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Summer camps with a difference
Chandigarh, April 23
The summer of 2006 will be sizzling with activity for city schoolchildren. For a rollicking summer break city schools and some clubs are rolling out packages of fun-packed activities which would include various types of workshops and crash courses to give children hands-on training in different fields.
YPS students bring home Brecht’s theme
Chandigarh, April 23
Under the direction of Harinder Sandhu YPS students today presented Bertolt Brecht’s play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”.
Employing the usual alienation effect, so typical of all Brecht plays, the director brought home the theme of justice and equality in more than convincing way.
Protesting teachers medically examined
Chandigarh, April 23
A team of doctors examined the two members of the Unemployed Elementary Teachers Union who are on a fast unto death in Sector 17 at the place of there agitation here today.
A doctor examines Mr Kiran Kumar, an unemployed elementary teacher, who is on a fast in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Sunday. |
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Thousands appear for railway exam
Chandigarh, April 23
Thousands of candidates appeared for the railway recruitment examinations being conducted for the post of commercial/traffic inspectors in the city today. The exam was conducted at over 100 centers in the city, Panchkula and Mohali.
Candidates from different parts of the country, who came to appear for the railway test, rush to board a train at
Chandigarh Railway Station on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan |
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Scouts’ final testing over
Chandigarh, April 23
The fourth day of the Rashtrapati Award Testing Camp for Scouts- 2005, being conducted at KV, Sector 31,
began with yog asanas aiming to prevent cervical, asthma and allergy disorders.
Tiny tots have fun
Mohali, April 23
It was a day of hilarious moments for the tiny tots of Gian Jyoti Public School, when the bubbly and enthusiastic nursery and pre-nursery students defied the summer heat by jumping into a small swimming pool in the school campus to turn the activity day meaningful and enjoyable.
S.D. School annual function
Chandigarh, April 23
The annual prize distribution function of Pt Mohan Lal S.D. Public School was held at Sector 19 here today.
The function was inaugurated by the president of the Pt Mohan Lal S.D.
Educational Society, Mr K.K. Sharma.
Students of S.D. Public School, Sector 19, Chandigarh, present bhangra at their annual function on Sunday.
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College staff felicitated
Chandigarh, April 23
The Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, celebrated Employer-Employee Day with fervor. Ms Satyawati, chairperson of the college, garlanded all employees of the college and presented a token of appreciation to all of them.
Workshop ends
Chandigarh, April 23
The robotics workshop “roboIET” organised by the Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Bhaddal, from April 19 concluded, a press note said here yesterday.
Cigarette firm to sue NGO
Chandigarh, April 23
Godfrey Philips India Limited has decided to take legal recourse against an NGO for its alleged “slanderous campaign” against the company.
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Old boys from Forman Christian College, Lahore, are in India in search
of their lost friends. Not on easy mission though, they are firm in
their hope that the alma mater will facilitate revival of relations
that have long remained hidden behind the veil of time.
Chandigarh, April 23
Mr FS Nagra was elected president of the Commercial Welfare Association (Godown Area), Zirakpur, for the fifth consecutive term here yesterday.
The annual general meeting of the association also authorised Mr Nagra to explore the possibility of filing a public interest litigation in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against violations of the building bylaws by certain builders in the township, allegedly in connivance with the nagar panchayat authorities.
Chandigarh, April 23
