BEAUTIFUL
CREATIONS
Models light up the ramp during a fashion show in Sector 35, Chandigarh, on Friday.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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Now, watching movies in multiplexes to burn a hole in your pocket
Chandigarh, July 19
Watching movies in multiplexes in the city will now burn a hole in your pocket as the prices of tickets have been increased. A show, which used to cost a family of four around Rs 1,400, including beverages, will now cost more than Rs 1,800. The cost of the movie tickets has been increased by the UT Administration from today.
Child drowns in pond
Mohali, July 19
An 18-month-old child was found drowned in a small pond in Sector 69 here today.
mid-day meal
Inspection given a miss
Chandigarh, July 19
The Administration boasts of providing hygienic food to schoolchildren, but when it comes to inspecting mid-day meals in schools, officials choose to look the other way.
Hygiene goes for a toss at Sec 15 school
Panchkula, July 19
The Bihar mid-day meal tragedy has failed to move the authorities in the town.
Six government schools get kitchens
Chandigarh, July 19
The education department today made mid-day meal kitchens operational in six government schools.
At present, Dr Ambedkar Institute of Hotel Management, Sector 42, Chandigarh Institute of Hotel Management, Sector 42, Hotel Shivalik View, Sector 17, and GMSSS-47 (run by a private contractor), prepare and deliver mid-day meal to all government schools.
The mid-day meal kitchen at the GMSSS, Sector 47, in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
5 water samples fail test
Mohali, July 19
The rise in typhoid cases in Mohali village has set the alarm bells ringing.
Social activist gets threat
Chandigarh, July 19
Working for the past several years and relentlessly spreading the message of road safety, Harman Sidhu, chairman of NGO Arrive Safe, has received a threat letter pressurising him to withdraw his public interest litigation (PIL) against the removal of liquor vends situated along the national highways near Chandigarh and the neighbouring states.
Geetanjali’s death
Children know what happened on the day of ‘murder’, claim victim’s kin
Panchkula, July 19
The mystery behind Geetanjali's death, the CJM’s wife, deepened with the victim's family claiming that her children were aware of what happened on the day of murder. They alleged that they were not allowed to meet the children.
Encroachments removed from 11 houses
Chandigarh, July 19
Officials of the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) today carried out a demolition drive in Sector 19. Police personnel discouraged residents from stopping the drive.
Violations were noticed in 150 houses in the sector. Encroachments were removed from 11 houses.
Workers remove encroachments from EWS houses at Sector 19-C in Chandigarh on Friday.
Tribune Photo: S Chandan
Property consultants accuse CHB staff of sitting over files
Chandigarh, July 19
The Property Consultants Association has accused the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) of sitting over files. In a press conference today, members of the association said residents were being harassed by the CHB officials as they never bothered to clear the files.
Satya Pal Jain is chief of BJP legal panel
Chandigarh, July 19
Former city MP and senior BJP leader Satya Pal Jain has been nominated as the chairman of the BJP’s National Committee on Legal Affairs and Election Commission by BJP president Rajnath Singh for the coming 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP on Friday decided to set up 20 committees, including the National Committee on Legal Affairs and Election Commission, which will focus on various aspects of electioneering.
IN A DIFFERENT
ROLE
Milind Soman leads in “Pinkathon”, a 10-km walk, at the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh on Friday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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Home Secretary visits ISBT
Chandigarh, July 19
UT Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Transport, Chandigarh Administration, along with officers from the Transport, Engineering and Architect Department, visited the bus terminus of Sector 17 and Sector 43.
MC panel okays equipment for parks
Chandigarh, July 19
A meeting of the environment and city beautification committee of the municipal corporation was held under the chairpersonship of Gurbax
Rawat, in which various items were approved and passed by the committee.
Sparking at PGI dept
Chandigarh, July 19
A minor incident of sparking was reported from the department of radiodiagnosis at the PGI this morning, causing smoke in the area that lasted a few minutes.
Domestic help accused of theft
Mohali, July 19
A resident of Phase II has alleged that his domestic help had stolen Rs 12 lakh from his house when the family was away.
Students allege assault by police officials
Panchkula, July 19
Students of Class XII of a local school complained on Friday at the office of the Commissioner of Police, alleging assault at the hands of police officials at Sector 16 police post. “My friend was beaten up by his neighbours and he got injured. When we asked police officials to register a case, they kept on dilly-dallying,” said
Diwakar, a resident of Sector 17, Panchkula.
PU hikes stipend of theatre students
Chandigarh, July 19
Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, has increased monthly stipend/scholarship of MA-I and MA-II students at the Department of Indian Theatre from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000 .
Colleges to start academic session from July 22
Chandigarh, July 19
With the admission
process at nearly all colleges nearing completion, most of the city
colleges have decided to start new academic session from July 22. The
colleges will organise orientation for first-year students to tell them
about the system of examination and lectures.
Uniform criteria for integrated courses sought
Chandigarh, July 19
A group of students submitted a memorandum to the Dean Faculty of Law, Panjab University, and and chairman, University Institute of Legal Studies, citing “discriminatory criteria” fixed for admission to
BA/Bcom LLB (hons) Five-year integrated course at PU.”
Honour for Desh Bhagat University
Chandigarh, July 19
Desh Bhagat University was honoured with the Education Leadership Award by MCCS India Private Ltd after their National B School survey. Dr Zora Singh, Chancellor of University, received the award at a ceremony, attended by heads of various educational institutes across the country in Mumbai.
Change in eligibility criteria hits students
Chandigarh, July 19
The change in eligibility criteria for admission to six engineering/architecture colleges in the city by the joint admission committee
(JAC) of University Institute of the Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University, has left many sports students in the lurch.
Absence of lights makes counselling tough at PU
Chandigarh, July 19
In absence of any provision for lights, counsellors at the Panjab University
(PU) Law Auditorium are finding it difficult in scrutinising the documents of the students arriving for
counselling. A large number of students are coming for counselling everyday and the team responsible for examining their documents having a tough time in reading out the details.
Counselling under way at the Law Auditorium of Panjab University in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
FROM SCHOOLS
Fruit Party
Children of MDAV, Sector-22 A, Chandigarh, celebrated the “Fruit Party” today. The students brought different fruits to the school with them. The importance of fruits for our health was demonstrated by the teachers through various activities. Principal Neelam Sharma also shared her views with the children.
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Discoloured dirty walls, four dingy rooms and workers sweating profusely without hand gloves! This aptly describes the mid-day meal kitchen.
