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Hail wins against city’s ‘power’
Chandigarh, May 25
Widespread rain accompanied by a hailstorm in the city and its surrounding areas brought in welcome relief from the ongoing heat wave. But with it came a major power breakdown, water-logged roads and loss in business activity.

HOT SKY TURNS COLD; HEAVENS STILL FURIOUS: Rain brings a temporary relief from heat, but clogs roads and affects power supply in Chandigarh on Saturday. — Photo Manoj Mahajan

Charges against HoD; PGI begins probe
Chandigarh, May 25
The PGI administration has initiated an inquiry into allegations by the husband of a patient with a kidney problem that a certain doctor had told him to buy an expensive surgical item from a particular shop and troubled him on not complying.

Eight injured in bus-truck collision
Panchkula, May 25
As many as eight persons were injured, one of them seriously, when the Himachal Roadways bus they were travelling in, collided head-on with a truck near Majri chowk at around 5 am today.

Sidhu’s bail plea rejected
Panchkula, May 25
A bail plea moved by a former Chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu, in a case under the Arms Act registered against him in the Sector 39 police Station was today dismissed by a local court. This was second time when the Magistrate had dismissed the bail plea moved Sidhu under the Arms Act registered him.

Inquiry indicts SI for torture
Chandigarh, May 25
A sub-inspector of the Chandigarh police has reportedly been indicted by a departmental inquiry for allegedly torturing a Sector 19 resident in a theft case. Three others, including a former SHO of the Sector 19 police station and two constables have, however, been acquitted by the inquiry.

COMMUNITY

Security beefed up at Burail jail
Chandigarh, May 25
Taking into consideration the sensitivity of certain criminal cases being heard at Model Burail Jail, the UT Administration has finally spruced up security all around the jail campus.

Police clueless in Sec 15 murder case
Chandigarh, May 25
The police is still clueless about the whereabouts of Som Bahadur, who allegedly murdered a 78-year-old woman in Sector 15 earlier this week. The body of the deceased, Prakash Kaur was found yesterday.

Litterbugs to be fined
Chandigarh, May 25
With a view to initiate punitive legal action against residents creating unhygienic conditions in the city by throwing waste material indiscriminately on public roads, Inspectors of the office of the Medical Officer of Health issued 143 challans during this week.

Citizens’ Bible: Love thy neighbour not
Chandigarh, May 25
*A 78-year-old lonely widow is murdered in her house and the neigbours get suspicious only after finding newspapers lying outside her house on May 24.

‘Peace is all about clarity of thought’
Chandigarh, May 25
Spiritual elements for one reason or the other, remain so heavily shrouded by the numerous routine cares we harbour, that it becomes impossible to feel them, let alone use them for attainment of mental peace.

Mango-laden truck overturns
Chandigarh, May 25
A mango-laden truck overturned near the electricity substation on the Chandigarh - Panchkula road in the early hours of today, affecting rush hour in the traffic morning.

Mangoes strewn on the Chandigarh-Panchkula highway after this truck overturned there early on Saturday.
— A Tribune photograph

‘Half the world’s workforce is oppressed’
SAS Nagar, May 25
“Today’s society is facing a crisis and there was need for social reconstruction by removing social evils”, said Dr Pranav Panadya, Head of the Global Gayatri Parivar, while delivering a lecture on, ‘Today’s problems and their solutions’ organised at Gian Jyoti Institute in Phase II here today.

Pranav Pandaya, Chancellor, Dev Sanskriti Vishv Vidayala, Uttaranchal, delivers a lecture on ‘Today’s problems and their solutions’, in Gian Jyoti Public School, Phase II, SAS Nagar, on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

Street play on AIDS
Chandigarh, May 25
Volunteers of Yuvsatta, in association with the State AIDS Control Society, today organised a street play titled ‘Suraksha Mai Ki Raksha’ at Labour Chowk, Colony Number 5.

Exhibition ends
Chandigarh, May 25
A two day exhibition-cum-sale of garments, bed sheets, handbags and cards designed by students of vocational courses being run in eight government senior secondary schools of the city concluded at Lajpat Rai Bhavan, Sector 15, here today.

Various items made by students of government schools on display at an exhibition organised by the UT Education Department in Chandigarh on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph

Artists perform shramdan at Sukhna
Chandigarh, May 25
About 20 city-based artists today got together to voice their concern over the falling water content in Sukhna Lake.

Rakesh Maurya honoured
Chandigarh, May 25
Haryana Governor Babu Parmanand felicitated Rakesh Maurya, a slum dweller student, with a cash award of Rs 20,000 on his topping the non-medical stream of the plus two examination conducted by the CBSE

READERS WRITE
End exploitation of teachers
The state of affairs in Chandigarh’s privately managed schools speaks volumes about the exploitation of parents of the students as well as the teachers. Even after the enforcement of the Punjab School Employees Act, 1979, in February 2001 by the Chandigarh Administration, the condition of private school teachers remains the same.

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