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Mayoral poll postponed following petition
Kala challenges Cong; boycott by BJP
Chandigarh, August 10
The election of Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh was postponed today on a joint petition of the BJP and the Congress acting Mayor, Mr Gurcharan Dass Kala, questioning the authority of the presiding officer to reconvene an adjourned meeting for holding the election. The meeting had to be adjourned for lack of quorum.

Stunned Chandigarh Municipal Corporation members asking the mayoral election meeting presiding officer Harishesh Bhanot why the election was not being held. Right: Acting Congress Mayor Gurcharan Dass Kala joining BJP and SAD local unit presiding Dharampal Gupta and Gurpartap Singh Riar, respectively, in raising slogans against the Congress in Chandigarh on Friday.  — Tribune photographs

CTCC faced with Bansal-Sharma rift
Chandigarh, August 10
The Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee (CTCC) today seemed to have invited a crisis by deciding to go to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) to complete quorum for the Mayoral election with seeds of suspicion sowed between two top leaders, local MP Mr Pawan Bansal and former Union Minister Venod Sharma, on the issue.

The Chandigarh police carrying out a search operation at the ISBT, Sector 17, in view of the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations on Friday.  — Tribune photo Manoj Mahajan

Bahl: Advani meddling in MC issue
Chandigarh, August 10
The Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee here today accused the Union Home Minister, Mr L. K. Advani, of pressurising the Chandigarh Administration to dissolve the local Municipal Corporation. It further said that today’s Mayoral election meeting was “managed” to achieve this goal.

CBI inspects 8 medical stores
Seizure of unaccounted material at PGI cath lab
Chandigarh, August 10
The CBI today conducted inspected eight medical stores in the city in connection with the unearthing of unaccounted equipment worth Rs 1 crore in the PGI Cath Lab.

Rs 1 lakh for victim’s family
Drowning of school student
SAS Nagar, August 10
The Housing and Urban Development Minister of Punjab, Dr Upinderjit Kaur, today said the officials found guilty for the circumstances leading to the drowning of the 13-year-old student of Paragon school would not be spared, irrespective of their position.

PUDA slashes prices of sites
SAS Nagar, August 10
To boost commercial activity in the town, the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) has substantially slashed the reserved price of sites in the bulk material market located on the southern fringes of the town.

COMMUNITY

For the sake of dying father’s wish
Chandigarh, August 10
For a terminally ill 90-year-old man in Germany, the First Secretary of the German Embassy, Mr Helmut Holzheuer, today drove 250 km from Delhi to Chandigarh in sultry Indian weather. His mission: to ensure that the old man, before making his final exit, meets his son lodged in a jail at Amritsar.

JANAMASHTAMI CELEBRATIONS
Spread the message of Gita : Jacob
Chandigarh, August 10
The Punjab Governor, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob, who is also Administrator of Chandigarh, today underlined the need for taking the eternal message of Geeta to every nook and corner of the world.

• School functions

• GGDSD College function

• ‘Shobha yatras’ from tomorrow

MURDER MILES
Where an accident a day is routine
Chandigarh
* Six persons were injured in a freak accident between two Haryana Roadways buses and two cars near the Airport Chowk last week.

Bairagi Mahamandal units in England, Canada
Chandigarh, August 10
Bairagi Mahamandal has established cells in Canada and England under the patronage of Mr Bal Kavi Bairagi, Member of Parliament and patron, All India Bairagi Mahamandal.

KHARAR DIARY
Civic body to share PSEB’s task
Kharar
The Kharar municipal committee has decided to employ two electricians to improve the working of streetlights in the town. The committee passed a resolution on July 27 that four persons had been deputed by the Punjab State Electricity Board for the upkeep of streetlights in Kharar.

Pain and agony refuse to leave her
Chandigarh, August 10
For Veena Kumari, (51), life is fraught with emotions. Her frail appearance tells it all —the mental and physical pain she has been going through for years, her poor financial condition and the associated helplessness (she prefers to spend the night in the open outside the GMCH building rather than spend Rs 50 on fare to her relatives’ house in Daddu Majra).

EATING OUT
Regal fare at Empress Room
Chandigarh
The Empress Room. It is not the name of a suite, but the restaurant-cum-bar of the four-star Hotel Piccadily, Sector 22. As I dine in the pleasantly cool confines amid a chattering group of Japanese women (the hotel has a good number of foreign guests), my attention is drawn to the portraits of regal women adorning the walls. Does the name come from there? Nobody on duty seems to know for sure, but that’s a strong probability.

Expedition to Khardung La
Chandigarh, August 10
The Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lieut Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), today flagged off a 85-member motorcycle expedition to Khardung La, the highest motorable road in the world.

Employee unions hold rally
SAS Nagar, August 10
Different trade unions took a rally from the Labour Department office to the SDM office here today to protest against the ‘anti-industry’ policies of the Badal government. Members of employee unions of Punwire, JCT, PCL, SCL, Godrej, Swaraj and ESPL took part in the rally.

• Jet Airways selects 10 ITFT trainees

• NSS meeting

• Milkfed MD launches vanmahotsava

• 18-hr power disruption in Sector 44-B
  

CRIME

Rs 80,000 stolen from car
Chandigarh, August 10
A sum of Rs 80,000 was stolen from a car parked near Punjab and Sind Bank, Sector 22-B yesterday morning. The car belonged to Mr Deepak.

2 proclaimed offenders held
Panchkula, August 10
The Panchkula police has arrested two women proclaimed offenders involved in a number of theft and burglary cases.

21-year-old commits suicide
Panchkula, August 10
A 21-year-old youth committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance here yesterday.

BUSINESS

Representation for traders sought
Chandigarh, August 10
The Traders Association, Sector 17-D, has demanded representation for the traders in the building bylaws amendment committee.

EDUCATION

PU admissions to vacant seats
Chandigarh, August 10
Panjab University has decided to admit fresh candidates for the seats lying vacant in MSc (Information Technology), MSc (Zoology) and MCom in some of the affiliated colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh.

INTRODUCTION TO KRISHNA: Maybe these children of Strawberry Fields, Sector 24, Chandigarh, have been told that Lord Krishna loves disciplined children.

Water invades the space for trees, but these children are there to end the occupation. — Photos by Pradeep Tewari

SOPU dharna to continue
Chandigarh, August 10
Despite a tough stand taken by Panjab University and opposition from all major student organisations, the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) has decided to continue its “dharna” demanding lowering of the credit requirement in B.Sc (honours) stream for promotion in the post graduation courses.

130 students donate blood
Chandigarh, August 10
More than 130 students of Government College for Girls, Sector 11, donated blood at a camp organised by the Blood Donation Society of the college in collaboration with the Blood Bank Society, PGI, here today.

Teej celebrated
Chandigarh, August 10
Girls of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, celebrated Teej here today. The school premises was tastefully decorated for the occasion .

Kailash Bahl DAV School bags trophy
Chandigarh, August 10
An Inter school patriotic song competition was held at Sri Aurobindo School of Integral Education, Sector 27, here today. The overall running trophy was bagged by students of Kailash Bahl DAV School, Sector 7.

Faridkot team best in youth parliament contest Chandigarh, August 10 On the concluding day of the 14th National Youth Parliament Competition organised by Kendriya Vidyalaya No.2, here, additional teams from Patiala and Chandigarh joined the ranks of the contestants and presented their hour-long youth parliament session.
Participants at the 14th National Youth Parliament Competition organised at 3 BRD in Chandigarh on Friday.

All but four BE seats filled
Chandigarh, August 10
Only four seats in BE metallurgy in the UT pool remained vacant at the end of the second last day of the ongoing counselling of joint admissions to BE and BArch courses here today.

Pre-departure briefing to students
Chandigarh August 10
More than 35 students of the city intending to study in the UK participated in the pre-departure briefing organised by the British Council Library here today.

HIGH COURT
Probe in post-retirement cases: time set
Chandigarh, August 10
The Punjab and Haryana High Court, has held that departmental proceedings cannot be initiated against an officer after his retirement in case the incident occurred more than four years prior to the initiation of the inquiry.

2 discharged in trespassing case
Chandigarh, August 10
“The green space left in the colonies of the housing board is not a property of as any individual, rather it belongs to the colony as a whole” observed a local court while dismissing a case of trespassing registered against two residents of Mani Majra.

DISTRICT COURTS
Case against Barnala adjourned
Chandigarh, August 10
A dowry case filed against Surjit Singh Barnala, and his other family members by his daughter in law, Parveshbir Kaur, was adjourned today by the UT Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Ashok Kumar, till September 11.

Judicial remand in  zoo bribery case
Chhat Bir, August 10
Mr N.K. Gaud, Judicial Magistrate (first class), Rajpura, yesterday remanded Narinder Kumar Bhanot, the main accused in Chhat Bir bribery case in 14 day judicial custody.