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CAT orders repatriation of 125 lecturers
Chandigarh, March 14
In a significant judgment, the Central Administration Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi, the UT Administration and others to repatriate as many as 125 deputationist lecturers working in different UT colleges to their parent state.

280 posts of teacher for city
Chandigarh, March 14
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) sanctioned 280 posts of teacher for the Union Territory today. Teachers are needed in newly opened primary schools and those primary and middle schools here that have to be upgraded.

Industrial plots, sheds may soon be freehold
Chandigarh, March 14
The UT Administration is working on a formula for converting leasehold industrial plots and sheds into freehold entities, according to what Mr G.K. Marwaha, Secretary Industries, said at a function here today.

CBI books cop in bribe case
Chandigarh, March 14
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked a senior Inspector of the Chandigarh police, J.S. Cheema, for allegedly demanding and accepting illegal gratification.

MoU for computerisation at PGI signed
Chandigarh, March 14
The National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NICSI), New Delhi, a Government of India enterprise, will undertake a Rs 24.7-crore computerisation project at the PGI. The MoU for this project, which was signed between NICSI and the PGI in Delhi today, will prove a paradigm for computerisation projects in other hospitals across the country.

JCT employees for lifting of ‘illegal’ lockout
SAS Nagar, March 14
Representatives of the JCT electronics Employees Welfare Association met Mr Birdevinder Singh, Kharar MLA, here today demanding the lifting of the “illegal” lockout declared yesterday at the factory.

COMMUNITY

New Zealand to take 55,000 immigrants
Chandigarh, March 14
New Zealand will take up to 55,000 new immigrants from all over the globe this year, said former Minister of Immigration, New Zealand, Mr Tuariki Delamare, while talking to mediapersons here today.

Trade unions hold joint protest

Chandigarh, March 14 INTUC, AITUC, CITU, HMS and BMS held a joint dharna to protest the proposed changes in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 under pressure from the World Bank and multinational companies here today. Members of the INTUC, the AITUC, the BMS and the HMS stage a joint dharna at Tribune Chowk in Chandigarh on Thursday to oppose the proposed changes in labour laws. — A Tribune photograph

4 Congmen responsible for riots: BJYM
Chandigarh, March 14
The local unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) revealed names of ‘’four Congressmen in Gujarat who provoked the people for the Godhara incident here today .’’

Workshop on waste minimisation
Chandigarh, March 14
An awareness workshop-cum-training programme on waste minimisation for hotels and restaurants of Chandigarh region was conducted by the National Productivity Council, New Delhi, in collaboration with K.S. Consultancy Service, here today.

Awards for excellence
Chandigarh, March 14
The Jan Seva Trust of the Saboo family has instituted the first ever Tara Chand Saboo Excellence Awards in school teaching for the teachers teaching in city school.

Dr T.N. Kochhar dead
Chandigarh, March 14
Dr Tirlok Nath Kochhar, an eminent citizen of the city, died here yesterday after a brief illness. He was 83. Dr Kochhar was a family physician who set up his clinic in Sector 22 of Chandigarh in 1963.

YOUNG VOICE
Success should not make you lazy

CRIME

Constable held for extorting money
Chandigarh, March 14
A Chandigarh police, constable Pardeep Kumar, has reportedly been arrested for extorting money from a Sumo driver. According to the police, an inspector manning a naka on the Chandigarh-Ropar road near Sector 39 flagged down a Sumo bearing a Delhi registration number, for routine checking.

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EDUCATION

GCG-11 students get degrees at convocation

Chandigarh, March 14 A total of 815 graduates were awarded degrees in the faculties of arts, science and commerce and 34 post-graduates in dance and music at the 45th annual convocation of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, here today. DEGREE DELIGHT: Graduates of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, after the convocation in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Photo Pradeep Tewari

550 students honoured in GC-11
Chandigarh, March 14
As many as 550 students were given prizes for excelling in academics, sports and co-curricular activities at the annual prize distribution function of Government College, Sector 11, held, here today.

SME celebrates annual day
Chandigarh, March 14
The students’ chapter of Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Punjab Engineering College, celebrated its annual day at Punjab Engineering College, here today.

Red letter day for GCA students

Chandigarh, March 14 It was a red letter day for the students of Government College of Art, Sector 10. The annual cultural and prize distribution function of the college, flagged off by UT Home Secretary Mr R.S. Gujral, was all about the sweet (?) fruit of labour. Award-winning students of the Government College of Arts, Sector 10, Chandigarh, in a jubilant mood at the annual prize-distribution function of the college on Thursday. — A Tribune Photograph

Move to give more say to women at PU
Chandigarh, March 14
In an interesting development, Panjab University is considering a proposal to give 33 per cent reservation to women in the Senate.

COURTS

DISTRICT COURTS
Husband gets 2-yr RI
Chandigarh, March 14
The UT Additional and Sessions Judge, Mr Justice R.C. Godara, sentenced a man called Ram Saran Das to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a case of harassment. The man was also fined Rs 2,000, while four others in the case were acquitted.

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CULTURE

Sharing colours with people

Chandigarh, March 14 His works inspire you to enter into a dialogue with colours. And as you converse with colours that give life to the canvas, a strange sense of realisation dawns upon you. Swami Narayan Satyarthi displays series of his works in Punjab Kala Bhavan art gallery, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Rosewood feast from Kerala Chandigarh, March 14 A host of utility items created out of coconut shells, banana fibre, laminated wood and palm stem fibre are currently being displayed at Kairali, the exhibition of Kerala Handicraft Development Corporation. Artifacts on display at an exhibition of Kerala handicrafts and handlooms in Lajpat Rai Bhavan, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Ants — of human bonding Chandigarh, March 14 For a good one hour and even more, the topmost people from Chandigarh Administration added flavour to the gathering at Sukhna Lake this morning. UT Adviser Neeru Nanda and Home Secretary R.S. Gujral clap at the mahurat shot of an English film ‘Ants’, at Sukhna Lake in  Chandigarh on Thursday. — Photo Parvesh Chauhan

HEALTH

Hospice for the terminally ill
Chandigarh, March 14
Critically and terminally ill patients, who have no hope for survival, will now be looked after better in the last stages of their lives as the UT Administration today tied up with a Sohana-based charitable trust, near Mohali, to run a Hospice centre.

Surgeon invited to congress
Chandigarh, March 14
Dr Kuldip Singh, honorary secretary, Indian Association of Laparoscopic Surgery, has been invited to the 8th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery to be held in New-York from March 13 to March 17, 2002.

SPORTS

Rural sports meet begins
Chandigarh, March 14
The rural sports tournament being organised by the Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration, began here today at the Dronacharya Stadium, Dadu Majra. It was inaugurated by Dr P.C. Kashyap, Regional Director, Sports Authority of India.

ADMINISTRATION

F&CC tells 19 bodies to stall own sewage plants
Chandigarh, March 14
The Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) here today set up two separate committees to look into problems of parking and rates to be levied on taxi stands. It also asked 19 institutions in the city to set up their own sewage treatment plants and levied a Rs 30,000 rental on city ahatas.