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SC stays UT notification on tenants
In a major relief to thousands of tenants in Chandigarh, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed a notification of the Union Territory (UT) Administration stating that premises with a monthly rent of more than Rs 1,500 would not be protected for increasing the rent under the Chandigarh Rent Control Act, 1974.

Spring comes with visa to Lahore in hand
Chandigarh, February 4

Spring it’s said comes with rose in hand but for two young silver-haired Punjabi ladies Oshima Raikhy (84) and Rajinder Kaur Bains (81), spring has come with a visa to Lahore. The two are leaving the city tomorrow to cross the Atari-Wagah border along with three other persons to celebrate the festival of Basant in Lahore.

Lo phir Basant aayi: Rajinder Kaur Bains and Oshima Raikhy will leave the city on Saturday to celebrate Basant in Lahore. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Special story
IAF to simplify system
Release of phased-out aircraft
Chandigarh, February 4
With a number of civilian institutions keen on procuring phased-out IAF aircraft, the Air Force is in the process of simplify procedures to release aircraft which it no longer requires.

No takers for body of murder victim — since October 2003
Chandigarh, February 4
The body of a murder victim has been lying packed in a polythene bag in the malkhana (case property store) of a city police station since October 10, 2003.

ITBP to launch expedition to Everest

Chandigarh, February 4 Undeterred after having lost five lives earlier, the ITBP has made all preparations to send another expedition of 40 persons, including four women, to the first post-monsoon Mount Everest climb this year from the China side. The Director-General of ITBP. Mr K. J. Singh, interacts with mountaineers, including women, who are going on an expedition to Mount Everest in Chandigarh on Friday. — Tribune photograph

Headless body found
Chandigarh, February 4
A headless body of a man aged between 25 and 30 years was found near the Sector 39 New Grain Market. The police has not recovered anything, except for a weapon, to establish the identity of the man.

175 illegal structures demolished
Mani Majra, February 4
Coming down heavily on encroachers the enforcement wing of the UT Administration demolished over 175 structures that had come up in violation of the Punjab New Capital Periphery Control (Regulation) Act, 1952, in a major demolition drive, here today.

MC clears encroachments in Sector 35 market

• Passing Thru

COMMUNITY

Badheri accuses DC of ‘breach of trust’
Chandigarh, February 4
The Chairman of Market Committee, Mr Bhupinder Singh Badheri, in his reply to the last week’s explanation sought by the Deputy-Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar, has accused the latter of “breach of trust”.

Jaspal opens factory of jokes
Mohali, February 4
Hear a Punjabi joke and chances are there will be a Sardar in it. But what if the Sardar in the joke makes an industry out of it? Welcome to The Joke Factory, Mohali, where laughter can not only be seriously beneficial to your health but to your wallet as well.

ESPL employees rue impending closure
Mohali, February 4
Members of the Electronics Systems Punjab Limited Employees Union today condemned the decision of the Punjab Government to wind up the company on March 31.

CRIME

4-yr-old allegedly sodomised
Chandigarh, February 4
A four-year-old child was allegedly sexually abused by a 17-year-old boy in Sector 52, here today. The child was reportedly playing with few others outside the cycle shop of the suspect when the latter lured him into his room.

Accident victim succumbs to injuries
Panchkula, February 4
After struggling for life for over two weeks, Suman (26), a resident of Sector 20, succumbed to her injuries in a private hospital, this afternoon.

• Two booked for cheating!
• Man killed in accident
• Theft in doctor’s room, security guard stabbed

BUSINESS

Biz-Clips
Chandigarh MEGA DRAW: Jyotika Sharma, a resident of Shimla, won a Ford Ikon car in the mega draw of the consumer scheme started by Sleepwell, offering home comfort products like mattresses, pillows and bolsters etc.

EDUCATION

• PU employees hold rally

CULTURE

Weaving a classical spell
The Pracheen Kala Kendra, in their endeavour to promote the rich Indian classical music, presented Muneer Khatoon Begum at a special concert today held at the Kendra auditorium.

HEALTH

PGI OPDs may be closed on gazetted holidays
Chandigarh, February 4
The holiday culture seems to be creeping into the hospitals too as the PGI, the only hospital in the city where the OPDs are still welcoming the patients on the gazetted holidays, is contemplating to close its doors during such holidays.

Cancer in children curable: experts

Chandigarh, February 4 Twentyone-year-old Prince Randhawa cannot spell out the disease that he has been suffering from for the past seven years. All he recalls is that he spat a few drops of bloods before PGI became his second home. Cancer-affected children receive prizes at the painting competition organised by the Sahatya Cancer Sahyog to mark the International Childhood Cancer Day at the PGI on Friday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

SPORTS

Tennis tourney begins today
Chandigarh, February 4
Inayat Khosla among girls, and Kinshuk Sharma among boys, both from Chandigarh, have been given direct entry into the main draw of the ITF Junior-under 18 (Grade 3) Tennis Tournament, the qualifying rounds of which begins at the CLTA, Sector 10, Tennis Stadium here tomorrow.

Shruti to represent city at WTA meet
Chandigarh, February 4
Chandigarh -based Shruti Dhawan, ranked 732 as per Women Tennis Association (WTA) ranking, will be the lone contender from the city for a berth in the women singles main draw round when she will stake her claim by taking part in the qualifying rounds of the $ 140000 prize money Hyderabad WTA Open-2005 tennis meet which will begin tomorrow at SAAP Indoor Tennis Stadium, Hyderabad.

ADMINISTRATION

Army did not approach me: DC
Chandigarh, February 4
The controversy over the non-inclusion of 60,000 servicemen in the electoral rolls in Ambala has taken a new turn, with the Ambala Deputy Commissioner claiming that the Army had never approached his office in December for the registration of servicemen.