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Cong
fields Subash Chawla for Mayor’s post
Chandigarh, December 27
The Chandigarh Territorial Congress
Committee here today announced Subhash Chawla, Kuldeep Singh and Geeta
Chaudhary as its candidates for the posts of Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor
and Deputy Mayor, respectively in the annual elections scheduled for
January 1.
YEAR-END REVIEW: MC
A ‘taxing’
year for residents
Chandigarh, December 27
The Municipal Corporation of
Chandigarh (MCC) has given the city a moderate ‘taxing’ year
resorting to slapping user charges or hiking them, imposing the property
tax and introduction of paid parking.
YEAR-END REVIEW: CRIME
Rise in theft
cases kept police on its toes
SAS Nagar, December 27
The SAS Nagar police struggled
through the year trying to keep a tight leash on crime that showed an
upward shift. The saving grace, however, in the SAS Nagar sub-division
was the police recording a corresponding rise in the number of solved
cases this year.
NEW YEAR EVE PLANS
‘No special
plan for the day’
Chandigarh, December 27
Routine work throughout the day and
a relaxing evening at home — that’s how Chandigarh’s Inspector
General of Police Rajesh Kumar plans to move ahead into 2003. No special
plans as such for the New Year Eve, the officer asserts.
Barber
snips child’s ear
Chandigarh, December 27
The next time you take your child
to the barber, be sure you keep your fingers crossed while the barber
snips your child’s curly top. He might just snip your kid’s ears
too.
One-and-a-half-year-old Chaitanya with stitches on his right ear after it was cut during a haircut.
NCC R-DAY CAMP
 Ludhiana
girl to present bouquet to PM
Chandigarh, December 27
The honour to present a welcome
bouquet to the Prime Minister during the PM's rally at the NCC Republic
Day Camp (RDC), commencing at New Delhi next month, has gone to a cadet
from Ludhiana.
FIGHTING FIT: NCC cadets inspect their rifles on the eve of their departure for New Delhi to attend the Republic Day Camp in Chandigarh on Friday.
— A Tribune photograph
Religious
leaders to mobilise masses
Pulse Polio Immunisation
campaign
Chandigarh, December 27
For the first time, Health
officials of the Chandigarh Administration have got in touch with
religious leaders and heads for the implementation of their schemes and
projects.
Scheme
to build flats for slum-dwellers
Chandigarh, December 27
The National Federation of
Cooperative Housing Societies today met with the Chandigarh
Administration and presented a scheme to build 1,000 subsidised flats
for slum dwellers under the Government of India’s Ambedkar Awas Yojna.
Pind
Bachao Committee demands better deal
Chandigarh, December 27
Coinciding with the ongoing visit
of a contingent of the Institute of Town Planners of India to the city,
the Pind Bachao Committee — a body of villagers who were uprooted to
make-way for Chandigarh — said the town planners should not ignore the
genuine grievances of 40,000 inhabitants of the Union Territory.
Police
intensifies patrolling in Raipur Rani area
Panchkula, December 27
The police has intensified
patrolling in the Raipur Rani area following an attempt by an unruly
group to stop a Himachal Roadways bus a few days ago.
Freedom
Fighters’ pension
Gold
chain found
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