ADDING COLOUR TO DIWALI: A market in Sector 17, Chandigarh, all decked up for the festival season. Tribune photo: S. Chandan
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Tribune Impact
Civic body marks inquiry into safai karamcharis’ absence
Chandigarh, October 24
A day after Chandigarh Tribune highlighted that 78 per cent of the safai karamcharis were found absent in four sectors and at Colony No. 4 during morning hours, MC Joint Commissioner Rajiv Gupta today marked an inquiry into the matter.
Chd Club penalised
Chandigarh, October 24
The Chandigarh Club has been penalised for imposing "past dues" of over Rs 65,000 on a member. The forum has directed the club to withdraw the notice and pay Rs 10,000 as compensation for the mental agony caused to complainant.
Better Mohali
Mohali MC officials sleep as heaps of garbage soar
 Mohali: In sheer violation of environmental issues and pollution regulatory norms and even against the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Mohali administration has been dumping the entire town’s garbage into seasonal rivulet “Patiala ki Rao” at Sector 76 for around past seven years.
An MC vehicle unloads garbage in the seasonal Patiala ki Rao rivulet near the Industrial Area, Phase VIII-B, in Mohali on Thursday. Tribune photos: Parvesh Chauhan
city sanitation
2 yrs on, no inspection by panel
Chandigarh, October 24
While the sanitation committee is all set to go on a tour to other cities to study their sanitation models, for the last two years, it has not conducted any surprise inspection in the city to take stock of the sanitary condition.
Laptop thieves on the prowl
Chandigarh, October 24
A gang of thieves, who steal laptops and valuable items from parked cars by breaking their windowpanes, is active this festive season with around a dozen such incidents reported in October alone. Three such incidents have been reported in the city in the last 24 hours.
Safai workers hold protest
Chandigarh, October 24
Members of the Safai Karamchari Union today staged a protest in Sector 17 and later submitted a memorandum to the UT officials.
medical negligence
Victim girl’s father takes U-turn
Chandigarh, October 24
In a U-turn, a woman, who had raised serious allegations against the GMSH-16 doctors, accusing them of damaging her fallopian tubes after a surgery, refused to pursue the inquiry today. Moreover, the 21-year-old woman’s father stated that no such ‘problem’ now existed as they had got the report analysed from various other doctors.
Close shave for visitors at RLA office
Chandigarh, October 24
Hundreds of visitors, who had come to deposit their dues at the registration and the licensing authority’s office at Sector 17, had a narrow escape today as a concrete cement slab fell on the shed. The incident occurred at around 12:30 pm when the people had queued up at the counters to deposit their dues.
Excise officer challaned
Chandigarh, October 24
The Chandigarh Traffic police today issued a challan to the Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) of Lalru for putting a blue beacon atop his private car without mandatory permission.
A traffic jam at the Cricket Stadium roundabout in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
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Dengue case
Chandigarh, October 24
A dengue case was reported in the city today. The total number of patients contracting dengue has reached 489 in the current season. A total of three deaths have been reported at city hospitals.
Decomposed body found at farmhouse
Mohali, October 24
An unidentified body in a highly decomposed state has been recovered from a deserted farmhouse at Mullanpur village here.
Masses apprised of women-centric schemes
Mohali, October 24
The District Legal Services Authority today organised a seminar on the subject, ‘Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005’ at Rattan Group of Institutions,
Sohana, here today.
Postal stamp released at PU
Chandigarh, October 24
A new postage stamp of Prof Ruchi Ram Sahni was released at Panjab University
(PU) today, on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversay of Sahni.
(From left) MP Pawan Bansal, Punjab Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka, scientist Yashpal and PU VC Arun Grover during the release of a commemorative postal stamp at the PU on Thursday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
SCHOOL NOTES
Eye camp organised
Chandigarh: The Tribune Model School organised an eye camp for students in collaboration with Bharat Vikas Parishad Charitable Medical Centre and Ram Krishna Mission Ashram, Chandigarh. The weeklong programme, under the Child Eye Care project, led by Dr Nivedita Singh and her team of eye experts examined students and provided medicines and spectacles, free of cost.
Winners of science wizard competition felicitated
Chandigarh, October 24
Winners of the Tribune Education’s Science Wizard competition, that was held earlier this month, were awarded at the Tribune office here today.
250 foreign students attend youth camp
Mohali, October 24
The three-day 2013 International Youth Fellowship World Camp, which aimed at providing an opportunity to the youth to develop their potential, organised at Chitkara University, Rajpura campus, concluded today.
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Panchkula, October 24
The health services at Government Rajindra Hospital here received a major setback as hundreds of protesting contractual staff nurses seeking regularisation of their services locked the gates of the hospital and did not allow nursing students, who were doing most of the work of the hospital in their absence, to enter the hospital.