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SAD, BJP to contest poll jointly: Badal
Mohali, March 5
Former Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal today stated that the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party would jointly contest the next state elections. Mr Badal was speaking to mediapersons after inaugurating a private school in Sector 69 here today. He alleged that the Congress government in the state had not fulfilled even one of the promises made in its election manifesto.
Mr Parkash Singh Badal, former Chief Minister of Punjab, after the inauguration of Path Finder High School, Sector 69, Mohali, on Sunday.
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Unique project for India, Pak children
Chandigarh, March 5
This letter writing is certainly different. Dedicated to the cause of India-Pakistan amity, the `campaign is so simple it just might work'.
An inspiring project of `Friends Without Borders', a group dedicated to allowing children to speak to each other, `heart-to-heart, across a sometimes troubled international boundary, thousands of school children across India are writing letters of friendship to children in Pakistan.
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Cricketer Yuvraj Singh being honoured with a siropa at Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan at Sohana village in Mohali on Sunday.
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Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh inaugurates a Himachal Pradesh
students’ function at Panjab University on Sunday.
— Tribune photographs
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Renal failure patient
needs help
Chandigarh, March 5
It's been over a year since Jaswinder Singh's battle with poor finances
and poor health began. All of 18 years and a student of plus two, he suffered
excruciating pain in his abdomen
last July.
Residents’ body flays
CHB, HUDA
Chandigarh, March 5
The commercial approach adopted by the Chandigarh Housing Board and the Haryana Housing Development Authority
came in for severe criticism at the executive committee meeting of the Federation of Sector Welfare Associations
held here today.
Chandigarh residents not allowed to apply for posts
Chandigarh, March 5
Residents of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab, have been excluded from the eligibility criteria laid down by the Punjab Government while inviting applications for the posts of primary teacher in the state.
The advertisement inserted by the Director Rural Development and Panchayats, Punjab yesterday, mentioned that “no appointments will be made from outside the district”.
Welfare body celebrates annual day
Panchkula, March 5
The annual day function of the Residents Welfare Association, Sector 12, was celebrated with much fanfare at the Community Centre, Sector 12, here today.
More than 200 children participated in fun games and athletic events.
Girls perform folk dance during the annual day function of the Residents Welfare
Association, Sector 12, Panchkula, on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph |
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Foundation day celebrated
Chandigarh, March 5
To celebrate the foundation day of the Computer Society of India, Chandigarh chapter organised a one-day workshop on "Multimedia and Applications".
ISKCON devotees take out procession
Chandigarh, March 5
As part of the celebrations of the “appearance day” of Lord Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu, the local unit of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
organised a nagar sankirtan here today. Nand Maharaj Dasa
Prabhu, copresident of the local unit, said a large number of devotees took part in the
sankirtan.
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| ISKCON devotees take out a procession in Chandigarh on Sunday.
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Rights group to hold seminar
Chandigarh, March 5
With a view to spreading awareness about the human rights, the United Nations Human Rights Organisation will hold a national-level seminar in July.
This was stated by Mr Ashok Bector, chairman of the organisation, here today.
BKU plans march to Assembly
Chandigarh, March 5
The Punjab unit of the Bharti Kisan Union has planned a march to the Punjab Assembly when the budget is presented on March 7. Farmers of the state have been staging a dharna at the Matka Chowk here.
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