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Power, water supply to old village houses
Admn mulls dropping NOCs for connections
Chandigarh, April 1
The UT administration is mulling over the issue of giving the go-by to mandatory no objection certificates (NOC) for giving electricity and water connections to old houses in villages.
Another water pipe bursts
Taps go dry in Sector 29
Chandigarh, April 1
Residents of Sector 29 had to go without water owing to a major leakage in a water pipe on road separating Sectors 29 and 30.
The leakage led to inundation of the road even as residents stayed without water
throughout the day.
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Work in progress to repair a water pipe on the road separating Sectors 29 and 30; and (right) residents scramble to fill buckets after the supply to their houses was snapped in Sector 29 A, Chandigarh, on Tuesday.
— Tribune photographs
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Time to lock up your veggies
Jaspal Bhatti’s wife wants bank lockers for storing ‘precious’ vegetables
Chandigarh, April 1
The sky rocketing price of vegetables caught the fancy of the Nonsense Club, which concerned over their high prices, wanted to keep them in a bank locker.
Satirist Savita Bhatti carries a basket of vegetables to be stored in a bank locker in Sector 17.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan |
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FOOTLOOSE: Stray dogs take a nap at a bus queue shelter opposite the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh.
— Tribune photo by Karam Singh |
PNB ATM acts up
Chandigarh, April 1
As banks got busy trying to match their balance sheets for the financial year-end, ATM services of various banks in the city ran haywire today.
Deccan stops Delhi to Chandigarh flight
Chandigarh, April 1
Deccan, a low cost private airline has discontinued few of its flights operating in the northern region including its Delhi-Chandigarh-Jammu flight.
CHB Scheme
Hunger strike from April 2
Chandigarh, April 1
The Pind Bachao Society of Punjab Capital Project has announced an indefinite chain hunger strike in Sector 63 from April 2.
PU Assault
Security doing little to contain violence
Chandigarh, April 1
In spite of an increase in number of incidents of violence on the Panjab University campus, the local police and security in-charge have failed to keep a check on students carrying weapons there.
Bank holiday: PU students face tough time
Chandigarh, April 1
Bank holiday on April 1 turned out to be one bad experience for the students who came to the Panjab University to collect their duplicate roll numbers.
Students queue up to deposit fee at Panjab University after a cash counter was opened on a bank holiday on the PU campus on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan |
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City to have IT centres for schoolchildren
Chandigarh, April 1
All-India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT), a non-governmental organisation, is planning to open IT centers and computer education programme for school children in Chandigarh.
Dr Josan takes over as DAV
principal
Chandigarh, April 1
Dr Balbir Chand Josan, principal DAV College, Abohar, has taken over as principal of DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh.
The DAV managing committee, New Delhi, chose Dr Josan following the retirement
of S. Marriya. Dr Josan served the DAV,College Abohar, as principal for around
six years.
Seminar on busting stress
Chandigarh, April 1
The management of Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School organised seminars for its staff on the school premises in Sector 26, here today. The first phase of seminar was on stress management for teaching faculty taken up by IPAT headed by Rajnish Garg. The focus was on generating the conducive environment for teaching.
CAT restrains homoeopathy institute
Chandigarh, April 1
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) today restrained Yoga Unani Sidha Homoeopathy, Sector 24, from appointing candidates to the post of assistant medical officer (homoeopathy).
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