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Zirakpur
to have first taste of octroi
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — The residents of the newly created nagar
panchayat at Zirakpur will soon have the first taste of
municipal taxes with the levying of octroi on almost all
articles of food and drinks, tobacco, alcoholic drinks
and other intoxicants as notified by the Punjab
Government.
Traffic chaos near school
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — It was a traffic chaos this
morning. Parents and guardians had a trying time
dropping their wards at St Stephen’s School
in Sector 45. The reason: the front gates of the
school opening out on to the main road had been
sealed as per a notification of the Chandigarh
Administration. |
Students of
St Stephen’s School help the police in
checking traffic near the school entrance in
Chandigarh’s Sector 45 on Monday. —
Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
PCR cops to be shifted
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — The functioning of the police control room
is being revamped and all the personnel who have served
for more than six years will be shifted to the various
police stations in the city.
Luxury train inaugural runs in
Shimla hills start
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — Inaugural runs of the much-awaited luxury
train in the Shimla hills have started. Modelled on the
lines of the world famous “Palace On Wheels”,
running on the popular tourist circuit in Rajasthan and
Uttar Pradesh, the train will start its regular runs from
Delhi on December 10.
PUDA puts off drive against hedges
SAS NAGAR,
Oct 25 — In a surprise move the local estate office
of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority
has deferred its drive to remove hedges, fences, grills
and tow walls raised by residents in front of their
houses in the township for at least two weeks.
Stenography students boycott
classes
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — Students of the stenography course in
Government Central Crafts Institute, Sector 11, today
boycotted their classes and observed strike to protest
against the extension in the timings of the teaching
schedule from 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. instead of 8.30 a.m. to
1 p.m.
'Exit polls
represent vested interests'
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — Prof Pradeep Kumar of Department of
Political Science, PU, denounced market-driven
polls including exit polls as representing vested
interests and narrow sections of society like
urban educated classes, mostly males and those
belonging to particular ethnic or communal
groups. |
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Polio
drive continues
CHANDIGARH,
Oct 25 — On the second day of the first phase of the
four-phased Intensified Pulse-Polio Immunisation
1999-2000, the Health Department of the UT and the
Chandigarh Administration today carried out a
door-to-door immunisation programme to cover all those
children in the age group of zero to five, who had not
made it to the polio-immunisation booths yesterday.
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