READERS WRITE
‘Release DA to pensioners’
Even though the Government of India had released DA instalment for January, 2002, to its employees and pensioners, the Haryana Government has not yet followed suit.
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Tasty tea and pakora
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ISKCON temple
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Loudspeaker menace
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No HUDA refund
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Back on the roads
‘Involve moderates in resolving Ayodhya issue’
Chandigarh, April 30
The Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nishchalanand Saraswati here today suggested engaging Sonia Gandhi and moderate and nationalist Muslims, “whose number overwhelms confrontationists”, in building the Ram temple at Ayodhya, a major cause of the Hindu-Muslim conflict.

BALLOONING HOPES: A rare moment of tranquility for two balloon sellers at the Sukhna Lake
in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma |
BJP favours legal
rehabilitation
Chandigarh, April 30
The BJP, which opposed the April 17 demolition of houses and shops in Colony No. 5, today opposed their ‘’unauthorised rehabilitation by the Congress Mayor’’.
Fire devours sugarcane crop
Lalru, April 30
Standing sugarcane crop over 14 acres of land was destroyed in a major fire that broke out in the fields near Lalru village this evening.
Road workers sit in dharna
Chandigarh, April 30
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh Road Workers Union today sat in dharna at Manimajra near MC stores to prepare for the May 8 rally in front of the Commissioner’s and Chief Engineer’s office.
Minor fire near PU hostel
Chandigarh, April 30
A fire broke out in bushes near Hostel Number 3 of the Panjab University here today. Two fire tenders from Sector 11 and 17 contained the fire in a half-an-hour operation and prevented the fire from reaching the hostel.
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A securityman tries to put off a fire that broke out at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo Parvesh Chauhan |
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