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Settle doctors’ row, says PGI governing council
Chandigarh, July 13
The controversy over headship of the Department of General Surgery at the PGI between Dr J.D. Wig and Dr R. Minz could be dragged to the Supreme Court. The governing body has directed the authorities concerned to settle the issue amicably between the two doctors, failing which a Special Leave Petition (SLP) should be filed against the high court orders in this regard.

UT plans golden jubilee celebrations

Chandigarh, July 13 The UT Administration is planning to celebrate the golden jubilee of the City Beautiful later this year. The celebrations may be spread over a year and are likely to be kicked off with a grand function on October 7, 2003.

A sketch of the Open Hand, the symbol of Chandigarh, drawn by Le Corbusier.

COMMUNITY

After VAT, abolish state taxes: experts
Chandigarh, July 13
It would be ideal that with the implementation of value-added tax (VAT), various state-levied taxes such as state sales tax, turnover tax, entry tax, octroi, municipal tax and other local taxes and levies on sale or movement or transfer of goods be abolished.

Mayawati’s rally tomorrow
Chandigarh, July 13
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Ms Mayawati, will hold a rally in the city on July 15 as show of strength to demand the resignation of the Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, over caste violence in Talhan village of Jalandhar district. 

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CRIME

Robber arrested
Chandigarh, July 13
A team of the Sector 11 police station has arrested a Sector 25 resident for trying to commit a burglary in Sanatan Dharam Mandir in Sector 11 here. The burglar, Suresh Kumar, was arrested by a priest at the mandir.

• Three arrested on theft charge
  

EDUCATION

HAMARA SCHOOL
MANAV MANGAL SCHOOL PANCHKULA
Stop not till the goal is reached
Manav Mangal School, Sector 11 Panchkula has come a long way in a short span of about 10 years. During the silver jubilee year of establishment of Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, the school management undertook expansion of its educational service to Panchkula and started this English Medium, co-educational school under the name and style of Manav Mangal School.

• “Our school is like a second home for children”

• Poems by students

SCHOOL WORLD
Nuggets on vedic mathematics-II
THE beautiful system of Vedic Mathematics is far more unified and direct than conventional mathematics. It is so easy that it is really a system of mental mathematics, and this, combined with the coherence and flexibility of the system, encourages the development and use of intuition and creativity. 

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CULTURE

City boy ready with “Far from India”
Chandigarh, July 13
After “Monsoon Wedding”, “Bend it Like Beckham”, another movie about Indian diaspora — “Far from India” — is all set for release in the USA on August 9.

Romancing the sitar Chandigarh, July 13 It was not the declining popularity of Patiala Gharana of Hindustani vocal that led Vijay Sharma to move away from his family tradition and adopt sitar as his instrument. It was the love for it coupled with his willingness to remain associated with all famous Kathak dancers that he preferred to stick to the sitar rather than follow the footsteps of his father and forefathers - all doyens of Patiala Gharana. Under his guru and father Jawahar Lal Sharma and his uncle Atam Prakash, Vijay’s romance with the sitar started when a famous sitar maker Masood Ali Khan from Pakistan visited them. Vijay Sharma

Documentary maker profiles war, Partition
Chandigarh, July 13
Daljit Ami has always worked for a cause. After taking a diploma in journalism from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sector 27, he decided to enter into film production instead of taking the route of print journalism.

HEALTH

PGI technologists to get higher pay scale
Chandigarh, July 13
The demand of PGI medical technologists for grant of higher pay scale has been accepted by the institute’s governing body (GB), headed by the Union Health Minister, Ms Sushma Swaraj.

Doctors’ negligence, patient’s trauma
SAS Nagar, July 13
Mr Inderjit Singh, a 35-year-old agriculturalist from Morinda, has had one of the most harrowing experiences of his life. Claiming to have been operated upon in Mumbai in February this year for a spinal problem, Inderjit says he suffered through pain and infection for over four months before it was found that Mumbai doctors had left a gauze piece inside his body during the operation. The 12-inch-long gauze was then taken out from his body at a private nursing home here this month. Inderjit, who had gone to visit his sister in Mumbai in December last year, started having some nerve-related problem in his lower back.

SPORTS

St Stephen’s players excel
Chandigarh, July 13
St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, and Shishu Niketan School, Sector 22, excelled in the roller hockey event in the Rollerbones Open Skating Tournament played here today at the Sector 10 skating rink.

Admn decision on RCs worries traders
Chandigarh, July 13
Traders in the city have apprehended that UT Administration’s move to “harass” thousands of vehicle owners in the city by slightly varying the interpretation of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 may discourage investors from investing in the city. They are worried that if the administration fails to revert back to its earlier to position, it would affect the city’s investment-friendly image, which has recently been declared as one of the best cities in the country for investment.

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