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Not fair: Industrialists
Industrial plots’ auction on June 11
Chandigarh, May 17
For the first time, the Chandigarh administration has decided to auction plots in the industrial area. In order to determine the market price,it has decided to put four plots in the third phase of the Industrial Area in Raipur Kalan on auction on June 11.

LAO Failure
Attach DC’s car, orders court
Chandigarh, May 17
Additional district and session judge S.K. Aggarwal today issued warrants for the attachment of the official Ambassador cars of the DC, Additional DC and nine other vehicles attached with different departments of the district administration.

5 of family drugged by servant
Stuffs pills into paranthas; Woman doped in another case

Mohali, May 17 Six persons, including five members of a family, were drugged by their servants in two separate incidents, the motive being theft.

Bimla (left) and Dr Reeti Saini at Cheema Medical Complex at Sector 71 in Mohali on Thursday.—Tribune photos by Vicky Gharu

Flag march in UT; High alert in Panchkula
Chandigarh, May 17
In the wake of the unrest in Punjab and various other parts of the country over the Dera Sacha Sauda issue, the Chandigarh Police today held a meeting with representatives of gurdwara committees in the city.

RTI Act not perfect: Expert

Chandigarh, May 17 Urging people to look at the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the context of the past 60 years, Shekhar Singh, founder member, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, said while the Act was not perfect it would improve with the participation of the government and people.  Shekhar Singh, founder member, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, speaking at a seminar on the RTI Act in Chandigarh on Thursday.—A Tribune photograph

Polio-ridden boy to teach special children of Kargil Chandigarh, May 17 Ashok Philamon could well have resigned to fate. But he had dreams to live -- dreams he nurtured since childhood when he could not even walk straight. Ridden with polio and poverty, Ashok crawled for a better part of his life. He would still be crawling had it not been for the support of others. As a 10-year-old he was adopted by Roshni, a Rajpura-based society for rehabilitation of the disabled, which arranged for his corrective surgery and gave him a new life. “It is time to pay back,” says Ashok, who has decided to spend his future serving the special children in Kargil. One of the target areas for Roshni, Kargil is known for a high population of disabled children -- 8 per cent of the area’s children are disabled, as per surveys.

Table Marking
VC calls for list of examiners
Chandigarh, May 17
Panjab University vice-chancellor today directed various examiners at the table-marking centre here to give an undertaking that they were well-versed in the language that the candidates had used in the answer-sheets.

Double Murder
Servant’s first wife quizzed
Panchkula, May 17
The mortal remains of Maj Gen KC Dhingra and his wife Sangeeta were consigned to flames by family members at Rohtak today after postmortem , which confirmed that the two had died due to head injuries caused by a blunt weapon.

COMMUNITY

Property Dispute
Councillor, uncle create a scene
Chandigarh, May 17
It was a day of allegations and counter-allegations, compromises and broken compromises between family members of councillor Davinder Singh Babla and his uncle, Gurbhachan Singh, over a property dispute.

Traffic Chaos outside schools
Car pool scheme recommended
Chandigarh, May 17
In order to reduce traffic jams outside schools, the Chandigarh traffic police, in a communication to director public instructions (Schools), has recommended the introduction of car pool parking scheme in all UT schools.

100 attend patent awareness workshop
Chandigarh, May 17
One-day patent awareness workshop under the sponsorship of patent facilitating centre, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) and the department of science and technology was jointly organised by Patent Information Centre, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PIC/PSCST) and National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR) in Chandigarh today.

Trains to run late
Chandigarh, May 17
At least four Amritsar-bound trains from Ambala will be running behind schedule due to diversion on the Ambala-Amritsar section.

Violation back at parking lot

Chandigarh, May 17 Four-wheelers are back again in the parking lot opposite the Mehfil restaurant in Sector 17, exclusively demarcated for two-wheelers, as the Chandigarh traffic police has apparently once again turned a blind eye to the violation. Cars parked in the parking lot opposite the Mehfil restaurant in Sector 17, Chandigarh. —Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

CPI flays admn on land allotment
Chandigarh, May 17
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has condemned the Chandigarh administration for allotting prime land to big builders, multinational companies and financial institutions.

Man killed in accident
Panchkula, May 17
One labourer was killed and another one seriously injured in an accident at a factory in Industrial Area, Phase I, here today.

Letters
Lesson on morality
Congratulations to your newspaper for bringing forth the vital issue of mushrooming tobacco vendors in the vicinity of various educational institutions, putting students to the risk of getting addicts. 

CRIME

Cops still clueless
Kajheri victims cremated
Chandigarh, May 17
The Chandigarh police is clueless about the whereabouts of three suspects involved in the sensational Kajheri triple murder case.

EDUCATION

INIFD starts MBA (C)
Chandigarh, May 17
Annamalai University in collaboration with the International Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD), here, has launched a two-year MBA in design management through distance education. The course will be open to any graduate having a creative bent of mind. Formal education in fashion or interior design will be an added advantage.

From School and Colleges

Mohali LEADERS ELECTED: Ajit Karam Singh International Public School (AKSIPS), Phase XI, here, ushered in their third student's council on Thursday. Madhavpreet Singh and Ashima Chauhan, both of Class VIII, were unanimously chosen head boy and head girl, respectively.  Students leaders of Ajit Karam Singh International Public School, Phase XI, during an oath taking ceremony in Mohali on Thursday.

Students develop engine that runs on smoke...
Mohali, May 17
Students of Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Tangori, here, have developed a diesel engine that runs on smoke.

COURTS

high court
PIL on Hansi-Butana canal disposed of
Chandigarh, May 17
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today disposed of a petition seeking directions to the Punjab and Haryana governments on the issue of Hansi-Butana irrigation canal.

Court orders FIR against HUDA engineer
Panchkula, May 17
Chief judicial magistrate Anshu Shukla today directed the SHO of the Sector 5 police station to register an FIR against Zile Singh, sub-divisional engineer (horticulture), HUDA, under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and under Sections 467, 468, 471, 506 and 120 B of the IPC.

High Court
Centre’s no to free power
Chandigarh, May 17
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association’s plea for free power and water has met with yet another resistance. This time, it is the Government of India which has expressed strong opposition to the association’s petition.

Notice to UT on schools
Chandigarh, May 17
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the Chandigarh administration over a petition filed by two schools seeking quashing of some orders whereby the said schools were asked to close down and stop further admissions.

Hospital fined Rs 5 lakh for negligence
Chandigarh, May 17
The UT State Consumer Commission today slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on a Jalandhar-based hospital, Lajwanti Nursing Home, for crippling a 30 year-old Jalandhar resident, Sonia Verma, due to medical negligence.

HEALTH

Get polio drops on May 20
Chandigarh, May 17
More than 1.31 lakh children up to the age of five will be covered under the Sub-National Immunisation Day round in Chandigarh on May 20.

Hospital staff to intensify stir
Chandigarh, May 17
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the General Multi-Speciality Hospital staff has decided to intensify its agitation if the authorities fail to meet their demands.

70 docs attend live workshop
Mohali, May 17
A live demonstration was conducted at the gynaecology department of Government Medical College, Patiala, by specialists from Dr Sodhi's Health Care, Phase 3-B 2, here, in collaboration with The Nabha Obstetrics and Gynae Society.

SPORTS

Capt Kanwaljit gives Rs 50,000 grant
Chandigarh, May 17
The Punjab Government will work on various plans to develop sports in general and hockey in particular in the state.

Rock Rovers edge out CHA

Chandigarh, May 17 Riding high on the four goals scored by international player Deepak Thakur, local club Rock Rovers beat Chandigarh Hockey Academy (CHA) by just one goal (9-8) in the ongoing 5th Olympian Dharam Singh Memorial Six-a-Side Hockey Tournament-2007 at the hockey stadium, Sector 18, here today. A match between the RCF, Kapurthala, and Patiala Tigers in progress at the hockey stadium, Sector 18, Chandigarh, on Thursday. —Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Lecturer attends seminar
Chandigarh, May 17
Ravinder Chaudhry, honorary secretary of the Amateur Athletics Association, Chandigarh, and senior lecturer at DAV College, Sector 10, attended a seminar on “Electronic Time Keeping” at the RDC, Jakarta, Indonesia, from May 14 to 16.

Cricket trials on May 20
Panchkula, May 17
The selection trials for the Haryana thirty overs cricket team for boys will be held on May 20 at 9 am at St Soldier’s Divine Public School, Sector 16, Panchkula. The selected team will participate in the All-India Thirty Overs Cricket Tournament to be held at Hoshiarpur (Punjab) from June 2 to 10.

Ball badminton team selection
Chandigarh, May 17
The Ball Badminton Sports Promotion Association, Chandigarh, will select the team for the 27th National Sub-Junior Ball Badminton Championship to be held at Dehra Dun from June 1 to 4.

Manpreet, Radha best upcoming players
Chandigarh, May 17
Right-back Manpreet Singh of St Joseph’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, and left-back Radha of Government High School, Khudda Lahora, were declared best upcoming players in the boys’ and girls’ sections, respectively, in the 26th Sub-Junior National Ball Badminton Championships held in Bikaner from May 12 to 15.

ADMINISTRATION

To bypass traffic, underpass
Chandigarh, May 17
The Chandigarh administration plans to construct underpasses at various busy traffic junctions to ease traffic congestion. To begin with, an underpass will be constructed at Press Chowk.

Civic amenities: Dhakoli no exception
Zirakpur, May 17
Even as hundreds of multi-storeyed apartments are at various stages of construction in the Dhakoli area, residents of Krishna Enclave in the area continue to be living without basic amenities.

Admn hikes minimum wages
Chandigarh, May 17
The Chandigarh administration has increased the basic daily and monthly rates of minimum wages for daily and monthly-rated employees as per the consumer price index number of Chandigarh centre for the half year ending March 2007.

Drinking in cars: Cops to get tough
Chandigarh, May 17
The Chandigarh Administration today decided to strictly check drinking in vehicles parked outside vends, restaurants and eating joints following a number of complaints.