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Fuel for disaster
Petrol stations flout safety norms, tease luck
Chandigarh, August 28
The city is sitting on a virtual powder keg. Thousands of lives and property worth several crores of rupees can be at a risk within seconds, if a small lapse occurs at any of the 40 petrol stations in the city.

45 Agro-Dutch workers hurt in bus mishap
Lalru, August 28
As many as 45 women passengers were injured, two of them seriously, when a private bus in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary bus of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) on the Kalka-Ambala highway at Sarseeni village this morning.

Victims of the accident on the Kalka-Ambala highway near Sarseeni village, in Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

NCC may be introduced as regular subject in varsities
Chandigarh, August 28
To give an impetus to its activities, the National Cadet Corps has written to state governors, requesting them to nominate a professor associated with the NCC to the syndicates of universities located in the region.

COMMUNITY

MC turns a blind eye to garbage
Mohali, August 28
Even as the municipal council here continues to look the other way, residents of Phase XI are living in conditions unfit for human living. A huge heap of garbage has piled up in front of the row of houses numbered 863 to 879.

CRIME

Power theft detected in two houses 
Mohali, August 29
An enforcement team of the Punjab State Electricity Board, Mohali circle today raided two houses in Phase VII here and caught residents of these houses pilfering power. The team led by a junior engineer found the residents using a hidden wire connection to the main cable to steal electricity.

EDUCATION

Using students to woo voters shocks DAV chief

Chandigarh, August 28 The news of the use of schoolchildren for gathering votes by the DAV institutions in the city was received with shock and disbelief by its central committee in New Delhi when the president of the DAV Managing Committee, Mr G.P. Chopra, reacted by saying that “these schools are playing with fire”. Voters at an informal meeting with a DAV candidate for the Panjab University Senate elections at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, in Chandigarh on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

20 best science exhibits awarded

Chandigarh, August 28 The two-day regional science exhibition organised by the CBSE and Intel concluded at DAV Public School, Sector 15, and 20 exhibits were judged among the best and selected by the judges. Schoolchildren in a jubilant mood after their exhibits were selected among the best 20 of a science exhibition which concluded at DAV Public School, Sector 15, here on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

Sohail Khan wins NIIFT award
Mohali, August 28
Sohail Khan made Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology (NIIFT) proud by winning the Student Designer of the Year-2004 award at a contest held in Mumbai on August 3.

From Schools
School students celebrate Rakhi
Mohali, August 28
Students of Golden Bells Public School, Mohali, and Sector 35, Chandigarh celebrated Rakhi. Students participated in group singing, fancy dress and dance competitions. Among those who won prizes on the occasion include Ankit, Pinku, Kulraj, Avleen, and Geeta. The school Principal, Mrs Gurjeet Bawa, addressed the students.

Programme to enhance personality
Chandigarh, August 28
DAV College, Chandigarh, in association with Global Voice, a training organisation, today announced the launch of Personality Development Programme for students of the college.

PU accepts ABVP demands
Chandigarh, August 28
Authorities of Panjab University today accepted demands raised by ABVP activists. Consequently, the hunger strike by their president Gurparvez Singh Sandhu was called off.

• Syllabus change decried

CULTURE

Telly stars twinkle in city Chandigarh, August 28 It poured stars in the city today. Thanks to Sony, the visitors to Hotel Mount View had a mouthful of “starry” treat. “Stars all the way”: (Top from left) Maanav Gohil, Amit Sareen and Shakti Anand; (below from left) Juhi Parmar and Aashika Goradia who were in Chandigarh to take part in a Sony TV event at Dara Studios in Mohali, on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Film Review Pleading a cause indifferently In “Phir Milenge” actress-turned-director Revathy Menon has made a common cause with AIDS patients. She has tried to awaken the film industry hibernating in its commercial cave. The movie starts on a serene note but moves at a snail’s pace. Tammana (Shilpa Shetty) is the creative head of an advertising agency. Hardworking and talented, she is the most trusted partner of his boss. Abhishek Bachchan, Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty in ‘Phir Milenge’.

Western Film Review
Boas that will give you creeps
Chandigarh: Hisses and more hisses. Yes, the name suggests that “Anacondas — The Hunt for the Blood Orchid” (Kiran, Fun Republic) might be all about snakes and fangs. It is much more than that.

Remembering Saigal
Chandigarh, August 28
As a custodian of a celebrated tradition, Dilip Sircar has a lot of enriching information to offer, especially on K.L. Saigal. It was the theatre company of his father B.N. Sircar which gave the first ever break to the man who was to be the Tansen of Indian music as also an actor par excellence.

LIFESTYLE

No glamour, all gold — that’s Jassi

Chandigarh, August 28 Mona Singh is one with Jassi, so much so that she loves to carry the baggage of her role around. The star of superhit Sony soap “Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi” is so in love with the innocence of her character that she can live it till the end of time unless of course TRP ratings demand otherwise. The inseparable twosome: Mona Singh ‘aka’ Jassi and Gaurav Gera ‘aka’ Nandu who are in Chandigarh for a Sony TV event. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Sufi festival concludes 
Chandigarh, August 28
It was another evening of soulful Sufi renditions at Kalagram which came alive with the music of Barkat Sidhu, Hans Raj Hans and Master Saleem. Picking up the affair of melody where Zila Khan and Wadali brothers left it last night, Master Saleem struck the melodic chord with a folk song with Sufi strains. “Aj hove didaar mahi da” was the first presentation of this evening.

HEALTH

Endoscopic surgery for treating sinusitis
Chandigarh, August 28
With minimum incision and more success rate compared to the conventional surgery, the endoscopic sinus surgery is the latest treatment finding favours with the leading physicians.