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Jacob visits office to renew driving licence
Chandigarh, April 17
For a change, it was not a surprise visit. The UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), today went to the Licensing and Registration Branch in Sector 17 here to get his driving licence renewed.
In utter violation of the Punjab and Haryana High Court directions, city residents continue to burn dry leaves anywhere they please. This picture shows one such heap which was set ablaze under a full grown tree in Sector 30, Chandigarh, never mind the consequences.
— Tribune photo Manoj Mahajan
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HUDA seeks cops’ help
to check encroachments
Panchkula, April 17
Unable to check the menace of fruit sellers around various roundabouts here, HUDA has shifted the responsibility of removing encroachments by these vendors to the police.
Cop
mobbed for assaulting couple
Panchkula, April 17
The questioning of a couple by a local Sub-Inspector led to a violent
exchange that ended in the SI being mobbed and the man injured and
detained here tonight.
Depression main cause of suicides
Chandigarh,
April 17
Depression and inability to solve one’s problems are being rated as the main causes of committing suicide by the city residents. In the last three-and-a-half months, 30 persons have committed suicide — more than those killed in road accidents in the city.
‘Cycle city’ campaign to be launched on April 21
Chandigarh, April 17
A campaign to make the city the first cycle city of the country will be launched on April 21. This will be on the pattern of around 120 European countries where this practice prevails.
Khattars to spread awareness
about chicken pox
Chandigarh, April 17
God was remembered by several names this morning. But one name by which He was remembered repeatedly was Saurabh
Khattar, the boy who lost the game of life in April 1999.
Kapil Dev releases Neeru Khattar’s book, titled ‘My God is Dead’, at the Chandigarh Club on Thursday. Also seen in the picture is Mr Raj Kumar Khattar (left), father of Saurabh Khattar, who died of chicken pox in April, 1999.
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10 fire incidents in 15 days
SAS Nagar, April 17
There have been 10 fire incidents in the town in the past 15 days due to the ignorance of children about safety measures, said Mr B.S. Sandhu, Fire Station Officer, while delivering a lecture to school students here today.
Only four firemen to man SAS Nagar
SAS Nagar, April 17
With the Department of Local Government, Punjab, refusing to give permission to the Municipal Council here to renew the service contract of firemen, the local fire station has been badly crippled putting the whole of Ropar district in danger.
Four parking lots auctioned
Chandigarh, April 17
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh today realised around 33 per cent higher returns from the auction of 4 of the 6 parking lots in Sector 17.
Encouraged by the response, the MCC has decided to auction two more parking lots in Sector 17 on April 21.
Bidders at an auction of parking lots in the Municipal Corporation office in Sector 17,
Chandigarh, on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph |
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4 more sectors declared garbage-bin free
Chandigarh, April 17
The local Municipal Corporation today declared Sectors 10,11,33 and 35 as garbage-bin-free and directed the people to dispose of the garbage at certain designated points from April 23.
 She lights pyres of unidentified bodies
Chandigarh, April 17
When it comes to serving the poor, even the most rigid rituals that prohibit a woman from lighting the pyre cannot stop 48-year-old, Amarjeet Dhillon from cremating the bodies of unidentified patients, dying at the PGI emergency.
 Despite a handicap, he lives life kingsize
Panchkula, April 17
When existence is at stake, the soul assumes enormous proportions. This holds true for Dr Vikram Jaswal, who despite suffering from a spinal deformity, lives life kingsize. Though life has been a day-to- day battle for him, his is a story of victory of self over an indifferent system.
Save Sukhna
Construct breast-wall
It is imperative that the storage capacity of the Sukhna Lake is increased. The easier way would be to construct a breast-wall about three feet high just above the radial gates from one end to the other. This would obviate the necessity of dismantling the existing radial gates.
ULTA PULTA
Catch the make-up man
Saddam’s make-up man caught ... fake beards, moustaches, wigs and spectacles found!!! If these kind of news headlines are flashed on television, I will be the first person to believe it. The USA could not find weapons of mass-destruction but chances are they might trap Saddam’s chief make-up man.
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