Effect & cause
A rashly driven Hyundai Verna car (CH 04 J 9550) overturned on the road separating Sectors 16 and 10, near Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, in Chandigarh on Monday; and (right) an empty liquor bottle lies beside a packet of snack in the car. Tribune photos: vinay malik |
UT Admn fails to implement Act
Chandigarh, September 6
It’s been over a year since the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010, was passed by Parliament with the objective of regulating and controlling the healthcare delivery system in the private sector by making the registration of all clinics and hospitals mandatory.
Property dealer brutally murdered
Nayagoan, September 6
A 48-year-old Nayagoan-based property dealer, Chote Lal, was found brutally murdered at his house in Safeda Colony here this evening.
Rs 91 lakh wasted on surplus school uniforms
New Delhi, September 6
The education department of the Chandigarh administration certainly needs to brush up its basic calculation skills. Why else would its district education officer (DEO) end up wasting as much as Rs 90.71 lakh of taxpayers’ money by making a wrong assessment of the quantity of cloth required to stitch uniforms for students of local “non model” government schools?
CHB drags feet on holding final draw
Chandigarh, September 6
The monopolistic construction arm of the UT Administration, the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), continues to give a raw deal to the allottees of its Sector 51-A housing scheme.
Shopkeepers, local leaders stop razing of illegal shops in P’kula
 Panchkula, September 6
High drama was witnessed during the anti-encroachment drive of Haryana Urban Development Authority
(HUDA) in Old Panchkula today. HUDA officials had reached Old Panchkula along with JCB machines to demolish illegal shops constructed on HUDA land
Shopkeepers interact with senior administative officials and the police during an
anti-encroachment drive in old Panchkula on Tuesday. Tribune photo: s chandan
Get mobile traffic alerts from today
Chandigarh, September 6
The Chandigarh Traffic Police is all set to launch its SMS service from tomorrow. The service will formally be launched by Inspector General of Police PK Srivastava at the Traffic Lines in Sector 29 in the afternoon.
Exhibition on road safety
Chandigarh, September 6
The Chandigarh traffic police organised a road safety exhibition at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16, here today. Over 300 students took part in the workshop.
Worth the risk!
A day after the traffic police challaned vehicles parked opposite Mehfil restaurant, Sector 17, for wrong parking, cars are seen parked at the same lot in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
Police opposes bail plea of accused
Panchkula, September 6
The Panchkula police today opposed the bail application filed by Sahil Puri, an accused, in the Panchkula gangrape case. In this case, a 15-year-old student of class X of a private school in Panchkula was allegedly kidnapped and gangraped by two youths in June.
Beneficiaries suffer as Fortis empanelment hangs fire
Chandigarh, September 6
Call it bureaucratic wrangling or sheer apathy of those at the helm, the issue of CGHS empanelment of Fortis Hospital continues to hang fire for the past eight months, much to the discomfort of thousands of beneficiaries of the central government scheme as they continue to be denied quality healthcare in the private sector due to the delay.
Pvt co. gets outstanding entrepreneur award
Mohali, September 6
Tynor Orthotics (P) Limited has received the outstanding entrepreneur of the country award under the National Awards 2010 Scheme for MSMEs.
Students literally pass through hell
 Mohali, September 6
A number of residents, shopkeepers and students of St Soldier Public School in Phase 7, are being forced to inhale foul smell emanating from a garbage collection
centre, located few metres away from the school.
Students too wear masks as they walk past the garbage collection centre located near
St Soldier Public School in Phase-VII, Mohali, on Tuesday. Tribune photos: vicky gharu
Need to plug loopholes in Indian admn: US prof
Chandigarh, September 6
Appreciating the phenomenal growth of India over the last decade, Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean for International Business and Finance, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, asserted that competency drawbacks and gaps in the system need to be plugged for sustainance of the growth.
Newly wed couple seeks police security
Panchkula, September 6
Feeling threatened by their families after their inter-caste marriage, two newlyweds — Dinesh Singh (29) and Anshu(19) — approached the district court for protection.
Chandigarh Scan
Believe it or not — these are UT schools
Chandigarh, September 6
Housed in one of the top 10 education centres in the country, schools at villages and colonies in the city are mini-exhibits of schools in far-flung areas of Haryana and Punjab.
 Government High School, Mauli Jagran
Government Middle School, Indira Colony
Government High School, Hallo Majra
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Chandigarh, September 6
Chandigarh, September 6
