Romas come home to perform CHANDIGARH, April 8— "We are Punjabis, who are visiting our land after many years", said the five-member Roma dance troupe from Norway. Within days of “crane Bedi’s” joining as IGP, a crane seen towing away a wrongly parked truck in Chandigarh on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph Crane begins towing work CHANDIGARH, April 8 — Towing of vehicles is on in the city as a team of the Chandigarh Traffic Police, acting on the order of Dr Kiran Bedi, IG, today toured the Grain Market and the Transport Area and picked up wrongly parked trucks with the help of a crane. Central panel for PGI issues (Nation page)

S N I P P E T S Nurses threaten ‘work to rule’ Train-the-trainer programme Light shower in city 200 students get degrees Swimming pool for children Cultural programme by senior citizens Suspects still on fast Bees invade school, bite students Carcass not removed Ban on polythene: 85 objections filed

Internet rates cut
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — The local telecom department today cut the rates for usage of Internet. The rates for 100, 250 and 500 hours have been reduced from Rs 3,500, Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000 to Rs 3,050, Rs 6,025 and Rs 9,000, respectively.

Pre-paid phone cards from today
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — A person can now buy a pre-paid card from the telecom department and use the 10-digit confidential number given with the card to make calls from any telephone in the city, while the bill amount for calls will be deducted automatically from the amount paid for procuring the card.

Family contests police theory
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — A local resident is refusing to believe the theory put forward by the police saying that his brother has died in an accident.

Khalsa celebrations in city
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — As part of tercentenary celebrations of the Khalsa Panth, the Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee of Shri Guru Gobind Sabha, Milk Colony, Dhanas, has decided to take out five nagar kirtans through various parts of the city from April 12.

HVPN told to pay consumer

Guru through Sobha's brush

No teaching from April 9 to 14

‘Surahis’, ‘matkas’ costlier

Youth held for bid to rape child

Queues lengthen at pollution centres CHANDIGARH, April 8 — In anticipation of a vigorous checking drive, pollution checking centres at various petrol pumps in the city today witnessed long queues, with people bringing their vehicles for the precious slip that would mean a saving of Rs 1,000 if one were to be challaned for not possessing one.

People get their vehicles checked for specified pollution levels at a filling station in Chandigarh on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Quackery a thriving business
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — Quackery is good business in the city and the increasing number of ``medicine men’’ propping up tents all over the city and their concentration along the Chandigarh-Panchkula road, there are four of them within a few metres of each other, vouchsafe for the statement.

Capturing planned cities on lens
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — For someone who has been photographing for magazines like The Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architecture, House and Garden, Architectural Digest, it is natural to say, “I like to photograph people and buildings, because both are about form, structure and expressions”.

‘Pop music like a temporary wave’
SAS NAGAR, April 8 — Pop music is like a wave which just comes and goes. It does not need much “riaz”. “Zor ke gana” reveals that a person cannot sing properly, according to E.R. Das, a ghazal singer from Sialkot in Pakistan, now settled in the USA.

Garbage heaps worry residents
MULLANPUR- GARIBDASS, April 8— Heaps of garbage and cow dung near the market of the village here are a cause of concern for the local residents.

Stained glass art her forte
CHANDIGARH, April 8 — " The first thing that impressed me about City Beautiful is the landscaping of Dr M.S Randhawa for the city can easily pass off as the emerald city, " says Mrs Surinder Hayer Warboys, an artist from England who is here these days.