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Forest area
combed to nab miscreants
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Aimed at containing activities of
anti-social elements, the local police conducted
a search operation in the forest areas of the
Union Territory of Chandigarh this evening. Tantrik
kidnaps woman
PANCHKULA,
Nov 19 — A case of alleged kidnapping of a
woman of Sector 7, by a tantrik, Anish Jumma,
alias Billu Badshah, operating from a one-room
set in Sector 19, has been registered by the
local police under Section 366 of the IPC and
search parties have been sent in different
directions to carry out raids and locate the two.
PUDA to exploit unused
land
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Several acres of unutilised prime
government land in municipal limits of various
towns in Punjab is being commercially exploited
by the Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA)
under a scheme called 'Optimum Utilisation of
Vacant Government Land'.
‘Civic funds
misappropriated’
DERA
BASSI, Nov 19 — Six Congress councillors of
the Dera Bassi Municipal Council have alleged
misappropriations of funds of the council. They
have also accused Akali-BJP councillors of
bringing development work to a halt.
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Jail
term for milkman
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Convicting a Ropar district resident,
accused of selling substandard milk, the UT Chief
Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash, today sentenced him
to six months' imprisonment, besides imposing a fine of
Rs 1,000.
Bomb
scare
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — A bomb scare was created on Thursday
evening at the Central Jail Burail here.
Forum
for street kids held
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — A 'Forum for Street Children' was organised
today at the Dadu Majra village, by the Progressive
Education Society, an NGO, in connection with the Chetna
Parv, 1999.
‘Check
misuse of anti-biotics’
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — The three-day 23rd national congress of the
Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists began today
at Bhargava Auditorium of the Postgraduate Institute of
Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).
Bargaining
power of traders ‘over’
SAS
NAGAR, Nov 19 — The bargaining power of shopkeepers
is over. For the first time in many years the consumer
actually holds the power.
Human
chain to arrest polio
DERA
BASSI, Nov 19 — More than 7,500 children of 12
government and private schools along with their teachers
and other residents of the town today formed a human
chain to create awareness about the pulse polio
programme.
Jail
inmates educated about AIDS
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — The Indian Council of Social Welfare
(ICSW), Chandigarh Branch, in collaboration with the
State AIDS Control Society, UT, this morning organised a
training programme on HIV/AIDS/STD for the inmates of
Central Jail, Burail, at the jail premises.
'50
pc Indians malnourished'
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — The two-day regional Advocacy Workshop on
Nutrition, organised by the Department of Women and Child
Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India, concluded here today.
Prosecution
of kickbacks accused okayed
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Permitting the prosecution to place on
record the sanction orders for the prosecution of four
accused in the engineering department kickbacks case
— C.J. Rai, A.S. Gulati, J.C. Gilhotra and H.S. Brar
— the UT District and Sessions Judge, Mr B.S. Bedi,
today fixed November 27 for the supply of certain
documents to other accused.
Rich
tributes paid to Indira Gandhi
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Rich tributes were paid to the former Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary today. A
number of functions were organised all over the city by
the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, its
frontal organisations and certain NGOs also. The
Administration observed the day as "Qaumi Ekta
Day" where all the employees took a national
integration pledge at the Sector 9 deluxe building. The
pledge was administered by the Finance Secretary, Mr
Rakesh Singh.
18
years later, corpn MD acquitted
CHANDIGARH,
Nov 19 — Just over 18 years after the Managing
Director of Punjab State Handloom and Textile Development
Corporation accused the Sector 22 showroom in charge of
criminal misappropriation and breach of trust, the UT
Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Mr. A.K. Bishnoi, today
acquitted him of the charge.
Demand
to repatriate deputationists
PANCHKULA,
Nov 19 — An emergency meting of the working
committee of the HUDA Junior Engineers Welfare
Association was held here on Wednesdayp. The association
extended its support to the HUDA Technocrats Association
for demanding repatriation of PWD (Public Health) and PWD
(B and R) engineers to their parent departments
immediately.
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