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Public, industry bear brunt of power cuts
Chandigarh, September 18
Frequent power shutdowns in several parts of the city during the past few weeks have made life difficult for residents, besides disrupting production in industrial units and affecting business in shops and commercial establishments.

Baby hippo tries to find its feet
Chhat Bir, September 18
It was a delight watching a two-day-old hippopotamus calf, born at the Mahindra Chaudhary Zoological Park, stagger to its feet as it came out of a pond.

Mother hippo nudges her two-day-old calf as it comes out of the pond at the hippopotamus enclosure of the Chhat Bir zoo on Thursday. — Photo by Karam Singh

Jobless man commits suicide
Panchkula, September 18
A 27-year-old physically challenged man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his Sector 10 residence this morning. The police said the deceased, Lalit Chaudhary, had been under depression for the past few months. Negligence on part of doctors to repair his fractured arm resulted in a physical deformity in December last year.

Nine vehicles looted
No one robbed, claims police
Panchkula, September 18
Barely a month after the highway robbery near Raipur Rani, at least nine vehicles were looted by armed men on the Pinjore- Nalagarh road in the wee hours of the day. Though the police has denied the looting and maintains that it was only an attempt of robbery, residents of the area say that over nine vehicles, including three oil canters, were looted by armed men between Gareeda and Basola villages on the highway around 4 am today.

No warning signs near causeways
Chandigarh, September 18
Heavy and generally sharp showers this year have exposed causeway users to the danger of getting washed away. Certain bridges have also been damaged, requiring major repair.

Work on for Delhi metro murals at College of Art
Chandigarh, September 18
The Government College of Art, Sector 10, is abuzz with activity these days. While 20 students of different streams are busy making 12 murals to decorate the walls and pillars of Pul Bangash metro station as part of the second phase of the ongoing Delhi Metro beautification project, while other nine students are all set to take part in a logo-making contest organised by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

Students of Government College of Art, Sector 10, Chandigarh, make murals for the Delhi Metro Rail Project on their college campus on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma

Tribune impact
Order on chemist shop being reviewed
Chandigarh, September 18
The controversial role of the former Adviser to the UT Administrator, Mr Virendra Singh, in allowing a chemist shop to operate in Government Medical College and Hospital Sector 32, is being examined.

COMMUNITY

Society to honour blood donors
Chandigarh, September 18
The Blood Bank Society will honour blood donors with 50 or more donations in the PGI, the GMCH and General Hospital, Sector 16, as well as donors with three or four donations made from September 1, last year to September 1, 2003, and women donors with two donations during the same period, at its annual function on October 1.

Traffic blocked against demolitions
SAS Nagar, September 18
Residents of Jagatpura village, near here, blocked the road in front of the office of PUDA’s Additional Chief Administrator (ACA) in Phase I here today in protest against demolitions carried out by PUDA yesterday.

IT survey yields 72 lakh
Chandigarh, September 18
An unaccounted income of over Rs 72 lakh was surrendered by the owners of the two groups in an income tax survey.

EDUCATION

PU teachers plan mass casual leave
Chandigarh, September 18
Members of the Panjab University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) will proceed on mass casual leave on the first working Thursday of October to protest against the non-acceptance of their demands pertaining to social security, career advancement schemes and age of retirement.

Students awarded diplomas
Chandigarh, September 18
About 40 students of the Canadian Institute for International Studies (CIIS) were today awarded diplomas at a function held at Forest Hill Resort on the outskirts of the city, which marked the first convocation and third founder’s day celebrations of the institute.

Home Science College girls win 4 titles
Chandigarh, September 18
Government Home Science College, Sector 10, celebrated Environment Week from September 15 to 17. The college has planted 300 odd saplings since the inception of the new session.

Exhibition on aviation
Chandigarh, September 18
School students of the city got a glimpse into the world of aviation at an exhibition organised by the Aeronautical Society of India here. The exhibition is being held to commemorate 100 years of aviation.

Visitors at an exhibition on aviation take a look at a model of AN-32 aircraft in Chandigarh on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Interactive session at PEC

COURTS

District courts
Ex-Superintendent seeks anticipatory bail
Chandigarh, September 18
Retired Superintendent of UT Administration, K.B. Goyal, who was earlier booked by the CBI in a corruption case along with the former UT Home Secretary, Mr N.K Jain, today moved an anticipatory plea apprehending that he might be arrested by the UT Vigilance Department in another corruption case.

• 5-yr RI for three

Corruption case against Bhattal 
Anand gets nod to represent Punjab
Chandigarh, September 18
A Member of Parliament and Supreme Court advocate, Mr A.K Anand, has been given green signal by the UT Administration to appear on behalf of the Punjab Government in a corruption case pending against Agriculture Minister and former Chief Minister of Punjab Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, in Chandigarh District Court.

CULTURE

Understanding theatre as democratic art
Chandigarh, September 18
Despite having held various government positions as a senior bureaucrat all his life, Daya Prakash Sinha remains a bitter critic of the system’s flawed policies that have caused the degeneration of arts, particularly theatre, in India. Himself having observed the functioning of government agencies as Secretary Culture, Uttar Pradesh, and earlier as founder-secretary of the Sahitya Kala Parishad, Sinha is a strong votary of the cultural administration sans government interference.

Let peace prevail!
Chandigarh, September 18
Overemphasis on emotion is a good thing, but only when it is absolutely indispensable to the content and form of the presentation. In a reverse case, it can boomerang, causing damage to an otherwise well-worked-out and well-conceptualised script. Something similar occasionally happened on the stage of Tagore Theatre this evening.

A scene from Daya Prakash Sinha’s play “Mere Bhai Mere Dost”, which was staged at Tagore Theatre on Thursday. 
— Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

New Releases
A story of underworld dons
“Boom” will be released at KC, Chandigarh, and KC, Panchkula, on Friday. The film is written and directed by Kaizad Gustav for producer Ayesha Shroff. Bombay Boys’ was the first English film in Indian Cinema and Kaizad was the pioneer. With Quest Films’ Rs 20-crore project “Boom”, he is ready to take the centrestage again.

• Murder mystery

‘Big Indian’: with a big aim
Chandigarh, September 18
“Lose weight?” asks Ayush Maheshwari, a US-trained IT professional-turned-pop singer in mock surprise. “If I lose weight, I will feel like an actress without make up,” he quips with a wink.

SPORTS

Bowlers vie to be the fastest
Chandigarh, September 18
Nearly 1,000 cricket fans mostly cricketers took part in the second leg of the “Scorpio Speedster Fastest Bowler Hunt” organised under the banner of the IMG at the grounds of DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8.

Swimming meet Football tourneys Wrestlers felicitated Badminton contingent Football team Young bowlers queue up to take part in “Scorpio Speedster Fastest Bowler Hunt” that began at the grounds of DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph