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Vineeta Rai is
new UT Adviser
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — Ms Vineeta Rai, an IAS officer of
the 1968 batch belonging to the UT cadre, will be
the new Adviser to the Administrator of
Chandigarh. Ms Rai will replace Mr Jagdish Sagar.
"I am looking forward to my new assignment.
It is presumptuous for me to talk about my
priorities without knowing about the Chandigarh
Administration," she said today. |
Students of the International Polytechnic for
Women, sector 35, strike a pose in sarees
embroidered by them at their annual show held in
Tagore Theatre on Friday. — A Tribune
photograph |
BBA,
BCA, B.Ed exams put off
CHANDIGARH, April 16—The university
examinations of BBA, BCA, B Ed, M Ed and diploma
in Gandhian Studies have been postponed till
further notice.
HUDA to extend
scheme for privatisation of sanitation
PANCHKULA,
April 16— Encouraged by the good results
through the privatisation of sanitation of
certain sectors here, the Haryana Urban
Development Authority has decided to extend the
service to four more sectors.
Fire destroys
3-acre farm
PANCHKULA, April 16 — Three acres
of land with standing crops at Bhagwanpur village
in Barwala block were destroyed in a fire this
afternoon.
School to be
named after Major
KHARAR,
April 16 — As a mark of respect to Major
Harmohinder Pal Singh who laid down his life for
the country while fighting militants in the
Kashmir valley on April 13, the Punjab Government
had decided to rename Government Primary School
in his native village, Mundi Kharar, after him.
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935 kundis removed
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — In a special drive, the Chandigarh
Administration removed 935 kundis from Palsora colony
today.
Drug abuse centre proposed
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — The Inspector-General of Chandigarh
Police, Dr Kiran Bedi, while speaking at an interaction
at the CII in Sector 31 today proposed the setting up of
a drug abuse centre.
101 akhand paths begin
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — As many as 101 akhand paths to
commemorate the tercentenary of the Khalsa were started
at Gurdwara Gursagar Sahib, near Sukhna Lake, here, this
morning.
IT key to development: Jasjit
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — Technology holds the key to the nation's
development and India should not lag behind in the field
of information technology, the Director of the Institute
of Defence Studies and Analysis, Air Cmdre Jasjit Singh,
said here today.
Role of plastic surgeons
‘crucial’
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — The success rate for implanting amputated
parts of the body like fingers, tips of nose and toes is
as high as 80 per cent in India while success rates for
free tissue transfer is close to 98 percent, said noted
plastic surgeon, Prof A.B. Thomas from the CMC, Ludhiana.
Student-designers display talent
CHANDIGARH,
April 16 — “Communicating with the youth is a
problem. Moralising and lecturing is no good and a
difference of opinion is attributed to a generation
gap,'' Mr L.H. Naqvi said at the annual designer show of
the International Polytechnic for Women, Sector 35, held
at Tagore Theatre today.
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Govt should go, say some; No,
opine others
