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Press Council sets up fact-finding panel
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — The Press Council of India has constituted a fact-finding committee to look into various incidents of assaults and attacks on journalists, owners of newspapers, vendors, harassment of journalists and security of their family members.

PU agrees to cut fees
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — As word of a nod by the university authorities to a modified version of the approved fee structure reached them, overjoyed students raised slogans in favour of students' unity.

Another rape case suspect arrested
PANCHKULA, Aug 6 — Another suspect in the gang rape case of a 14-year-old girl at Pinjore on July 17 was today arrested by the local police.

PUDA "harassing" NRIs
SAS NAGAR, Aug 6 — Non-resident Indians, who have been allotted flats by the Punjab Urban and Development Authority in Sector 70 here, have alleged that PUDA was delaying handing over of flats and has also altered the terms and conditions of the allotment to their disadvantage.

I am no outsider: Sharma
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — The National Democratic Alliance under the leadership of Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, will form a stable government at the centre after the Lok Sabha poll, according to Mr Krishan Lal Sharma, Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and a candidate for the lone Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat.

No challan till HC order: Admn
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — The Sikh Nari Manch and various other organisations have decided to reorganise their ongoing agitation against the order of the Administration for compulsory wearing of helmets by both women drivers and pillion riders.

Polio cases down from 283 to 8
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — Over 59 lakh children below five years of age will be immunised in Haryana and Punjab during the four rounds of the forthcoming Intensive Pulse Polio Immunisation drive.

Sow bites Sector 15 resident
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — Manjit, a resident of Sector 15 here, was on Wednesday bitten by a sow, which had given birth to a litter of piglets.

‘Irregularities’ in exam results
SAS NAGAR, Aug 6 — The Punjab School Education Board authorities today exposed alleged irregularities and corruption in the preparation of examination results and accused a section of the employees of using pressure tactics such as rallies to prevent such activities from being brought to light.

Hiroshima Day observed
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sector 25, and of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, today organised rallies in their respective sectors to observe Hiroshima Day.

EVM working demonstrated
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — A demonstration on the working of the electronic voting machine was organised at Punjab Raj Bhavan here today.

S N I P P E T S
Parking sites for tourist buses

R.P. Singh promoted

Medical equipment for jawans


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Compendium

Crime File
IAF officer injured, wife killed

Cultural Scene
Painting exhibition opens
Theme of Kargil dominates

Consumer Courts
Cleaner told to pay cost of sari
ne of the paintings by Neeraj Mittra on display at an exhibition, which opened at Art Folio, Sector 9, Chandigarh, on Friday.
One of the paintings by Neeraj Mittra on display at an exhibition, which opened at Art Folio, Sector 9, Chandigarh, on Friday. — A Tribune photograph

Corporation Beat
Leaking water floods roads


Bhavan Vidyalaya, GNPS win
Kochhar fires eagleTop


  Features

Eager to rejoin mates at front
CHANDIMANDIR, Aug 6 — "Losing comrades in action is a heart-rending experience but giving medical attention, consoling him and firing at the same time is also a part of the soldier's duty on the battlefield."

Eclipse visibility to be in narrow range
CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — The August 11 total eclipse of the sun would be visible from within a narrow corridor which passes through the eastern hemisphere.Top


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