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State-of-the-art auditorium almost ready
Panchkula, November 6
A state-of-the-art auditorium, the first one of its kind in the region, has been constructed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority in Sector 5 here.
Final touches being given to the biggest auditorium in the tricity at Panchkula on Monday.
— Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh |
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Woman arrested for abandoning her newborn
DNA mapping helps police solve case
Chandigarh, November 6
The Chandigarh Police has adopted more scientific ways of investigation. The police used DNA mapping to trace a woman, who had abandoned her baby in July this year, and arrested her from Panchkula late last night.
Watch out
Rajpal Singh has made his well-wishers as well as the city people proud by ensuring his berth in the list of 23 probables for the men’s hockey team for the forthcoming Doha Asian Games scheduled next month.
Rajpal, a trainee at the Sports Wing of the Sector 42 Stadium since
1992, had already represented India in the prestigious Sultan Azlan Shah
Cup in Kuala Lumpur in 2005.
In Town
The Governor of Karnataka, Dr T.N. Chaturvedi, will be in Chandigarh on Tuesday to chair a session on “Relations Among Nations in a Globalised World”, being organised by the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Research (CRRID) as part of the ongoing International Conference on Peace and Development in the memory of P.N. Haksar.
Passing Through
Do you find any difference in the system of education here and in Canada?
The “efficiency” of the largest public sector bank — the State Bank of
India(SBI) — is legendary as a colleague experienced during the past over one month. In fact, it seems to believe in the dictum that “promises are meant to be broken”.
 Begging
menace
IAF
adopts village
NCC
cadets donate blood
Stormy
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Golfers take a break after a strenuous game on the Chandigarh Golf Course on a crisp November afternoon.
— Tribune photo Pradeep Tewari |
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Vigilance Awareness Week begins
Chandigarh, November 6
Celebrations for the Vigilance Awareness Week that began today in almost all government departments. The celebrations will continue till November 10.
Most pro-poor administrative steps remain unimplemented: Expert
Chandigarh, November 6
It is the sustained tempo of industrialisation and modern agricultural production that makes democratic governance a success. Stating this here today, Prof D.P. Chattopadhyaya, Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Civilisations Project of
History of Indian of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Kolkata, said in this connection, the case of Punjab could be perfectly recalled.
Centre committed to ensure equal opportunities for disabled: Meira
Chandigarh, November 6
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment with the assistance of state governments has been making best possible efforts to ensure equal opportunities to disabled persons of the region. Lists are being prepared of all such persons at every block and district level so that aids, appliances and services may be provided to the disabled and elderly persons, said Mrs Meira Kumar, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
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| Mrs Meira Kumar, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, caresses cheeks of a visually impaired student of the Institute of Blind, Sector 26, Chandigarh, at the national-level exhibition on aids, appliances and services for persons with disabilities and elderly persons at the Circus Ground in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Monday.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
She helps jawans smile
‘Music is meant to entertain people’
Chandigarh, November 6
For her, the jawans and their families are special. It comes as no surprise that her mission is to make them smile, forget about their strict working hours and disciplined life; and, of course… to make them dance to her tunes — literally.
Ms Niharika Naidu
Fauji Beat
Soap operas cannot make Army attractive
THE army has hired Lintas IMAG, an advertising agency, for launching a media campaign to attract the right kind of material to opt for it. Seeing its rating in the eyes of the youth sagging, the Army hired a media company to refurbish its image in 1996, for the first time. The second such exercise was carried out in 2003. These campaigns did not cut much ice.
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Paratroopers leave the Agra airport for Maldives. |
Go on a drive, to confusion!
Chandigarh, November 6
All roads lead to confusion in Chandigarh. In the absence of
appropriate signposts and pointers demarcating one sector from
another at the beginning of the roads passing through the city,
the journey to the destination becomes all the more longer.
Residents and regular visitors, with that extra drive, have
taught themselves to identify sectors with the help of landmarks
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| In the absence of signboards and pointers indicating sector numbers at intersections, it is drive towards confusion for residents.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
Mini-Secretariat security beefed up
Chandigarh, November 6
One more building of the Punjab Government will turn into a fortress encircled by security procedures that can pose more hurdles for visitors entering, it rather than bring the people closer to the government.
Lobbying on for MC nominations
Chandigarh, November 6
Leaving nothing to chance and to ensure a majority of their party in the general house of the municipal corporation after the elections, leaders of various political parties are now busy lobbying in Delhi to get
their members nominated to the corporation.
Candidates can spend more in MC poll
Chandigarh, November 6
The Election Commission has increased the budget each councillor can spend for the municipal corporation elections from Rs 60,000 to Rs 1 lakh. For panchayat samiti elections, each candidate can
incur an expenditure of upto Rs 10,000.
Former treasury officer dead
Chandigarh, November 6
Mr Parshotam Singh (71), a former Treasury Officer, Punjab, and former Treasurer, Punjab Charitable Endowment Fund, died this evening, after a prolonged illness. He is survived by wife, son and two daughters.
No end to commuters’ inconvenience
Road unlikely to be completed by year-end
Chandigarh, November 6
The ambitious project of the first concrete road in the city dividing Sectors 31 and 32 has not been completed with in the scheduled time. The project was to be completed by October 19.
A notice board in front of the incomplete road dividing Sectors 31 and 32 in Chandigarh shows October 19 as the tentative date of its completion.
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Tribune photographer hurt in mishap
Chandigarh, November 6
Vinay Malik, a staff photographer with The Tribune, was injured in a road accident at the Sector 36 and 37 traffic lights point here when a Tavera (03-J-TP-8391) vehicle hit his motorcycle from the rear this morning. He sustained minor injuries.
The damaged motorcycle of Vinay Malik, a Tribune staff photographer, and the Tavera vehicle that hit it from the rear at the Sectors 36 and 37 traffic lights point in Chandigarh on Monday.
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Clean chit to Crime Branch officials in torture case
Chandigarh, November 6
A fact-finding inquiry has given a clean chit to Crime Branch officials, who are investigating the Sector 30 maid servant murder case, in an alleged torture of some youths.
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