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Police to seek TV show’s help to nab accused
SAS Nagar, July 26
The Ropar police will approach the popular television show India’s Most Wanted to seek information about the suspects involved in the year-old murder case of a 39-year- old jeweller from Chandigarh, Ashok Kumar. The move follows failure of the police in nabbing the three assailants, Gurvinder, alias Gary, Ranbir, alias Shera and Lakha, alias Rana, involved in the murder.
Govt determined to disinvest in
PUNCOM
Chandigarh, July 26
The Punjab government has made it clear that it is determined to disinvest in PUNCOM despite still opposition from its employees.
MURDER MILES
Chaotic Grain Market crossing
Chandigarh
The Grain Market Chowk on Madhya Marg, which happens to be the meeting point of light and heavy traffic (trucks and tractor-trailers carrying agricultural produce), is one of the major accident-prone spots of the city.
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Confusion of house numbers
Chandigarh, July 26
Le Corbusier himself may not be able to trace houses in his well-planned creation, if he were to go to Sector 23-D.
The residents often get wrong electricity and telephone bills, the gas agency delivers cylinders in wrong houses, and visitors knock at wrong doors.
The two houses in Sector 23D, Chandigarh, which bear the same number.
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Development work in
10 wards reviewed
Chandigarh, July 26
The councillors of the first 10 wards of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, have claimed to have spend more than 50 per cent of the Rs 35 lakh allocated to them under the Ward Development Fund during the past five years.
Plagued by stray
cattle
SAS Nagar
Driving in this town can be a risky proposition, thanks to the stray cattle that roam on the roads. Some motorists have suffered injuries in accidents caused by stray cattle.
Stray cattle rummage through garbage in Phase 6 of SAS Nagar.
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Subscribers rue
BSNL action
Chandigarh, July 26
Scores of BSNL telephone subscribers, wanting to have duplicate bills, faced a lot of inconvenience at the Sector 34 Telephone Exchange here.
Counselling
workshop
Chandigarh, July 26
A four-day workshop for training personnel deployed in the Crime Against Women Cell and representatives of NGOs concluded in the Regional Training Centre Hall, Police Lines, Sector 26, here today. This was for the first time that a structured training in counselling was provided to the CAW staff since its inception in the Chandigarh police.
CTU to purchase
46 buses
Chandigarh , July 26
The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking will purchase 46 buses this year at a cost of Rs 3.70 crore. The new fleet of buses will have tinted glasses on the pattern of buses in Haryana and also have better cushioned seats.
Rafi finals on
July 29
Chandigarh, July 26
The curtains are finally ready to be drawn on the annual singing competition organised by Yaadgar-e-Rafi Society, Chandigarh with the organisers pruning the number to 10 best male and 10 best female singers from the huge entry list of 250. The results were arrived at after two rounds of screening.
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