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Surbhi Forests directors among
'Most Wanted'

PANCHKULA, Aug 7 — The Panchkula police will flash photographs and detailed information about the Chairman and four Directors of Surbhi Forests India Ltd. on the Zee TV show, 'India's Most Wanted'. They have allegedly absconded with crores of rupees of investors.

6 bridges need repairs; 1 may collapse
DERA BASSI, Aug 7 — Bridges in general and those on national highways, particularly in this subdivision, are in a deplorable condition.

Registration of dogs must
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today notified new guidelines and bylaws for keeping pet dogs and milch cattle.

More than half a dozen bridges in the Dera Bassi subdivision have become accident-hazards as the railings and bitumen over their surfaces has peeled off.
More than half a dozen bridges in the Dera Bassi subdivision have become accident-hazards as the railings and bitumen over their surfaces has peeled off. The condition of the bridge on the Mubarikpur-Ramgarh road shows the negligence of the authorities concerned. — A Tribune photograph

Honesty is still alive
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — When Mr Suraj Gupta and his friend, Mr P.L. Punia, got down from New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express at Chandigarh station last night, little did they realise that they have let behind a big yellow envelope on their seat in the Executive Coach of the train.

Candidates not interviewed
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — The Regional Employment Exchange has written a letter to the Deputy Director General of the NCC Directorate of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, alleging that certain candidates sent for an interview were not entertained.

HC order on hoardings
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed that the hoardings which are beyond 100 m from the national high way 50 m from traffic roads shall not be removed.

AICC yet to decide on city seat
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — The All-India Congress Committee is yet to take a decision about the party candidate for the lone Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat.

RRD to contest UT seat
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7— The Rashtriya Raksha Dal, a party of ex-servicemen, will put up its candidate in the coming Lok sabha elections.

Seminar on languages press
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — Language newspapers have played an important role in the freedom struggle of India. However, in the wake of economic liberalisation, there is an invasion from foreign culture and Indian vernacular press has to play a decisive role to check this onslaught.
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Dam helps increase farm land
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — The construction of an earthen dam has helped residents of Rael Majra village near Ropar to increase cultivable land from 1.6 hectares to more than 20 hectares within a span of about six years.The project has emerged as a role model for the adjoining villages where soil erosion continues to be the major drawback.
The earthen dam constructed by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute at Rael Majra village which has helped solve irrigation problems over the past few years.
The earthen dam constructed by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute at Rael Majra village which has helped solve irrigation problems over the past few years. — A Tribune photograph

Time to seek another job?
CHANDI MANDIR, Aug 7 — Seriously injured by shell splinter wounds during a fierce battle for the capture of one of the strategic peaks, Point 5113 also known as Zulu 1, in the Mushkoh valley, the desire of Havaldar P. V. Thapa of 3 / 3 Gorkha Rifles, to make the grade as a Junior Commissioned Officer remains undiminished.

Shibani Kashyap‘Live show true test’
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — “The true test of a singer is only in front of a live audience. Otherwise, with the present technology, it is fairly easy to become a singer today,” said Shibani Kashyap, a pop singer of the ‘Ho Gayi Hai Mohabbat’ fame.

Never look at sun directly
CHANDIGARH, Aug 7 — It is innate curiousity that compels human beings to observe eclipses, often without any protective gear or with untested and unsafe means.Top


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