Husband, paramour kill wife
Tribune News Service

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.

The two hit her private parts and her stomach that led to severe internal bleeding and subsequently death, police sources said.

Avtar Singh and his niece Narinder Kaur allegedly tried to hush up the case by passing it off as an accident. They washed the blood stains and rushed out to call an ambulance. The blood-stained clothes of the deceased, Avtar Kaur, aged 38, were packed in a polythene bag and thrown away. The bag was recovered by the police around 11 am, two hours later.

The duo then clothed Avtar in a set fresh clothes and put her body in an adjoining room. They may have succeeded in their plans but for alert neighbours who saw blood flowing down the open sewers in the village and called the Sarpanch who informed the police.

Avtar Kaur had complained to the village panchayat on April 28 that her husband used to shove an iron rod into her vagina and beat her up. "This was regular feature, she had alleged, " the Sarpanch, Mr Pal Singh, told The Tribune.

The allegation was seconded by some villagers. Sub-Inspector Mewa Singh was duly informed on May 1 but he asked for proof. No further investigations were carried out by a policewoman nor was Avtar Kaur ever quizzed about the bizarre beatings and torture she underwent at the hands of her husband, the Sarpanch added.

Villagers have told the police that Avtar Singh used to put on loud music and thrash his wife. This morning also, the tape deck in his house was playing music at full pitch.

Avtar Singh would have escaped but the Sarpanch stopped him . He said that his wife had suffered from sudden bleeding and was unwell.

Employed with the Punjab Government as a peon, Avtar Singh is about 45 years of age and a father of four children. He was allegedly having an illicit relationship with his niece, Narinder Kaur, who is a daughter of his deceased sister.

Narinder Kaur, aged about 28 years, was married but had separated from her husband around six months ago and since then she had been living with the family of Avtar Singh. The two were arrested and booked under Sections 302 and 302 read with Section 34 of the IPC.

Around a year ago, Avtar Singh's daughter aged about 18 years had died under mysterious circumstances . He had then said that she had suffered a heart attack.

The IG, Dr Kiran Bedi, said SHOs have been asked to hold meetings with sarpanches in their respective areas to prevent cases in which domestic violence is reported.

SI suspended for ignoring plea

Sub-Inspector Mewa Singh of the Sector 11 police station was suspended for allegedly not acting on the complaint of the deceased Avtar Kaur, who had said she was facing brutal beatings and torture at the hands of her husband.

In the last week of April, the woman had told the village panchayat that her husband thrashed her and even hurt her private parts while putting on loud music to prevent her screams from being heard by neighbours.

The panchayat in turn informed the beat officer, SI Mewa Singh on May 1 ,who asked the panchayat to bring proof, the Sarpanch of the village, Mr Pal Singh has alleged.

No enquiry by a policewoman or was made.

Confirming the suspension, the IG admitted that such a murder was preventable. The enquiry will be held by a gazetted officer.

2 new depts for PGI approved
Tribune News Service

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 (SFC) of the PGI institute body in Delhi yesterday.

Besides this, a final approval was given to the cardiac centre, eyecare centre, expansion of the operation theatres, opening of new out patients departments (OPDs), creation of additional posts of resident doctor in various departments, construction of 72 houses for employees and a hostel for doctors, among several other employee benefit schemes.

The new departments to be started are for tropical medicine and the hospital administration. The tropical medicine department will be run by the Tilok Tirath Vidyawati Chhuttani Charitable Trust, which has agreed to pay Rs 60 lakh annually. The department was the dream of a former Director of the PGI, the late Prof P.N. Chhuttani, who had actually donated Rs 3 crore to Panjab University.

A committee was formed and the university authorities had suggested that the department be set up in the PGI where basic infrastructure already existed, Prof B.K. Sharma, Director, PGI , said this evening.

The department will conduct research on tropical diseases.

The department of hospital administration will be the third of its kind in the country after the AIIMS , New Delhi, and Pune. The new course is postgraduate degree in blood transfusion. This is the second such postgraduate course in the stream.

The SFC also sanctioned extra staff in the CSSD, laundry, dietary. Besides, class IV employees for the APC, new hostels, a respiratory care unit, a cardiac care unit and the transplant ward have been approved. Posts of junior resident have been approved in psychiatry, radiotherapy, besides additional posts of senior resident in the skin and ENT departments have been approved.

Six seats of house surgeon have been added in the dental department.Two technicians each have been cleared for the microbiology and anaesthesia departments, respectively.

On the employee front, 72 new houses, 36 each in type I and type II categories, transport allowance of the Punjab cadre employee on the central pattern, overtime allowance for class IV employees have been sanctioned.

For the faculty the SFC approved one international conference every two years with an allowance of Rs 1 lakh instead of Rs 40,000. The number of national conferences have been increased from one to two each year.

A bachelors hostel having 32 seats is also in the pipeline and it was approved. Besides, a 15-year-old pay dispute of senior technicians and technical assistants working under the Punjab pattern was resolved.

12 cholera cases in city
By Prabhjot Singh
Tribune News Service

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.

The officials of the Union Territory Health Department neither deny nor confirm the incidence of the disease. Though cholera is a notifiable disease, there is no infrastructure to monitor the incidence of such diseases.

Private practitioners and doctors working in government hospitals, health centres and dispensaries do not know whom to contact whenever they examine a case of a notifiable disease. "I have been receiving two to three cases a day. The youngest of my patients, an eight-month-old, is a case of cholera," says Dr Gandhok. "Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease caused by V. Cholerae. Unless the body is replenished with sufficient quantities of fluids and electrolytes, 30 to 40 per cent cases can prove fatal," he adds.

According to World Health Organisation report, the last notified cases reported from India were 6,000 in 1982. Of these, 212 had died of cholera. The maximum number of cholera deaths took place in 1976, when 861 persons died in India out of 66,020 cases.

The immediate sources of infection for cholera are stool and vomit. The disease is spread through contaminated water. Fruits and vegetables washed with it can be a major source of infection. The bacteria can survive in ice for 4 to 6 days. Aerated cold water and ice cream sold in the streets are the worst carriers of this bacteria. The incubation period is from a few hours to five days.

The onset of the disease, say doctors, is abrupt. The frequently-passed stool is rice-watery in appearance. At the next stage, the patient can collapse due to dehydration and may have sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, scaphoid abdomen, unrecordable blood pressure, loss of skin elasticity and shallow and quick respiration. He complains of thirst, restlessness, suppression of urine and cramps in legs and abdomen. The clinical tests include examination of stool, which can diagnose 80 per cent of cholera cases.

Doctors maintain that Oral Rehydration Therapy is the best treatment for cholera. Five grams of table salt and 20 grams of sugar should be mixed in one litre of water and this mixture should be administered regularly to the patient. They say not more than one stool per two hours or more and less than 5 ml of stool per kg weight of the patient per hour is required for the maintenance of this therapy. In case the frequency and quantity of stool increases beyond this, the patient should be shifted to a hospital.

Though cholera vaccine is available, doctors say the best way to avoid cholera is to follow preventive medicine. Water should be boiled and cooled before use and cut and exposed fruits and vegetables, ice cream and aerated water should be avoided.

Gastroenteritis cases on rise
Tribune News Service

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.

The number of such patients registered at the out-patients department (OPDs) of government hospitals, private clinics and nursing homes have increased during the past one month, although most of the cases are of mild nature.

While the district health authorities say that the sale of cut fruits is checked regularly, the number of patients affected by diarrhoea after consuming exposed food items sold by roadside vendors belie the claim.

Doctors say cases of the water-borne diseases, which generally occur during the months of June, July and August, are not of serious nature. They rule out the possibility of the water-borne diseases assuming an epidemic form.

Dr Pardeep Bhardwaj, a private medical practitioner in Sector 15, says: "I am daily checking around 18 patients of diarrhoea. The patients are responding well to treatment.''

He said the number of patients had increased during the past two weeks and none of them could be described as a serious case.

Figures made available by the district health authorities show a 20 per cent increase in the cases of diarrhoea during the past two months. The number of patients increased from 162 in March to 128 in April. The record at the local

General Hospital, also show an increase of 50 per cent in the number of patients during March and April this year.

Dr Deepak Bandhu, a private medical practitioner in Sector 7, says he was getting five patients daily. The number of cases might rise with the onset of the rainy season.

The doctors say more patients from rural and slum areas were registered at the government hospitals. In Kalka the number of persons affected by water-borne diseases was quite less.

Dr Manoj Gupta of the Kalka government hospital says: "We are receiving about two patients daily who fall ill after consuming contaminated food items or drinking contaminated water.''

The Chief Medical Officer, Dr H.C.Nagpal, said the health workers were regularly taking samples of water from different spots in the district. The main reason for the cases of diarrhoea, he said was the consumption of contaminated food items.

He ruled out the possibility of contamination of any specific source which could lead to an epidemic-like situation.

Dr Nagpal said at least 20 per cent of such patients were children below five years of age.

Venod Sharma’s phones under ‘observation’
Tribune News Service

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.

Meanwhile, Mr Venod Sharma was shifted to the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) of the PGI after his condition deteriorated following an increase in his blood pressure last night.

Mr Sharma had accelerated hypertension after he returned from Delhi where he was questioned by the police about his son.

Anti-malaria drive from May 18
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, May 5 — The malaria wing of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) will launch a special anti-malaria drive in the city from May 18.

According to sources, DDT sprays as per directions of the Government of India will be conducted in synchronisation with neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana. Two rounds of sprays will be conducted — the second being in August.

Officials said over 150 employees, working at the grassroots-level, had already been imparted training in the anti-malarial techniques and emergency operations. Meanwhile, candidates for the posts of 80 seasonal sanitary beldar, to be appointed for a period of over four months in the wing, were conducted today and they are likely to be appointed soon.

In fact, a meeting of representatives of the Army, the ITBP, the IAF and the Haryana Government was held here yesterday and it was decided to have close coordination in the prevention of malaria.

Dr GC Bansal, Additional Director (Malaria), informed that keeping in view the theme of this year —” Early diagnosis from treatment” — special emphasis would be given to the “malaria-prone” areas like villages, slums and labour colonies. With that end in view, malaria camps would be organised in thickly-populated areas.

Apart from the DDT sprays, special emphasis will be laid on information, education and communication during the summer season in which seminars, talks and interaction between the officials of the wing and the general public would be organised. June would be observed as “anti-malaria” month and people educated about the measures to prevent malaria.

Besides, random checking of coolers would be done at regular intervals, said Mr HC Gera, Assistant Malaria Officer. He appealed to the residents to scrub dry the coolers at least once a week as the stagnant water was a source of diseases like malaria and dengue.

The officials informed that a rapid response team had been constituted to control the emergency situations for taking on-the-spot remedial measures in areas infected by malaria.

Sprays would also be conducted at different intersections of N-choe covering a major part of the city with a view of hitting at the mosquito-breeding areas. Similar sprays were being planned at different areas of other choes passing through the city, the sources said.

Meanwhile, there has been over 70 per cent reduction in the number of malaria cases in the city in the first three months of this year. While there were 41 malaria cases in January 98, the number this year was only eight. Similarly the tally for the month of February for the two years was 52 and 19, respectively. In March, 107 malaria cases were reported as against 33 this year, claimed Dr Bansal.

Balbir Singh’s evidence recorded
Tribune News Service

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.

Deposing before the Sessions Judge, he said on September 22, 1995, Jagtar Singh Tara was produced before him by a DSP of the CBI for getting his confessional statement recorded.

Mr Balbir Singh told the court that he granted time to Tara to think whether he wanted to make the statement or not by telling him that if he so desired, his statement would be recorded at 3 p.m.

The Magistrate deposed that he directed all cops to leave the court room.

He maintained that around 3 p.m. Tara appeared before him and offered to make the statement. Mr Balbir Singh said he recorded his statement only after satisfying himself that he made the statement without any pressure or coercion.

After recording the statement, said Mr Balbir Singh, the CBI DSP moved another application for sending the accused to judicial custody. He passed the order for sending Tara to Patiala jail until September 24, 1995, with the directions that he should be produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate at Chandigarh on that date.

The cross-examination of Mr Balbir Singh will be conducted tomorrow.

Lions Club runs home for aged
Tribune News Service

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.

As per the agreement reached at a meeting held under the chairmanship of a former Adviser, Mr Jagdish Sagar, the Administration will give an annual grant of Rs 4.50 lakh for maintenance and other purposes. The remaining amount of Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh to run the kitchen and pay the salaries of the staff employed for the care of the old inmates will be borne by the club.

According to sources, the chairman of the managing committee of the club, Dr B.S. Aggarwal, had demanded a grant of Rs 6 lakh since the overall expenditure is likely to cross Rs 7 lakh after the required upgradation of facilities. But the demand was not entertained as the officials felt that if they were to allocate the amount which was earlier being spent by them, then where was the idea of giving it to an NGO.

It may be recalled that following media reports about the condition of inmates in the home, who were virtually left to fend for themselves, the Lions Club, Chandigarh Central, had moved a proposal for handing over the management of the home to it. It had then assured the Administration that it would provide a round-the-clock attendant and recruit additional staff to run a better kitchen and improve general maintenance of the complex.

An 11-member committee constituted under the chairmanship of Dr Aggarwal has been formed to supervise house-keeping, hospitality and other aspects to ensure smooth functioning of the home. The Director, UT Social Welfare, Mr Prithi Chand, is the adviser to the committee.

Harcharan arrives for trials
Tribune News Service

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.

“I got a message a couple of days ago to reach Chandigarh on May 5. As a soldier, I am here. I have no other information”, he said.

Colonel Harcharan Singh, a left winger, played for the country for a number of years, including the 1975 World Cup at Kuala Lumpur, the only time India won the event. At present he is posted in Siliguri. He has been closely associated with the training of the teams of Services and of his unit — ASC — for a number of years.

The IHF President, Mr K.P.S. Gill, also arrived here today. He had a brief meeting with the coaches attached to the Chandigarh camp — Rajinder Singh, Satinder Singh, Balwinder Singh and Sunil Sharma.

There are strong indications that Colonel Harcharan Singh will be given the task of training the team for the Sydney Olympic Games. Olympian Balwinder Singh, who is associated with the training of Northern Railway and Railway contingents, is likely to be appointed his deputy.

Trials will begin tomorrow. According to schedule, there will be two more sessions of trials, tomorrow and on Friday. It was rest time for the probables today evening.

Among the selectors, Colonel Haripal Kaushik (retd), is expected to arrive tonight or tomorrow to conduct the trials. He is expected to be joined by the coaches and the IHF President.

Coaching camps from May 10
By Our Sports Reporter

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.

The disciplines are: athletics, basketball, badminton, boxing, cricket, gymnastics, hockey, handball, judo, kho-kho, kabaddi, lawn tennis, swimming, shooting, skating, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and rowing. The sportspersons will also be provided with free refreshment. For further information, contact the District Sports Officer, Mr O.P. Puri.

Probables selected

The Chandigarh Basketball Association has selected 15 boys and 15 girls for a coaching camp, which began here today. The girls will be given training at the Sports Complex in Sector 7 and the boys at the DAV Senior Secondary School in Sector 8, according to Mr K. Sharti, Secretary of the CBA. The final selection of the 12-member team for the Junior National Basketball Championship at Pondicherry this month will be made during the camp.

The boy probables are Suresh, Harminder, Chander Prakash, Jaspreet, Amrish Kumar, Rishi Sharma, Harjot Singh, Arun Rana, Vikas, Vikram Singh, Harmandeep, Gurmukh Singh, Amardeep Singh,Amit Kakran and Sangram.The girl probables are Sonia, Nivedita, Amandeep Kaur, Poonam, Manjula, Sarita, Lucky Bhatia, Kavita Rawat, Shriya Singh, Amreena Singh, Ranjeeta, Sarabjeet, Geeta, Jaspreet, Anchal and Deepika.

Rink reopens

The skating rink in Sector 10 was opened today for regular trainees after remaining closed due to renovation for the past four months. Fresh membership can be obtained from Mr Inderpal Singh, manager of the rink. The coaching timings will be from 6.30 am to 8.30 am and from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Questions from outside syllabus
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, May 5 — Students taking their second semester postgraduate examination for sociology here today were perturbed to see an out-of-syllabus question paper.

The questions in the paper of “Urban sociology: concepts and theories’’ comprised questions based on the syllabi of the third and fourth semesters of the same paper.

When the students took objection to taking the paper, teachers of the subject in the department came to the scene and pacified the students.

The students said they were persuaded for some time to attempt whatever they could in the paper, and when the students showed no sign of letting up, the Chairperson, Dr Raj Mohini Sethi, acceded to the demand of the students.

Later, teachers came to the conclusion that a re-exam of the paper would be conducted.

The students were, however, instructed to write on the paper that “80 per cent of the paper was out of syllabus’’.

Mrs Sethi, when contacted in the evening, denied to comment on the issue.

‘Radium removal should be enforced by law’
Tribune News Service

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.

The repercussions of dumping waste, without separating radioactive compounds like radium from the ore of uranium, are disastrous. Prof Nirdosh says that radium can spread in the environment by wind and seepage. It thus finds its way into the human food chain, causing bone cancer.

Removal of radium should be the focus for producing cleaner wastes. “Because the ores are of low grade, the volume of these wastes is enormous. Once radium is removed, the waste can be used in the carpeting of roads and construction of buildings,’’ he said.

Low-grade uranium decays to produce various radioactive products, the most important among them being radium-226, its precursor, thorium-230 and its daughter product radon-222. This waste has to be “contained” for a long period. The half life of radium is 1620 years, so,it will take 800,000 years before the radium present in the waste decays to the natural background levels. Therefore, these wastes will cause radionuclide pollution for that long after a mine is closed, he says.

He adds that removal of radium from the waste is not enough since it can grow back if its parent, thorium-230, is not removed from the waste. Another danger, unmindful dumping of wastes at identified sites presents, is once the mines close down and the land is used for housing purposes, emissions of radon, daughter product of radium-226, will accumulate in houses, causing cancer. Once radioactive pollutants are removed from these wastes, the waste acquires negligible volume as compared to the volume of the original waste which can be graded to medium-level waste by the technology available.

To remove radium and thorium from the waste, Prof Nirdosh, with his team of researchers, has developed three processes. “These processes are available to all countries but nobody is willing to invest in such unprofitable processes. This is not peculiar to India but is prevalent all over the world,’’ he said.

Prof Nirdosh is an alumni of Panjab University, having done his B.Sc followed by securing a distinction in M.Sc. He began his career as a faculty member of the university and went on to do his doctrate from Birmingham University before emigrating to Canada. In Hamilton, McMaster University was his first employer after which he shifted to Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.

He has specialised in mineral processing which is about removing radioactive pollutants from uranium-minewastes. He has also been honoured with the Three M Teaching fellowship, a Canadian award, for his pioneering work in the field.

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Grant for YWCA
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5 — The Chandigarh Social Welfare Advisory Board has sanctioned a sum of Rs 1,15,450 to the YWCA, an NGO to conduct one vocational training programme on tie and dye and block printing at Dadu Majra village for the benefit of 50 adult women.

Mrs Kamla Sharma, Chairperson of the board, in her presidential address talked about various programmes started by the board for the welfare of the public at large. She called upon women to come forward for such programmes to exploit their hidden talents.

She has appealed to the functionaries of NGOs who are in the field of women development activities in UT to undertake income generation projects, which will help the poor and needy women to support themselves and their families. She has also asked NGOs which are registered under appropriate Act with two years experience to contact the office of the board at Karuna Sadan, Sector 11 B, for funds to undertake various production units.

A cultural performance was presented. The products prepared by the candidates were also displayed on the occasion.

MA students complain to VC
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5 — The students of MA-I, Department of Gandhian Studies, today complained of discrepancies in paper III held today.

In a representation sent to the Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, the students said that the paper consisted of seven questions which was contrary to the pattern of eight questions.Also question number 5 had been missing, which reduced their scope of attempting the questions.

Dance show by kids
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5 — The DPI, Schools, Mr DS Mangat, visited Head Start Nursery and Kindergarten School. The students of the school presented a dance show for him.

He appreciated the unique set-up of the school based on Americium schools which followed the playway method based on innovative blend of the latest American teaching techniques keeping the Indian curriculum in mind.

The principal, Mrs Sheena Swarup, explained the activities of the children during the day.

Polytechnic students get prizes
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5—The annual prize distribution function of Central Polytechnic, Sector 26, was organised at the institute today. As many as 250 students were given prizes for academic excellence, participation in sports and music contests, NCC and for blood donation.

A colourful cultural programme was also staged by students on the occasion. It began with a welcome dance which was followed by Rajni Thakur's dance to Honthon pe aisi baat mein.... The other items included skits, folk dances, mimicry and songs.

The institute brochure was also released at the function by Dr S.K. Aggarwal, Director, Technical Education, who gave away the prizes to the students.

Dr Aggarwal stated that in this era of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, there is need to equip ourselves with computer-based technology and financial management to have a standing in the global market.

He further stated that "price-led costing'' is the motto guiding the market today and put forward the concept of a "mobile workshop'' for ensuring jobs to students, instead of them seeking jobs. For the venture, capital funds can be made available from financial institutions and banks.

Earlier, the Principal, Mr S.L.Sapra, read out the annual report of the institute. The President of the Students Council, Mr S.K. Jindal, presented the vote of thanks.

Yoga camps from May 7
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5 — The Chandigarh Yoga Sabha is organising a series of yoga training and treatment camps under the guidance of Prof M Lall, a noted yoga exponent, from May 7 to 9.

According to the Secretary of the sabha, Mr M.L. Vairagi, the camps would be organised at the Yoga Divya Mandir, Sector 30-A, the Yoga Sadhna Kendra, Sector 21, the Divya Yoga Mandir, Shivalik Enclave, Mani Majra, and the Yoga Divya Mandir, Sector 12, Panchkula.

Professor Lall would attend to the patients of cervical spondylitis, backache, knee pains, diabetes, blood pressure and nasal problems free of cost. Besides, a special session for students would also be organised.

Adventure fest from June 18
Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, May 5—The first Chandigarh Adventure Festival will be held from June 18 to 26. This was stated in a press note issued by the Chandigarh Adventure Association.

The festival will include para-sailing, rock-climbing, trekking and camping. About 100 boys and girls from all over the country will attend the festival.