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Accident cuts short two young lives
Teenagers belonging to Shimla were killed after an Army truck hit their car in Old Panchkula 
Panchkula, September 30
Two teenagers were killed when an Army truck hit the Alto car they were travelling in at Old Panchkula this morning. A passer-by chased the truck and noted down its number.

The mangled remains of the Alto in Panchkula on Monday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal

End of world for victims’ parents
Panchkula, September 30
It is end of the world for the parents of Neeraj and Satyam, who were killed in a road accident at Old Panchkula this morning. The high hopes of Satyam's father, who is physically challenged and runs a tea stall in Shimla, were dashed after he learnt that his son was killed in the accident.

Breather for 1,300 CITCO employees 
Chandigarh, September 30
Just over a month after CITCO decided not to grant extension in service to employees retiring on attaining the age of superannuation at 58, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today stayed the decision.

UT suffered loss of Rs 1.32 crore: CAG
Chandigarh, September 30
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pointed out that the UT Administration suffered a loss of Rs 1.32 crore due to delay in allotment of over 300 booths by the UT Estate Office.

Sharing the mike: Actor Anil Kapoor interacts with winners of a contest at a car dealership in Mohali on Monday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

Two college girls hurt after being hit by SUV 
Chandigarh, September 30 
Two girls of DAV College, Sector 10, were critically injured when an Endeavour SUV hit them on the Sector 15/11 road here today. The girls were going on an Activa scooter when the car hit them from the rear.

PGI OPDs to remain closed on Oct 2
All OPDs in the PGI will remain closed on October 2 on account of Gandhi Jayanti, a gazetted holiday. Emergency services will function as usual. 

COMMUNITY

Self-assessment scheme launched
Chandigarh, September 30
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today launched the self-assessment scheme for house tax on the residential property for the assessment year 2013-14. The MC has given two months time (from October 14 to December 13) to residents to opt for the scheme and deposit the tax.

CHB houses at Sector 45. A file photo

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse
Chandigarh, September 30
Councillors of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation are always willing to go on study tours to other states, but when they have to study projects in the city and that too without spending a single penny, they seem least concerned.

Dy Mayor, street vendors complain against SHO
Chandigarh, September 30 
The Deputy Mayor of Chandigarh and a group of roadside vendors from the Industrial Area met the Inspector General of Police (IGP) RP Upadhyaya on Monday complaining against the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Industrial Area, Phase1 Police Station.

Burail jail to get female ward, gymnasium
Chandigarh, September 30
Moving a step ahead in modernisation, the Model Jail, Burail, is all set to get a separate female ward and a gymnasium. The UT Adviser laid the foundation stone of the ward on the jail premises today.

aadhaar card
Confusion prevails among city residents
Chandigarh, September 30
There is confusion among residents on whether the linking of their Aadhaar card to their bank accounts and LPG consumer number has become mandatory from October 1, 2013, to receive cash subsidies through direct benefit transfer for LPG (DBTL), or not.

Bal Sadan kitchen in a mess
Panchkula, September 30
Panchkula District and Sessions Judge RK Sondhi conducted a surprise inspection at Bal Sadan, Sector 12-A, Panchkula, along with the newly-posted secretary of the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Sunil Chauhan, this afternoon. The kitchen was found to be in a sorry state of affairs, following which the staff was asked to clean the surroundings at the earliest.

Panchkula District and Sessions Judge RK Sondhi inspects the kitchen at Bal Sadan in Sector 12-A, Panchkula, on Monday. Tribune Photo: Nitin Mittal

Sagging live wires pose danger
Panchkula, September 30
Putting lives in danger, live wires are hanging loose at various points in the city. The Electricity Department has failed to address the problem even after two incidents in which live wires fell, damaging a roof in one case and landing a Sector 4 resident in hospital, after getting an electric shock, in the other.
Live wires hang loosely outside a house; and (left) wires on an electricity pole remain uncovered in Sector 10, Panchkula. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal

Tributes paid to Lt Col Bikramjit Singh
Chandigarh, September 30
People from different walks of life attended the bhog ceremony of Lt Col Bikramjit Singh at the Sector 8 gurdwara today. Among those present at the ceremony were Brig RS Mann from the Western Command, local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, BJP leaders Satya Pal Jain and Sanjay Tandon, former Punjab Education Minister Tota Singh, MP from Hoshiarpur Avanish Rai Khanna, Mayor Subash Chawla and Savita Bhatti.
Lt Col Bikramjit Singh’s father and sister try to console his mother; and (left) his wife breaks down while meeting a relative during the bhog ceremony at the Sector 8 gurdwara in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune photos: S Chandan

Training chief visits Air Force High Grounds
Chandigarh, September 30
Air Marshal Paramjit Singh Gill, who is the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, today visited No. 1 Technical Type Training School at Air Force High Grounds. The officer was received by the station commander, Gp Capt G Krishnakumar. He was briefed about the training being conducted at the High Grounds for the IAF pilots and maintenance staff besides for pilots and technicians from friendly foreign countries.
Air Marshal Paramjit Singh Gill inaugurates an avionics laboratory at the High Grounds in Chandigarh on Monday. A Tribune photograph

World Tourism Week 
Celebrations end on a high note
Chandigarh, September 30
Celebrations of World Tourism Week, organised by the Chandigarh Tourism in association with CITCO and The Tribune, concluded this evening amidst lots of festivities.

EDUCATION

Dept challenges minority status of 2 schools
Chandigarh, September 30
In a significant move, the UT Education Department challenged the grant of the minority status certificate to Saupin’s School, Sector 32, and New Public School, Sector 18, through a review petition, filed last week in the National Commission for Minority Education Institutions (NCMEI), New Delhi.

Interactive session on God particle
Chandigarh, September 30
The Department of Physics, MCM DAV College for Women, organised a lecture and an interactive session with Prof Manjit Kaur, Chairperson, Department of Physics, Punjab University.

Research paper presentation contest
Chandigarh, September 30
As part of its 50th year celebrations, the Regional Institute of English (RIE), Chandigarh, organised an Inter-College Research Paper Presentation Competition on the topic ‘From Word to Frame: Popular Adaptations of Classic Novels in Cinema’ for college students of the region.

Regularisation of teachers discussed
Chandigarh, September 30
The provision of the Right To Education Act, 2009, was discussed in length at the teachers' conference of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers' Welfare Association (SSATWA), held today.

PU fest to showcase award-winning movies
Chandigarh, September 30
Three-day-long experimental film festival of Panjab University (PU), starting on October 3 at its Law Auditorium, will showcase the best of award-winning movies and experimental cinema. It will showcase 14 documentaries, seven animated films, 11 fiction and three feature length movies and three short films. All of them are award-winning movies.

Efforts on to promote quality cinema among students
Chandigarh, September 30
To develop a taste and understanding for meaningful cinema, the Film Division of India (FDI), a branch of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has opened up its latest ‘fdzone chapter’ on the PU campus which will work to promote cinema as a powerful medium among city students as well as residents of the city.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Two minor girls missing 
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 30
A student of Class XI studying in a local school of the area allegedly eloped from her house. The 15-year-old girl, a resident of Panjkoha village, near Khamano, went for tuition at Morinda town, but did not return. The parents of the girl have raised a suspicion on a boy, who is a resident of Morinda.

Aagman-2013 begins
Ropar, September 30
A placement orientation programme, ‘Aagman 2013’, for final-year aspiring engineers, managers and architects was organised at Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Bhaddal, technical campus, here today.

200 participate in workshop 
Patiala, September 30
The Centre for Census Studies and Research (CCSR), Punjabi University, Patiala, in association with Directorate of Census Operations , Punjab, organised a one-day workshop on data dissemination, ‘Census 2011 and its Implications’, on the premises of the institute, here today. Prof HS Bhatti, director, CCSR, welcomed all the delegates and participants on the occasion.

Electrician electrocuted 
Zirakpur, September 30
An electrician was electrocuted while he was carrying out repair work at the Ranbaxy godown, Bhabat. The deceased has been identified as Amrish Kumar, a resident of Raibraili in Uttar Pradesh.

COURTS

Dera chief granted more time
Chandigarh, September 30
Less than a week before Dera Sacha Sauda chief Guru Ram Rahim Singh was scheduled to appear before the CBI special court in Panchkula, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today granted him time till after October 22 for the purpose.

sucha singh’s murder
Statements of two key witnesses recorded
Chandigarh, September 30 
Statements of two key witnesses in the Inspector Sucha Singh's murder case reported in June this year were recorded in the court today. Statements of the police constable, Anil Kumar, and a home guard volunteer, Jatinder, who was also injured in the attack, were recorded in court today.

CRIME

fraud case
Industrialist, kin booked
Mohali, September 30
The Mohali police today registered a Rs 6 crore cheating case against industrialist Sushil Sharma, his son Ashutosh Sharma and daughter Bhawna Chaudhary at Phase I here.

german gang-rape case
Convicts jump parole
Chandigarh, September 30
Three convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a German woman have jumped parole. The three failed to report back to their prisons after their parole period got over. While two were lodged in jails in Punjab, where they had been transferred from Burail Jail, the third convict was in the Chandigarh jail.

graft case
Revenue officials held
Panchkula, September 30
A vigilance team today caught two officials of the Revenue Department for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a person for transferring his ancestral land in his name at Barwala.

harassment case
Rape charges slapped on father-in-law
Mohali, September 30
In the case of an alleged outraging of modesty of an NRI woman by her father-in-law at the latter’s Phase VII residence, the police has added rape charges (Section 376 of the IPC) against the accused to the FIR registered at the Mataur police station.

SPORTS

PSB win hockey tournament
Chandigarh, September 30
The hockey team of Punjab and Sindh Bank (PSB) lifted the title of 43rd SN Vohra's All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament, here today. In the final match, the Punjab and Sindh Bank faced some resistance before winning the final match against the Punjab National Bank (PNB) by 5-3 (via tie-breaker) held at the Hockey Stadium of Sports Complex, Sector 42, 43rd SN Vohra's All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament.
The team members of Punjab and Sindh Bank strike a pose after winning the 43rd SN Vohra's All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament at Sector 42 in Chandigarh on Monday. A Tribune photograph

administrator’s challenge football cup
AIFF lift soccer cup
Chandigarh, September 30
The state-run Chandigarh Football Academy (CFA) failed to defend winner’s trophy of the 11th Administrator’s Challenge Football Cup for Boys (U-17), here today. In the finals, played at the Football Stadium, Sector 17, the team went down against the Indian National Academy of All-India Football Federation (AIFF) by 2-0.

Shishu Niketan School bag ball badminton championship
Chandigarh, September 30
The ball-badminton team of Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School,-22, defeated Moti Ram Arya School, Sector 27, to win the 17th Junior and Sub-Junior State Ball Badminton Championship (boys and girls), concluded here today. 

jp atray memorial cricket tournament
Punjab team beat MPCA by 5 wickets
Chandigarh, September 30
In the opening match of the day, cricket team of Punjab defeated Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) by 5 wickets, during the 20th All India JP Atray Memorial Cricket tournament, being held here today.