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Tuesday, April 13, 1999

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A young Sikh performs gatka while according a warm welcome to the five nagar kirtan processions which culminated at the Sector 34 gurdwara on Monday evening. (Right) Members of the Sanatan Dharam Sabha welcome the Panj Piaras in Sector 46, Chandigarh, on Monday. — Tribune photographs

Khalsa processions turn city saffron
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — The city wore a saffron look today with thousands of devotees and brightly decorated cavalcades of vehicles participating in nagar kirtan processions to commemorate the memory of Panj Piaras and to mark the ongoing tercentenary celebrationsof the birth of the Khalsa.

DSP to patrol outside discos
CHNADIGARH, April 12 — An officer of the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police will patrol outside major discos in Chandigarh and the one in Mani Majra to check rowdyism and late night brawls.

Spate of day-time robberies
CHNADIGARH, April 12 — There has been a spate of thefts in residential areas of the city in the past five days. To be precise, six day-time burglaries have taken place in various parts of the city in these days.

IT letters issued to students
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — Can students be tax-payers? The answer seems to be yes if letters by the Income Tax Department to students to file returns under a new scheme is any indication.

S N I P P E T S

Sector 35 school gets 19 merit positions

Demand of pensioners

Legal luminary dead

A tasteful Baisakhi

Old couple kidnapped
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — An old couple, a minor girl and a businessman were kidnapped in the city during the past 24 hours in three separate incidents.

‘Changes can be made in City Beautiful’
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — “Le Corbusier has become something of a God in Chandigarh. He was a brilliant architect, but driving down Madhya Marg, you feel as if you are looking at jails.

Congressmen hold protest march
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — Local Congressmen held a protest march in the city today demanding dismissal of the BJP government, besides a joint parliamentary committee probe into the sacking of Admiral Bhagwat.

535 students conferred degrees
CHANDIGARH, April 12—``Youth are emerging as an ungrateful force, but the students could show their gratitude to society by starting community programmes with special emphasis on adult education to wipe out illiteracy from the city,'' Dr Kiran Bedi, Inspector-General of Police, said here today.

Man loses money at ‘serai’

An evening of devotional music

CHB told to pay costs and interest

Chennai MC men meet Mayor

Tussle over Panchkula building
PANCHKULA, April 12— A newly constructed building of the State Health Department, under a World Bank aided-project of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare here, has become a bone of contention between the Chandigarh-based State Health Directorate and the district health authorities

Taking possession of a building in Sector 6 of Panchkula has become a bone of contention between two wings of the State Health Department. — A Tribune photograph

Extended weekend
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — Two holidays in government institutions on April 13 and 14 coupled with the routine closed days of Saturday and Sunday that fell on April 10 and 11, respectively, has brought all work in government offices to a grinding halt in Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

'Being a daughter was not enough'
CHANDIGARH, April 12 — For Nirupama Kaur, a poetess who writes in English, French and Punjabi, and is also an artist, just being her parent's daughter was not enough.

Charitable medical centre
CHANDIGARH, April 12—The charitable clinical and ECG centre, set up by the Bharat Vikas Parishad at the Indira Holiday Home, Sector 24, has proved to be a boon for needy patients undergoing pathological tests.

Farm labourers for more wages
CHAHAR-MAJRA ( ROPAR), April 12— Low wages despite more work is one of the reasons why migrant labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are facing a tough time during the ongoing harvesting season in Punjab.