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Residents feel insecure
after robberies
Dera Bassi, September 12
The police is still clueless about the two robberies, in which armed robbers looted cash and valuables worth Rs 10 lakh at gunpoint and left nine persons injured.
On Monday, an armed gang of masked robbers broke into a milk-processing industry in Gholumajra village near Lalru, tied the cashier to a chair and looted Rs 6.69 lakh at gunpoint.
CRUSH ON METERS: It was a unique experience for residents of Sector 35 as a heavy road roller was used to crush discarded, burnt or dis-used electricity meters in the sector here on Wednesday. About 8,000 meters, which had been rendered economically non-serviceable were crushed under the roller. These meters will be sold off as scrap, said the area Subdivisional Officer (SDO), Mr G.S. Mast. The meters had been lying as junk in various storehouses of the Electricity Department.
— Photo Pankaj Sharma
Students of the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, wait for their turn to perform in an intra-college dance competition in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
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17 unions plan dharna on Oct
4
Chandigarh, September 12
Representatives of as many as 17 employee unions attended the working committee meeting of the co-ordination committee of the Government and MC Employees and Workers at Shanti Kunj here today.
Success Story
Woman triumphs over illiteracy and
poverty
Chandigarh
The story of Sharda Devi is a tale of struggle and final triumph over poverty and illiteracy. Sharda is now a neo-literate and she also manages to earn money with the skill she learnt as she was picking up the three Rs.
Council fails to auction
carcass disposal work
SAS Nagar, September 12
The local Municipal Council is being compelled to dispose of animal carcasses on its own as it has failed to attract a contractor for the job.
The carcasses, including those of stray dogs and cattle, are being dumped at the garbage disposal site near the milk plant.
FAUJI BEAT
Row over nurses’ uniform goes on
Chandigarh
The controversy over nursing officers in military hospitals donning olive green trousers and shirts refuses to die down. While the nurses are up in arms against the proposal to revert their uniform to white skirts and blouses, army doctors are unhappy at the nurses wearing a uniform similar to theirs.
‘Harassment’ over
autopsy
Chandigarh, September 12
Shama Johari (30) could find peace neither during her brief married life, nor after death, allegedly at the hands of her husband and his family. Her mortal remains were taken back to Karnal late this evening , after both the PGI and the Sector 16 General Hospital refused to conduct post-mortem on her body.
Dirty canteen
Panchkula
The canteen in the district secretariat seems to give a low priority to hygiene and the disillusioned employees are slowly turning away from whatever little it has to offer.
Started a few months ago on the persistent demand of the employees, the canteen, housed on the terrace of the secretariat is topped by a fibre glass sheet.
Burail prisoners want more channels
Chandigarh, September 12
Inmates of the Burail jail have demanded that they should have at least two more channels, including a news channel, on their cable TV network.
They have moved an application in a special court in this regard. There are about 20 TV sets for about 430 inmates of this high-security prison.
Employees hold rallies, gate meetings
Chandigarh, September 12
Pursuant to a call given by the Federation of the UT Employees and Workers, employees of the Chandigarh Administration and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation organised gate meetings and rallies outside their respective offices to mobilise workers and employees to participate in the proposed massive dharna on September 19 near the Matka Chowk in support of their long-pending demands.
Two injured in
jeep-car collision
Chandigarh, September 12
Two persons were severely injured tonight when a Mahendra jeep collided with a Maruti car on the inner road which falls between the Rose Garden and the Shanti
Kunj.
Druckgrafen directory
Chandigarh, September 12
Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula yellow pages directory publisher Druckgrafen will bring out its similar directory for Punjab and Chandigarh in the first week of October.
Driver denies he was drunk
Chandigarh, September 12
Mr Gurmail Singh, a CTU driver No 363 (Depot No 3), here today denied that he was in a drunken state when the CTU bus he was driving hit an Army truck near the Air Force chowk as reported in a news item carried by Chandigarh Tribune on September 11 under the heading “Drunk driver rams CTU bus into truck, 1 hurt”.
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Chandigarh, September 12
