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Centre keen on more woman judges
Chandigarh, August 21
For a country which has celebrated the rise of a woman to the post of President, it is indeed a matter of concern that there are only 6.5 per cent women judges in the higher judiciary.
15-month-old boy fights a losing battle
Needs Rs 65 lakh for rare surgery
Chandigarh, August 21
Fifteen-month-old Om Kapoor may appear cheerful but he is inching towards death, with no medical centre in India equipped enough to conduct the procedure that can save his life.
Diagnosed with Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome (WAS), the rarest among primary immunodeficiency disorders known to occur among boys with a frequency of four in a
million, Om needs a highly complicated bone marrow transplant for which his doctors haven’t been able to find a matching bone
marrow in India.
Om with his mother Ritu
Kapoor. —Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
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Army summer camp for Lebanese kids
Chandigarh, August 21
As part of its humanitarian activities in strife-torn southern Lebanon, 15 Punjab organised a two-day summer camp for Lebanese children, this week.
Team to probe J&K depot fire
Chandigarh, August 21
The Defence Ministry has constituted a fact-finding team to enquire the August 11 fire at the Army’s biggest ammunition depot in Jammu and Kashmir. The team will leave for Khundroo tomorrow. The team is led by Binoy Kumar, joint secretary, Ordnance, in the ministry and includes a high-level official from the Home Ministry, a statement issued here said.
Molestation bid in Army hospital
Nursing assistant gets 1-yr RI
Chandigarh, August 21
An Army nursing assistant has been dismissed from service and awarded one year rigorous imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman patient admitted to a military hospital, it is learnt.
Bringing up terror at global forum
Chandigarh, August 21
Punjab’s former director-general of police (DGP) Sarabjit Singh believes Interpol has become “too bureaucratic” in its functioning.
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REVERSAL: A sequence of images shows constable Vijay Pal being thrashed by some youths in front of MCM DAV College, Sector 36, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. |
PU Poll
PUSU candidate meets Sobti
Chandigarh, August 21
The pledge for non-violence undertaken by various students unions at PU is bearing fruits, albeit of a different kind. Instead of the customary clashes, students unions are now forging customary alliances in the run-up to the student council elections.
30 scholars to attend seminar
Panchkula, August 21
The Haryana Urdu Akademy in collaboration with the National Council for the Promotion of Urdu, Government of India is organising a three-day seminar on legendary poet, Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq Gorkahpuri' at the ICSSR Conference Hall of the Panjab University. Over thirty eminent scholars and critics of Urdu and Hindi will read out their papers during the seminar, spanning over
six sessions.
UT projects: Bansal miffed at sloppy replies
Chandigarh, August 21
Taking a dig at the Chandigarh administration’s claim of transparency in supplying information, Pawan Kumar
Bansal, minister of state for finance and the local member of Parliament said he was peeved at the “lackadaisical approach of the authorities in replying to his queries posted in April 14 this year.”
RLA to issue new smart cards from today
Chandigarh, August 21
The applicants, who have been waiting to get driving licence and registration documents (RC) in the form of a high security smart card will finally get these tomorrow.
ISO certification training for Sec 17 cops begins
Chandigarh, August 21
The Chandigarh police today launched a two-day training programme for staff of the Sector 17 police station to impart training them for ISO: 9001: 2000 certification.
Police personnel attend a programme for ISO 9001:2000 certification at Sector 17 police station, Chandigarh, on Tuesday.— A Tribune photograph
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Patient ‘denied’ ventilator, dies
Chandigarh, August 21
Yet another patient lost his life at PGI due to the shortage of ventilators and this time the victim was an employee of the institute. Raj Kumar, a safai karamchari at the institute, had been admitted to the hospital's emergency ward after suffering an epileptic attack on August 18.
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Children plant saplings in their shoes at Stowery Kids in Patiala on Tuesday.
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Umesh is ZP chief
Panchkula, August 21
Umesh Sood was chosen chairman of the Zila Parishad at a meeting attended by the local MLA and deputy chief minister, Chander Mohan, and parliamentary secretary and Naraingarh MLA Ram Kishen, here today.
Discipline, unity in party top priority: Mullana
Panchkula, August 21
After visiting all 20 districts of the state, the president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Phool Chand
Mullana, said today that his only priority would be to inculcate discipline and keep the Congress workers together.
PGI prof dies
Chandigarh, August 21
Prof Anil Malhotra, department of psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, died of cardiac arrest here today. He was 58. — TNS
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