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Chandigarh Youth Congress activists protest against the visit of General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, to India in Sector 17 of Chandigarh on Saturday.
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A fireman tries to control fire in the Hallo Majra Kabari market in Chandigarh on Saturday.
— Tribune photo Parvesh Chauhan |
Panun
Kashmir seeks homeland in valley
Chandigarh, July 14
A day ahead of the Agra summit the
Panun Kashmir, a body fighting for the rights of displaced Kashmiri
pandits from the valley, today demanded a separate homeland in the
valley while urging the Government of India to put pre-conditions on
Pakistan like reversing genocide of Hindus in the valley and stop aiding
international terrorism in the name of Muslim crusade.
Forum exposes Pak ‘treachery’
Chandigarh, July 14
The Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, Punjab and Chandigarh chapter, engaged in the people to people dialogue between the two countries, here today exposed Pakistani ‘’treachery and intransigence’’ on the Kashmir dispute.
Legal
Services Authority organises seminar
Chandigarh, July 14
The Chandigarh State Legal Services
Authority organised a seminar to generate awareness among the masses at
Kishangarh village here today. A press note issued by the Chandigarh
Administration said Mr B.C. Rajput, member secretary of the State Legal
Services Authority of Chandigarh and Judge of the Permanent Adalat, was
the chief guest.
NAC
status for Naya Gaon soon “by Aug 15”
Kansal (Kharar), July 14
Mr Ujjagar Singh Badali, a jathedar
of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), and a prospective SAD nominee from
the Morinda Assembly constituency in the elections due early next year,
announced here today that Mr Prakash Singh Badal, Chief Minister of
Punjab, would announce a notified area committee in Naya Gaon village
before August 15.
ROADSIDE ENTREPRENEURS
A job mainly
for migrants
Chandigarh
In the corridor of a market at
night, you get a strong aroma of spicy food and wonder who could be
doing the cooking there. You look around and find a group of men in
vests and lungis doing the cooking. They are rickshaw-pullers who do
their eating, cooking, bathing and sleeping on the roadside.
Lucky
draw not held
Chhatbir, July 14
A number of visitors were
disappointed today when the zoo authorities failed to hold the “lucky
draw” introduced by the Wild Life Society of Punjab to raise funds for
the Chhatbir Zoological Park. The scheme was introduced to attract
visitors, develop enthusiasm among them and to avoid the resale of
tickets by the society six months back.
Children make a collage to raise their voice against female foeticide during the final day of the poster-making competition and workshop for school children at Arts Museum, Sector 10, Chandigarh, on Saturday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Raising voice
against female foeticide
Chandigarh, July 14
About 100 students from various
schools of Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar participated in a poster
making competition and workshop on female foeticide organised by the
Voluntary Health Association of Punjab at the Arts Museum in Sector 10
here today.
Ex-servicemen’s
league “apolitical”
Chandigarh, July 14
Several senior retired defence
officers, including Col Harsharan Singh, Lieut-Gen K.S. Gill, Brig
Harwant Singh, Air Marshal K.S. Punia, Col A.P. Singh and Lieut-Gen B.S.
Randhawa, have impressed upon ex-servicemen that the league was an
apolitical organisation.
FENG SHUI TIPS
Helpful
people in your life
Helpful people and benefactors are found in the right-hand area of
your home. This area has masculine energy. It shows our tendency to
travel. Helpful people are also associated with charity.
A
clarification
Dera Bassi, July 14
Mohan Meakin Limited today
clarified that its factory was not discharging any effluents in the
tributaries of the Ghaggar and that the unit fulfilled the norms fixed
by the Punjab Pollution Control Board, Patiala.
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