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Vita booths don’t heed DC orders
 Continue to sell local made ice creams at Mansa Devi Temple
Panchkula, September 18
The efforts of the Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board to provide best of quality products to devotees at the premises seems to have gone futile as the shopkeepers in the area have been found flouting the norms blatantly.
A Vita booth selling local made ice cream at Mata Mansa Devi Temple complex at Panchkula
on Friday. Tribune photo: Nitin Mittal
Students of St Mary’s School perform during a function at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh
on Friday. A Tribune photograph
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Now, prisons to be tourist spots
Chandigarh, September 18
You may soon find prisons arresting your attention with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) coming out with plan of promoting “prison tourism” in the country.
Swine Flu
Health officials review strategy
Chandigarh, September 18
In the wake of the detection of positive swine flu cases from two schools — Bhawan Vidyalaya Sector-27 and Delhi Public School Sector-40 — the UT health department convened a meeting to review the strategy for curbing H1N1 influenza.
Hedge Bylaw Violation-III
Southern sectors worst hit
Chandigarh, September 18
Roads in southern sectors are getting narrower by the day, thanks to encroachment by residents on government land adjoining their houses.
Few takers for rly ticket booking counter at Phase I
Mohali, September 18
The railway ticket booking counter at the Phase I post office here has failed to attract many prospective travellers since its inauguration less than two months ago.
Failed Public Transport-IV
Car pool, better traffic signals viable solutions
Chandigarh, September 18
Car pool is the most effective means of handling the burgeoning traffic on city roads, feels Prof Harish Bhatia, a transportation consultant and former teacher at Punjab Engineering College.
STA secy to replace DPI?
Chandigarh, September 18
Though the police is yet to confirm the alleged role of DPI (S) Samwartak Singh in the cash-for-job scam, the administration is contemplating to shift his charge to STA secretary Vandana Disodia.
Assembly Poll
No papers filed on 1st day
Panchkula, September 18
Not even a single nomination was filed on the first day of the filing of the nominations for the forthcoming assembly elections here today.
IT survey yields Rs 8.5 crore
Chandigarh, September 18
The survey conducted by the income tax authorities on four premises owned by Bansal General Pvt Ltd on Wednesday yielded Rs 8.5 crore to the department.
Allotment Row
HC notice of motion for Oct 5
Chandigarh, September 18
Less than a week after a local court dismissed the bail petition of municipal councillor Davinder Singh
Babla, Justice Rajesh Bindal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion for October 5.
Markets to be filmed for encroachment
Chandigarh, September 18
Representatives of the Beopar Mandal attended an enforcement committee meeting of the municipal corporation under the chairmanship of MPS Chawla to remove the encroachments in marketplaces held today.
Move to amend Prisons Act
Chandigarh, September 18
Nearly 115 years after it came into force, the Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated the move to bring amendments to the Prisons Act of 1894. MHA’s joint secretary NS Kalsi said even if two states agree on the issue, they would go ahead with the amendment.
Another student falls from bus; injured
Panchkula,
September 18
Close on the heels of fatal fall of a student from a roadways bus on
Wednesday, a student got injured when he fell while boarding a bus her today. The injured was admitted to a general hospital in Sector 6.
102 units of blood collected
Chandigarh, September 18
A blood donation camp was organised at Doaba Institute of Engineering and Technology (DIET), Kharar, in collaboration with Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector-16, Chandigarh.
Buy furniture from jail factory, govt offices told
Chandigarh, September 18
All government offices, schools and colleges have been directed to purchase furniture from the factory at the Burail Jail.
DTO gives last chance to traffic
offenders
Mohali, September 18
As a number of traffic offenders have failed to pay their challan amounts, the District Transport Office has decided to give one last chance to them to do so at a special camp being organised here on October 4.
Brijendra Singh appointed DC
Chandigarh, September 18
The Chandigarh administration has appointed Brijendra Singh Deputy Commissioner for three years, a press note said here
today. He will work as District Magistrate, Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Agriculture Census Commissioner, president of the Zila Sainik Welfare Board, additional chief electoral officer, secretary of the Marketing Board, Controller Civil Defence, Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Estate Officer, Director, Food and Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Director, Agriculture, and Labour Commissioner in addition to his duties.
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From Schools &
Colleges
Students made aware of traffic rules
Mohali, September 18
A traffic awareness programme was organised at Shivalik Public School here today.
Inspector Devinder Singh, in charge traffic cell, Mohali police, explained traffic rules through charts and diagrams to students of the school.
He said such awareness programmes were being conducted in various schools as part of education campaign.
Self-service doesn’t enthuse PU boarders
Chandigarh, September 18
Panjab University’s decision to discontinue with the catering facility and introduce “self-service” in girls’ hostel has irked
students.
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Theft at Sector-8 salon
