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Rent Act Changes
Tenants have little to cheer
Chandigarh, September 21
Hundreds of tenants occupying prime commercial properties across the city have little to cheer.

Cricket Star back from UK
Chandigarh, September 21
Twenty-year-old Sukhvir Happy Singh, who was selected among 23 players from 25,000 hopefuls as winner of Cricket Star Series, returned home from Leicester in England today.

COMMUNITY

Failure to allot house
Sahara India asked to pay Rs 5 lakh
Chandigarh, September 21
A compensation of Rs 5 lakh is to be paid by Sahara India Pariwar Housing Unit due to negligence of service as the firm was not able to allot a house in the housing unit to the complainant though he had made necessary payments even after three years of registration.

Demolition drive stalled on residents’ assurance
Chandigarh, September 21
A major demolition drive in Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, was stalled today after residents, led by area councillor Sarita Devi, gave an undertaking to the administration and the MC to voluntarily remove encroachments in front of their houses.

Drive resumes at Mansa Devi
Panchkula, September 21
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), the PWD (B&R) and the MC jointly resumed the anti-encroachment drive around Mansa Devi shrine, here today.

BJP condemns arrests
Chandigarh, September 21
The BJP today criticised the Chandigarh administration for the arrest of 120 persons in Peer Colony in Sector 56. According to a press note here today, residents had been agitating in support of their demands for the past over four years. 

Stop forcible acquisition of land: CPI

Chandigarh, September 21 Protesting against the “anti-people” policies of the Chandigarh administration, the local unit of the CPI held a dharna in Sector 17 here today. Speakers alleged that the administration was acquiring land at rock-bottom prices and selling it to multinational companies and big builders. Activists of the CPI stage a dharna in Chandigarh on Friday. —A Tribune photograph

BJP may go the Punjab way
Appointment of president
Chandigarh, September 21
The BJP high command may replicate the Punjab model in appointing the president of the local unit. With unanimity eluding the party on the local chief's issue, the Punjab pattern of first appointing the president and later going in for the “unopposed” election may come in handy, sources said here yesterday.

MC creating hurdles: FR
Chandigarh, September 21
The Chandigarh MC was today accused of creating hurdles in the functioning of Fun Republic. Reacting to news reports about the MC issuing orders to resume the site of the multiplex, Girish Pandey, chief operating officer of EMPS, a mall management company of the Essel group which manages Fun Republic, said at a press conference that the multiplex had been generating revenue for the government.

Good Samaritan dead
Chandigarh, September 21
Janak Raj Grover (68), a good Samaritan who donated blood 103 times died here today.

‘…And the World Remained Silent’
Recalling the agony of Kashmiri Pandits

Chandigarh, September 21 This awareness campaign was different because it chose dialogue and film to convey a message of atrocity and pain being inflicted upon a community in its own country. An exhibition of posters and pictures highlighting the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, put up outside the English auditorium, Panjab University, Chandigarh, on Friday. —Tribune Photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Musical soiree: Academician and maestro Pandit Bhim Sen Sharma performs at a classical vocal musical soiree presented by Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi at State Library in Sector 34, Chandigarh, on Friday. —Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Decomposed body found
Panchkula, September 21
The police yesterday registered a murder case after the postmortem was carried out on the decomposed body of an unidentified man that was found in the bushes of Kanguwal village, near Kalka, on Tuesday.

Honour for PGI scientist
Chandigarh, September 21
Dr Pankaj Kaul, senior medical laboratory technologist, department of histopathology, PGI, has been given an award for the third time by the Professional Examinations and Awards Committee, Office of Institute of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences (IBMS), London, England, for his  academic and research endeavours. — TNS

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CRIME

2 held for snatching
Chandigarh, September 21 The crime branch of the Chandigarh police arrested two alleged snatchers — Rajinder, alias Raju, of Rajiv Colony, Panchkula; and Mukesh — near the government hospital, Mani Majra, here yesterday.

Man held for robbery
Chandigarh, September 21
The Chandigarh police arrested Amar Singh Amra, a resident of Bapu Dham colony, for armed robbery here today.

BUSINESS

Investment mantra — Small and steady
Chandigarh, September 21 “Invest regularly and make small investments” was the basic advice wealth creator Ajay Bagga, CEO Lotus India, gave at The Tribune-sponsored CNBC-TV 18’s wealth maximisation forum held here today.

EDUCATION

Ryan students in trouble again
Chandigarh, September 21
Once again, Class X students of Ryan International Public School, Sector 49, are in a fix as they are not sure if they will be allowed to appear in the board examination - scheduled to be held in March 2008 - or not.

Space Constraints
Commerce college awaits affiliation to second year
Future of hundreds of students at stake
Chandigarh, September 21
The only specialised college of the city, Government College of Commerce and Business Administration, Sector 19, is once again in news.

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