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Husband, paramour
kill wife
Chandigarh,
May 5 — A woman who used to object
to her husband's alleged illicit relationship
with his young niece was done to death by the two
of them Khuda Ali Sher village located just north
of Punjab Engineering College this morning.
Frightened
children, who saw their father allegedly beat
their mother to death, were shifted to their
uncle's house in Khuda Ali Sher village on
Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph
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2
new depts for PGI approved
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — Two new departments will be created in the
PGI while a postgraduate course will commence in another
stream. This was decided at a meeting of the Standing
Finance Committee of the PGI institute body in Delhi
yesterday.
12
cholera cases in city
CHANDIGARH,
May 5—As many as 12 cases of cholera have been
reported from different parts of the city during the past
few days. The patients, aged between 8 months and 8
years, come from sectors 31,32, 46 and 47, Hallo Majra
village and Ram Darbar colony, says Dr Sarvinder Gandhok,
a private practitioner.
Gastroenteritis
cases on rise
PANCHKULA,
May 5 — Unchecked sale of cut fruits and exposed
food items in the town and its surrounding areas has led
to an increase in the cases of gastroenteritis and
diarrhoea during the past few weeks, say local medical
practitioners.
Venod
Sharma’s phones under ‘observation’
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — All telephones at the residence, offices,
hotels and other properties of former Union Food and
Civil Supplies Minister, Mr Venod Sharma, have been put
under “observation”, according to a senior
police official. This has been done keeping in mind the
chances of his son, Sidhharth, alias Manu Sharma, calling
up the numbers.
Anti-malaria
drive from May 18
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — The malaria wing of the Municipal
Corporation of Chandigarh will launch a special
anti-malaria drive in the city from May 18.
Balbir
Singh’s evidence recorded
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — The Sessions Judge, Mr B.S. Bedi, today
recorded the examination-in-chief of Mr Balbir Singh, who
was posted as Magistrate at Patiala in September, 1995,
in the ongoing Beant Singh assassination case.
Lions
Club runs home for aged
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — The Home for Old and Destitute People in
Sector 15 is now being run by the Lions Club, Chandigarh
Central, in association with the Chandigarh
Administration. The management of the home was handed
over to the Lions Club by the Administration on April 1
for the betterment of the inmates.
Harcharan
arrives for trials
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — Olympian Col Harcharan Singh , who is tipped
to be named the chief coach of the Indian hockey team for
the Sydney Olympic Games, arrived here today to watch the
probables from North Zone during the selection trials
starting here tomorrow.
Coaching
camps from May 10
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — The Chandigarh Sports Department will hold
the annual summer coaching camps in 21 disciplines at
various venues of the city from May 10 to 26, according
to Mr J.P.S. Sidhu, Joint Director. The camp will be for
boys and girls up to the senior secondary level and it
will be held in the evening session.
Questions
from outside syllabus
CHANDIGARH,
May 5 — Students taking their second semester
postgraduate examination for sociology here today were
perturbed to see an out-of-syllabus question paper.
‘Radium
removal should be enforced by law’
CHANDIGARH,
May 5—“The radium market has touched an all
time low and the industry is not willing to remove radium
from the waste left after extraction of uranium. This
will have to be imposed by legislation,’’ Prof
Inderjit Nirdosh, of Lakehead University, Canada, said,
while speaking to the TNS here yesterday.
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Vacation time is project time
