In the absence of underpasses or safe crossways, women brave speeding vehicles while crossing the accident-prone National Highway-1 near Nilokheri in Karnal district. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar

Elderly feel unsafe
Ambala, January 12
Elderly persons are feeling unsafe here in the wake of the recent spate of murders, snatchings and thefts these days.

Cops to reward those helping mishap victims
Yamunanagar, January 12
In a move to save the lives of road accident victims, the district police has decided to reward those who help the victims and admit them to hospitals.

Surajkund mela to have global participation
Chandigarh, January 12
The Surajkund Crafts Mela organised in Faridabad district will attain the status of an international event this year with the participation of Egypt, Thailand, Brazil, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Park to don new look

Panipat, January 12 In yet another attempt to spruce up the Hali park that has been lying in a state of neglect since long, the district administration has chalked out a plan to rope in private parties to give it a new look. The Hali Park in Panipat which will be renovated soon. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar

Criminals for society, role models for kids

Gurgaon, January 12 On Sunday morning when most residents of this millennium city were basking in the sun at their homes , hundreds, including small children, women and the elderly, were being shoved out from a vacant site meant for a government school in Sector 10, which had been their abode for some time. Illegal hutments on a site for a government school in Sector 10, Gurgaon, which were removed on Sunday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed

A play, “People Like Us”, based on the tangled lives of 11 characters from contemporary Delhi, which was staged in Gurgaon recently. A Tribune photograph

Rewari railway station to be modernised
Rewari, January 12
The North Western Railways has devised a project for the expansion-cum-modernisation of the Rewari railway station, which was once the most prestigious and largest junction (station) of the metre gauge railways in India, nay the Asian continent.

‘Extend HUDA's self-certification policy to MC’
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has formulated an innovative people-friendly policy of "self-certification" for the sanction of building plans and the approval of completion/ occupation certificates. As a parallel system to facilitate the construction of houses in the urban estates in Haryana, the premiere housing agency of the state has done away with the cumbersome procedures of getting building plans sanctioned from babus, seeking DPC certificates, and the physical checking of the constructed dwelling at the time of procuring completion/occupation certificates.

Exhibition focuses on inner self

Gurgaon, January 12 Most of us usually crave for love, beauty, peace and happiness during the course of our life. In our quest to get these, we keep on running after material or mortal things, failing to realise that all these are present within ourselves’ in our inner self. An exhibition of paintings organised in Gurgaon. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed

Postage stamps fascinate ITBP inspector

Sonepat, January 12 Krishan Kumar, an ITBP inspector and resident of sector 14 here, is dedicated and passionate about stamp collection. He started collecting stamps in 1980, and gets new stamps through a philatelic account with Dak Bhawan in New Delhi. Now, he has more than 2,000 Indian stamps, which he has arranged chronologically in two albums.                                                                             Krishan Kumar

Norms eased for scribes’ accreditation
Sirsa, January 12
The rules and conditions for the grant of accreditation to journalists of the state have been made more flexible. KK Khandelwal, additional principal secretary to Chief Minister, and commissioner and director, information and public relations, informed this while interacting with mediapersons here recently.

Media coordinators are not VIPs
Sirsa, January 12
Media coordinators appointed by the Haryana government at the administrative division level do not enjoy the VIP status.