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750 appear for mock test
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 6
As many as 750 aspirants for a managerial career appeared at the Mock-CAT-2002 conducted by Bulls Eye, a preparatory institute for MBA, GRE and GMAT, in collaboration with The Tribune, at Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, here today.

Exactly modelled on the latest CAT pattern, the mock CAT was administered under strict test-like conditions to create a feel of the real test. All candidates will also be sent their score cards along with section-wise break-up, percentile ranking and tips for improvement. As a true value-addition exercise, some brilliant ex-IIM alumni will offer individual counselling for preparation strategy after the test. Last year also over 700 students had appeared for the test.

True to its name, Bulls Eye has once again hit the bull’s eye in this year’s MBA Entrance tests, cornering a whopping bagful of interview calls for its alumni from prominent management institutes in the country.

Till date, its students have received a total of 700 interview calls from top 25 business schools of India. Out of these, 36 calls have come from the IIMs, 140 from UBS, 10 from XLRI, 17 from FMS, 20 from MDI, 18 from SP Jain, 60 from SCMHRD, 32 from IMI, 17 from TAPMI, 14 from IRMA, 40 from IITs and 40 from KJ Somaniya.

UBS students allege foul play
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 6
Alleging foul play, the students of first year of University Business School (UBS), Panjab University, have asked for a repeat of their internal assessment tests. These students met the Chairman of the department this evening here.

According to sources, a couple of days back, when the internal assessment tests results were posted on the notice board, these students were shocked to find see that many of the toppers in the merit list of selections to the department had actually failed in their internal assessment tests and many other students, who were otherwise average in performance, had scored more than 90 per cent marks.

Talking to the Chandigarh Tribune these students stated that they had decided to approach the Vice-Chancellor and request for either a re-examination or the permission to see their answersheets and how they had been marked. These students had also met the Chairman of the department the day their results were put up and alleged foul play in the checking of their papers.

Class VIII results on May 10
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, May 6
The results of the Class VIII examination of the Punjab School Education Board are likely to be declared by May 10, sources in the board said today. A total of 4.26 lakh candidates, both regular and private, appeared in the examination held in February this year.

However, the pass percentage could not be ascertained as the board authorities were in the final stages of preparing the merit list. Sources said due to an increase in the pass percentage from 25 to 33 per cent for the Class VIII candidates, the results were said to be poor.

Court order suppressing information flayed
Our Correspondent

Kharar, May 6
The Bar Association here has declared that the order passed by the Honourable Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, directing the police and the Judicial Magistrate not to give any information to the press was not supportable by any provision of law.

This resolution was passed unanimously at a meeting of the association held under the presidentship of Mr Anil Kaushik today.

This association also appreciated the steps taken by the Chief Minister of Punjab to root out corruption from the state.

According to the resolution, “Everyone is equal before the law and deserves equal protection under it as provided by Article 14 of the Indian Constitution, so judges at the highest level and executive officers of IAS and PCS cadre should claim no other protection from law any more than any other citizen of India”.

I have questioned as to why the names of High Court judges and IAS officers were being held back from the public and the press. Mr Ravinderpal Singh Sidhu’s status as an officer is not less than any other officer of the state. Therefore, the orders passed by the honourable Judge of the High Court were not legally supportable by any provisions of law.

They have resolved that this order has the effect of depriving the public from knowing the illegal acts of highly placed persons and the press has also been gagged. The same amounts to violation of the provisions of the Constitution regarding freedom of the press.

Meanwhile, the members of the Bar suspended their work in courts today in response to a call given by the Samrala and Moga Bar Association which has also expressed resentment against the attempt to conceal the corrupt elements from several quarters.

Dist Courts remain without power for 5 hrs
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 6
The District Courts remained without electricity for about five hours as a fire broke in the main junction box in the ground floor of the lawyers’ chambers due to short circuit here today.

Sources said that in order to check kundi connection at the District Courts, officials of the UT Electricity Department had inspected the court premises last year and taken a serious note of a number of illegal connections and threatened to remove them soon.

Last year an organisation, the Lawyers for Social Reform (LSR), had sent a legal notice to the UT Home Secretary and Executive Engineer complaining about abrupt failure of electricity supply to lawyers chambers and courts.

The LSR had complained at that time that for the past two months the lawyers had been facing a lot of inconvenience due to frequent power failures. There was danger of some fire tragedy due to defective electricity wires and main switches in the junction boxes and many computers, electronic typewriters, ACs installed in the lawyers chambers.