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TRIBUNE VIGIL
Works of art or heaps of garbage? |
Chandigarh, December 5
It is very difficult to conceive of art being denigrated right under the nose of those meant to promote and preserve it. But just as many distasteful things happen simply because no one checks or prevents them, this one is
happening too.
Broken pieces of sculptures, created by students, are lying dumped in the backyard of Chandigarh’s Sector 10 Government College of Art campus. |
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City goes ‘dry’ from today
Chandigarh, December 5
Lovers of liquor will have to hold on to their tastes for a period of three days starting from Thursday as the city will go ‘dry’ for the ensuing municipal elections.
Dry days mean no liquor will be available at the vends. Already all
the main clubs in the city like the Chandigarh Club, Golf Club, Press
Club and the Golf Range among other places have put up notices for
their members saying no liquor will be served.
House of Giani’s
son-in-law burgled
Chandigarh, December 5
Thieves reportedly broke into the house of former President of India late Giani Zail Singh's son-in-law, Mr Surinder Singh Virdi, in Sector 16 and took away items worth Rs 30,000 this afternoon.
YOUNG
VOICE
A fabric freak
PLAYING with fabrics is what ticks with Ruchika Lamba, a textile designer in the offing. A final year student of the Textile Designing course from the National Institute of Fashion Designing, Ruchika aspires to be a successful designer.

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RUN-UP
TO MC POLL
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BJP manifesto promises facilities |
Chandigarh, December 5
The BJP today withdrew its five-year-old promise of “a municipal corporation without any tax” that resulted in the local body being deprived of funds to cater to the infrastructural needs of a city which is under pressure of population influx.
Mr O.P. Kohli, national secretary of the BJP, releases the party manifesto for the Municipal Corporation elections in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Dhawan favours fiscal autonomy for MCC
Chandigarh, December 5
The Chandigarh Vikas Manch led by former Union Minister Harmohan Dhawan here today released a ‘’list of commitments’’ denouncing manifestoes of the parties and promises made in them which are kept unfulfilled.

Ballot boxes being carried to the various polling stations for the forthcoming municipal corporation elections in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph
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EC issues directions before poll
Chandigarh, December 5
Vehicles going out of the city or entering it from December 6 evening will be subjected to intensive checking as per a direction of the Election Commission.
The measure is being taken to prevent smuggling of arms, liquor and ‘’bad elements’’ who could disturb the December 8 municipal polls, an EC spokesman said.
‘I’m here to serve
my people’
Chandigarh, December 5
“I am not a politician nor will I become one in my life time. I am in the fray for the Municipal Corporation elections to serve the people of my ward”, announced Mrs Neeru Amar Manchanda, who is contesting from Ward 2 comprising Sectors 12, 14 and 15.
‘Bansal did not utilise funds’
Chandigarh, December 5
Chief Minister of Uttaranchal Bhagat Singh Kushyari today appealed to the people of Chandigarh to vote for the BJP in the forthcoming Municipal Corporation elections.
Addressing a gathering here, Mr Kushyari said the people of Uttaranchal had been voting for the BJP since 1991.
Hooda campaigns
in city
Chandigarh, December 5
The Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee President, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, today campaigned for the party candidates in Mani Majra, Sector 29 and Ram Darbar.
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