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Relief for building owners
Chandigarh, June 23
Bringing relief to building owners in the city, the Law Department of the UT Administration has termed the retrospective application of the Chandigarh Estate Rules-2007 (with amendments in 2009), that allow the sealing of a building or imposing a heavy penalty of Rs 500 per square yard, per month, for misuse and building violations, as illegal and arbitrary decision.

A commercial building in Sector 17. A file photograph

Chaos at GMCH-32 MBBS counselling venue
Chandigarh, June 23
Utter chaos prevailed at the Auditorium of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, during the counselling for admission to MBBS seats today. Candidates hopeful of 100 seats in GMCH for the MBBS course had not applied in other private institutes, as the GMCH prospectus mentioned likelihood of increase in seats from 50 to 100 this year.
GMCH-32 Director Dr Atul Sachdev (extreme right) tries to pacify angry parents who disrupted counselling for MBBS seats in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune Photo: Manoj Mahajan

Markfed accountant caught taking bribe
Mohali, June 23
The Mohali Vigilance flying squad arrested a senior accountant of Markfed for accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a Markfed department contractor here today. The accused, Yograj Talwar, posted at Ludhiana, was accepting the bribe amount from the complainant, Jagdip Singh, a resident of Dhilwan village in Ludhiana district when the vigilance sleuths swooped upon him this afternoon.

Yograj Talwar, senior accountant of Markfed, with the vigilance team on Monday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

Man held for raping daughter
Chandigarh, June 23
In two separate incidents, the Chandigarh Police registered a case of rape against a man for raping his daughter and another for attempting to rape his daughter.

Waterlogging
MC fails to remove waste from road gullies
Chandigarh, June 23
Even as the pre-monsoon showers are likely to hit the city any time soon, the waste material removed from road gullies — lying on the roadsides — can cause acute waterlogging after a spell of rainfall.


Waste lies unattended outside road gullies in Chandigarh. A Tribune photograph

COMMUNITY

Messy market: Answer lies in checking encroachments
Chandigarh, June 23
The Grain Market in Sector 26 presents a picture of neglect with problems ranging from lack of space for parking of vehicles as well as movement of shoppers to foul smell emanating from the garbage strewn around. The situation is at its worst during the peak hours in the morning and the evening.

Dry fruit vendors encroach upon a road in the Grain Market, Sector 26. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari

ARE COPS WATCHING?
Man lies unconscious for 2 days outside PGI
Chandigarh, June 23
In what reflects the apathy of the Chandigarh Police, an unidentified man has been lying in a semi-conscious state outside Panjab University for the last two days — hardly 50 metres from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).


An unidentified patient lying near Gate No. 1 at Panjab University, outside PGI, Chandigarh, on Monday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan

wall collapse tragdey
10-yr-old dies, family gherao DC office
Panchkula, June 23
Irked over the death of the fourth victim due to the ‘absence’ of proper care by the administration at PGI in the wall collapse incident, irate family members of the victim gheraoed the office of the Deputy Commissioner here today.


Relatives of the deceased child share a point with police officials at the Mini Secretariat in Panchkula on Monday. Tribune Photo: Nitin Mittal

encroachments
Challans issued to 72 violators
Chandigarh, June 23
As part of an anti-encroachment drive conducted by the Enforcement Wing of the Municipal Corporation (MC), as many as 72 challans were issued to violators in different parts of the city.

mansa devi temple
Admn to seek public opinion on what to do with gold offerings
Panchkula, June 23
Now, it is you who will decide what to do with the gold offered at Mansa Devi temple. The gold offerings made at the temple had courted a controversy a few years ago, wherein three officers of the administration sold gold at cheap rates to their kin causing a loss of Rs 15.6 lakh to the board.

The Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula. A File photograph

Not delivering shoes on time proves costly for DTDC
Panchkula, June 23
Not delivering matching shoes with the attire — belonging to a Major in the Army — for a wedding on time proved costly for a courier company.

Pb govt begins channelising Sukhna choe
Zirakpur, June 23
The Punjab Government finally woke up from its slumber and has started channelising the Sukhna choe water to tackle floods before monsoon sets in. Officials swung into action after the top brass of the Drainage and Irrigation Department finalised a plan to lay a 2000-foot wide channel on the Sukhna choe bed.
A water channel under construction at Baltana in Zirakpur. Tribune photo: S Chandan

health notes
300 attend health camp
As many as 300 members of the Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) attended a free multi-speciality health camp organised by Max Super Speciality Hospital (MSSH), Mohali, at the club in Sector 6, Chandigarh, on Monday. A team of doctors, including Sumeet Wadhwar, Dinesh Joshi and VS Sachdev, screened the members for various specialities such as cardiology, orthopaedics and internal medicine.

Sword of Damocles still hangs over residents of 42 villages
Panchkula, June 23
The damocles’ sword still hangs over thousands of residents of 42 villages even after the Haryana Government merged two municipal committees – Pinjore and Kalka - and a Municipal Council, Panchkula, with 42 panchayats to form the Panchkula Municipal Corporation almost four years ago.

Park inaugurated in P’kula
Panchkula, June 23
A park spread on an area of 5.7 acres in the Police Lines, Panchkula, was inaugurated by Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SN Vashisht in Moginand here this morning.

Haryana DGP SN Vashisht inaugurates a park at the Police Lines in Panchkula on Monday. A Tribune photograph

Zila parishad office to come up at Jhujhar Nagar
Mohali, June 23
The new building of the zila parishad will come up at Jhujhar Nagar here.

EDUCATION

New trend among govt school teachers
Chandigarh, June 23
A new trend has emerged in the UT Education Department where it has been noticed that teachers are taking leave from the department and going to foreign shores to settle there and still draw salaries from the Indian exchequer.

mental calculations
Panchkula maths lecturer sets another record
Chandigarh, June 23
Driven by the adrenaline to create records, Panchkula-based mathematics lecturer Sandeep Tripathi has once again set a new world record of “Fastest Time to Mentally Calculate the Square Roots of Nine Random Items” at RecordSetter, New York.


Mathematics lecturer Sandeep Tripathi shows his certificates. A tribune photograph

IIT-JEE, AIPMT-2014
Students honoured for clearing competitive exams
Chandigarh, June 23
Allen Career Institute today celebrated the success of its students who cleared the IIT-JEE and the AIPMT-2014 with flying colours.

Problems faced by inmates of girls’ hostels
NSUI submits memo to PU Vice-Chancellor
Chandigarh, June 23
To highlight the problems faced by inmates of girls’ hostels, the National Student Union of India (NSUI) today submitted a memorandum to Panjab University Vice-Chancellor Arun Kumar Grover.


NSUI members discuss the problems of girls' hostel inmates with the DSW at Panjab University on Monday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan

PUSU holds protest outside VC’s office
Chandigarh, June 23
The Panjab University Student Union (PUSU) today staged a protest in front of the PU Vice-Chancellor Arun Kumar Grover’s office raising some key demands of students belonging to the sports category and students of the BDS Department.


PUSU members come out of the VC's office after submitting a memorandum at Panjab University on Monday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan

Pre-PhD programme for teachers begins
Chandigarh, June 23
The University School of Open Learning (USOL), Panjab University, today started pre-PhD course work programme in political science and economics for college teachers.

Panjab University to conduct special exam from today
Chandigarh, June 23
Panjab University would conduct a special examination from June 24 to June 27 in Chandigarh, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Muktsar.

PU and college notes
PU Prof attends int’l meet
Chandigarh: Panjab University Professor Upinder Sawhney is participating in an international conference at Bali, Indonesia, being held from June 23 to June 24. The two-day international conference is being organised on the topic “economy of tomorrow - what kind of energy for a socially just, resilient and green dynamic growth in Asia?”. Prof Sawhney is representing India.
Prof Upinder Sawhney

Pending demands
Teachers burn effigy of Punjab Govt
Mohali, June 23
Members of the Inclusive Education Resource Teachers (IERT) Union today burnt an effigy of the Punjab Government for not paying attention to their long-pending demands.


Teachers burn an effigy of the Punjab Government at Phase VII in Mohali on Monday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

rESIDENTIAL SCHOOL IN mOHALI
Minister inspects construction work
Mohali, June 23
The Punjab Government has earmarked Rs 150 crore for setting up residential schools in six cities. This project of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is aimed at providing free and quality education to poor but meritorious students of the state.


Daljit Singh Cheema, Education Minister, Punjab, inspects the underconstruction residential school for poor and meritorious students in Mohali on Monday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

NEIGHBOURHOOD

SAD leader assures help to kin of youths in Iraq
Dappar, June 23
Senior Akali leader Deepinder Singh Dhillon visited the family members of five youths, who are stranded in the strife-torn Iraq for the past many days, and assured them all possible help to bring the youths back home.

tackling drug abuse
Punjab to prepare database of addicts
Dera Bassi, June 23
The government has decided to prepare a database of drug addicts across the state to combat the drug menace in the state.

COURTS

Attawa liquor vend
Contractor not to pay licence fee till vend opens: HC
Chandigarh, June 23
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has come to the rescue of the liquor contractor, who could not open a vend in Attawa village here as residents in its vicinity were not willing to allow the vend to function.

CRIME

2 held for sharing jokes on Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Chandigarh, June 23
The Chandigarh Police on Monday arrested two persons for sending jokes on Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on the mobile messaging app — WhatsApp. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is a spiritual leader and the head of the India-based socio-spiritual organisation, Dera Sacha Sauda.

Car mechanic held for using red beacon on car
Mohali, June 23
The Mohali Police today arrested a Chandigarh-based car mechanic for using a red beacon on his car and impersonating as a senior officer of the State Information Commission, Punjab.

Accused Akshay

SPORTS

DHRUV PANDOVE TROPHY
City lads script inning’s win over Ludhiana
Chandigarh, June 23
Chandigarh scripted an inning and 22 runs win over Ludhiana in a (U-19) match of the Dhruv Pandove Trophy at Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh, today.


Players in action during a match between Chandigarh and Ludhiana at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium in Chandigarh on Monday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan

Talented players can join Army Boys Sports Companies: PCA chief
Chandigarh, June 23
Chief Executive Officer of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA, Mohali), Brigadier (retd) GS Sandhu during a media interaction at the PCA stadium recounted the journey behind Army Boys Sports Companies (BSCs) inception and its contribution in the nation’s cause in grooming potential talent in selected sports disciplines to achieve excellence up to the Olympic level.

Indonesian coach imparts training to city shuttlers
Chandigarh, June 23
India is not able to produce quality professional badminton players as number of junior national tournaments held in India are less as compared to countries like China, Indonesia and Singapore said Indonesian coach Hendra Mulyono, who is presently training young players at Panjab University.

Indonesian coach Hendra Mulyono gives tips to shuttlers at Panjab University in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

Local shooter notches world rank 39
Mohali, June 23
Shooter Ayush Rudraraju, a Class VII student of Oakridge International School, has clinched world rank 39 and Indian team rank 2 in the First International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) Junior Cup held at SUHL, Germany.
Shooter Ayush Rudraraju in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

tae kwon do meet
Hosts Holy Wonders bag top honours
Mohali, June 23
The Holy Wonders Smart School organised an Inter-School Tae Kwon Do Meet on its campus here today. Various schools of the tricity, including, Anees School, Doon International School, Kendriya Vidhyalaya, AKSIPS and Swami Ram Tirath School took part in it.
Winners of the inter-school tae kwon do meet at The Holy Wonders Smart School, Mohali. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Kudos Chemie win by five wickets
Chandigarh, June 23
In the ongoing second AG Challenger Cup T-20 Cricket Tournament, Kudos Chemie defeated Max Sigma by five wickets at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, today.

Tennis tournament from June 25
Chandigarh, June 23
The Total Tennis Academy will be organising the sixth tournament at Swami Ram Tirath Total Tennis Academy, Phase IV, Mohali .