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Nari Niketan Case
Victim was raped in institute also
Chandigarh, July 3
Probe into the Nari Niketan rape case by the police has confirmed that the victim was being raped by main accused, Bhupinder Singh and Jamuna Kumar, for quite sometime and her sexual exploitation continued even at the Government Institute for Mentally Retarded Children (GMIRC), the school where she was attending classes after being shifted to Aashray.
Mohali Master Plan
GMADA proposes urban estate
Mohali, July 3
After a gap of nine years, the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA), erstwhile PUDA, is coming up with an urban estate within Mohali’s master plan area.
Rail Budget: City has nothing to cheer
Chandigarh, July 3
There is nothing to cheer for residents of the city as far as the Railway Budget is concerned. Barring the Dibrugarh Express, which has been converted from a special train to a regular one no major announcement, has been made in the Budget. This train has directly been linked between Chandigarh and Yamuna
Nagar.
Visually impaired rounded up
Chandigarh, July 3
The Chandigarh Police today rounded up at least 40 members of the National Federation of Blinds (NFB) who were taking out a protest march to the Punjab Assembly, seeking jobs under 1 per cent quota fixed for them.
Rift between Mayor, Commissioner resolved
Chandigarh, July 3
The rift between city Mayor Kamlesh and Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Roshan Sankaria was today resolved, with over 20 councillors visiting the Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Local Bodies Ram Niwas.
Analysis
Review panel draws councillors’ ire
Chandigarh, July 3
The Mayor-Commissioner impasse may have ended, but resentment is brewing among a section of municipal councillors over the administration’s decision to give Chandermukhi Sharma the centre stage, with his role as the head of the committee to smoothen the functioning of the MC.
Pensioners seek revised scales
Chandigarh, July 3
Pensioners from Punjab staged a rally demanding implementation of the revised pension scales on the basis of the sixth Pay Commission at Sector 17 here today.
Pensioners protest during a rally at Sector 17 in Chandigarh on Friday. A Tribune photograph |
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Residents urge to sink 14 tubewells
Mohali, July 3
The Citizens’ Welfare and Development Forum has urged the Director, Local Government, Punjab, to get 14 tubewells sunk in Mohali.
Conveyance Deed
Plot holders cry foul
Say not being included in special waiver scheme of govt
Mohali, July 3
A number of plot holders have accused the authorities concerned of harassment in getting the conveyance deed of their properties registered.
Suspension of Patwari
Patwaris protest at tehsil office
Panchkula, July 3
Patwaris in the district resorted to strike, following the Panchkula Deputy Commissioner, Pankaj Yadav, suspended Chandi Mandir patwari Harnek Singh here today.
Villages ignored by MC, alleges councillor
Mohali, July 3
Even when rapid development is carried out in Mohali town, villages falling under municipal limits are left to fend for themselves.
This was alleged by a former municipal councillor living in Mohali village.
Hydrotherapy pool for special kids on anvil
Chandigarh, July 3
The Chandigarh Administration has decided to construct a hydrotherapy pool and activity centre for the disabled children. The proposed centre will be set up within the Prayaas complex, Sector 38 B, here, at a cost of Rs. 3 crore.
Foundation day celebrated
Mohali, July 3
On the occasion of its foundation day, the Sukhmani Group of Institutes yesterday rewarded its faculty with cash award, varying between Rs 10,000 and one lakh.
At a function organised at Mountview Hotel, Chandigarh, newsletter Achiever was also released. A cash prize of Rs one lakh each was given to Prof Gurpreet Kaur, registrar, and Prof Gurleen Sidhu, HoD, CSE, on completion of their ten years with the institute.
Institute chairman Prof Avtar Singh said Sri Sukhmani Group ventured into the field of education 30 years ago.
—TNS
BSNL mela tomorrow
Chandigarh, July 3
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will organise a mela at the telephone exchange, Phase IV, Mohali tomorrow.
According to a press note, issued by Naresh Sharma, general manager of telecom, the mela would offer customers land phone connections, mobile post and pre-paid connections, 3G mobile connections, data card and WLL connections.
Free top-up, ITC, callnow cards of Rs 50- 150 will also be given free of cost with booking of mobile pre-paid, landline connections and broadband connections.
—TNS
Speaking Out
Rail Budget satisfactory
Chandigarh, July 3
Reacting to the rail Budget, a section of city residents are happy to know that the fare of tickets has not increased.
Class XI Admission
Counselling inside, mess outside
Chandigarh, July 3
What seemed to be the most obvious distraction at the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 10, the venue of the Class XI admissions, was the litter outside the school caused by the promotional material of private institutes.
WHO CARES? The littered road outside Government Model Senior Secondary School,
Sector 10. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari |
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Class XI Admissions
Day 2: More students opt for science stream
Chandigarh, July 3
More students opted for the science stream on the second day of the centralised admission counselling of Class XI, with 1,519 out of the total 3,218 seats available in all government schools getting filled in the past two days.
Students queue up for Class XI admissions at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-10. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari |
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PU Notes
Aptitude test for MA-I (music) on July 15
Chandigarh, July 3
Aptitude test for the admission in MA-I music (vocal and instrumental) will be held on July 15, 2009, at 10 am in the department of music, Panjab University. No separate call letters will be sent to the candidates.
Attendance to be marked online in PU
Chandigarh, July 3
In a set of decisions taken at a joint meeting of the department heads of Panjab University and Vice-Chancellor Prof
R.C. Sobti held today, the attendance system of students and professors will go online from this session.
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