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Six PWD protesters stabbed
Assailant was also sitting on dharna
Chandigarh, August 3
Irked and enraged over being asked to turn down the volume of his television, a Ludhiana resident, sitting in protest at the Matka Chowk since the past four months, allegedly stabbed six PWD daily wagcers camping nearby, seriously injuring two, late on Wednesday night.

Victims show their injuries at Matka Chowk, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — Tribune Photo by Manoj Mahajan

Life lost due to Admn apathy
Man falls into dry well
Chandigarh, August 3
Prince was lucky to have survived a potentially fatal fall. But 80-year-old Reiki Ram from Mullanpur village fell to death in an unmanned, uncovered dry well in the village tonight. The well is about 60 ft deep. The octogenarian was returning home from his shop at around 8 pm when he fell into the well located on the premises of the village temple.

Villagers engaged in recovering the body of a man who fell to death in a well in Mullanpur on Thursday night. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Constable, friend land in lockup
Chandigarh, August 3
A Punjab Police constable, who claimed to be a Sub-Inspector, and his friend landed in the lockup for allegedly creating a ruckus in an inebriated condition at a Sector 35-based hotel and hurled abuses at the hotel staff for not serving them food late last night.

Study: girls agree to pre-marital sex to bind boyfriends
Chandigarh, August 3
A study conducted on girl students of the city has revealed that most of them feel forced to indulge in pre-marital sex in order to “retain and bind” their male friends to them. The study also revealed that these students had zero interaction with their parents about sexual behaviour and related issues.

UT police wants Hawara’s bail cancelled
Chandigarh, August 3
The Chandigarh Police has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for cancellation of regular bail granted to dreaded militant Jagtar Singh Hawara in the infamous jailbreak case.

The flip side of Yuvraj
Chandigarh, August 3
Today, the local journalists witnessed the nasty attitude of cricketer Yuvraj Singh, which can be called a totally unprofessional on the part of the cricketer.

Yuvraj Singh dissuades photo journalists from clicking pictures at DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

13 shops burgled
Panchkula, August 3
A gang of burglars struck at over a dozen shops in Ramgarh market and decamped with cash and other goods worth lakhs last.

Couple killed in accident
Chandigarh, August 3
A couple was seriously injured when a CTU bus collided with their scooter near the Sector 38 roundabout this afternoon and died at the PGI later in the night.

COMMUNITY

IAF flares over city sky
Chandigarh, August 3
Residents of Chandigarh witnessed a rare sight on Thursday evening when the Indian Air Force used up its flares over the airfield and areas around the city.

Flares turned the sky into a spectacle on Thursday evening. — Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh

Parks being misused with impunity
Mohali, August 3
are being misused here as per the convenience of residents as the authorities turn a blind eye to the violations.

Cong backs, BJP opposes merger move
Chandigarh, August 3
There is mixed response to the move by the Chandigarh Administration to merge more UT villages with the Municipal Corporation. The Congress-led Municipal Corporation has supported the move, while the Bhartiya Janata Party is opposed to it.

Rs 3.68 cr given to riot-hit
Mohali, August 3
Rehabilitation grant to the tune of Rs 3.68 crore was distributed among 1984 riot-affected persons in the auditorium of the Punjab Health Systems Corporation here today.

Poor assessment results in Rs 3 crore loss to Army
Chandigarh, August 3
Poor planning and failure to assess the future requirement for spares while procuring radio sets from indigenous sources has resulted in the Army losing over Rs 3 crore.

National policy for farmers in October
Chandigarh, August 3
Agriculture which is the largest public sector enterprise in the country, has to have a strong human content in order to be sustainable and feed the teeming millions in the country.

Accident victim cremated
Chandigarh, August 3
Sunita Sharma, wife of a Tribune employee, who was killed in a road accident involving a scooter and a mini truck yesterday, was consigned to flames at the Mani Majra cremation ground this evening.

Exhibition with a cause
Chandigarh, August 3
Joy de Vivre and Purnam in association with Sawera, an organisation working with children with special needs, will organise a two-day carnival in the city on August 4 and 5.

Those behind the two-day “August Carnival” announce the opening of the exhibition in Chandigarh on Wednesday.

Driving licence forms
Chandigarh, August 3
City residents who wish to get their driving licence renewed or get their vehicle registered need not go to the office of the Registration and Licensing Authority to buy application forms.

CRIME

Youth found drowned in ditch
Chandigarh, August 3
An unidentified man in his late twenties was found drowned under mysterious circumstances in a ditch near the Iron Chowk in Sector 29-D here this morning.

Rs 1 lakh stolen from car
Mohali, August 3
A sum of Rs 1 lakh was stolen from a car belonging to a resident of Chandigarh.

Held for selling lottery tickets
Chandigarh, August 3
The police arrested Pradeep Kumar and Rajiv Kumar of Rajpura on the allegations of selling lottery tickets in Manimajra on Wednesday.

BUSINESS

Holistic plan must to enhance agri produce: Governor
Chandigarh, August 3
A holistic plan, keeping in view the farmers’ interests and involving a multitude of agencies to complement each other’s efforts is critical to ensure efficient, cost-effective, competitive, sustainable and enhanced agricultural production.

Gen S.F. Rodrigues, flanked by Dr R.B. Singh (left), Member, National Commission on Farmers, during a seminar at the CII, Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

EDUCATION

32 KV teachers attend workshop
Chandigarh, August 3
Thirtytwo post-graduate English teachers took part in a workshop at Kendriya Vidyalaya No 2, 3 BRD Air Force Station here today.

Students form body to serve society
Chandigarh, August 3
Some students of various premier schools of the City Beautiful have got together and formed an association, “i-care”, whose aim is to serve society and organise various social activities.

COURTS

HEALTH

Incidence of aplastic anaemia rising in region
Chandigarh, August 3
Fifteen-year-old Priya knows nothing about the severity of the infection she is suffering from. Hale and hearty until two month ago, she has been detected with aplastic anaemia - a serious blood disorder caused when the bone marrow stops producing hemoglobin, white blood cells and platelets for some reason.

Munjal group sweeps PGI technologists’ poll
Chandigarh, August 3
Despite an intensive round of campaigning by the rivals, the election to the PGIMER Technologists Association proved to be a cakewalk for Mr Ashwani Munjal and his group. At the end of the day, it was a clean sweep for his team, which won all eight posts with a convincing margin.

ADMINISTRATION

Vipul Kumar takes over as RPO
Chandigarh, August 3
Mr Vipul Kumar joined as Regional Passport Officer at Chandigarh here today. An officer of the 1993 batch of the Civil Services, Mr Vipul Kumar was posted as Superintendent of Police, Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, before coming here.