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Life On The Edge
Emergency numbers don’t work here
Mohali, August 20
On Sunday night, 26-year-old Karamjit travelling on his motor cycle was hit by a tractor on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway. He died on the spot. His body lay on the road for over 30 minutes before a police jeep reached the site.

100 GMADA sites go under hammer today
Mohali, August 20
All is set for the first auction of sites by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority. Over hundred commercial and residential sites at various places in Mohali will go under the hammer tomorrow.

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Teej dress code has councillors fuming
Chandigarh, August 20
The ‘Teej’ celebration being planned by the MC seems to have rubbed many senior officials and councillors of the MC the wrong way. Upset over the attitude of the ‘mayor’, the councillors allege that the matter is going out of hands.

IN GAY ABANDON: Students of MCM DAV College, Sector 36, Chandigarh, celebrate the Teej festival in the college on Monday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Congress activists leave from Panchkula in a cavalcade for a rally at Bhiwani on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's anniversary on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

Truck owner found dead
Mohali, August 20
A 40-year-old truck owner was found dead in his truck at the Sanetta petrol station this morning, with blood oozing from the nose. No external injuries were found on the body.

No. 001 goes for 4.45 lakh
Chandigarh, August 20
Capt Guppaji Nagra, a local resident, paid Rs 4.45 lakh for registration number CH-04A-001 in the new series (CH-04A) auctioned by the office of the Registration and Licensing Authority of the Chandigarh administration here today.

COMMUNITY

PAN Pangs
IT Dept notices fox assessees
Chandigarh, August 20
Can a dead man receive an income tax department notice to surrender his duplicate permanent account number (PAN) ? The logical answer may be in the negative but the department has performed this feat.

Janta Colony bereft of basic amenities

Chandigarh, August 20 For over 12,000 residents of Janta Colony in Naya Gaon village, it is a nightmarish existence. Bereft of basic amenities, the colony seems to be nobody’s baby with the authorities concerned turning a blind eye to the residents’ plight. Residents of Janta Colony in Naya Gaon carry empty buckets in protest against shortage of water in the colony. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Fire safety no concern for Mohali admn
Survey reports gather dust
Mohali, August 20
The district administration is sleeping over two reports submitted by the Municipal Council on fire prone business establishments in the town even as hundreds of persons affected by the June 1 Janata rehri market blaze are still struggling to get back on their feet.

Drive against drunken driving fails to sizzle
Chandigarh, August 20
The much-publicised drive of the Chandigarh Traffic Police has failed to yield desired result as the traffic cops have booked only 14 motorists for drunken driving by installing over 40 nakas across the city over the past 20 days.

Industrial Area set for infrastructure upgradation
Chandigarh August 20
The Chandigarh Administration is planning to upgrade civil infrastructure in Industrial Area Phase-I and II for the successful implementation of conversion policy for Industrial Area which was introduced by the Administration in 2005.

Fauji Beat Late Indianisation put Army at disadvantage To keep their firm hold on the Army, the British resisted its Indianisation. Thus barring a miniscule minority of Indian officers, the Army continued to have British officers. Admiral Madhvendra Singh congratulates gentlemen cadets from foreign countries after their passingout from the IMA, Dehra Dun.

Army cyclists set national record
Chandigarh, August 20
Cyclists from the Army's Electronics and Mechanical Engineers have set a new record by pedalling from Leh (Ladakh) to Kanyakumari in 18 days. The 15-member team was flagged off on July 30 from Leh at 5.30 a.m. They reached Kanyakumari at 11.30 p.m. on August 17, a statement issued here said.

3 BRD chief promoted
Chandigarh, August 20
Air Officer Commanding No 3 Base Repair Depot Air Cdre R. K Srivastava has been promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal. He will take up his new assignment as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Engineering (A) at the Air Headquarters next month.

Onam celebrations on Aug 26
Chandigarh, August 20
The Kerala Sastra Kala Manch, a voluntary socio-cultural organisation, will celebrate the traditional "Onam" festival with the inmates of the Chandi Kusht Ashram, Sector 47, on August 26.

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CRIME

23-yr-old killed as truck hits scooter
Chandigarh, August 20
A 23-year-old civil engineer lost his life, while two of his colleagues were seriously hurt, when a truck hit the scooter they were riding on near the Transport Light Point in Sector 26, here, past mid night. The injured, all in their early 20s, were rushed to the PGI, where Neeraj, who belonged to Pinjore, succumbed to his injuries.

Sketch of absconding thief released Chandigarh, August 20 The police today released sketch of Ali Hassan, who managed to give a slip to police personnel at the Sector 22 police post on Saturday. He was booked in a case of attempt to steal and for breaking into a shop. The in-charge of the Sector 22 police post sub-inspector Charanjit Singh told TNS that a sketch of Hassan, who belonged to Malda district in West Bengal, had been prepared and they had also procured a photograph of his accomplice Mohammad Sarfaraz, alias Ayub.

Ali Hassan

Barber, his friend stab man, arrested
Chandigarh, August 20
Following a minor altercation, a barber and his friend allegedly stabbed a resident of the Industrial Area with a pair of scissors outside his residence yesterday. The police arrested Javed, a barber and resident of Hallo Majra, and Mohammad Yameen of Sector 29 on allegations of causing injuries and criminal intimidation.

Kidnap complaint lodged
Panchkula, August 20
The medical superintendent of the General Hospital, Sector 6, Dr V.K. Bansal, gave a written complaint to the police about the kidnapping attempt by an outsider in the maternity ward of the hospital.

EDUCATION

PU set to shift to renewable energy resources Chandigarh, August 20 The Energy Research Centre celebrated “Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Divas” at ICSSR Complex, Panjab Unviersity, today to create mass awareness and encourage people to adopt renewable energy dependent appliances. Prof S.K Kulkarani, Dean, university instructions, Panjab University, inaugurated the seminar.
(From Left) S.K Kulkarni, dean, university instructions, S.K Sandhu, finance secretary, science and technology, UT, M.S. Brar, director, science and technology, UT, and Suresh Aggarwal, director, ministry of new and renewable energy, attend the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Divas celebrations at the ICSSR Complex at Panjab University on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

UT plays messiah to Colony 5 school kids
Chandigarh, August 20
The administration has decided to adopt Colony No. 5 schoolchildren on a priority basis. Now, this school would be an extension of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 45.

School students celebrate it with placards
Chandigarh, August 20
Students of Maharishi Dayanand Public School, Daria also organised an awareness rally for the new and renewable sources of energy on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi Akashay Urja Divas with collaboration of department of Science and Technology, Chandigarh.

From Colleges
100 students form chain for Urja Diwas
Chandigarh, August 20
The volunteers of NSS units of Government College for Girls, Sector 11 celebrated Sadhbhavna Diwas on Monday. Dr S Prakasam, NSS programme officer welcomed the audience.

Harmful effects of global warming highlighted
Chandigarh, August 20
Students of senior classes and teachers of Sri Guru Harkrishan Model School, Sector 38-D, here took pledge to harness solar energy and take steps to check global warming on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Divas today.

PU Notes
Azad is NSUI presidential candidate
Chandigarh, August 20
NSUI today declared its presidential candidate for the forthcoming elections of the Students Council. Bhuwan Azad, former president of SFI joined NSUI today along with his supporters. While welcoming Bhuwan Azad, NSUI state president Nitin Goyal described his joining as homecoming.

COURTS

High Court
Transfer order not immune from judicial review
Chandigarh, August 20
Reflecting on the contours of power of judicial review vis-a-vis the adminstrative orders of transfer, a Division Bench, comprising Justice A.K. Goel and Justice Ajai Lamba, today held that an order of transfer could not be held to have an absolute immunity from judicial review.

PIL seeks pension to parents of martyrs
Chandigarh, August 20
A public interest litigation filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court has sought amendments in the Army’s pension regulations for grant of family pension to parents of martyrs instead of just the widow.

Plea to set up polling booth in District Courts
Chandigarh, August 20
The District Bar Association has filed a writ petition through advocate N.K. Nanda in the High Court seeking directions to the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council to set up a polling booth in the District Courts for Bar council elections.

1,741 HC lawyers get insurance cover
Chandigarh, August 20
A group mediclaim insurance scheme, with a cover of Rs 1 lakh, for 1741 lawyers of the high court was launched today by the High Court Lawyers Welfare Fund Committee. The scheme covers the spouse and children of the lawyers also.

HEALTH

Health report of school kids online Chandigarh, August 20 School Health Annual Report Program, a Delhi-based national NGO, extended its comprehensive health programme to computerise records today. Dr Puran Prakash, general secretary of SHARP, an NGO, examines a child at Chitkara International School in Chandigarh on Monday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tiwari

Indian doctors in US flay N-deal
Chandigarh, August 20
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development and the US-based Physicians for Social Responsibility have expressed concerns about the negotiated nuclear accord between US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Faulty elevators add to patients’ pain
Chandigarh, August 20
Patients, their attendants as well as staff members, including doctors, had to face hardship at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, as all five elevators in A Block of the hospital went out of order yesterday.

Power Cut
When patients faced death
Chandigarh, August 20
The life of at least 10 patients at the cardiac care unit of the PGI was endangered when the electricity supply to the unit got snapped on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.

SPORTS

SN Vohra Tourney Uttam academy pip Gopal academy
Chandigarh, August 20 Baba Uttam Singh Hockey Academy, Khadur Sahib, thrashed Gopal Hockey Academy, Kurali, 1-0 in the first match of the 6th SN Vohra Sub-junior (u-14) Hockey Tournament being held at Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, here. A hockey match in progress during the 6th SN Vohra Hockey Tournament being held at Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, in Chandigarh on Monday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Overage Row
Sidhu denies charge
Chandigarh, August 20
Joint Director Sports Chandigarh Administration JPS Sidhu today categorically denied the overage of eight players of the Chandigarh Hockey Academy, here today. A panel of doctors appointed by the organising committee of the ongoing sixth SN Vohra Sub-Junior Hockey Tournament for under-14 had yesterday found the players overaged.

Sports dept plans to tap rural talent
Chandigarh, August 20
The Punjab sports department is all set to spot and train the rural youth of the state. Under the guidance of sports minister Gulzar Singh Ranike, the department has taken an initiative to involve rural youth in developing sports culture by organising rural tournaments at the block, district and state levels.

ICL Effect
Punjab suffers big blow
Mohali, August 20
With the exit of seven Punjab Ranji team players, including senior players namely Dinesh Mongia, Reetinder Sodhi and Rajesh Sharma, the team has suffered a big setback just before the beginning of the new cricket session.

Cricket trials for u-17 tomorrow
Panchkula, August 20
The Panchkula District Cricket Association (affiliated with the Haryana Cricket Association) will conduct trials to select the Panchkula district u-17 cricket team on August 22 at DC Model School, Sector 7, Panchkula, at 3 pm.

PCA replaces Reetinder, Sharma
Mohali, August 20
After the exit of three members of Punjab team to ICL in the middle of the ongoing Buchi Babu Tournament at Chennai, the Punjab Cricket Association has decided to send two players to join the team.