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UT finalises eco-sensitive zone
Chandigarh, May 14
Finally, the UT Administration has proposed an area ranging from 2 km to 2.75 km as the eco-sensitive zone around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary.

Lalit Hotel and the Parsvnath project (below) at the IT Park in Chandigarh fall in the proposed eco-sensitive zone. Tribune photos. S Chandan

2 SHOs sent to Police Lines for graft
Panchkula, May 14
Two SHOs, Dinesh Chauhan and Surinder Kumar, have been sent to the Police Lines following corruption charges against them.

ASI caught taking bribe of Rs 1 lakh
Chandigarh, May 14
The Vigilance cell of the UT police today arrested an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) with the Haryana police, posted in the Haryana Chief Minister's security, for allegedly taking Rs 1 lakh as bribe. ASI Jagdish Ram was caught while taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in the Sector 10 parking. The entire amount was seized from him.


ASI Jagdish Ram (centre) being taken for a medical examination after being caught taking a bribe in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Adviser upholds cancellation of Vivek High School
Chandigarh, May 14
UT Adviser KK Sharma has upheld the orders of the Estate Office and the Chief Administrator regarding cancellation of the lease of the land allotted to the Bhagwant Singh Charitable Trust that runs Vivek High School in Sector 38 here.

COMMUNITY

Cops get vital clues in robbery case
Panchkula, May 14
The six robbers, including two women, who perpetrated a robbery at a house in Sector 4 here last night, went to Ambala immediately after the strike. Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Panchkula Commissioner of Police Rajbir Deswal said they had got clues about their escape route.

Symbol politics major deciding factor
Panchkula, May 14
With the Congress deciding against contesting the MC elections on the party symbol, symbol politics will be a major deciding factor in the Panchkula MC elections, which are scheduled for June 2.

Waterlogging adds to patients’ woes at PGI
Chandigarh, May 14
Patients at the kidney unit (renal centre) of the PGI have been facing inconvenience due to waterlogging in the area owing to a leakage in an underground sewer pipeline since Monday morning. Dirty water, emanating a foul smell, has accumulated even on the road in front of the mortuary that is a stone throwaway distance from the Director’s office.
(Clockwise from top left) A security guard covers his face due to foul smell emanating from accumulated water near the Gastroenterology Centre; a waterlogged road outside the Director’s office. Tribune photos: parvesh chauhan

Complaint filed against PGI chemist
Chandigarh, May 14
A complaint was filed against a chemist shop located at the Advanced Trauma Centre of the PGI for supplying a fungus-infested saline bottle (IV fluid) to a critical patient on Thursday.

MC to impose tax on commercial properties in five more villages
Chandigarh, May 14
The House Tax Assessment Committee of the Municipal Corporation today decided to impose property tax on the commercial properties of five villages of Hallo Majra, Kajheri, Palsora, Maloya and Dadu Majra. These villages were included in the MC limits in 2006.

iron hand at work: A JCB machine removes muddy water from a spot where a water pipline burst on Tuesday. The leakage kept the authorities on their toes for the whole day. tribune photo: manoj mahajan

Theme park case adjourned till May 23
Chandigarh, May 14
Heated arguments were today witnessed in the CBI court of Vimal Kumar during the resumed hearing of the theme park case involving former senior officials of the UT administration as accused.

Pawan Mittal on rly panel
Chandigarh, May 14
The Northern Railway has nominated Pawan Mittal as member of the Zonal Railway Users’ Consultative Committee for two years. His tenure will be from March 1, 2013, to Feb 28, 2015.

PU committee records complainant's statement
Chandigarh, May 14
Panjab University's (PU) committee for examining sexual harassment cases today recorded the statement of a faculty member of University Business School who had levelled allegation of sexual harassment against two senior colleagues.

Blueprint of Grain Market
Chandigarh, May 14
The DC today held a meeting with the Chief Engineer, the Chief Architect, the Assistant Estate Officer and officials of the market committee to streamline the functioning of the Sector 26 grain market.

EDUCATION

Another goof-up by PU in question paper
Chandigarh, May 14
A goof-up was found in the question paper of BA final year’s Public Administration exam that was held today. One of the two questions with internal choice in unit IV was found to be different in English and Punjabi language.

Varsity starts petroleum engg course
Mohali, May 14
With the setting up of refineries at Bathinda and Panipat, the Petroleum Engineering has high scope in the region, said Dr GP Karmakar, former director, PD Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, today.


Dr GP Karmakar (left), former Director, PD Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, during the inauguration of the Department of Petroleum at Chandigarh University at Gharuan in Punjab on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph

PU NOTES
Timings of dental institute revised
Chandigarh: The working hours of the dental hospital of Dr Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Panjab University, will be changed from May 16 to June 15. The revised timings will be 8.00 am to 2.00 pm (Monday to Saturday) without any lunch break. The registration of the patients will be done from 8.00 am to 12.00 noon.

TO mothers WITH LOVE: Students of Tribune Model School, Sector 29, Chandigarh, celebrated Mother’s Day by making colourful cards. A tribune photograph.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Two arrested with intoxicant tablets
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 14
The district police has arrested two drug peddlers and recovered 73,000 intoxicant tablets from their posession. SSP Gurmeet Singh Chauhan said the Sirhind police during a checking of vehicles recovered 65,000 intoxicant tablets from a scooter and during the investigation, the owner was identified as Mohit Sharma, a resident of Sirhind Mandi.

Banks to hold loan camps on May 24
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 14
Banks will organise special loan camps on May 24 at the Bachat Bhawan to sanction loans to unemployed youths under self-employment schemes of the government. This was stated by MS Jaggi, Additional Deputy Commissioner, while presiding over the meeting of the consultative committee of various banks organised by the State Bank of Patiala today.

3 get life term
Ambala, May 14
Vimlesh Tanwar, Special Judge of the Fast Track Court, Ambala, has sentenced three persons to life imprisonment in a robbery and murder case. The three accused, Santosh, Mangal and Ashok, were the members of the Babaria gang.

COURTS

SC order on NEET leaves students in a fix
Chandigarh, May 14
Local students and PMT trainers are agitated over the latest interim judgement of the Supreme Court on NEET that allowed private colleges to announce their results both for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

HC dismisses plea of counsellors 
Chandigarh, May 14
Counsellors in the UT Education Department, asked to quit two years ago, have failed to get relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A Division Bench has dismissed their petition for continuation.

Youth acquitted in rape case
Chandigarh, May 14
A 20-year-old youth, who was in the news last month for fleeing from police custody, was today acquitted by a court in a rape case registered against him. The accused, Deepak, will continue to face the trial a separate case of escape from police custody registered against him. At present, he is out on bail.

Leave of staff a policy matter of institute: HC
Chandigarh, May 14
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that the grant of total leave to a class or category of employees is a matter of policy. The ruling came less than six months after a Single Judge asserted that the employees should be more interested in “working”, instead of looking for leave admissible to them.

Police remand for 3 in murder case
Mohali, May 14
The three accused in the Naya Gaon stabbing case, Raju, Rajkumar and Akash, were sent to four-day police remand here today. They were produced before the court of Mohali Judicial Magistrate Surbhi Prashar, who sent them to police remand. The police had demanded seven-day remand of the accused.

CRIME

Juvenile held for teasing girl
Chandigarh, May 14
A 14-year-old boy offered Rs 5 to an eight-year-old girl and asked her to have physical relations with him. The girl informed her mother who called the police. The juvenile boy was arrested in a case of eve-teasing. The case has been registered at the Sector 39 police station.

SPORTS

2 players dropped from team
Chandigarh, May 14
Everyone must have heard of performance-based selection in sports but beat this. Two students of a local school were dropped from the boys’ (U-16) soccer team of the city because the school did not cooperate with the Chandigarh Football Association (CFA).

Local team score 278 for 6 wickets
Chandigarh, May 14
In the ongoing Dhruv Pandove Trophy for Boys (U-19), the local cricket team scored 278 runs for 6, on the first day of the play against Patiala, today.

Nine Club XI win by 102 runs
Chandigarh, May 14
The Nine Club XI defeated GMCH N8G club by 102 runs during the ongoing local T-20 cricket league, being held at the Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, here today.


A batsman plays a shot during the Col AS Judge Memorial T-20 Knockout Cricket Tournament at the Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Tribune photo: parvesh chauhan

Golf camp from May 24
Chandigarh, May 14
Academy of Golf, (Chandigarh Golf Club), Sector 6, will organise a month-long junior golf camp for children ages between 6 to 18 years for members and non-members from May 24 onwards.

CK Jerath is president of boxing association
Chandigarh, May 14
Dr CK Jerath, president of the Chandigarh Amateur Boxing Association (CABA) has been nominated by the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) as technical director of the 14th National Senior Women Boxing Championship to be held at Khatima, Uttarakhand from May 18 to 23.