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A
rickshaw-puller takes time off to nap under shade
outside General Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh,
on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph |
Parking
lots auction nets Rs 11.64 lakh
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh
netted Rs 11.64 lakh through the auction of four parking
lots in the city today.
City chosen for pilot police
project
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — The city has been selected for a pilot
project to computerise police stations in the country and
interlink these for easy access of records about crimes
and criminals.
5-hr snap in ‘65’ level
phones
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — Close to 8,000 telephones working in
Sectors 27,28,29 and 30 and the Industrial Area went dead
this evening following a technical snag.
Notice to PU on
exam postponement
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — Taking suo motu notice of a news
item published in the Chandigarh Tribune and
another daily on April 17, the Punjab and Haryana
High Court has asked Panjab University to apprise
the court as to what were "those compelling
reasons which impelled the postponement of the
various examinations indefinitely".UT
employees stage dharna
CHANDIGARH,
April 28— To press for their demands the
members of the Chandigarh UT Subordinate Services
Federation staged a dharna near the Sector 17
Estate Office here today.
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Villages connected to main
exchange
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — Telephone exchanges of Morinda, Kurali,
Kharar, Sohana, Landran, Batta, Manauli and Mullanpur
have been connected to the main exchange in SAS Nagar.
Subscribers living in these places, can now call each
other without dialling codes.
Police remand for taking bribe
KHARAR,
April 28 — Mrs Neelam Arora, Sub-Divisional Judicial
Magistrate, Kharar, today sentenced Surjit Singh, an
employee of the Health Department, Punjab, who was
arrested by the Punjab Vigilance Department while
allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from the editor
of a newspaper yesterday, to police remand till April 29.
Tragedy waiting to happen
ZIRAKPUR,
April 28 — It is a tragedy waiting to happen in
Bartana village nearby. High tension electricity
transmission wires pass precariously close to a row of
houses.
Meat shops inspected in Kharar
KHARAR,
April 28 — Mr Amarjit Singh Dhindsa, Sub-Divisional
Magistrate, Kharar, today made a surprise check of
various meat shops here and in Kurali.
Imparting education to growing
child
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — A meeting of policy makers and
educationists on the subject of adolescent education was
held under the chairmanship of Mr Brahmjit Kalia,
District Education Officer, at the State Institute of
Education, Sector 32 today.
9 booked in dowry cases
SAS NAGAR,
April 28—The local police has booked nine persons
under the Anti-Dowry Act in two separate incidents.
Two booked under Wildlife Act
PANCHKULA,
April 28 — Two persons have been booked by the local
police in connection with keeping a Monitor Lizard, a
protected specie under Schedule I of the Wild Life
Protection Act.
B.Com I exams from May 5
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — While the B. Com I and II Exams will
commence on May 5 and 4, respectively, the B Com III
exams will commence on May 10. However, the examinations
for all three years will end on May 24.
Damaged power meters not to be
repaired
PANCHKULA,
April 28 — The electricity consumers in Haryana will
now have to pay for meters installed in place of partly
damaged ones. Instructions in this regard have been
issued to the field staff by the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran
Nigam.
Revision in notification of posts
CHANDIGARH,
April 28 — Keeping in view the administrative
problems being faced by various employers regarding
recruitment in government offices, departments, boards
and corporations, the Chandigarh Administration has
revised the procedure for inviting applications.
13 AIDS camps organised
CHANDIGARH, April 28 — On the first three
days of the observance of the family health awareness
week 13 camps were organised till today to cover 22
villages and colonies in the Union Territory.
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