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ASI attacked at rly station
Chandigarh, June 25
A group of railway station vendors and autorickshaw drivers attacked an ASI at the railway police post after he rounded up a tea seller following his altercation with an Armyman. The ASI sustained severe head injuries and was admitted to the General Hospital at Panchkula.
Over 10 PGI doctors down with hepatitis-A
Quality of water at mess suspect
Chandigarh, June 25
A dozen resident doctors of the PGI have contacted hepatitis-A (jaundice), an acute water-borne infectious disease of the liver caused by a virus
(HAV). This news comes close on the heels of the recent outbreak of cholera, also a water-borne disease, at Mohali village.
Safai karamcharis litter ward
Chandigarh, June 25
In a bizarre way of registering protest against the alleged sacking of a safai karamchari by the GMCH authorities, members of the hospital’s safai karamchari association threw garbage in the visitors’ hall of the emergency ward this morning.
It showed their apathy toward ailing and critical patients who are admitted to the emergency every day.
Garbage lying scattered at the D block of the GMCH-32, Chandigarh, on Thursday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Property dispute: Four injured in brawl
Chandigarh, June 25
A property dispute took a violent turn in Burail yesterday night when two parties clashed over the issue and indulged in stone pelting.
Night shelter for homeless
Chandigarh, June 25
Nishad, barely 15-year-old, ran away from his house in Uttar Pradesh after stealing Rs 500 from his home just to pay a visit to the
city beautiful. Other than Nishad, as many as 17 other children under 18 years of age are living in the night shelter for poor children in Sector 17, named Vineet-17.
One of the inmates of Vineet -17, Chandigarh, prepares breakfast.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
Contract teachers form human chain
Chandigarh, June 25
As a part of the ongoing agitation of the contractual government school teachers of Chandigarh, a human chain comprising teachers and their families was formed today from Matka Chowk towards cricket stadium for pursuing their demand of regularisation.
As the mercury rises, these girls rely on ice-candies to beat the heat. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
Highway experts discuss quality control
Chandigarh, June 25
A two-day northern region workshop on quality control in roads and bridges was inaugurated by Kulbir Singh, Secretary PWD (Bridges and Road), at the CII headquarters here today.
SMEs get tips on IT benefits
Chandigarh, June 25
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Dell India today addressed the needs of the Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) at PHDCC House, Chandigarh, through a seminar on ‘Information Technology - Advantage for SMEs’.
Inside Babudom
City youth
is private secy to Commerce Minister
Chandigarh, June 25
As most of the members of the Union Council of Ministers have settled down in their new departments, many of them have got civil servants of their choice posted on their personal staff.
BLIND TO
SAFETY: A welder works without a protective gear for his eyes at the industrial area in Mohali on Thursday. Tribune Photo: Vicky Gharo |
Curbing Fraud
Police, bank officials discuss strategies
Chandigarh, June 25
The Chandigarh police yesterday held a meeting with 56 officers of various nationalised and private banks from the city to take steps to prevent banking related frauds.
VAT: Eating at dhabas to cost more
Chandigarh, June 25
Digging into your favourite dish at a dhaba in Chandigarh is going to cost more with the Chandigarh Administration bringing these eating joints under the purview of the value added tax (VAT).
Epidemic Threat
DC tells authorities to take preventive measures
Panchkula, June 25
Waking up to the epidemic threats in the slums of the town, Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Yadav has directed the officials concerned from different agencies to gear up the preventive measures while coordinating with each other.
More cases of cholera in Mohali
Mohali, June 25
Even as the authorities concerned have so far failed to detect the source of cholera after an outbreak of the disease had struck Mohali village on Saturday, more patients poured in at the Civil Hospital here today for treatment.
Martyr remembered
Panchkula, June 25
Rich tributes were paid to Major Sandeep Sagar, the martyr of Operation Vijay, on his tenth anniversary, here today. While the families of martyrs from Panchkula accompanied Harbans Lal Sagar, father of Major Sandeep, to pay homage at Major Sandeep Sagar Memorial Chowk, the district administration was represented by Rajpal, SDM, Panchkula.
Woman dies in mishap
Mohali, June 25
A resident of Chandigarh was killed in an accident after a truck collided with a motorcycle near PCL Chowk here late last night.
Centre for mentally challenged kids
Rodrigues wants work speeded up
Chandigarh, June 25
Setting a deadline for completing the first phase of Regional Centre for Mentally Challenged Children, Sector 31, and making it operational by August 1, 2009, UT Administrator SF Rodrigues today asked the Home Secretary and Finance Secretary to start the process of arranging equipment, trained manpower along with participation of NGOs to run various
programmes.
Selja to visit city on June 29
Chandigarh, June 25
With Chandigarh acting as a gateway to Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and nearby hill sojourns, the Union Minister of Tourism, Selja, would visit the city on June 29 to review its tourism potential and to promote it further as a tourism destination.
Home Secy meets welfare body
Chandigarh, June 25
UT Home Secretary today held a meeting with the chairman and office-bearers of FOSWAC to discuss various issues here yesterday.
Counselling slips hard to come by, still
Chandigarh, June 25
It seems that Chandigarh education department’s tall claims of simple and less time-consuming receipt of admission forms for Class XI has been exposed.
While visiting various centres today, it was found that the students were facing difficulty in getting their final counselling date slips after the submission of admission forms.
Students submit their admission forms at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 10, in Chandigarh
on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
Career options in English
Chandigarh, June 25
English has entrenched so much in the roots of Indian sub-continent that every student wants to acquire an expertise when it comes to writing and speaking it.
CBSE Class X Results
Student gets 95 marks, shown 45
Chandigarh, June 25
It seems that CBSE authorities are least bothered while preparing the correct result of board examination.
In one of the cases, result of a Chandigarh student, Mehak Narang, who appeared in Class X examinations, she got 90 plus marks in every subject expected in English, in which she got only
45 marks.
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Chandigarh, June 25
