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Baba's animals
find home in zoo
CHHAT
BIR (Patiala), June 14 — Chhatbir Zoo here
has become a second abode for as many as 14
animals, including a full-grown elephant, for the
past about 15 days when these animals were
brought here after being seized by the Punjab
Wildlife Department from the possession of a
saint of Ludhiana district.Black bucks, blue
bulls, sambhar and a female elephant were sent to
the zoo about 10 days back on 'sapurdari basis'. |
45-year-old
female elephant Rajkali (right), a new addition
to Chhat Bir Zoo, frolicks in a pond with a
companion at the zoo on Monday afternoon. —
Tribune photo by Karam Singh |
Rakesh Singh is new Finance
Secretary
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — Mr Rakesh Singh, an IAS officer of the
Punjab cadre belonging to the 1978 batch, today took over
as Finance Secretary, Chandigarh Administration, on
deputation from Punjab for a period of two years.
‘Officials can remove
encroachments’
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — The controversy regarding the removal of
encroachments from the road berms has taken a new turn
with the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of
Chandigarh, Mr SK Gathwal, ordering that it was well
within the rights of the officials to remove the
encroachments.
BBA, BCA tests on June 27
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — The entrance test for admission to the
Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of
Computer Applications at affiliated colleges in
Chandigarh and Punjab for the session 1999-2000 will be
conducted by Panjab University on June 27.
Rush causes chaos at VDS centres
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — As many as 20,000 consumers submitted
applications to the UT Electricity Department to claim
benefits under the simplified Voluntary Disclosure Scheme
till late in the evening today.
Challaned for
tints on car pane
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — A local resident was challaned for
putting black tinted films of the window panes of
his car even as the Chandigarh Traffic Police has
denied having issued any orders to challan in
this regard. |
Two city boys for physics Olympiad
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — Two city boys, Mayank Rawat and Amit
Agarwal, have done Chandigarh proud. They have been
selected as part of the five-member Indian team for the
International Physics Olympiad to be held at Padua,
Italy, in July, according to Mr U.S.Kushwaha, General
Secretary of the Indian Association of Physics Teachers.
Women cops as duty officers
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — Women police officials will be now be
deployed as duty officers in police stations to deal with
the members of the public who come to report.
Nagar
kirtan marks martyrdom day
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — A colourful nagar kirtan
procession was organised here today to mark the
martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev.650 admission forms sold
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — About 650 admission forms for
class XI in non-medical and medical streams of
DAV College were sold here today.
Five booked for
abducting girl
PANCHKULA,
June 14 — Five jhuggi dwellers, including
two women of Rajiv Colony here, have been booked
by the police for being allegedly involved in a
nine-month-old case of abduction of a 15 year-old
girl and keeping her in illegal confinement for
two days.
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Clarification
on CSD sales
CHANDIGARH,
June 14 — A spokesman of the 3 BRD CSD today
clarified that all items sold through the CSD were as per
the policy of Air Headquarters and the Ministry of
Defence.
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