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Chinks
in security at airport
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — Sounding of a red alert and the
present security environment notwithstanding,
Chandigarh airport has been doing with a
defective handbag x-ray machine and without a
baggage x-ray machine for the past several
months. |
We
could not storm plane: IGP
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — The Punjab Police is not equipped
like the National Security Guards to be able to
have stormed the hijacked aircraft of Indian
Airlines at Raja Sansi International Airport when
it landed there shortly after 7 p.m. on December
24. |
Baba held for kidnapping girl
DERA BASSI,
Dec 27 — The local police claims to have solved a
kidnapping case by arresting a tantrik, Baba Bhura Shah.
He had allegedly lured 17-year-old local girl to flee
with him.
74 plots fetch Rs 20.5 crore
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — Despite the much-talked about recession in
real estate market, the Chandigarh Administration netted
a whopping Rs 20.5 crore by auctioning 74 residential
sites in the city today.
| Getting
ready to welcome Y2K |
‘My
millennium dress — mini with cheerful
top.’ City damsels flaunt the new year's
party wear. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma |
Damsels dig in
minis for new year do
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — Teeny-weeny baby linen mini skirts
with tantalising slits — revealing bare to
dare mood — are pressed and hanging, good
and ready, for exposing dancing damsels to the
passionate heat of cool millennium parties. It's
resolved. The guys can shake, rattle and roll in
jeans, even three piece suits. Anything. City
"kiddos" are hell bent on twisting'n
shouting in long-breath-inviting pygmy skirts. |
Police
gears up for New Year's Eve |
| Hello,
Hello 2000 on January 1 |
7-day mourning in UT begins
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — The Chandigarh Administration has decided
to observe state mourning for seven days in the Union
Territory of Chandigarh, from December 27 to January 2 to
condole the death of former President, Shankar Dyal
Sharma.
HUDA staff stir from today
PANCHKULA,
Dec 27— With the due date of fulfilling the demands
of the workers expiring today, the Haryana Urban
Development Authority Employees Joint Action Committee,
Panchkula, has decided to launch an agitation against
HUDA from tomorrow.
Underground parking lots to be
opened
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — To ease the parking problem in the main
shopping centre of the city in Sector 17, the Municipal
Corporation of Chandigarh has decided to open the two
underground parking lots to the general public.
Goods worth Rs 1 lakh recovered
PANCHKULA,
Dec 27 — The CIA staff of the local police on
Saturday recovered stolen goods worth Rs 1 lakh which
included three computers, two electronic typewriters, one
printer and five ceiling fans.
No holiday in UT offices today
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — All offices of the Chandigarh
Administration, its boards and corporations, institutions
and other bodies will function normally on Tuesday, a
spokesman of the Administration said here tonight.
UT Administrator’s powers
discussed
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — Powers of the Administrator of Chandigarh
and Budget of the Union Territory of the Chandigarh were
some of the issues discussed by Mr V.D. Shennoy,
Additional Secretary in the Union Ministry of Home
Affairs, here today.
Police plan to cut accident rate
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — The police is planning certain measures not
only to bring down the accident rate but also to decrease
the number of fatal cases.
A nostalgic reunion
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — It was a nostalgic trip down the memory
lane when the batch of 1974, and some even from earlier
times, met up with their school mates to re-live
memories.
NRI making film in Punjab
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — Based on a true life story, a non-resident
Indian of Punjabi origin is making a film on a little boy
who grew up in Pathankot and did just about everything to
earn a living finally becoming famous and successful.
Symposium
on nuclear physics
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 27 — The 42nd symposium on nuclear
physics was inaugurated by Dr Raja Ramanna, a
former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission,
at the Panjab University campus here today. |
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