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Ice-creamwalah,
cool man: The slightly overcast sky and cool
winds on Thursday noon lull him to sleep in
Chandigarh. Business can come after the siesta,
seems to be his motto. — Tribune photo by
Gautam Singh |
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Sale
of banned lottery tickets
CHANDIGARH, June 17
— A total of 34 persons allegedly dealing in banned
single- digit lotteries, selling tickets without any
permission and cheating members of the public by charging
more than the printed price were arrested by a team of
the Chandigarh police this afternoon.
4 DSPs shifted
CHANDIGARH,
June 17 — The Chandigarh Administration today
ordered the transfer of four Deputy Superintendents of
Police and gave additional charge to two other DSPs,
besides their present assignments.
Remand
for 3 engineers
CHANDIGARH,
June 17 — The Judicial Magistrate, Mr A.K. Bishnoi,
today remanded three engineers suspected in the kickback
case, registered by the Vigilance Department to police
custody for one day.
Woman
dies of poisoning
PANCHKULA,
June 17 — The in-laws of Sunandha, a 30-year-old
woman of Sector 4 here, who died of poisoning under
mysterious circumstances last night, have been booked for
allegedly causing her death.
Police to take action against
erring persons
PANCHKULA,
June 17 — The city police will take action against
the landlords, tenants, and persons running commercial
establishments in the township who fail to furnish
details about domestic servants engaged by them by June
30.
Workshop to review Y2K problems
CHANDIGARH,
June 17— A workshop for the nodal officers of
various departments, offices, corporations and boards of
the Chandigarh Administration was held yesterday to
review the problem of Y2K.
Chandigarh, Panchkula top in CET
CHANDIGARH,
June 17 — The results of the combined entrance test,
1999, conducted by Panjab University on May 22 and 23 for
admission to nearly 600 seats in various medical,
engineering and architecture courses in local colleges
and Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, PU
were declared here today.
Harried investors form group
PANCHKULA,
June 17— Hundreds of local persons, including a
number of retired Army officers, who had invested several
lakhs of rupees in short-term deposit and fixed deposit
schemes of INCAN Mutual Benefit Ltd (Para Banking) are at
their wits' end after they were refused payment since
early this year.
2 held for snatching valuables
SAS NAGAR,
June 17 — The local police has busted a gang of
robbers with the arrest of two youths here.
Phone exchange in bad state
MANAULI
(SAS Nagar), June 17 — Telephone subscribers of
Manauli rural telephone exchange are a harassed lot due
to continuing problems in the exchange.
‘Honest’ cop faces probe
CHANDIGARH,
June 17 — A head constable of the Chandigarh police,
who claimed that he had found Rs 20,000 and was
subsequently rewarded for his “honesty”, is now
facing a probe as his version is being doubted following
revelations that the money was actually found by someone
else but it was claimed by the cop forcibly.
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