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FCI manager in CBI net for corruption
Chandigarh, December 7
The CBI has booked Des Raj Arora, manager with the FCI at Ludhiana, under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Trouble for 5 EO officials too

Mullanpur NAC on anvil
Move will benefit several VIPs
Mohali, December 7
Punjab has mooted a notified area committee comprising villages in the UT periphery. The proposed NAC would include 29 villages in the jurisdiction of the Majri block of SAS Nagar district would be called Mullanpur Garibdass NAC.

No apology: Sr deputy mayor
Chandigarh, December 7
Senior deputy mayor Ravinder Pal Singh Pali today refused to tender an apology for yesterday’s clash with an MC official and stated that he would rather resign than apologise. This would amount to legalising red-tapism and corruption in the MC.

Crusade Against AIDS
Target groups sans medicines for 4 mths
Chandigarh, December 7
This World AIDS Day, UT administrator Gen S.F. Rodrigues (Retd) had called for a “crusade against AIDS”. How that is to be done is the question: certainly not without medicines. A survey of eight HIV/AIDS targeted intervention (TI) projects in Chandigarh, reveals that these projects have for the past four months not received any supply of medicines for the groups they are targeting.

Mere 50 pc cast vote for Bar Council elections
Chandigarh, December 7
It was a war of posters, pamphlets and banners at the District Courts and the High Court today where elections to the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council were held. Though pasting posters on the walls is not allowed under the Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1976, but this was ignored in the election fever.



Lawyers outside a polling booth in Chandigarh on Friday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

371 cartons of liquor seized
Chandigarh, December 7
The crime branch of the Chandigarh police arrested a Ludhiana resident for allegedly carrying 371 cartons of liquor from near the CTU traffic lights here. A second person managed to flee.

Sea change in Himachal, claims Anand Sharma
Chandigarh, December 7
“The Congress enjoys a slight advantage over the BJP in what looks like a tough and close battle for electoral supremacy in Himachal Pradesh,” says Union Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma, maintaining that it is traditional Congress base which may prove a clincher.

COMMUNITY

Woman activists shed more light on Nandigram
Chandigarh, December 7
The women bore the brunt of the recent stand-off in Nandigram with CPM goons, backed by the state machinery, raping and torturing them, Deboleena, an activist of the Matangini Mahila Samiti, West Bengal, alleged here today.

People of Nandigram address a press conference in Chandigarh on Friday. — A Tribune photograph

Blue baby needs financial aid
Chandigarh, December 7
Vikas, a three-year-old child, has not been able to get treatment for a heart ailment for the last one year as his family of labourers could not arrange Rs 75,000. The doctors at PGI said Vikas was a blue baby. He was suffering from TOF (tetrology of fallot). The children suffering from the disease may fail to gain weight, face retarded growth and physical development, including other complications, said the doctors.




                                                                         Vikas with his mother

UT holidays notified
Chandigarh, December 7
The administration has notified the holidays for the next year. On these days the offices of the Administration will be closed.

GMCH-32 not keen on rotational headship
Chandigarh, December 7
The implementation of rotational headship introduced by the adminstration at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, is unlikely to be implemented. The newly appointed director principal Dr Raj Bahadur said the introduction of the system had led to create the acrimony among the heads of departments and other staff members and he would try to remove the misunderstandings and apprehensions emerged before or after the administration passed the orders to introduce the system.

Maximum fatal accidents involve the young
Chandigarh, December 7
Promising lives have been cut short, dreams shattered and families wrecked for life. Youngsters have increasingly been losing their lives to road fatalities with the numbers spiralling with each passing year. A grim reality, the roads of City Beautiful have been turning into killer roads with the maximum number of youth falling prey to them.



Students enjoy triple riding in violation of traffic rules in Phase-VIII, Mohali, on Friday. — Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu

Former IG Dhaliwal dead
Panchkula, December 7
Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, a retired IPS officer and former police chief, Himachal Pradesh, passed away here today. He was being taken to PGI when he breathed his last. He was 81 and is survived by two sons and two daughters.

Patwaris continue stir
Mohali, December 7
The indefinite strike by patwaris of the district entered its second day today with the members of the Revenue Patwar Union, Mohali, staging a protest outside the DC office.

Implement Anand Marriage Act: SGPC member
Chandigarh, December 7
A Mohali-based member of the SGPC demanded yesterday that the pre-Independence Anand Marriage Act, 1909, should be adopted during the winter session of Parliament. Hardeep Singh said the Act that was in force during British times, gave the Sikhs a separate identity.

Demo on hi-tech, future classrooms
Chandigarh, December 7
Unveiling its exclusive and ultramodern technologies for imparting education, Globus Infocom Limited, a company that is into providing hi-tech interactive communication systems, today organised a live demo of future classrooms at Hotel Shivalikview, Sector 17, here today.

Govt text book presses to be privatised
Chandigarh, December 7
The Central Government has decided to privatise the Government of India text book presses at Chandigarh, Mysore and Bhubaneswar.

Lok adalat on traffic violation cases today
Chandigarh, December 7
A special lok adalat will be held on December 8 to dispose of the traffic violation cases. Any person, who has been challaned or whose case is pending in court and whether violators have received summons or not, they can come and get their challans cleared.

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CRIME

Woman’s ill health drives her & daughter to suicide
Chandigarh, December 7
Unable to overcome the trauma of her medical complication, Sarita, a 50-year-old woman, and Jasmine, her 20-year-old daughter, today allegedly hanged themselves to death at their Sector 22 home, here this evening.

2 Delhiites booked for bank fraud
Chandigarh, December 7
Two Delhi residents were booked on the charges of fraud for allegedly duping a bank of over Rs 17,000 by submitting a fake bank draft.

4 Kashmiris held for trespass bid
Chandigarh, December 7
The police today arrested four Kashmiri residents on the charges of attempt to trespass and take forcible possession of two houses in Sector 29, here.

BUSINESS

BSNL call rates cut
Chandigarh, December 7
Making telephone calls from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) PCO will cost less as the nigam today reduced the tariff for the calls.

EDUCATION

PU to conduct mock entrance test for rural students
Chandigarh, December 7
In what will provide rural students of Punjab a golden chance, Panjab University is planning to conduct a mock test for students aspiring to become engineers, doctors and professionals in other related areas. For the first time ever, the mock entrance test would be conducted specifically for those students studying in different districts of Punjab.

PU Syndicate poll tomorrow
Keen contest on cards
Chandigarh, December 7
PU syndicate elections for the next year have been scheduled to be held on December 9 wherein all 85 active members of the senate will exercise their voting right.

Amit is ‘budding nanotechnologist’
Mohali, December 7
“Young talents are the assets of nations,” said Prof P. Rama Rao, director of NIPER, while speaking at the valedictory function of the first winter school on “Nanotechnology in Advanced Drug Delivery” organised at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) here yesterday.

Aaghaz-2007
Surjit Khan regales audience
Chandigarh, December 7
Cold weather conditions failed to dampen the high spirits of the students who thronged the venue of the maiden function of the newly elected Panjab University Campus Students Council, ‘Aaghaz-2007’ at Law Grounds, Panjab University (PU), today.

Teachers’ body holds procession
Chandigarh, December 7
Hundreds of teaching and non-teaching employees of the seven non-government aided colleges of Chandigarh, along with their families, today held a candle-light procession at Plaza, Sector 17. The procession was taken out on a call given by the Chandigarh District Council of Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) in support of the staff of the two local DAV colleges which have been agitating for the implementation of the rules regarding deduction of provident fund on gross salary and encashment of earned leave.

No cap? Can’t enter exam hall
Chandigarh, December 7
For want of a headgear, precious examination time was lost by students appearing for the CBSE exam at a private school here. It did not allow students to enter the examination hall because they were not wearing the school cap or scarf.

From Schools Students stage play on materialism Chandigarh, December 7 A three-day cultural bonanza organised by Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, commenced at the auditorium of Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, here today. The programme started with prayers to Goddess Saraswati. Children of the primary section presented the play ‘The Enchanted Shirt’. Hindi play ‘Doctor’ by children presented how in lure of earning more and more, man had become careless and was playing with the lives of people. Students of Anee’s School, Sector 69, Mohali, perform during their annual function on Friday. — Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu

From Schools
Students enact ‘Aaj Ka Bharat’
Mohali, December 7
Students of Anee's School celebrated their fifth annual function here this evening. The programme started with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by chief guest Rajpal Singh, member of the Indian Hockey Team. Principal Navdeep Verma read out the school report. The play “Aaj Ka Bharat” beautifully portrayed Gandhi’s dream of an independent India. The function concluded with a vote of thanks by director Aneet Goel.

GCG-11 to remain closed on Dec 10
Chandigarh, December 7
Government College for Girls, Sector 11, will remain closed on December 10 on account of Shahidi Gurpurb of Guru Tegh Bahadur. The examinations, therefore, have been rescheduled.

COURTS

HC dismisses Army officer’s plea
Chandigarh, December 7
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by an Army officer, challenging the initiation of inquiry proceedings and subsequent action against him, on the allegations of giving false evidence on oath.

High Court
Misuse of Funds
Red Cross records called
Chandigarh, December 7
Taking up a petition filed in public interest for an independent probe and registration of case into the alleged misappropriation of funds by office bearers of the Indian Red Cross Society's branches in Punjab, Haryana and UT, the Punjab and Haryana High Court yesterday asked deputy commissioners of Ludhiana, Sangrur and Patiala to produce relevant records.

SPORTS

Kapil Dev leads ‘run for heritage’
Panchkula, December 7

The second Pinjore Heritage Festival got off to a colourful start with Indian Cricket League (ICL) players, led by its chairman Kapil Dev, participating in the ‘run for heritage’ event to mark the beginning of the three-day mega event here today. Braving chilly weather, hundreds of school and college students and people from all walks of life participated in the symbolic run from Government College to Red Bishop tourist complex.

ICL chairman Kapil Dev and Haryana tourism minister Kiran Chaudhary at the “run for heritage,” organised to kickstart the Pinjore Heritage Festival, in Panchkula on Friday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Nishchay defeats Davinder by 6-0

Chandigarh, December 7 Nishchay Rawal gave a clear defeat to Davinder Singh 6-0, 6-1 in the Under-14 category, on the final day of the Fort Ramgarh YMCA Total Tennis Championship, held at the YMCA Academy, Sector 11 courts, here, today. Nishchay Rawal in action during the Fort Ramgarh YMCA Total Tennis Championship at the YMCA sector 11 courts, on Friday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Hockey City lads to play tourney in Malaysia Chandigarh, December 7 Two local hockey players, Dharamvir and Rupinder Pal, have been selected in the probable list for Junior Men’s Nation (U-21) Invitational Tournament to be held at Kualalumpur (Malaysia) in January 17 to 27, 2008.

Rupinder Singh

Dharamvir Singh

Inter-college cricket from December 14
Chandigarh, December 7
Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration, is organising inter-college cricket tournament for Administrator’s Cup (boys) for Chandigarh colleges at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, from December 14 to 20.

Triangular Twenty 20
Akshit declared man of the match
Chandigarh, December 7
Fine bowling performance by Paras Singh and Akshit Kohal helped Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy beat Twenty 20 Cricket Association of Haryana by 9 wickets in the Triangular Twenty 20 Cricket Cup 2007. The tournament is being organised by Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy and Twenty 20 Cricket Federation of India at Vivek High School Sector 38-B, here.

DAV boy bags gold in shot put

Chandigarh, December 7 DAV College, Sector 10, made a mark as its two athletes Kahish Khanna (15.44 m) and Parwinder Singh (14.84 m) threw the shot put to win gold and silver medals, respectively, in the men section of Panjab University Inter-College Annual Athletic (men and women) Meet at PU grounds here today. The athletes try to slog it out during 400 m race during Panjab University Inter-College Athletics Meet at PU grounds here on Friday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Dev Samaj-A eves clinch victory
Chandigarh, December 7
The cagers of Tender Heart Club-A defeated Government Model High School-33 boys’ squad 42-21, on the opening day of the Senior State Basketball tourney. It held at New Public School-18, here, today.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Majestic start to Pinjore heritage fest

Pinjore, December 7 The three-day Pinjore Heritage Festival opened at Yadavindra Pinjore Gardens today. Tourism minister Kiran Choudhry was the chief guest. She hailed Pinjore as the symbol of the rich historical heritage of Indian culture. She said the Haryana Government had resolved to take Pinjore on the International map. She lighted the sacred jyoti to inaugurate the programme. Illuminated Yadavindra Gardens, Pinjore, on the first day of the second Pinjore Heritage Festival on Friday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari

Student killed in accident
Ambala, December 7
Amanpreet Kaur, a Class X student of DAV Public School, Ambala City, was killed this morning when the two-wheeler she was pillion riding, was hit by a tractor trolley. The vehicle was being driven by her uncle.

THRICE BLESSED: The triplets, who were born to Kuldeep Kaur of Bhanukheri, near Ambala, at a private nursing home on Friday morning. The babies — two boys and a girl — are healthy and weigh 2 kg each. A Tribune photograph

Motorcyclist hit by tanker, injured
Dera Bassi, December 7
A motorcyclist was seriously injured when he was hit by a tanker here this afternoon.

Suicide victim’s body to be exhumed for probe
Dera Bassi, December 7
SDM SL Bhumbak today ordered the exhumation of a body from its grave for a probe into the cause of the victim’s death. On November 26, the police had begun investigating the death of 19-year-old Akbar Ali who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on November 24.

Campaign to curb violence against women
Banur, December 7
The 6th Annual Conference of Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine was organised at Gian Sagar Medical College, Banur, yesterday during which ‘White Ribbon Campaign’ to end violence against women was launched in the country by Professor R.K. Gorea, organising secretary of the conference.

Govt teachers to be promoted
Patiala, December 7
Dr Upinderjit Kaur, minister of education and languages, today asserted that all government teachers, whose promotions were due, would be duly promoted by the end of January next year.

• Spurious ghee unit raided
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