AROUND TOWN: 5-year-old raped,accused arrested

CHANDIGARH: An anti-encroachment drive was carried out by the enforcement wing of the Municipal Corporation in Shastri Market and the adjoining areas of Sector 22 on Friday. As many as 37 encroachers were challaned and a number of items were seized. A similar drive was carried out in Sadar and Palika Bazaar,Sector 19,where around 100 violators were challaned.

BE students of
PEC honoured

CHANDIGARH: The 2008-12 batch of BE students of PEC University of Technology were honoured by director Prof Manoj Dutta for their extraordinary work in various fields at the Annual Honour Ceremony held in the auditorium of the college. The students were awarded with the Institute Colour,Certificate of Excellence as well as the Certificate of Appreciation.

Punjabi University
deans,heads meet

PATIALA: A meeting of deans of various faculties and heads of all the departments of Punjabi University,held under the chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh,on Friday took stock of their activities and achievements since inception of the university. The V-C urged the deans and heads to ‘finetune’ the presentations facilitating their publication in the form of a book.

Trial begins in
hit-and-run case

CHANDIGARH: The trial in the hit-and-run case in which V N Singh,former nodal officer of Le Courbusier Centre,Sector 19,was injured and later died at the hospital,began in the the court of Civil Judge K K Goyal. Singh was injured in an accident on November 28,2010,while he was returning from Chandigarh Carnival. He succumbed to injuries on December 9. Baljot Singh Gill was accused of causing the accident and had absconded after leaving the injured at GMSH,Sector 16.

Training programme
for officers ends

CHANDIGARH: The Management Development Centre of Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration Punjab (MGSIPAP) organised a training programme on “problem-solving and decision-making” for senior-level officers of the Punjab government which concluded here on Friday. Over 50 participants,including professors and associate professors of government medical colleges,post graduate academic institutions,financial management specialists,senior officers of police department participated in this proamme.