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Rs
2.2 cr grant for rehabilitating scavengers
Panchkula, January 3
The Central Government has released
Rs 2.2 crore for rehabilitating and liberating the scavengers and their
dependents from their hereditary occupation of manually removing night
soil and filth and engage in alternative occupations.
Migratory birds from across the seven seas enjoy the cool tranquillity in the Chhat Bir zoo, near
Chandigarh, on Thursday. — Photo Karam Singh |
First
official MCC meeting on Jan 29
Chandigarh, January 3
The first regular meeting of the
newly elected Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh is likely to be held
on January 29 as per an earlier tradition set by the BJP-dominated last
House.
KNOW YOUR COUNCILLORS
Committed to
myriad causes
MS Lalit Joshi, the new
city Mayor, has politics and social work in her blood, as her father was
a freedom fighter associated with Dr Radhakrishnan, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru and Dr Rajendra Prasad. Ms Joshi, who is also the Mahila Congress
president of the UT and an AICC member from UT, began her political
career with the Congress in 1979.
SAS
Nagar council fails to check defacement
SAS Nagar, January 3
The municipal council here has
hardly taken any action against the increasing number of individuals and
establishments defacing public property with impunity. According to the
figures available with the council yesterday, only six notices have been
given and two challans filed against offenders since April last year.
Residents
boycott meeting with SDM on cable rates
Panchkula, January 3
The cable war in the township is
again hot with the representatives of various residents welfare
associations today refusing to attend a meeting called by the SDM to
resolve the issue of hike in cable rates.
Societies
resent delay in allotment letters
Chandigarh, January 3
A delegation of Chandigarh State
Federation of Cooperative House Building Societies Limited held a
meeting with Mr Pawan Bansal, MP, and informed him that the
Administration had not issued allotment letters to cooperative housing
societies despite promises during the past few months.
Residents
told to furnish details of tenants
Panchkula, January 3
The Administration today invoked
the provisions under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Act, making
it mandatory for residents to furnish all details of their tenants to
the nearest police stations/police posts within 15 days.
Bank,
LIC employees threaten agitation
Chandigarh, January 3
Opposing the decision of imposition
of paid parking in Bank Square, employees of banks, LIC and other
financial institutions working in the area have threatened to start
agitation in case the decision is not withdrawn.
Exhibition
on spiritual empowerment
Chandigarh, January 3
A three-day spiritualistic
women empowerment exhibition by the Rajyog Centre, Brahmakumaris
Vishvavidyalya Mission, Sector 21, was inaugurated by the UT
Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, in Sector 17 here today.
A Brahmkumari explains a poster to the visitors at an exhibition on spiritual empowerment in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Thursday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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‘Modelling
gives me pleasure’
NITIN SOOD is a man with a
strong head that compliments his rugged good looks. Driven by a passion
to make it big in the world of modelling, Nitin is all set to dazzle on
the silver screen and set the ramp in fire.
Canadian
MP for Indo-Pak talks
Chandigarh, January 3
Mr Gurmant Grewal, MP and
Canada’s official Oppositions’ Foreign Affairs critic for Asia and
Pacific, currently on a visit to India, has urged the leadership of
India and Pakistan to make peace through dialogue and restrain from any
military action.
Residents
sore over house tax policy
Panchkula, January 3
Resentment prevails among residents
over the new house tax policy, which they allege is unconstitutional. A
number of representatives from various residents’ welfare associations
today met the Executive Officer of the Municipal Council and expressed
their resentment over the levying of tax at the present rate.
Fresh
cleanliness drive in city
Chandigarh, January 3
The new team of Mayor Lalit Joshi,
Senior Deputy Mayor Surinder Singh and Deputy Mayor Balraj Singh today
directed the officials of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh to
immediately clean the city.
Body
found
Chandigarh, January 3
The police discovered the body of
an unidentified man in his middle thirties from the forest adjoining
Bhinder Farms on the Chandigarh-Zirakpur road this afternoon. The body
has a wound believed to be inflicted with some sharp edged weapon in the
neck.
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