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Meeting on streamlining electoral process held
Chandigarh, March 1
All complaints of genuine voters have to be heard and complainants may be asked to fill the requisite forms and after proper verification and hearing, if found in order, they should be
enranchised, the Returning Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar told all Assistant Election Returning Officers
(AEROs) at a meeting here. The meeting was held to streamline the electoral process.
Follow-up
Barn owl flies back to its habitat
Chandigarh, March 1
After a two-day sojourn in the City Beautiful, the golden-hued barn owl today went back to its surroundings. Rescued by a shopkeeper in Sector 22 yesterday, the owl had arrested the attention of almost every visitor to the shopping area. It was later taken away by UT Wildlife Department authorities, who kept it at the main gate of the Nepali Forest Range until finally releasing it today.
Eco Notes
From barren to fertile fields
Chandigarh-based Central Soil and Water Conservation
Research and Training Institute has started a pilot project on a
tributary of the Tangri river near Narayanpur village in Raipur
Rani sub-tehsil to restore fields affected by mass erosion.
One of the gabion spurs
constructed by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research
and Training Institute, Chandigarh, on a tributary of the Tangri
river in the Narayanpur village area to check rainy season
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Fauji Beat
Patrolling LoC indispensable
A lot has been written and said about the failure of our intelligence in the Kargil sector in 1998-99. But for this failure the enemy, it is said, could not occupied some of our posts on the LoC. While this cannot be denied, the question that a battalion commander must ask himself is: “ How could the enemy come and occupy a post in his area of responsibility if he was awake?”
A patrol party along the LoC in
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Governor releases
Kriti Puri’s book
Chandigarh, March 1
The book ‘ Kian and the Secret of Track one’ by 16-year-old Kriti Puri was formally released today by the Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Justice O.P. Verma (retd) at the UT Secretariat.
Resentment among Dera Bassi truckers
Dera Bassi, March 1
Resentment prevails among members of the Dera Bassi Truck Union, after a six-member committee, constituted by the Sub Divisional Magistrate, deleted names of about 40 truckers from the voter list.
APS Corps celebrates 32nd anniversary
Chandigarh, March 1
The Army Postal Service (APS) Corps celebrated its 32nd anniversary in Chandi Mandir military station, near here, today. Besides organising a barakhana for all serving APS personnel and ex-soldiers of the Corps stationed in Chandigarh and its vicinity, a tea party was hosted for officers in the Western Command, a
statement issued here said.
Readers Write
Fine heavy vehicles for pollution
I happened to travel by my own Maruti-800 car from Delhi to Panchkula on 17-2-2004. As soon as I entered Haryana, there was a police checking party, a few kilometres away from the Delhi-Haryana border. The police was stopping practically all the cars for checking of their documents. Accordingly, I, too, was asked to stop for a check. All my documents were complete, except the “pollution control check certificate”, which was about 11 months old.
Governor serves langar to PGI patients’ attendants
Chandigarh, March 1
Punjab Governor-cum-UT Administrator Justice O.P. Verma today served langar to the attendants of patients admitted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here.
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