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Residents block traffic on the Chandigarh-Ambala
highway on Friday in protest against the removal
of encroachments in Colony No. 4 of Chandigarh.
— A Tribune photograph |
Road blocked over
demolition
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — Irate residents blocked traffic on
the Chandigarh-Ambala highway today in protest
against the demolition of an STD booth near
Colony No. 4 in Phase I of Ram Darbar
here.According to sources, the booth, which had
recently come up on government land recently was
demolished by the enforcement staff of the
Chandigarh Administration this afternoon. |
BJP reinducts 18 leaders
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — With the President of local unit of the
BJP, Mr Dharam Paul Gupta, revoking the expulsion of 18
party leaders, including eight councillors of the
Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, the unity efforts in
the party seem to have at last succeeded.
Sikhs suspend helmet stir on PM's
assurance
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — A six-member delegation of various Sikh
bodies comprising Mrs Harjinder Kaur, Mr Kesar Singh, Mrs
Tripat Kaur, Mr Amarjit Singh, Mr Tarlochan Singh and Mr
Gurbir Singh met the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari
Vajpayee, at Punjab Raj Bhavan and presented him a
memorandum demanding that a special ordinance be issued
to exempt women from wearing helmets both while driving
and pillion riding two-wheelers.
Dhindsa cremated with honours
PINJORE,
Aug 20 — The mortal remains of Flying Officer
Gursimrat Singh Dhindsa were consigned to the flames with
state honours at the HMT crematorium here this afternoon.
3 education board employees
suspended
SAS NAGAR,
Aug 20 — The ongoing tussle between the management
of the Punjab School Education Board and its employees'
association reached its peak today when the association
held a rally protesting against the suspension of three
employees, including the General Secretary of the
association.
Jassi
gets Check Population Award
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — The annual "Check Population
Award'' was given to Dr Puran Singh Jassi, a
former director of the Department of Family
Welfare, for his services towards controlling
population, at Lajpat Rai Bhavan, Sector 15, here
today.
PM criticised for
silence on city
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, Congress
candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, has
reacted strongly to the non-committal stand taken
by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee,
on the future of Chandigarh.
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Gurbachan's
papers rejected
CHANDIGARH,
Aug 20 — After a day of suspense, the nomination
papers of Mr Gurbachan Singh, nominee of the Nationalist
Congress headed by Mr Sharad Pawar, were rejected today
on technical grounds. 
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