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ST officer lays claim
to DSP’s post
Chandigarh, December 12
The Chandigarh Police Inspector, Mr B.S. Negi, has become the first Scheduled Tribe (ST) police officer since 1966 to lay claim to promotion for the post of DSP even as the Administration is yet to formulate a policy in this regard in the wake of a recent Supreme Court judgement.
No to probe into hotel site allotment
Chandigarh, December 12
A move by the Congress-ruled municipal corporation to get a vigilance probe done into the loss of Rs 16 crore due to delay in allotment of a hotel site in Sector 35 has suffered a setback, with the Secretary, Local Self Government, Chandigarh Administration, rejecting “outright” a recommendation of the General House in this regard. The corporation has been asked to fix responsibility on its own.
Online IT refunds hit block
Chandigarh, December 12
The target set by the Income Tax Department to electronically send refunds of taxpayers directly into their bank accounts by the year-end is far from being
achieved, thanks to procedural discrepancies.
City Beautiful now also ‘Peace City’
Chandigarh, December 12
Chandigarh has got another name. After being christened City Beautiful, the Rotary Club today declared it “Peace City”. Chandigarh is the only city in the country to be declared Rotary Peace City — a concept started in 1993 in Australia.
On the occasion, an impressive peace monument, erected at the Sukhna Lake, was unveiled by the Rotary International President, Mr Jonathan
Majiyagbe. White pigeons were also released.
Children dressed up as fairies and angels on the occasion of declaration of Chandigarh as “Peace City” on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
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Get voter card made any day
Chandigarh, December 12
The Chandigarh Administration today said the election office would remain open on all seven days of the week for making photo identity cards of voters in the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency.
Lieut-Col
K.D. Singh dead
Chandigarh, December 12
Lieut-Col Krishan Dev Singh (retd), 82, died here today. He had suffered a stroke on December 10. Son of Teja Singh, a former Chief Justice, Pepsu, he was commissioned in 2nd Sikh in 1942 and he retired from the Artillery in 1972.
Security drill before Shekhawat’s visit
Chandigarh, December 12
The entire top brass of the Chandigarh Police, including DSPs, SHOs and inspectors, along with around 700 police personnel had a dry run of security arrangements for Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhwat’s visit the city tomorrow.
Captain’s family feels hurt
Chandigarh, December 12
Stung by the inconsiderate behaviour of the DAV College authorities, who are honouring their old students, including gallant soldiers, at a function here tomorrow, the Chandigarh-based family of Captain Atul Sharma , who was killed in action in Kashmir on November 15, 2000, has said the college has forgotten its own student.
READERS WRITE
A myopic review of Dhillon’s book
I read Himmat Singh Gill's review of Harish Dhillon's ‘‘The Legend of Banda Bahadur’’ in The Tribune (dated December 7, 2003) with some degree of amusement. Dhillon has made it clear in his introduction that what he has written is a novel and not a book of history. Yet Gill objects to the book on the grounds that historians and those who like their historical accounts to be factual and bone dry may find it difficult to digest.
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