Retirement age for Boards’ employees raised
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has raised the age of superannuation of its employees working in Boards and Corporations from 58 to 60 years and it has been further raised to 62 years in case of Group D employees. The Government has also raised retirement age of the blind government employees from
60 to 62 years.
Vigilance nabs XEN MC Kapurthala in graft case
Chandigarh: The Vigilance Bureau on Friday caught XEN Municipal Council red handed while accepting bribe of Rs15,000. XEN Parshotam Kumar who was posted at Municipal Council, Kapurthala was apprehended on the complaint of Pardeep Kumar, Government Contractor. The complainant alleged that the XEN was demanding bribe of Rs15,000 to refund his security deposit. A spokesperson said that acting on the tip off, a trap was laid by the team of Vigilance Bureau, Flying Squad-1, Mohali headed by Hargobind Singh, SP, Vigilance Bureau/Flying Squad-I, Mohali and accused Parshotam Singh was arrested red handed in his office while accepting bribe of Rs15,000 from the complainant.
full-time employees’ Wages raised in Haryana
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has increased wages of full-time employees working on term engagement and part-time employees working in Haryana Public Health Engineering Department thus benefitting them to the tune of Rs10 crore per annum. Now full-time employees working on term engagement would get Rs8,100 per month instead of Rs5,342 per month, a Government
spokesman said.
PGIMER 1ST ANNUAl CONFERENCE KICKS OFF
Chandigarh: The 1st Annual Conference of the Society for Emergency Radiology, PGIMER, was inaugurated by Governor of Chhattisgarh, Balramji Das Tandon. YK Chawla, Director, PGIMER, presided over the function. Dr Dinesh Verma, Deputy Director of Radiology, and Head of Trauma and Emergency Radiology at Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Dr Junichi Matsumoto, Chief, Division of Emergency and Trauma Radiology, Kawasaki and Dr Veena Chowdhury, Professor of Excellence, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi discussed the Australian, Japanese and Indian perspective of Emergency Radiology. The ways and means of spreading and improving the practice of Emergency Radiology were also highlighted. Dr K Shanmuganathan from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Centre, Baltimore, USA spoke about the imaging of injury to the major blood vessel of the heart, i e the aorta and the solid organs of the abdomen like liver and spleen.
AIR FORCE FOOTBAll CHAMPIONSHIP FINAl today
Chandigarh: On the seventh day of the Air Force Football Championship 2014-15, two matches were organised at 3 Base Repair Depot, Air Force Station (3BRD, AF , Stn), Chandigarh . Final match will be held on 30 August 2014. Air Force Football Championship 2014-15 commenced at 3 Base Repair Depot Air Force Chandigarh on 23 Aug 2014. A total of eight teams participated in the Championship divided in two pools. Central Air Command, Training Command, Maintenance Command and Southern Air Command are in Pool ‘A' and Air Headquarters, Western Air Command, Eastern Air Command and South Western Air Command are in pool ‘B'. Matches were played on league cum knock out basis. Aim of the Championship is to select Air Force Football team for forthcoming Inter Services Football Championship 2014-15.