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Girl electrocuted to death
Chandigarh, June 28
A 13-year-old girl was electrocuted early this morning in the Sector 26 grain market when she came in contact with a pole erected on a vegetable and fruit auction platform to restore temporary connection for electricity.
Two snatchings in 30 mins
Chandigarh, June 28
Chain snatchers targeted two women within a span of 30 minutes in the city this morning.
In the first incident, Prem Lata of Sector 22-C lodged a complaint with the police alleging that unidentified youths riding a black motor cycle snatched her gold chain near house around 7.45 am.
inside babudom
Major reshuffle in IT Dept
3 new commissioner-level posts in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, June 28
A major reshuffle in the top brass of the Income Tax Department by the union finance ministry has resulted in the creation of three commissioners of income tax (CIT)-level posts in Chandigarh.
PU business school ex-head faces probe
Chandigarh, June 28
A former chairman of Panjab University Business School faces a disciplinary inquiry to be conducted by a retired High Court judge to ascertain his role in providing fudged data about the UBS to nation B-school ranking agencies.
PM to raise issue with Pak
Restoration of Bhagat Singh’s birthplace and school
Chandigarh, June 28
The memory of Bhagat Singh might bring about a consensus between India and Pakistan, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deciding to raise with Pakistan the issue of restoration of the martyr’s birthplace and school. Both the places, located in Lyallpur, Pakistan, are in a sorry state.
Fire in Sector 26 showroom
Chandigarh, June 28
Panic gripped the Sector-26 market when thick smoke engulfed the area after a fire broke out in a furniture showroom this morning.
The fire, which which broke out due to short-circuit, occurred around 9 am in the showroom located next to some leading restaurants on the Madhya
Marg.
Firemen at the Sector 26 showroom where a fire broke out in Chandigarh on Thursday.
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MC House
Now, pay Rs 15 more for water
Chandigarh, June 28
City residents will have to pay Rs 15 extra for their water bills. The MC has decided to levy a cess of Rs 15 per month per connection to collect funds for the maintenance of parks and green belts. A decision to this effect was taken today at its house meeting.
Mall opens with Rs 16.27 lakh fine
Chandigarh, June 28
Nearly two years after the Chandigarh administration announced conversion in the Industrial Area, the first mall of Honda opened its gates “informally” to customers today. The car mall owned by Joshi Auto Zone has been fined Rs 16.27 lakh for carrying out construction before the building plans were sanctioned.
Following pendency of nearly nine months, the copy of the sanctioned plan was
formally handed over yesterday. The building has not got a power connection even
three months after the application was submitted.
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Kasauli to jazz it up
Chandigarh, June 28
Kasauli’s annual jazz festival turns 20 this year and is all set to weigh itself against the legendary Woodstock fiesta of the 1960s. No story this, for as organiser and jazz aficionado Baljit Malik, speaking from Kasauli says, the title for the festival articulates it all.
Road map for better libraries
Insiders show the way
Chandigarh, June 28
Parveen Kumar and Rajveer Kaur, both librarians at the TS Central State Library in Sector 17 recently undertook a unique assignment for the Chandigarh administration.
Leaking pipes a bane of Star Enclave residents
Chandigarh, June 28
After paying lakhs of rupees, occupants of flats in Star Enclave in Sector 48 C are a harassed lot, thanks to poor construction of the flats.
A dug up portion of a house in Star Enclave, Sector 48-C, Chandigarh.
— A Tribune photograph
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Digging work upsets residents
Chandigarh, June 28
Digging work being carried out by Airtel in Sector 36-D is causing inconvenience to residents. Apart from digging up open space in front of houses, the careless digging is posing danger to water pipes, sewers and underground electricity cables in the area.
Dug up portions of the earth in Sector 36.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan
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Crisis due to power failure: officials
Mohali residents face water shortage
Mohali, June 28
Residents of a part of Phase XI, here, are facing acute water shortage and the condition has worsened over the past few days.
Municipal councillor Sukhminder Singh Barnala today said residents of Phase XI, especially those living in flats allotted by
PUDA, had been getting inadequate water supply over the years.
GMADA undertakes road construction project
Mohali, June 28
Greater Mohali Area Development Authority has undertaken a project for the construction of the 200-feet wide road on the Punjab-UT boundary in Sector 48 up to NH-21 (Chandigarh Kharar road).
Bee in chicken dish
Chandigarh, June 28
A Mohali family got a shock when a food item it had ordered from a city food outlet came in time but not without a detestable foreign article.
When the family went to the Sector 22 food outlet, Chawla Chicken, to complain about the presence of a
honeybee.
ICCW reconstituted
Chandigarh, June 28
The Chandigarh administration has reconstituted the UT branch of the Indian Council for Child
Welfare. Adviser to the administrator and home-cum-social welfare secretary will be the ex officio president and ex-officio vice-president of
ICCW, respectively.
Mutiny hero dead
Chandigarh, June 28
Madan Singh, 86-yr-old veteran associated with the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, died after a prolonged illness at a private hospital in Mohali today.
The vice-president of the strike committee of the naval mutiny is survived by his wife Pritam
Kaur, sons Ranjit Pandher and Vijay Pratap Singh and daughter Anurag Dhillon.
PGI public parking shifted
Chandigarh, June 28
With the commencement of construction work of trauma centre opposite the emergency area, the PGI authorities have decided to shift public parking to the space behind research block ‘B’.
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