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Bird flu: Poultry farmers slash egg prices
Panchkula, January 17
The poultry farm owners of the district have started to feel the heat of avian flu in West Bengal.
The price of eggs has been reduced to Rs 135 for 100 pieces during the past couple of days. Earlier, the same quantity was sold for Rs 170 by the poultry farms.
REINED IN: Two schoolgirls caught in winter showers while on their way home from school in Sector 47 in Chandigarh on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
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Sec-43 bus stand lacks even basic facilities
Chandigarh, January 17
Thousands of bus passengers are facing a plethora of problems due to incomplete terminal building and scanty basic services.
Foeticide
Child panel wants punishment for erring doctors
Chandigarh, January 17
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) today held in Chandigarh the first in the series of regional seminars to address the issue of female foeticide
in India.
Oil conservation function begins
Chandigarh, January 17
Continuing the oil and gas conservation since 1991, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas yesterday bagan Oil and Gas Conversation fortnight, 2008, with a function at Baba Makhan Shah Lobana Kendra, Sector 30, here.
Session on US elections
Chandigarh, January 17
The American Corner at the Central State Library, Sector 17, here today organised an interactive session on ‘Elections in the United States of America’ by Joel
Ehrendreich, first secretary, chief of external political and political-military unit, US Embassy, New Delhi.
UNITED COLOURS OF WINTER: Girls wearing colourful dresses enjoy rain and
chilly winds in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Vinay Malik
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Sunidhi Chauhan makes flash appearance
Zirakpur, January 17
Renowned singer Sunidhi Chauhan paid a flying visit to
Zirakpur today. She was here to collect the allotment letter of the two flats she had booked in Bollywood Heights here.
Letters
No more flats, please
The High Court orders disallowing multi-storey apartments in the northern sectors come as a relief. High-rise buildings will be an eyesore and will ruin the city’s basic character. In fact, there are far too many flats in the southern sectors already with no space for children’s park. The green cover is also negligible as compared to the northern sectors.
‘Media not playing its role’
Chandigarh, January 17
“A section of the media is not playing the essential role of the fourth estate and is rather becoming a source of entertainment and consumerist industry”, said A. J. Philip, senior associate editor,
The Tribune
, while inaugurating a two-day national seminar on “Morality and public life”, organised by the Department of Philosophy, Panjab University.
A speaker makes a point during the inaugural session of the two-day national seminar on “Public life and morality”, organised by the department of philosophy, PU, in Chandigarh, on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik
Missing
Girls
UNFPA gets art students to paint
problem
Chandigarh, January 17
Missing girls are on everybody’s mind. After the government, it’s
United Nations Population Fund- India’s turn to celebrate the
girl child in its own way. The organisation in collaboration with Centre
for Media Studies has this year launched a project called “Delighting
in Daughters”.
Art college students attend orientation workshop by UNFPA-Centre for Media Studies, which organised a national painting contest on the theme of the girl child.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan
From Schools & Colleges
‘Taare Zameen Par’ in Shivalik Public
Mohali, January 17
More than 100 tiny tots of classes pre-nursery to KG of Shivalik Public School, Mohali, participated in a fancy dress competition titled ‘Taare Zameen Par’ here today. Children came dressed up as tree, flower, fairy, king, nurse, doctor, butterfly, sparrow etc. Winners of the contest were Tanvir,
Shweta, Vanshika, Muktiraj, Dipinder, Ishika, Pracheta, Geetakshi, Prabhleen,
Yuraj, Deevanshi, Simranpreet.
From Schools & Colleges
Preetika best singer
Chandigarh, January 17
Three-day winter carnival ‘MCC-2008’ started at Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, here, today. Charan Kamal Kaur, vice-chairperson, Shiromani Sant Khalsa International Foundation, inaugurated the carnival. Inter-school competitions such as stone painting, solo singing and cartoon making were organised which saw participation by students from various schools of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula.
Students of Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, perform a dance during the winter carnival in Chandigarh on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
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Chandigarh may have a Metro in the next five years. The ambitious Metro project, for which initial studies have been done, not only proposes to link the city beautiful with satellite towns of Panchkula and Mohali but may even connect it to the industrial town of Baddi in Himachal Pradesh.
Chandigarh, January 17
Chandigarh, January 17
