CN & heard

Focused

Having not been able to crack the coveted UPSC examination in two attempts,Sonia Mahajan,a city girl,refused to get discouraged. Drawing inspiration from her two unsuccessful attempts,the 26-year-old has been able to clear the examination in her third attempt. An alumni of Gurswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharam College (GGDSD) College,Sector 32,Sonia has secured the 150th rank,making her parents and family proud. Sonia has studied in SD college from 2004-2010 and did her BSc and MSc in Bioinformatics from the college. Focused and determined,Sonia was preparing since 2009. In her first attempt she could not clear the main written examination and in the second,she could not clear the interview. No regrets,smiles Sonia.

Readymade Issue

The BJP leaders in the city found an election issue thrown into their laps with the arrest of Vijay Singla,nephew of Union Minister for Railways Pawan Kumar Bansal for allegedly accepting a bribe. In fact,the BJP,which had already planned a protest on May 4 over the issue of Sarabjit Singh,instead protested against Bansal as the issue emerged a day prior to their programme.

Wrongly Challaned?

A resident of Sector 37 faced a peculiar situation after a team from Municipal Corporation issued a challan against him for wastage of water after a wet patch was seen outside his house. The harried resident went to the area councillor Arun Sood and informed that a dog had urinated in front of his house that was the cause of the wet patch. The councillor then visited the spot to examine the situation first hand and raised the issue in the House.

Uncontrolled menace

Monkey menace is becoming a headache,not only for the residents of the city but for the officials of the UT administration. First the officials were able to help the residents by sending langurs out whenever required but now with the ban orders on langurs,the officials are finding it difficult to do anything about the numerous complaints that keep pouring in.So much so that officials of the forest department are even requesting the media persons not to highlight the issue of monkey menace at all until the department finds another solution to the ever-growing problem.

Last laugh

Such was the passion running among local fans that every time Vijayant Malik earned a point,they went into a frenzy. After local favourite Sanam Singh pulled out of the ITF men’s futures tennis tournament,Vijayant,the former CHART trainee,was expected to lead the city charge. On Saturday,he came close to winning the title that Sanam had won last year. However,it was Saketh Myneni who had the last laugh as he defeated him in the final. He seemed to enjoy dashing local hopes by defeating the local player in his own den.

Humble

IPL season six has been a phenomenal one for West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle who plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore. After smashing a ruthless 176 runs against the Pune Warriors India match a few days back,Gayle has become a favourite among the fans. The amount of hysteria that is created when cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar,MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly walk in an area,was seen when RCB team arrived at a Chandigarh hotel ahead of their IPL match against KXIP. The shutterbugs and the fans followed Gayle upto the hotel lobby. And the West Indian too obliged them with poses and a smile.

Peek-a-boo

In a race to get exclusive pictures and information,the city journalists here were trying to hide in the fleet from each other outside Vijay Singla’s residence who was arrested by CBI. Everyone was in a race to find a spot from where they could have got an exclusive shot. pretending to be ignorant about each other’s presence,the Congress supporters would have won,had it been a competition to seem ignorant. Despite the fact that electronic media was giving a live telecast,when asked by a few supporters,they said,we do not know what is going on.

Loyalty

The tremors which jolted the region last week left one of the Chandigarh Police officers in a quandary. Sitting on the fifth floor of the UT Police headquarters,the officer thought nobody was going to survive the tremors. Not caring a hoot about his own life,the “loyal” officer rang up his seniors on the ground floor. “Sir,it’s an earthquake,I cannot go to a safe place,but you please ensure your safety,” urged the officer. Now,ain’t that noble!