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The Scottish Pipers team of Donny Doyale, Donald John Munro and Calum Fraser performs at the Chandigarh Club on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph
Cops clueless even after 5 days
ZIRAKPUR, Nov 10 — Even five days after the house of a Kashmiri migrant family in MS Enclave of Dhakauli village near here was robbed, the police is clueless about the gang of the miscreants and its hideout. The robbers had beaten up three family members and one of their guests and looted the house on November 6 midnight.
Police transfers cancelled

Work on link roads on
SAS NAGAR, Nov 10 — Under the integrated planning and development of the third phase sectors of Chandigarh, which partially fall in SAS Nagar, work on the missing road linkages between the two urban conglomerates has started.

Industrial Area in darkness
PANCHKULA, Nov 10 — The seven-hour power cut, from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then again from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m, has put residents of the Industrial Area to a lot of inconvenience.

LPG dealers turn encroachers
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10 — Certain LPG dealers in the city have turned encroachers, if four LPG godowns, running on the UT Engineering Department land in Mani Majra, is any indication.

From the courts Hospital and health

Ghastly ritual discontinued
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10—The ghastly ritual involving the crushing of a piglet by animals driven crazy amid loud beats of drums and shrieks of a large crowd which had been going on for many years was discontinued this time at Milk Colony, Dhanas, with the intervention of some animal lovers and officials of an animal rights organisation.

Relief for cyclone-
hit

PU reaching out to alumni
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10 — The Panjab University Alumni Association, which is perhaps the only university in the country to have amongst its alumni two Nobel laureates — Dr Hargobind Khurana and Dr Abdus Salam and, a former Prime Minister, Dr Inder Kumar Gujral — has embarked upon a massive membership drive.

Pilots remember the 'Flying Coffin'
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10 — Night flying for the first time across the Bay of Bengal...negotiating the treacherous peaks of the mighty Himalayas, careful not to stray into the Chinese territory...engine flame-outs...air dropping of supplies while undertaking relief operations during natural calamities...a snake in the cabin...
AFWWA introduces welfare scheme Squadron celebrates Raising Day

CBSE students in a quandary
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10 — Anxiety is writ large on the faces of hundreds of students who had got compartment in the results of the CBSE matriculation and plus two examinations and were unable to clear the same in their first chance in August.

Information on CD
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10 — The local telecom department yesterday went a step ahead in its drive to go hi-tech as it released its first-ever compact disc that will contain all directory information of the Chandigarh Telecom District.
S N I P P E T S
Harmony week from November 19

Public meeting on city planning



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Roadways driver arrested

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Fruit prices fluctuate


CBSE basketball tourney begins

Shooting star of YPS


Girls of Central School for Tibetan, Shimla, and GTB School, Sector 15, Chandigarh, in action on the opening day of the CBSE Basketball Tournament for girls at IS Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

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Illegal use of government land
SAS NAGAR, Nov 10 — Those authorised to legitimise power connections are themselves following unauthorised means to run their trade.

A haven for property dealers
NAYAGAON (KHARAR), Nov 10 — This sleepy village has become a haven for property dealers out to make a quick buck. Top


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