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CONTAMINATED WATER
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Book guilty for negligence: parties
Chandigarh, July 24
The Samajwadi Party and the Janata Party here today demanded the registration of a case against officials whose negligence had endangered the lives of people in Sector 52 and resignation of the Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi.
Samajwadi Party President Shivi Jaiswal (extreme left) addresses a press conference to demand the registration of a case against MC officials and the resignation of Mayor Lalit Joshi, in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Hunger looms large
after diarrhoea
Chandigarh, July 24
Ram Raj, Brijpal, Chhotelal and Pashupati all daily wagers, lie in
unrest in the hospital after being afflicted by diarrhoea recently
thinking about family’s insufficient food reserves to keep the
kitchen fire burning.
Session on gender sensitisation
Panchkula, July 24
The Director-General of Police, Haryana, Mr M.S. Malik, has called for more public cooperation for the implementation of laws to check crime against women so as to enable the police to eradicate discrimination against women.
Models meet Prayaas inmates
Chandigarh, July 24
Femina Miss India Shruti Sharma, Miss India Asia Pacific M. Thiagrajan and Gladrags super model Simran Sachdeva today met physically challenged children at Prayaas — a rehabilitation centre for handicapped children — in Sector 38 here.
Femina Miss India World Shruti Sharma interacts with physically-challenged children at Prayaas in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
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Nine-month-old cremated
Chandigarh, July 24
The last rites of nine-month-old child, Yuvraj
Sehgal, who had died yesterday under mysterious circumstances at a creche in Sector 19, were preformed here today. A post-mortem has been performed on the body and the report is awaited.
Yuvraj Sehgal, who died at a creche in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
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Engineering futuristic strategy for Zee
Chandigarh, July 24
With a career spanning over 15 years in the field of marketing, communications and advertising, Sandeep Goyal is finally into a role which matches his calibre perfectly. At 39, this city-based MBA graduate from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, is now carving a futuristic strategy for Zee Telefilms, which he is heading as the Chief Executive Officer, Group Broadcasting.
EATING OUT
Exotic cuisines from lands far away
Chandigarh
At times, you are in the mood to try out new cuisines, and dishes to get a flavour of lands far away and unseen; when you don’t mind experimenting with savouries read about in magazines or novels even though you know your taste buds might not quite take to the strange concoctions, if not revolt. Well, head for Cinnamon Roof, Sector 17, (near KC Theatre) at such times.
Capturing the sky with camera
Chandigarh, July 24
Being one of the few astrophotographers in the country, it is his passion for this science that made 39-year-old Pradeep Mahajan set up his own observatory, The Northern Cross, at his shop in the city.
4th draughtsmen’s
conference begins
Chandigarh, July 24
The fourth All-India Conference of Draughtsmen’s ( Cartographic ) Association, Survey of India, was inaugurated at the Survey of India complex here today. Delegates from 11 branches spread over the country are participating in the three-day meeting.
Meat market site resented
Chandigarh, July 24
A meat market at the entry of a school may sound preposterous. Not so to the decision-makers of the city who decided to shift the meat market to this alternative location temporarily.
The pavement right in front of Government Girls Senior Secondary
School (GGSS) in Sector 18 was allotted to the meat market for
approximately six months, a fact resented not only by the staff
and students of the school but the butchers as well.
The meat market earmarked in front of the GGSSS-18, Chandigarh, evoked a strong protest from the staff and students of the school.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Another baby girl in Bal Nikatan lap
Panchkula, July 24
A baby girl, barely a few hours old, was abandoned at Bal Niketan here this evening. The child had not even been bathed when it was left in the crib at the gate of Bal Niketan.
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