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Beer prices up despite Excise Dept directives
Chandigarh, July 26
Companies manufacturing different brands of beer are not going by directives of the UT Excise Department on the issue of increasing prices of beer.
Despite directives of the UT Excise Department to representatives of the
companies not to sell beer at increased rates.
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A car smashed badly by a tree uprooted by incessant rain at Sector 8 parking in Chandigarh on
Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik
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Cheaper cab service on the anvil
Chandigarh, July 26
Chandigarh Administration is considering a cheaper taxi service in the city. New cab service will provide for non-AC cars on the city roads and the adjoining townships of Mohali and Panchkula.
Bid to whisk away transporter
Panchkula, July 26
There was high drama at the busy Sector 11 market here this evening. Two groups of unidentified youths, reportedly accompanied by a cop, reached here in a Qualis and a
Tavera.
City film producer in race for Mobile Film Makers Award
Chandigarh, July 26
Film producer and director from Chandigarh Sunil Babbar has reached the semifinals of the International Mobile Film Makers Award-2006, which was organised by Discovery TV and Nokia Mobiles in Singapore recently.
MC POLL
Women out to make a mark
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Mohali, July 26
Women are out to make a mark in the election arena with 46 contesting the municipal elections scheduled to be held in the town on July 30. A total of 125 candidates are in the fray for the civic body polls.
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G.K. Nanda Amteshwar Kaur
Indu Bhanot Baljit Kaur
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A keen contest in the offing
Mohali, July 26
All eyes are focused on the keen contest in ward 15 between the former president of the Municipal Council and a candidate backed by a group of Opposition members in the previous civic body.
While Mr Kulwant Singh, former council president, who had won the civic body
elections for two consecutive terms earlier, is quite confident of his position
in his ward during the elections, Mr Gurnam Bindra Singh said that he was also
getting a very good response from voters.
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Gurnam Singh Bindra
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MC, HUDA apathy ‘stinks’
Garbage dumping compounds problem
Panchkula, July 26
Even after over five years of its formation the Panchkula Municipal Council has failed to earmark a site for dumping waste in the city.
Employees of Panchkula Municipal Council dump garbage and solid waste on HUDA land near Ghaggar in
Sector 25, Panchkula, on Tuesday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Elevations hamper fire engine movement
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Chandigarh, July 24
Chandigarh’s Sector 17 market continues to sit on a ticking fire bomb. Though the Municipal Corporation has re-laid almost the entire concrete floor of the central plaza, it has not made any arrangements for enabling the fire engines to climb up the elevated boardwalk in case of a blaze.
Elevated platforms in the Sector 17 parking lots are not conducive for fire engines to act promptly in case of a blaze.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
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Estate Office ‘hedging’ right to info Act guidelines
Chandigarh, July 26
‘‘In the UT Estate Office every post, irrespective of designation, is a sensitive post. The Estate Office deals directly or indirectly with public’’.
This information has been provided by the Central Information Officer, Estate
Office, to the Forum for Public Affairs in reply to a query seeking information
about sensitive posts in the Building Branch, Enforcement Branch and the Estate
Office.
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Serving the mentally ill
Chandigarh, July 26
If the efforts of Father Hank Nunn bear fruit, it will spring a ray of hope for many not so lucky, who have been shattered by chronic mental illness. A crusader to change the way people treat a mentally ill person, this social worker from Bangalore has dedicated his life to accept the prevalence of mental illness without a stigma.
“It is our effort to change the lives of those who demonstrate an inability to
think responsibly for themselves, which is often clearly evident in an inability
to exercise the emotional control of feelings”, he says.
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Father Hank Nunn
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Another representation to Sonia Gandhi
Chandigarh, July 26
Residents of the city from different walks of life in a communication addressed to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, President of the All India Congress Committee, have expressed their grievance "against efforts being made by a handful of citizens of the city to put irritants in the planned growth of the city".
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The submerged Landra-Banur road at Mohali after the region was lashed by heavy downpour on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu
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MC earns Rs 14.26 lakh
Chandigarh, July 26
The Municipal Corporation has earned Rs 14.26 lakh in an open auction held here today for a period of five months only from August 1 to December 31 of two parking lots for four/two-wheeler, etc.
Rally today by newspaper employees
Chandigarh, July 26
In response to a call given by the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees Organisations, The Tribune Employees Union, along with the Indian Express Employees Union, the Chandigarh Journalists Association, the Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists, the PTI Employees Union and the UNI Workers Union will hold a gate rally in front of The Tribune office gate, Sector 29, tomorrow.
Underbridge: Mansa panel to meet Lalu
Chandigarh, July 26
A delegation of the Mansa-based Railway Underbridge Sangharsh Committee will meet the Union Railway Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, on August 2 in Delhi to urge him to remove the hurdles which are being created in starting the construction of the underbridge.
Dogra Regiment get-together
Chandigarh, July 26
To keep up regimental affiliation and maintain old ties, serving and retired officers of Dogra Regiment organised a social get-together at the Defence Services Officers Institute here on Monday.
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