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CCTV found in bathroom ceiling
PG owner arrested

Chandigarh, August 30 The police today arrested Ramnik Sharma, a Congress leader, after a CCTV camera was recovered from the bathroom of the PG accommodation given to two girls at his residence in Sector 38-C here. Ramnik is the grandson of the late Dr Pandit Mohan Lal, former finance, home and education minister of Punjab, in whose memory a blood donation camp was held at the Sector 32 GGSD College today. He was the founder of the college.

Ramnik Sharma at the Sector 39 police station in Chandigarh on Thursday.—A Tribune photograph

School kids to turn zoo guides
Banur, August 30
School students from the tricity will volunteer as zoo guides at the MC Zoological Park at Chhat Bir. These volunteers assisted by the zoo staff would mingle with zoo visitors, especially on weekends, and take them for a guided tour of the place.

Death in Custody
Police trying its best, Bhatt tells HC
Chandigarh, August 30
UT SSP Dinesh Bhatt today appeared before the Division Bench comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Rajive Bhalla and sought more time to nab SI Narinder Singh, accused of beating a Colony No.4 youth to death while in custody.

Computer freeze at PGI 
Chandigarh, August 30
Attendants of patients at the PGI had a harrowing time at counter No. 16 of Nehru Hospital when computers installed there went out of order at 11.30am.

UT wants extension for home secy
Chandigarh, August 30
The Chandigarh administration is keen on retaining Haryana-cadre IAS officer Krishna Mohan as home secretary for another two years.

Finding missing links
Chandigarh, August 30
Vikas vanished from his Nayagaon residence on January 25 last. He never returned. After more than a year of agonising wait, his parents Rambaran Singh and Suman Devi reached Government Museum auditorium today with a query on their missing son. 

Can’t Junk This
Metal plaque at Rose Garden missing
Chandigarh, August 30
The city’s precious heritage is finding its way to junk dealers, courtesy petty thieves.Three months after a rickshaw-puller was caught carrying a stolen manhole cover designed by one of the key architects of City Beautiful, Pierre Jeanneret, the theft of an inauguration plaque in metal installed outside the Sector 16 Rose Garden has come to light.

COMMUNITY

Towards finding missing links
Five kids go missing every hour
Chandigarh, August 30

Until a year ago, 12-year-old Vikas Thakur was like any other child-full of dreams for his future. Today, he is just another name in the daily diary reports (DDRs) of the Chandigarh police department, which has more pressing tasks than locating missing children. Unaccompanied children seek out links to their homes at Government Museum Auditorium, Sector 10. —Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Now, buy Rs 6-cr villa
Chandigarh, August 30
The super-luxurious lifestyle has come to Chandigarh. If you have about Rs 6 crore, you can own an exclusively designed villa in the backdrop of the Shivalik foothills behind the Sukhna Lake.

Teej expenditure to dominate MC meeting today
Chandigarh, August 30
Prior to tomorrow’s general house meeting of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, the Congress-led opposition and the ruling BJP-SAD groups held their respective pre-house meeting today.

Welfare fund loan for cops raised
Chandigarh, August 30
The Chandigarh police has increased the welfare fund loan given to its personnel from Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000. This was announced by UT inspector-general of Police (IGP) S.K. Jain during a Sampark Sabha  here today.

42 trees felled, more to face axe

Chandigarh, August 30 The demand of city residents to stop cutting of trees for widening of roads in Industrial Area seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Since the drive started a week ago, 42 trees have been axed. A total of 230 trees have to be cut for the widening of two major roads in Industrial Area, Phase I, here. Workers cut a fully grown tree for widening the road from Hind Motors to Pasco. —Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Bus driver gets away with saying ‘sorry’ 
Mohali, August 30
In a campaign to curtail violation of traffic rules by the school bus drivers, the police here today challenged several such vehicles plying on the internal roads in the township.

Ground Reality

One of the points from where the drain has vanished. The site now serves as a dumping ground for broken pots. —Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Chief town planner’s car set on fire
Panchkula, August 30
An official ambassador car of chief town planner, HUDA was set on fire by unidentified miscreant(s) in the parking area of Estate office, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in the wee hours here today.

Opinion sought on transport policy
Chandigarh, August 30
The Chandigarh Administration has invited public opinion on the draft transport policy being framed by it.

Drain functioning satisfactorily, claims MC
Chandigarh, August 30
In response to Chandigarh Tribune’s survey of the redundant underground rainstorm water drain system for Sectors 2 to 10, the municipal corporation authorities today said that the drain was functioning satisfactorily.

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CRIME

House burgled in Sector 41
Chandigarh, August 30
A house was burgled in Sector 41 here, while two vehicles were stolen from different parts of the city.

EDUCATION

Roll nos. for MPhil, PhD test despatched
Chandigarh, August 30
Roll numbers of students who are to appear in M Phil/PhD entrance test-2007 to be conducted by Panjab University on September 2 have been despatched by registered post. Those who do not receive the roll numbers, can collect duplicate numbers from the university office (CET cell, Aruna Ranjit Chandra hall) tomorrow during office hours.

Uncertainty continues at MEd counselling
Chandigarh, August 30
The department of education at Panjab University seems to have got itself caught in a vicious circle of confusion with regard to the on-going counselling for its MEd programme which began yesterday. The uncertainty that marked day 1 yesterday continued today as well.

20 institutes participate in education fair
Chandigarh, August 30
The number of Indian students preferring to get enrolled at New Zealand educational institutions for higher studies has been increased significantly during the last decade. This was stated by Paul Vaughan, trade commissioner, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise here today.

From Schools
Counselling to create awareness on health
Chandigarh, August 30
A counselling session for parents was organised by expert dieticians to create awareness regarding health and eating habits of their children at Kendriya Vidyalaya No 2, 3 BRD, AFS, here on Friday. A team of 15 doctors from Government Multi-speciality Hospital, Sector 16, conducted the session. A free medical check-up of all the students was conducted.

3 teachers promoted as principal
Chandigarh, August 30
Three senior most teachers at the government schools of city have been promoted to the post of principal by the education department here today.

Student bodies flout Lyngdoh code

Chandigarh, August 30 Many students’ organisations in city colleges have started flouting recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee report regarding sticking of poll posters in colleges.  The Students Organisation of India (SOI) members of the DAV College, Sector 10, were seen sticking posters inside the campus of the college today. Student activists of the SOI defy the Lyngdoh Committee report by sticking party bills inside the campus of DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh, on Thursday. —A Tribune photograph

COURTS

Shortage of prosecutors, staff hit dera probe
Chandigarh, August 30
When the CBI cited shortage of manpower as one of the reasons for delay in the probe into Dera-related cases, not everyone believed them.

Bar draws HC flak
No licence above 45 years
Chandigarh, August 30
The Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana today drew flak from a Division Bench, comprising Mr Justice Uma Nath Singh and Mr Justice Rajive Bhalla, for not being particularly serious about the future of the legal profession.

GMADA Plea  
HC notice to housing secy
Chandigarh, August 30
A division Bench, comprising Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice M.M.S. Bedi, today issued notice to secretary, department of housing and urban development, and Chaudhary Ram Singh Sahoke Memorial Welfare Charitable Trust, Chandigarh, over a plea by GMADA.

SPORTS

Football
Carmel Convent lift Saupin trophy
Chandigarh, August 30
The hosts Saupin’s School, Sector 32, lost to Carmel Convent, Sector 9, by 0-1 in the final of the inaugural Chandigarh Girls u-13 Football Festival for the RF Saupin Trophy, which concluded at the school’s grounds, here today.

Ryan International clinch ball b’minton title
Chandigarh, August 30
Ryan International School, Sector 49, and St Joseph's School, Sector 44-A, won the girls’ and boys’ titles, respectively, in the 13th Chandigarh Sub-junior State Ball Badminton Championship for the St Joseph's Trophy, here today.

SGGSS-35 win top honours in kho-kho
Chandigarh, August 30
Sri Guru Gobind Singh School, Sector 35, won top honours beating Guru Nanak Khalsa Senior Secondary School (GNKSSS), Sector 30, by 17 points in the u-19 category of the Inter-school Kho-Kho Tournament (boys) at the SGGSS grounds, here today.

Basketball: New Public School-18 emerge winner
Chandigarh, August 30
New Public School, Sector 18, and IS Dev Samaj School, Sector 21, won the boys’ and girls’ championships, respectively, in the 8th Pandit Mohan Lal Memorial Basketball Tournament 2007, held at SD Public School, here today.