh for his Rs 66 lakh Audi Q7, luxury SUV.
Seventeen constables were made to sit in an SUV
Chandigarh, March 18
All 17 police constables were packed like sardines in a Scorpio car on the pretext that all other official vehicles were being used by personnel conducting raids in the Rs 130-crore drug haul case involving boxer Vijender. All of them were told to adjust in the same vehicle and reach the parade venue somehow.
Injured cops stable
Chandigarh, March 18
As many as eight constables of the Punjab Police, who met with an accident while they were on their way to the Police Lines, Fatehgarh Sahib, in a Scorpio Getaway for the usual Monday morning parade, were rushed to the PGI, Chandigarh. Their condition is stated to be stable now.
Colleagues rush to PGI
Panchkula, March 18
After the news of the accident of their fellow policemen spread at the parade venue, 22 constables and head constables immediately rushed from Fatehgarh Sahib to Chandigarh. They had come to the PGI to donate blood to their colleagues, if needed.
Only 4 complainants turn up at Patil’s public darbar
Chandigarh, March 18
In the public hearing session of UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil, only four complainants turned up today.
Desraj, a handicapped retired government employee, who was carried by his relatives to the public
darbar, appealed the administrator to provide him relief from land grabbers. He complained regarding the illegal possession of land at Naya Gaon in Mohali district. Patil said it was a civil matter and advised the complainant to approach the court in the matter.
Desraj, a physically challenged retired government employee, being brought out from the UT Secretariat, Sector 9, Chandigarh, by his relatives. TRibune Photo: Manoj Mahajan
No headway in Dell employee’s murder case
Mohali, March 18
The police has failed to make headway in the murder of a Dell employee whose body was found in a forest near the Siswan-Baddi area on March 14.
UT to set up restoration centre at CCA
Chandigarh, March 18
The UT Administration has decided to set up a restoration centre to store and repair heritage items of the city. This centre would come up at Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA).
Chandigarh Scan
Dharna staged
The All-India Secretary and the State Secretary Northern States Canara Bank Staff Union today observed dharna against the newly announced bank licensing policy.
Education Department to ensure better learning
Chandigarh, March 18
In a bid to improve the education standards, the education department has come with another policy. From the next academic session, it will be compulsory for all the government teachers to make the academic plan on weekly basis, for their classes to ensure the better learning outcomes.
From schools
Awareness programme organised
CHANDIGARH : As many as 22 students and three teachers of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, and 25 students and five teachers of Guru Teg Bahadur Public School, Sector 15, Chandigarh, visited Botanical Garden for awareness programme on medicinal plants organised by the Environment Society of India, Chandigarh. Om Parkash Coordinator-cum-in charge Eco Clubs of Chandigarh imparted the information about the various medicinal plants, identification, medicinal properties and their uses etc. He had shown several species of herbal, sacred and fruit plants at the botanical garden.
PU students raise demands
Chandigarh, March 18
Members of Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) along with several PU students held a protest in front of Vice-Chancellor's office for their long pending demands.
Panjab University students hold a protest on the campus on Monday. Tribune Photo: S. Chandan
Education Dept may lose Central grant
Chandigarh, March 18
The UT Education Department is in tight spot over the issue of school uniform. The department officials feared that their Central school uniform grant of approximately Rs 4 crore, provided under Sarav Shikshya Abhiyan , might lapse since it could not spend even a single penny from this budget, even as the current financial year is about to end.
Two candidates shortlisted for PEC Director’s post
Chandigarh, March 18
The UT Administration has shortlisted two names for the post of Director at PEC University of Technology. The candidates are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Roorkee.
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Mohali, March 18
Chandigarh, March 18
