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Pvt college
teachers given UGC scales
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — The Chandigarh Administration has
granted revised University Grants Commission pay
scales to the teachers and principals of seven
privately affiliated aided colleges in the city.
The notification in this regard issued today,
ratifies and adopts the Punjab Government's
notification issued earlier on March 24, 1999.
Arts student tops with 88
pc
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — The top three positions of the CBSE
examination for the arts stream in the city have
been bagged by Shailja Sundriyal, Ojasvi Vardhan
and Aditi Gupta, respectively. While Shailja is a
student of Ishwar Singh Dev Samaj Senior
Secondary School, Sector 21, the other two
students are products of Government Senior
Secondary School, Sector 16.
Faulty printers hit work
Chandigarh,
June 3 — The frequent breakdown of printers
at the Registration and Licensing Branch of the
Sector 17 Estate Office have posed a lot of
problems, besides leading to harassment of the
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50
full-grown trees to be transplanted
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — More than 50 fully- grown up trees on
Dakshan Marg, which were once ordered to be axed to make
room for slip roads, may get a reprieve. The Chandigarh
Administration is now toying with the idea of physically
shifting these trees — transplant them — along
the roadside at the nearest available open spaces.
KV
road project abandoned midway
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — Students and teachers of the Sector 29
Kendriya Vidyalaya are at the receiving end as a project
for the construction of an approach road to the school is
hanging fire for about six months.
Govt
schools’ results up
CHANDIGARH,
June 3—Government schools have emerged on top,
bagging the first positions in the two faculties of
science and commerce in the CBSE Class XII results which
were declared yesterday. Also, the pass percentage of all
government schools, model schools and non-model schools,
taken together, has gone up to 79.01 from 75.4 for the
year 1997-98. Now, these schools are almost at par with
private schools which have attained a pass percentage of
79.48 this year.
CITCO
bans recruitment
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — The Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism
Development Corporation while shelving the plan to
privatise Hotel Mountview, has decided to ban fresh
recruitments.
Effigy of Pak
Army Chief hanged
Chandigarh,
June 3 — Activists of the local unit of the
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, hanged the effigy
of Gen Parvez Musharraf, Pakistan Army Chief, to
protest against the infiltration of mercenaries
and Army regulars in the Dras-Kargil sector, here
today. |
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha workers hang the
effigy of Gen Parvez Musharraf, Pakistan Army
Chief, to protest against the infiltration in the
Dras-Kargil sector, in Chandigarh on Thursday.
— A Tribune photograph |
Police
functioning to be computerised
Chandigarh,
June 3 — After having launched an informative
Internet site, the Chandigarh police is on the threshold
of having total computerised functioning, including
connectivity of police stations and having complete
record of all its employees on another computer that will
be based at the Police Headquarters in Sector 9.
Exhibition
with howlers
CHANDIGARH,
June 3 — The exhibition, 'The Sikh Heritage', on the
occasion of the tercentenary of the birth of the Khalsa,
which is at present continuing at the Sector 10
Government Museum and Art Gallery here, is not without
many howlers. 
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Dates manipulated to favour few?
