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Mayor faces heavy flak; MCC house adjourned
Chandigarh, April 25
An aggressive BJP-SAD opposition once again stalled the proceedings of a crucial meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh which had to be finally adjourned by the Mayor without transacting any business today.

Congress councillor Satinder Dhawan (extreme left) stages a walkout in protest against the BJP-SAD councillors stalling the proceedings of the MCC House in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — Photo by Manoj Mahajan

Police updating list of militants
Chandigarh, April 25
Following the resurfacing of the dreaded terrorists, Wassan Singh Zaffarwal and Mukhtiar Singh Mukha, in the city recently, the UT police has begun an exercise in earnest to update its database regarding former Punjab militants, who are suspected to visit the city in the coming days.

Move on house tax rejected
SAS Nagar, April 25
The Local Government Department has rejected a proposal of the local Municipal Council to levy house tax on commercial property here. The civic body has reportedly been told not to impose the tax for the next five years.

Punjabi gets its due in UT
Chandigarh, April 25
In a significant decision, the Chandigarh Administration has decided that all signboards on roads, in public offices and public places will be written in Punjabi apart from English and Hindi. Besides, all correspondence in Punjabi will be entertained in all UT offices.

COMMUNITY

MC fails to evict roadside vendors
SAS Nagar, April 25
It is business as usual for a large number of roadside sellers all over the town despite the Municipal Council’s drive to curb the menace.

Disadvantaged citizens
Bill for phone that never was
Chandigarh, April 25
Officials of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) are threatening a 79-year-old resident of the city that an FIR will be registered against him if he does not pay a pending bill. However, the bill is for a period when the man did not even have a telephone.

Dhawan assails ‘obstructionists’
Chandigarh, April 25
A former Union Minister, Mr Harmohan Dhawan, today warned that the activists of the Chandigarh Vikas Manch would gherao the houses of those councillors who were stalling the proceedings of the House of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC).

CTU employees stage dharna
Chandigarh, April 25
Hundreds of employees of the Joint Action Committee of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking staged dharna at the ISBT against the introduction of privatisation in the CTU. The employees have also started indefinite chain fast.

Villagers support removal of earth
SAS Nagar, April 25
Even as the local Mining Department began the exercise to probe in the issue of removal of earth illegally from fields in Kambali, Dharamgarh and Kormajra villages, land holders lamented that their land was hardly fertile.

• Man withdraws suicide note
• Power failure

FENG SHUI TIPS
Feng Shui is easy to use
The most attractive phase of Feng Shui is its simplicity and the philosophy behind it. The origin of Feng Shui dates back to four thousand years. Its priniciples on arranging living places to attract balanced and pure energies are very simple once you understand them. The phases of good and bad luck can be reversed if one studies the secrets of the earth’s energies and knows how to manipulate them.

CRIME

Alleged rapist arrested
Chandigarh, April 25
The police has caught a 22-year-old youth after he had allegedly raped his landlady in Burail village early this morning.

Police fails to trace car owner
Chandigarh, April 25
The police is on the trail of the occupants of a Lancer car who fired a shot in the air in Sector 40 late last night following a minor altercation with two other car-borne youths.

2 teenagers held in theft cases
Chandigarh, April 25
The Mani majra police has arrested two teenagers responsible for at least three cases of burglary and theft in different parts of Mani Majra over the past two months.