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Proposal to make Panchkula
permit-free zone for autos
Panchkula, February 12
The State Transport Department proposes to make the township and its peripheral areas a ‘permit-free zone’ for plying of auto-rickshaws.
Sources in the department yesterday informed Chandigarh Tribune, that a draft policy in this regard had been prepared and it would be soon submitted to the state government for its approval.
Counter-complaint against
Badals
Chandigarh, February 12
Reacting to the defamation cases filed against it by the Badal family, the Congress today filed a counter defamation complaint against the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, and his son, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, besides two others. The case will come up for preliminary evidence on February 23.
Bagpipers to attract crowd for poll rally
SAS NAGAR, February 12
A trusted mode of communication, the public address system no more interests the voters. The electioneering this time saw the candidates adopting more innovative techniques to attract gatherings for their rallies.
Bagpipers lead a procession of the SAD candidate from Kharar, Mr Kiran Bir Singh Kang, in Mauli Baidwan village, near SAS Nagar, on Monday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Muddy road denies access to schools
Chandigarh, February 12
Rain may have brought cheers of many but for more than 2,000 students and staff of the Government Girls High School and Government Middle School, housed in the same building in Sector 25, stand the risk of breaking their limbs in order to attend their classes.
Deplorable condition of the approach road to Government Girls High School, Sector 25, Chandigarh.
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Taxi union gives rent offers to MC
Chandigarh, February 12
The Taxi Workers Union of Chandigarh has offered a rent of Rs 1575 for an area below 2000 square feet and Rs 2275 for an area above 2000 square feet per month to the Municipal Corporation.
Residents want meat market shifted
Chandigarh, February 12
With their 25-year-old fight for removal of Sunday scooter market getting success, Sector 21 residents have now raised voice for shifting meat market which is posing hygienic hazard in the sector.
YOUNG VOICE
‘Aim early and get it’
“JUST aim and achieve — that should be your policy in life, if you want to be successful,” says Nitin
Mahajan, a city-based software engineer. “Instead of wasting your time trying to be jack of all trade, it is better to work hard and become master of one.”
According to him, “Ambitious and capable students should be clear
about their aim early in life.
Book hunting contest
Chandigarh, February 12
To celebrate “Year of Books 2001-2002”, an inter-school reference book hunting contest was organised at the State Library, Sector 34, here yesterday in which about 20 teams from various schools of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula took part.
Mr Burger just a call away
Chandigarh, February 12
Gourmet Mall, the two-month-old Sector 17 eatery, today flagged off its fleet of 35 scooters to the doorstep of
foodies. Smartly clad in bright yellow t-shirts with Mr Burger splashed on the back, black trousers and yellow cap, the delivery boys were raring to rev the two-wheelers specially fitted with a box to carry foodstuff.
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