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18 hours without power
Chandigarh, May 21
How about spending 18 hours without power on a hot day in this searing heat? Such things do not happen in the elite northern sectors. Unfortunate residents of Sector 44, a southern sector, were forced to be without power starting 9.30 p.m last night.
Identification must for
petty job-seekers
Chandigarh, May 21
To keep a tab on activities of the anti-social elements, who may disguise themselves as petty job-seekers in the city, the District Magistrate has imposed orders under Section 144 of the Cr PC directing all those seeking employment in petty and non-formal trade or services or to provide contract labour, like rickshaw-pullers, rehriwallahs, phariwallahs, washermen or cobblers, to provide their particulars along with their passport size photographs to the police to enable identification or verifications of criminal elements.
Bhatti offers ‘sharamdan’ at Sukhna
Chandigarh, May 21
No one can accuse Jaspal Bhatti of being malicious, but when this ‘poker-faced comedian’ lashes out at someone for something, he sure knows how to hit hard. The target of his wrath this time was the Chandigarh Administration, which over the years, in the name of desiltation work, has been staging gimmicks, like ‘shramdan’ at Sukhna Lake.
‘SHARAMDAN’ AT THE SUKHNA: Jaspal Bhatti with his troupe of Nonsense Club members
carries out ‘sharamdan’ with spoons and bowls at Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
— Photo Pankaj Sharma |
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Failed in love, he ended his life
 Chandigarh, May 21
Vineet Saxena, a 26-year-old architect, who ended his life yesterday by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his room here, took this extreme step “under severe mental stress”, according to his relatives and friends.
Vineet had been running a private architecture-consultancy firm here
in partnership with his former classmate, Sarika Jhawar, for the past
about two years.
Drought-infested for years
Shiamtu (Panchkula), May 21
The parched fields stretch as far as your eyes can travel. The starved animals can be seen moving about on the barren land in search of food and water, even as the owner of the herd sits in whatever shade that is provided by a few dried bushes on one side of the field.
Gulab Singh, a resident of Mattanwala village in Barwala block, awaits rain to irrigate his parched fields as his grandsons (in the background) take away the starved cattle in search of food and water in the
sweltering heat. — A Tribune photograph |
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They pledge to fight terrorism
Chandigarh, May 21
The Mayor, Mrs Lalit Joshi, and the Adviser to the UT Administrator, Ms Neeru
Nanda, in separate functions led the officialdom to take the pledge against terrorism on the occasion of Anti-Terrorism Day here today.
Officials of the Chandigarh Administration take an oath to fight terrorism on Anti-Terrorism Day
in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Rajiv Gandhi remembered
Chandigarh, May 21
A statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will be installed at Congress Bhavan in Sector 35 here on his next birth anniversary. This was announced by Mr B.B. Bahl, president of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, today.
READERS WRITE
Residents complain of poor water supply
WE, the residents of Old Bishan Nagar in Patiala, have been complaining about poor water supply to our area for the last three weeks. However, the authorities concerned do not seem to bother about our plight. We have also reminded them over phone several times, but in vain.
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