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Four
High Court Judges sworn in
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana
High Court, Mr Justice A.B. Saharya, today administered
oath to four new Judges at a simple ceremony on the High
Court premises.
Teachers adopt 58
girls
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — After the successful take off of
projects like ‘Aasra’ and ‘Bori se
Basta’, Government High School, Sector 40,
today, launched ‘Chalo Beti School’, a
project which will work for the uplift and
education of the girl child from the lowest
strata of society. Sukhna Lake desilting
Machinery
from Punjab yet to come'
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — While 'shramdan' is drawing a
lukewarm response from city residents, ongoing
mechanical desiltation at Sukhna Lake, is yet to
gain momentum as the UT Engineering Department is
waiting for machinery from the Punjab Flood
Control Department.
Mechanical
desilting in progress
at the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh
on Friday. — A Tribune photograph
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| Controversy |
IAS
vs IPS row behind uneasy calm |
| Chandigarh, May 14 —
The current controversy between the Chandigarh
Administration and the Chandigarh police is
gradually turning into an IAS vs IPS conflict.
The Police Rules provide for superiority and
control of civil magistracy over the police.
Interventions were just:
Sagar
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — "There was no interference but
justifiable intervention of the Administration in
the functioning of the police during my tenure as
Adviser to the Administrator," says Mr
Jagdish Sagar.
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Traffic blocked for two
hours
PANCHKULA,
May 14 — Vehicular traffic on the
Barwala-Naraingarh road, about 20 km from here,
remained suspended for about two hours today when
activists of the Indian National Lok Dal led by
the party’s General Secretary, Mr Pradeep
Choudhry, blocked the road in protest against
unsatisfactory and inadequate power supply in the
area. |
| UFOs
or...? |
| CHANDIGARH, May 14 —
The Tribune office received phone calls
from different parts of the city with
residents claiming to have seen some
unidentified flying objects in the city
skies at around midnight today. |
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Mahavir
Singh heads CHB
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — Dr Mahavir Singh, a Haryana-cadre officer
of the 1989 batch of the IAS , will be the new Chief
Executive Officer of Chandigarh Housing Board. His
appointment has been made against a vacant post.
DGPs
discuss fire, safety, security
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — The Punjab police is planning the
computerisation of all police stations under a scheme of
the National Crime Records Bureau, New Delhi, the
Director-General of Police (DGP), Punjab, Mr Sarbjit
Singh, said here today.
‘No
Cong ticket’ for tainted
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — The “Congress must scrupulously eschew
pre or post poll alliances with the smaller parties whose
main objective is to solely serve a region, or a caste or
its leader’s self-interest at the cost of the
country,” says Mr B L Bansal, General Secretary of
the People’s Action Front (Punjab), Chandigarh.
Syndicate
meeting changed for Chugh?
CHANDIGARH,
May 14 — The rescheduling of the Syndicate meeting
and delay in the appointment of the three deans is
stirring a hornet's nest at Panjab University with the
Dean University Instruction handling work in the absence
of the appointments and the Students Council unhappy with
the way its programmes are being handled.
Put
Punjab on IT global map: experts
SAS
NAGAR, May 14 — A three-day national conference on
Information Technology for Social Development and
Productivity was inaugurated by Mr Ravindra Gupta,
Secretary to the Government of India, Department of
Electronics, at the CEDTI here today.
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"Coalition
politics to continue"
