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Hassle-free & speedy legal assistance
Chandigarh, May 20
The UT State Legal Service Authority, which offers legal aid and assistance to persons who have had delayed settlement in cases of matrimonial discord, property dispute, company fraud, or harassment on account of financial hazard, has been of a great help.
Iron men continue without iron hands
Chandigarh, May 20
The voluntary manual desilting of the Sukhna, this year, is not supplemented by machine power.
Earlier, the state of Punjab and Haryana, the Army and the Bhakra Beas Management Board, used to provide JCBs, tippers and bulldozers to lift dry soil from the bed of the lake.
‘Female foeticide: don’t victimise victims’
Chandigarh, May 20
The issue of female foeticide was brought forth in a one-day discussion on female foeticide in the ICSSR Complex of Panjab University here today. Most speakers there said the declining sex ratio in Punjab had got the attention of the
government on the issue, but a lot still remained to be done to enforce the laws against the evil.
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| Mr Subhash Medankar speaks at a discussion on female foeticide in the ICSSR Complex, Panjab
University, Chandigarh, on Monday. The others in the picture are Dr Mira Shiva, Ms Sarojini
and Mr Manmohan Sharma. — A Tribune photograph |
Glamour girl takes city by storm
Chandigarh, May 20
The glamour world of modelling has been dominated by Punjabi ‘kudis’ and Simran Sachdeva is the latest addition. This Gladrags Mega Model runner-up of this year, who is a fashion designer herself, exerted her Punjabi charm on the budding designers of the National Institute of Fashion Designing today.
Gladrags Mega Model Simran Sachdeva signs autographs at NIFD, Sector 8, in Chandigarh
on Monday. — Photo Manoj Mahajan
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238 recruits join ITBP
Chandigarh May 20
As many as 238 recruits were absorbed into the Indo-Tibet Border Police at an impressive attestation ceremony and passing-out parade at the basic training centre of the force at Bhanu, near here today.
ITBP jawans in jubilant mood after the passing-out parade at the basic training centre at Bhanu in Panchkula on Monday.
— Photo Pankaj Sharma
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FAUJI BEAT
Bush will not allow Indo-Pak war
WITH the terrorists’ strike on the Kaluchak Army camp near Jammu on May 14, the clock has been put back to December 13 when terrorists rocked the Parliament House. Mr Vajpayee had then said: “We will launch a decisive and final battle against Pakistan”.
Thus started the large-scale deployment of our Army on the border
for “Operation Parakram”, which did not come off in January,
as planned.
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365 challaned for traffic violations
Chandigarh, May 20
A special drive was carried out by the police to check traffic violations in the city this morning. A total of 365 traffic violators were challaned for various offences.
The drive was carried out from 7 am to 9 am and 52 nakas were put up at strategic points throughout the city.
City elite serve for a cause
Chandigarh, May 20
All those who went to eat at Hot Millions-2 here today received a pleasant surprise when the city’s elite, wearing aprons and smiles, served them food — all for a cause.
Carrying on with the last year’s experiment of getting celebrities to serve food for a cause, the Rotary Club of Chandigarh organised this mega ‘Eat-n-Serve’ event that proved to be a huge success, in spite of the absence of top administrative officials.
1,21,825 cubic feet
of silt removed
Chandigarh ,
May 20
A total of 1,21,825 cubic feet of silt has been removed from the bed
of the Sukhna Lake at the regulator end till date.
Nearly 300 persons participated in the shramdan today, of
which 100 were from the Haryana Civil Secretariat.
Camera discovered in try room
SAS Nagar, May 20
All you women customers changing clothes in try rooms of garments
stores and tailors, look out. A spy camera may be hidden behind
the curtains. It was something Internet surfers had seen on the
net, but in a specific incident, the relative of a senior police
official, who had gone to a cloth shop in Phase 3-B 1 market here,
to her utter horror, discovered that the shopkeeper had hidden a
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