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IN FOCUS
A derelict ‘khokha’ market
SAS Nagar
Guru Nanak Market in Phase 1, one of the oldest ‘‘khokha’’ markets in the town, was set up about 20 years ago and it has changed little since then as far as essential facilities go. Even the 350 ‘‘khokhas’’ remain the wooden shacks that these were when built.
IN FOCUS
Footpaths that rarely last
SAS Nagar
The SAS Nagar Municipal Council has decided to lay footpaths on its roads at a cost of lakhs of rupees.
The president of the council, Mr Kulwant Singh, had said a few months ago that no new footpaths would be laid, yet tenders worth lakhs have been passed for the construction of footpaths in different parts of the town.
The MP who counsels
on marriage
Chandigarh, September 22
Why it is important for the institution of marriage to function? This will be probed by cinestar-turned-MP, Shatrughan Sinha, in a play ‘Pati Patni Aur Mein’ to be staged before a select audience in the city tomorrow.
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| Shatrughan Sinha, MP, at a press conference held at Hotel Shivalik View in Chandigarh on Saturday.
— Photo Pradeep Tewari |
ICAO meet: spotlight
to be on terrorism
Chandigarh, September 22
Terrorism will continue to occupy the centre-stage not only in world politics but also at other international fora, including civil aviation and policing.
When civil aviation experts from 187 contracting states meet at Montreal from September 25 to October 5 for the 33rd session of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the main agenda will be aviation security in general and terrorist attacks on civil aviation in particular. MURDER MILES
Killer spot on the highway
Panchkula
The habit of taking a wrong turn towards the Mansa Devi Complex has turned the point near Dhillon Cinema on the Chandigarh-Shimla highway a killer spot.
Road users coming from the direction of Old Panchkula and headed for the Mansa Devi Complex, Saketri and other villages and colonies, often take this turn and run head-on into the traffic coming from Chandigarh.
FAUJI BEAT
Price structure of ordnance
products
Chandigarh
The Ordnance Factory Board is preparing an approach paper on the pricing policy for it products for civil trade and export so that a reasonably realistic profit can be earned by various ordnance factories.
‘Regularise paying guest accommodation’
Chandigarh, September 22
The local unit of the All-India Paying Guest Accommodation Association today demanded the immediate regularisation of paying guest accommodation in the city.
The changing crime
scene
Chandigarh
Surfing through the television channels, special counsel for the Central Bureau of Investigation, Mr
R.K. Handa, comes across a serial in which hired assassins are taken into custody minutes before they can execute their plan to pump bullets in a business tycoon.
USA responsible for global terrorism:
CPI
SAS Nagar, September 22
Dr Joginder Dayal, State Secretary of the CPI, Punjab, today held the USA responsible for the spread of global terrorism and said international terrorists like Osama bin Laden were the creation of that country.
World Tourism Day celebrations in
city
Chandigarh, September 22
The UT Administration has planned a host of activities for the World Tourism Day on September 27 and the week thereafter in collaboration with CITCO, Hotel and Restaurant Association of Chandigarh, Food Craft Institute, Sector 42, Institute of Tourism and Future Management Trends
and the Hotel Association of Chandigarh.
MC officials plant
saplings
Chandigarh, September 22
As many as 70 saplings of ‘neem’ and ‘pipal’ were planted by senior officials of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh along with residents in the extended portion of the green belt in Bapu Dham colony this afternoon.
CBI inquiry sought
Chandigarh, September 22
The president of the local unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Mr M.R.
Dhiman, and a director of the Market Committee, Mr Gurdev Singh, today demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the functioning of the committee and the delay in making the barriers functional at the Grain Market.
Lions Club chief installed
Chandigarh, September 22
Mr Rajat Mohan was installed as president of the Lions Club Chandigarh by the district governor, Mr
D.K. Sood, at a simple ceremony held at Hotel Solitaire today. Former district governors of the club were also present on the occasion.
NCP activists burn Pakistan flags
Chandigarh, September 22
The local unit of the Nationalist Congress Party today burnt the flags of Pakistan and Afghanistan in protest against their role in spreading terrorism in the world.
Led by its president, Mr Gurbachan Singh, the party activists assembled at Labour Chowk in the morning and raised slogans like Pakistan ‘murdabad’ and Osama bin Laden ‘murdabad’.
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