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St John's High School
HC sets aside complaint against Principal
Chandigarh, October 23
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has shut the chapter of litigation opened by a human rights organisation against St John's High School Principal Kavita C Das.

Kavita C Das, Principal

Girl flees from Nari Niketan, nabbed
Chandigarh, October 23
Showcasing utter negligence of the authorities, a 16-year-old girl, lodged in Nari Niketan in Sector 26 in connection with a theft case, escaped from the Home by scaling the grill on the rear side and then slithering down a pipe from the terrace last night. The minor girl, who was arrested only last week in a theft case and lodged here, managed to steal the purse and mobile phone of a woman attendant before fleeing. The girl was later found in Hallo Majra in the evening where she was again arrested and sent to Nari Niketan.

Watch out! Your khoya burfi could have aluminium coating
Chandigarh, October 23
The next time you are tempted to have silver-coated khoya burfi in a sweets shop, watch out! You could be consuming aluminium or some silver-like hazardous chemical instead of edible silver.


An official of the Health Department raids the workshop of a sweets shop in Mani Majra on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal

Girl murdered; body buried
Panchkula, October 23
A 15-year-old girl, Tahira, was allegedly murdered and her body half burnt to conceal her identity. The body was then buried in a pit near the Tangri river in Barwala, Panchkula. The victim hailed from Muzaffarnagar in UP and was sent by her parents to her paternal uncle's house in Khangesra village in Barwala.

A worker digs a pit to exhume the victim's body

Jewellery, Rs 25,000 stolen from car
Chandigarh, October 23
Thieves struck at Sector 44 in broad daylight today and fled with a purse after breaking a windowpane of a car. Jasleen Kaur, a resident of Sector 44, reported that her purse containing Rs 25,000, a gold chain and some other jewellery was stolen from her car.

78% safai karamcharis found absent
Chandigarh, October 23
Where have the safai karamcharis gone? If you are wondering why Chandigarh has failed to maintain its tag of City Beautiful, here is the answer.




Only one of the 43 safai karamcharis was present at Sector 19-C, Chandigarh, at 7.15 am on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

COMMUNITY

multi-level parking project
Visitors, traders face inconvenience
Chandigarh, October 23
Motorists and local traders are braving the dust in the area due to the construction work on the site of city’s first multi-level parking in Sector 17 that has been started by the Municipal Corporation.

Commuters move through a dusty road near the site of a multi-level parking project in Sector 17, Chandigarh. Tribune photo: manoj mahajan

Spreading message of humane approach in medical profession
Chandigarh, October 23
"We need medical doctors to be more humanitarian in their approach," says Dr Unni Karunakara, who is working in international health for 20 years and right now is touring India on a bicycle to understand the health issues of the country, besides spreading the message of humanitarian approach in medical profession.

CITCO's street food fest from Oct 26
Chandigarh, October 23
CITCO's Chandigarh Street Art and Street Food Festival will be held from October 26 to 27 at the Sukhna Lake.

MC fails to check erring sanitary workers
Chandigarh, October 23
As the Municipal Corporation has failed to develop any effective system to ensure the attendance of safai karamcharis in the field, the safai karamcharis with the connivance of some MC officials and councillors, are enjoying full salaries without turning up in the field.

Garbage lies dumped near a residential park at Sector 29 in Chandigarh. Tribune photos: S Chandan and parvesh chauhan

Better panchkula
P'kula has no designated place for dumping garbage
Panchkula: The dumping ground in Sector 23, Panchkula, where the garbage of the entire district is dumped, has been created amidst the residential areas. It invited litigation from the local residents. The case of shifting the same is going on at the National Green Tribunal, Delhi.

(Clockwise from top): Ragpickers at a garbage-dumping ground at Sector 23; a stray animal eats waste from a dustbin at Sector 7; and garbage being burnt at Sector 21 in Panchkula. Tribune photos: Nitin Mittal

Rs 3.25 crore for bridge connecting 20 villages
Mohali, October 23
A new bridge will be constructed at a cost of Rs 3.25 crore near Jagatpura village for providing connectivity to more than 20 villages. The earlier bridge had recently got damaged.

Deputy Commissioner Tejinder Pal Singh Sidhu inspects the site allocated for a new bridge at Jagatpura village on Wednesday. A Tribune Photograph

NCC cycle expedition concludes
Chandigarh, October 23
A week-long NCC cycling expedition that had started from Manali on October 17 culminated today and received by Maj Gen PS Mander, Additional Director General, NCC, here today. Twenty cadets from various parts of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh participated in this expedition.

Maj Gen PS Mander interacts with members of an NCC cycling expedition team in Sector 26, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Pravesh Chauhan

Residents to hold protest march against imposition of taxes
Mohali, October 23
"Seeing the highest rate of taxes on property, petrol and marriage palaces, our town (Mohali) is not a fit place for common man," said MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu.

Dead flies, insects found in sweets
Panchkula, October 23
Dead flies and insects were seen floating in the sweets being prepared for Diwali at a workshop on the Panchkula-Barwala road from where sweets are made and supplied to sweets shops in the town.

Dead flies in sweets

Surjit Kumar Jayani, Health Minister, Punjab, during an inspection at the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, on Wednesday. Tribune Photo: Nitin Mittal

180 cops examined at health camp
Chandigarh, October 23
A total of 180 police personnel and their families were examined at a free health check up camp at Police Hospital in the Police Lines, Sector 26, in collaboration with Max Hospital, Mohali, today.

Labourer stabbed
Chandigarh, October 23
A labourer on a cycle was stabbed by some unidentified persons near Hallo Majra late last night. The condition of the victim is critical and has got a serious injury in his stomach.

EDUCATION

PU Facebook pages baffle users
Chandigarh, October 23
With various pages of Panjab University (PU) already existing on Facebook, students and alumnus are finding it difficult to locate the authentic page of the university that has been launched recently.

Kapil Sibal to miss PU function
Chandigarh, October 23
The Minister of Communications and Information Technology, who was going to release postage stamp of Prof Ruchi Ram Sahni at the Panjab University (PU) on Thursday, will not be attending the function due to some last minute changes in his schedule.

Techno-Virsa fest
Maluka distributes prizes among winners
Mohali, October 23
Punjab Minister for Education Sikander Singh Maluka gave away the prizes to the winners at the ongoing Techno-Virsa at the Rayat and Bahra Group of Institutes, Mohali campus, on the third day of the festival today.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

SUSCET bags top spot in youth fest
Ropar, October 23
The overall trophy was bagged by the Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering and Technology (SUSCET), Tangori, and Rayat Bahra Institute of Engineering and Bio-Technology, Mohali, emerged as the runners-up in the Swami Vivekanand Youth festival (East Zone) of Punjab Technical University that concluded at Rayat Group of Institutions, Raialmajra campus, amidst applause and enthusiasm.

COURTS

More trouble for Ashok Khemka
Panchkula, October 23
The court today directed the local police to conduct investigations in the case against IAS officer Ashok Khemka that has been filed by an employee when the officer was the managing director with the Haryana Warehousing Corporation.

Lawyer’s murder: Charges to be framed on Nov 6
Mohali, October 23
In local advocate Amarpreet Singh's murder case, framing of charges against the nine accused would take place on November 6.

Samjhauta blast cASE
NIA allowed to take fingerprints of 3 accused
Panchkula, October 23
In the Samjhauta blast case, the court today allowed the NIA to take fingerprints of three accused, Kamal Chauhan, Lokesh Sharma and Rajender Chaudhary. The fingerprints were sought by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to match with those found by the forensic team after the blast scene.

Man gets 1-yr jail in drug haul case
Chandigarh, October 23
A local court today convicted a man and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment in a drug haul case. The court convicted Vijay Kumar under various Sections of the NDPS Act and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.

CRIME

ASI caught taking bribe of Rs 20,000
Mohali, October 23
Vigilance sleuths today nabbed an assistant sub inspector, Shingara Singh, deputed at the Kharar police station (City), red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a resident of Ambala.




The accused, Shingara Singh, in the custody of Vigilance sleuths in Mohali on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Man attacks himself, blames wife
Chandigarh, October 23
A 35-year-old man created a ruckus at his Sector 18 residence this morning by hitting himself with a sharp-edged weapon and then putting the blame on his estranged wife.

Four snatchers arrested
Mohali, October 23
The Mohali police has arrested four snatchers, active in the area for past few months.

SPORTS

cricket tourney
Ernakulum defeat Varanasi
Patiala, October 23
On the 1st day of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan National Meet, ninematches were played on four grounds under the supervision of KV-2 DMW, Patiala. In a match between Varanasi and Ernakulum, Ernakulum won by 5 runs. Taufique of Varanasi region took 4 wickets for 11 runs with a hatrick. Nandgopan (Ernakulum) scored 41 runs. In the second match, between Jaipur and Raipur, Jaipur won by 5 wickets.

athletics meet
Saupin’s School shine
Chandigarh, October 23
Students of Saupin’s School, Sector 70, Mohali, won gold medals at the Punjab Zonal Inter-School Athletics Meet. Kunal Vishwa, Utkarsh Juneja and Guneetinder Singh bagged first prize in 800m under-17 boys, 600m under-14 boys and 100m under-14 boys category, respectively. Khushi Sharma won first prize and Nandita Sharma won third prize in long-jump.

table tennis
Carmel Convent defeat GMSSS-56
Chandigarh, October 23
Carmel Convent School, Sector 9, beat GMSSS-56 in under- 19 girls category of Table Tennis Inter-School Tournament held at DAV Public School, Sector 8, Chandigarh.

Sushant wins gold medal in tae kwon do
Chandigarh, October 23
Chandigarh lad Sushant Rajkumar has done the city proud by winning gold medal at the CBSE North Zone Tae kwon do Championship held at the skating rink, Sector 10, Chandigarh. Sushant has taken part in many International Championships as well.

DAV-8 blank DPS-40
Chandigarh, October 23
In under-19 girl’s category of Inter-School Lawn tennis Tournament, DAV-8 beat DPS-40 by 2-0. Preet Nain and Gayatru of DAV-8 beat Charvi and Prabhneet of DPS-40 in their individual matches.