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French globetrotter on wheels
Chandigarh, July 10
He’s bitten by the travel bug and it is taking him places. Literally. Twenty-six year-old Frenchman Christopher Huggins is on a roll, riding around the world on a recumbent bicycle, powered with the desire to explore the unexplored.
Frenchman Christopher Huggina pedals through the rain in Chandigarh on Sunday.
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Better civic amenities sought for Ind Area
Panchkula, July 10
The Panchkula Industrial Association has demanded better civic amenities in the Industrial Area here. According to members of the association the poor civic amenities in Industrial Area were driving the industry to the neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Army introduces computer software packages
Chandigarh, July 10
Disseminating the use of information technology (IT) for management of day-to-day activities down to the lowest echelon, the Army has introduced a range of computer software packages for utilisation at the unit level.
Engineers’ Regiment being reorganised
Chandigarh, July 10
The army’s Corps of Engineers is being reorganised and several new units are being raised to fill in existing gaps in the field. This includes raising three full-fledged regiments and several independent squadrons.
Golden hue new rage in hair fashion: Sandra
Chandigarh, July 10
Internationally acclaimed stylist and consultant, Sandra Brey is the third generation into a family of hair-dressers. “My grandmother, my mother, my father, my brother....we are all into it,’’ informs Brey who conducted a staff training programme on latest trends in hair cuts and colour at Tress Lounge in the city.
Devoted to the cause of women
Chandigarh, July 10
In times when the lure of greener pastures takes most people away from their roots not only physically but also mentally persons like Surjit Kaur Dhaliwal who are imbued with a spirit to ameliorate the lot of their less previleged brethren come as a whiff of fresh air.
Irked residents storm ‘Bijli kendra’
Panchkula, July 10
Irate residents of Sector 4 forced their entry into the Bijli Suvidha Kendra — a complaint cell outsourced to a private contractor by Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam- last night, and manhandled the staff. With Sector 4 and 21 without power supply for several hours yesterday, and no power personnel coming over to help them, they decided to take the matter in their own hands.
Slogans raised against PSEB
Chandigarh, July 10
Irritated over erratic power supply, residents of Mullanpur Garibdass village blocked the Chandigarh- Mullanpur road for
over two hours raising slogans against the Punjab State Electricity Board.
Probe into spending of funds sought
Panchkula, July 10
The Citizens Welfare Association has demanded a thorough probe into the alleged bungling of funds by the committees formed for maintenance of parks.
BJP councillors not quizzed for supporting Cong candidate
Panchkula, July 10
The BJP councillor from Sector 6, Mr V.K. Sood, said yesterday that no senior state BJP leader had questioned him, or the other two BJP councillors on their role in electing the Municipal Council president.
Over 120 panches, sarpanches attend workshop
Chandigarh, July 10
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Over 120 panches, sarpanches and progressive farmers from Haryana and Himachal Pradesh attended a one-day
workshop on integrated village development at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and
Research in Sector 26 here today.
Dr O.P. Bajpai, Director of the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), felicitates the institute Chairperson, Ms Rajesh Kumari, during a workshop in Chandigarh on Sunday.
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Youth Cong to send ration for Gujarat, MP flood victims
Chandigarh, July 10
The Youth Congress is collecting dry ration like rice, pulses, sugar, salt, tea leaves, biscuits and milk powder for flood victims of Gujarat and eastern Madhya Pradesh. This was stated by the president of the All-India Youth Congress, Mr Ashok Tanwar, while speaking to activists of the party at the Punjab Congress Bhavan here today.
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Ms
Sheetal Guleria, senior research fellow, Centre for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) of the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, PU, has
recently presented a research work on steroidal anti-cancer agents entitled “Synthesis
of some 16E-arylidenosteroidal derivates as potential cytotoxic agents at the
Sixth Tetrahedron Symposium being organised by Elsevier Sciences at Bordeaux,
France.
The
literary creations of the octogenarian poet Kedar Nath Kedar epitomise the pious
spirit of ‘love’ in all its manifestations which he reiterates is the
essence of life. Despite being at variance with his profession during his
three-decade sojourn in Kuwait, the UK and USA, the poet in him remained alive
to the essential virtues and magnanimity of a human , which shaped his
sensibilities and persona to be the most popular poet among the masses and the
classes in Kuwait.
