Normal monsoon likely in tricity

Chandigarh: A normal monsoon has been forecast for the tricity with “very low probability of deficient monsoon conditions”. According to the Chandigarh Meteorological Department, the monsoon is expected to arrive in the tricity by the end of June. “A good monsoon is expected this time. June will see rain on and off. Light rain is likely around June 5-6 and June 9-10,” said Surender Paul, Director of the department. TNS

Webinars on latest technologies

Chandigarh: The Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC), under the aegis of the Department of Information Technology, organised a series of webinars for students of Chandigarh Group of Colleges from May 28 to June 2. The webinars were conducted with Webex Training Solution developed by CISCO. The webinars were organised on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing, data science and its tool and web development application with PHP. Nazuk Kumar, Director, Information Technology, UT, said, “To ensure that there is no hiatus in education and students get full access to classes like before, virtual classroom is the way forward. The education sector should use the opportunity to understand the existing loopholes and strategise the inclusion of virtual learning in their existing learning system.” TNS

Kharar-Morinda toll starts today

Kharar: Motorists travelling from Kharar to the Morinda side will have pay user fee from now on as the toll plaza at nearby Bhago Majra village will start functioning from Wednesday. The fee for single journey for cars, jeeps, van, etc, will be Rs65, while heavy vehicles will be charged Rs430 for single journey. Commercial vehicles registered in the district have some concession in the toll tax. OC

RWAs called for meeting in Panchkula

Panchkula: Civil Surgeon Jasjeet Kaur on Tuesday called for a meeting with the presidents of all resident welfare associations (RWAs) of the district at the IMA Hall, Sector 15, to discuss a strategy for transportation in the district. TNS

2 more arrested in murder case

Panchkula: The police have arrested two residents of Surajpur in connection with the murder of Gurjit Singh, a resident of Manakpur Thakurdas, on May 28. The suspects have been identified as Kuldeep Singh and Jarnail Singh. Two persons have already been arrested in the case. TNS

Poster-making competition

Panchkula: Kirti Sharma of DC Model Senior Secondary School, Panchkula, Bishnu Kumari of GMSSS, Sector 33, Chandigarh, Vardha Verma of St Kabir Public School and Govind of Guru Harkishan Model School were declared winners in an inter-school online poster-making competition organised by Sahayta Charitable Welfare Society. The theme of the competition was the harmful effects of tobacco and the spread Coronavirus. TNS

SBI federation chief appointed

Chandigarh: Deepak Sharma, general secretary of State Bank of India Officers’ Association, Chandigarh circle, has unanimously been elected the president of All-India State Bank of India Officers’ Federation (AISBOF). He took the charge on Monday. TNS