COMMUNITY

Unauthorised structures demolished
SAS Nagar, June 24
Enforcement staff of the Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation today carried out a special drive to check misuse of industrial premises for commercial activity.

STATE OF ROADS
Ugly face of a new road
Chandigarh, June 24
The stretch of the newly laid metalled road from the Sector 26 grain market to the Golf Course is in a deplorable condition on account of its uneven surface. The situation becomes worse when it rains, as water accumulates of water right up to the berms.

Parnab impresses in solo performance
Chandigarh, June 24
Nathuram Godse was not given a fair chance for representation of his thought and ideas in Indian history. This was argued in a commendable solo performance by Parnab Mukherjee at the ongoing Alternative Theatre Festival here today.

Camp on techniques to eliminate stress

Chandigarh, June 24 Fifty youngsters in the age group of 14 to 20 years learned techniques of eliminating stress from their lives at a six-day ‘young adult course’ camp organised by the Art of Living here. On the concluding day today, all the participants claimed that after attending the camp they gained more self-confidence.
Participants on the concluding day of the young adult camp organised by the Art of Living in Chandigarh on Sunday.

Regularise need-based alterations, CHB urged
Chandigarh, June 24
The fourth campaign meeting of the CHB Federation was organised by the Resident Welfare Association, Sector 40, here today. Mr B.P. Arora, convener of the association, urged the Chandigarh Housing Board to withdraw its threat of mass cancellation of flats and demolition of need-based additions and alterations after July 31.

Lok Shakti activists join BJP
Chandigarh, June 24
A number of activists of the Lok Shakti Party, led by its president, Mr Ravi Parkash Kansal, joined the BJP here today. Mr Subhash Dawrey, a member of the National Safai Karamcharis Commission, welcomed these activists into the BJP. 

Faulty phones irk users
SAS Nagar, June 24
Telephone subscribers routed to the main telephone exchange of the town through the Phase X exchange are a harassed lot as a number of telephones in Phases IX, X and XI, especially in the 214 series, are out of order.

Spotlight on drug abuse
Chandigarh, June 24
The city police will celebrate International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26 by organising street plays, a painting competition, a cycle rickshaw race and a skating competition.

Opium smuggler arrested
Dera Bassi, June 24
The Dera Bassi police has claimed to have arrested an inter-state smuggler and seized 5 kg of opium worth Rs 80,000 from his possession. Mr Harcharan Singh Sidhu, DSP, said Ramesh Kumar, the accused, was arrested from Jola village last night. 

House burgled

STATE OF EDUCATION
‘Value education, personality development need focus’
Chandigarh, June 24
Efforts on the part of the government to make education user-friendly are failing miserably, feels Ms Vimal Bhargav, Principal, Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45.

Improvement in college education stressed
Chandigarh, June 24
Higher education aims at intellectual growth and promotion of social coherence. This was stated by Prof S.L. Sharma, course director of the six-day managerial leadership programme for college principals, in its first technical session on higher education in a changing milieu.

Amar Deepika NIPM chief
Chandigarh, June 24
Ms Amar Deepika has become the chairperson of the National Institute of Personnel Management, Punjab Chapter, for the year 2001-2002. She along with an 11-member executive committee was formally installed in office at an annual general meeting of the NIPM here today.

DAV-10 boys bag top positions
Chandigarh, June 24
Students of DAV College, Sector 10, have done it again. After having brought laurels to the college in the medical and non-medical entrance tests, two BCA final-year students have bagged the top two positions of the university.

Kids display art skills

Panchkula, June 24 The four-week summer camp at Satluj Public school, Sector 2, concluded with a valedictory function here today. An exhibition of art and craft items prepared by the participants of the workshop was displayed. These included colourful tiles, murals, foil paintings, sketching, spray painting, block painting while decorated pots of all shapes and sizes, prepared by the participants, were also exhibited. Other activities in the summer camp included swimming, skating, teaching of spoken English and solving curriculum difficulties.

Art work by participants of the summer workshop at Satluj Public School, Sector 2, on display on the school premises in Panchkula on Sunday.

Impressive show by children
Chandigarh, June 24
A cultural function was presented by a number of children and teenagers from the city and its peripheral areas at the Nirankari Bhavan in Sector 30, here today.

HEALTH

Exhibition on healthy living

Chandigarh, June 24 An exhibition and a short play on healthy living were organised as a part of health education programme by the Command Hospital at the Manekshaw Auditorium at Chandi Mandir cantonment yesterday.
Ms Deep Surjit Singh, President, Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA), and Major-Gen Pratap Dayal, Commandant, Command Hospital, go round a health exhibition in Chandi Mandir on Saturday.

Skating title for Mehak

Chandigarh, June 24 Mehak Paul stole the limelight in road races and rink race II in the 11th City Skating Carnival organised by the Rollerbones at the skating rink, Sector 10, hear today. Mehak won the title in the below nine-year category in the girls’ section.
Winners of the 11th Skating Carnival held at the skating rink in Sector 10, here on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

Shuttlers allege unfair selection
Chandigarh, June 24
Javed T. Halim and Abantika Deka, shuttlers from Assam, were made to languish since June 11 at the Sector 42 sports hostel for no fault of theirs by the officials of the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) where a camp in preparation of the Asian Schools Badminton Championship to be held in Malaysia from July 9 was in progress.