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Operation Sadbhavna
Kargil kids’ date with City Beautiful
Chandigarh, October 3
It was a real treat for the 20 children from Army Goodwill School,
Kargil, who today paid a visit to City Beautiful. Accompanied by an Army officer and two personnel, the kids, between 10 to 15 years of age, were excited to find new friends.
IN GAY ABANDON: Students of Army Goodwill School, Kargil, and the Institute for the Blind, Sector 26, in a joyous mood in Chandigarh on Wednesday.—Tribune
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Workshop on adolescent health from Oct 4
Chandigarh, October 3
The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute for Youth Development and UNIFEM, in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan under the ministry of youth affairs and sports, will be organising a capacity building training workshop on adolescent health and development at CYP Asia Centre, Chandigarh, from October 4-11.
Shadow play: Shadows play a trick and give these pipelines a spiral appearance. This picture was taken by Tribune lensman Vicky Gharu on
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Telecom company’s festive mood costs customer
Man charged for sending SMSes, which the company had offered him as ‘free’, due to Janamashtmi
Chandigarh, October 3
The message is loud and clear: think before you use the text message (SMS) services of various telephone companies during the festive
season.
Mohali Mess
Footpaths of most-resistance
Mohali, October 3
Residents of this township do not know how it feels to walk on footpaths without tripping on broken tiles. Most footpaths in the township are in a poor condition and it seems like no maintenance work has been carried out to repair these.
SMO seeks probe against ITBT DIG
Panchkula, October 3
The ITBP deputy commandant SMO, Dr Amitabh, today in a written complaint to the Chandimandir SHO has demanded an inquiry against the ITBP DIG,
M.C. Bhatt. He maintained that hours after he sent a communication to the ITBP DG to look into the wrongdoings at the
centre, he was manhandled and dragged out of his house by constables at the ITBP’s basic training centre in Ramgarh on Monday.
Union minister for women empowerment and social welfare, Renuka Chaudhary, at the Chandigarh railway station on the way to Sanawar to attend the founder’s day of Lawrence School on Wednesday.
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Overnight safai abhiyaan falls in
deep slumber
Safai karamcharis fail to clean Sec-7 market during hyped drive
Panchkula, October 3
It had the makings of a great ‘abhiyaan’ - motivational speeches, promise of loads of action, the biggies of the city and highly-sophisticated equipment, including brooms. However, the safai abhiyaan in the market of Sector 7 began with a public lecture on the civic sense (or lack of it) of Indians and it ended with all the dirt and trash just where it was in the beginning; thus, rendering the exercise a mere lip service.
CHB to auction EWS flats
Chandigarh, October 3
The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) would auction around 10 lower-income group (LIG) and economic weaker service (EWS) flats in various parts of the city.
Fake ration cards Officials to face music
Chandigarh, October 3
The district administration is inquiring into the issue of fake ration cards allegedly being made by officials of the food and supplies department.
Cause of NCC cadet’s death still unclear
Chandigarh, October 3
Three months have passed, but the exact cause of the death of an NCC cadet on his return from a training camp has not been ascertained.
Crushing rules for style
Chandigarh, October 3
Youngsters continue to violate traffic rules in the absence of proper checks by the traffic police.
Not only are they altering jeeps, removing the hard top and windows, but they seem to be crushing every traffic rule with extra wide tyres and additional dazzling lights.
Those who can’t afford to replace the
tyres, have the tyres inside out on the vehicle’s rims, making these protrude out.
Wakf JPC members in city on six-day visit
Chandigarh, October 3
Members of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on wakf led by its chairman,
S.M. Laljan Basha, a Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh, were received at the Chandigarh railway station by officials of the administration and the state wakf boards.
(Right) The chairman of the joint parliamentary committee on wakf, S.M. Laljan Basha, has a word with the chairman of the Chandigarh wakf board, Mansoor Ali, at the Chandigarh railway station on Wednesday.
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Blood donor honoured
Patiala, October 3
Deputy Commissioner D.S. Grewal honoured blood donor Jagmohan Singh at a function on Wednesday. Jagmohan Singh, a teacher at Government Senior Secondary School,
Bhadson, has donated blood 37 times. The school, under the guidance of Jagmohan Singh, recently organised a blood donation camp at the school premises where as many as 40 volunteers donated blood. —
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