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CITCO
training centre for slum children
Chandigarh, June 19
Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism
Corporation will open a training centre for conducting cooking classes
for the students of Ashiana School which is mainly catering to slum
children of Janata Colony in Sector 25.
Relief
to power consumers
Panchkula, June 19
The Haryana Power Utilities has
taken some major decisions for extending relief to the power consumers
in the state. Ms Meenaxi Anand Chaudhry, Chairperson, Haryana Power
Utilities, said here today that the Executive Engineers of the Haryana
Power Nigams have been authorised to allow reduction in load of tubewell
consumers.
Probe
sought into ‘overpriced’ Kajauli project
Chandigarh, June 19
An inquiry by the Central Vigilance
Commissioner, Mr N. Vittal, has been sought into the
‘’over-priced’’ Kajauli Water Works project, work on which is
being done under the supervision of the Punjab Government on behalf of
the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh.
Gen
Malik and Capt Amarinder differ on limited war concept
Chandigarh, June 19
The Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt
Amarinder Singh, and a former Chief of the Army Staff, Gen V.P. Malik,
today publicly differed on the concept of limited war with Pakistan.
HUDA
to build archaeological museum
Panchkula, June 19
The State Archaeological Museum,
which had been hanging fire for the past couple of years, will finally
see light of the day. It has now been decided that the museum would be
constructed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority.
Employee
suffers due to callous Admn
Chandigarh, June 19
Has the Chandigarh Administration
acted harshly in dealing with one of its employees? It may hold true in
the case of Mr Dharam Pal Verma, who was employed as a sanitary
inspector. His services had been terminated in 1996 without even a
show-cause notice. Interestingly, the Municipal Commissioner who
terminated him was not his appointing authority.
Bhagat
Singh movies ‘changing’ beliefs
Chandigarh, June 19
Movies on Bhagat Singh are not only
changing the historical perspective of impressionable minds but also of
those who were a part of the freedom struggle as far back 1930.
Taxi
Workers Union agrees to pay dues to MC
Chandigarh, June 19
The Taxi Workers Union, Chandigarh,
here today agreed to clear its pending dues of two and a half years at
the rate of Rs 2000 for a parking space up to 2000 square feet and Rs
2,500 for those above 2000 square feet.
Telecom
staff seek registration of case
Chandigarh, June 19
The Telecom
Engineering Officers Association, organised a dharna in front of
the office of the Chief General Manager, Telecom Punjab, here
today.
Members of the Telecom Engineering Officers Association stage a dharna to demand registration of an FIR in a suicide committed by a JTO at Amritsar, in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
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Tension
in village over sewage disposal
Khanna, June 19
Tension is prevailing at nearby
Bulepur village over the proposal of throwing of sewage of the village
into the residential area under Municipal Council, Khanna near a primary
school and a religious place. A pond for storage of sewage is being dug
by village panchayat. Affected residents alleged that the whole work was
being done at the behest of a senior Congress leader of the city, higher
officials of the local government and police officials of Khanna .
Villagers
serve ultimatum on Administration
Chandigarh, June 19
Dhanas village residents here
yesterday served a 10-day ultimatum on the Chandigarh Administration to
provide a sufficiently wide and concrete route from the village to
sector 14. Failure to arrive at any decision on the issue will invite an
agitation,’’ representatives of the village said.
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Chandigarh, June 19
On oxygen and glucose at the
Sector 16 General Hospital, a 36-hour old girl child has no one to
call her own. She is said to be in perfect health and a woman
policeman is her only caretaker eversince the child was handed
over to the police.
This 36-hour-old girl baby is lying in the Sector 16 General Hospital, after she was abandoned outside Missionaries of Charity Home, Sector 23, Chandigarh, on Wednesday.
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Dharna
against Punjab Budget proposals
Chandigarh, June 19
Employees of the various Punjab
government departments, boards and corporations organised a rally to
protest against the Budget proposals, here today. Another rally was
organised by the Punjab State Ministerial Services Union in front of
Parivar Kalyan Bhavan, Sector 34, against the anti-worker measures
announced in the Budget.
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