Punjab constitutes Muslim Welfare Board
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has constituted the Punjab Muslim Welfare and Development, Board for the development and welfare of Muslim Community in the State. Dilbag Hussain has been appointed as Chairman of the Board. The terms and conditions of his appointment would be the same as standard terms and conditions for appointment of non-official Chairperson, Part time Chairperson/Vice Chairperson/ Member of the Public Sector Undertakings/Boards/ Apex Cooperative Institutions/ Tribunals and Commissions.
Monthly passes for city buses in Haryana
Chandigarh: Haryana on Thursday announced to introduce general public pass system for city bus service in Faridabad, Gurgaon and Panchkula. Transport Minister Aftab Ahmed said that the passes would be issued to travel within municipal limits for non-AC and AC buses on monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly basis. The rates for monthly bus pass would be Rs450 and Rs700 for ordinary buses and AC buses respectively. Quarterly bus passes would be issued at the rate of Rs1,300 and Rs2,000 for ordinary buses and AC buses respectively. Rates for half yearly bus pass would be Rs2,500 for ordinary buses and Rs3,900 for AC buses. Similarly, Rs4,800 would be charged for yearly bus pass of ordinary buses and Rs7,400 for AC buses.
Vigilance Bureau nabs ASI in graft case
Chandigarh: The Vigilance Bureau (VB), Punjab on Thursday nabbed an ASI red-handed, while accepting bribe. ASI was demanding bribe to take further action on a complaint of an accident case. An official spokesperson of the VB said that Harjinder Singh of Village Dhudianwal, Tehsil-Sultanpur lodhi (Kapurthala) lodged complaint that ASI Manjit Singh, posted as In-charge at Police Post, Bhulana (RCF) was demanding Rs10,000 to take further action on the complaint filed by him regarding the accident between the scooter of his grandfather and car of another party. Acting on the tip off, the team of Vigilance Bureau Unit, Kapurthala led by DSP Kulwant Rai laid trap and caught ASI Manjit Singh red-handed with the bribe money of Rs10,000.
Now de-addiction centre at Fortis Hospital
ludhiana: India's leading de-addiction expert, Director of Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Fortis Healthcare, Dr Samir Parikh on Thursday said that more youth use are engaging in substance abuse and dwelled on the reasons. Flanked by Director Fortis ludhiana Vivan Gill and Psychiatrist, Fortis Hospital ludhiana Dr Ajaypal Singh Sandhu, Dr Parikh said the reason for why more youth are engaging in the usage of substances can be varied. For some it may be an experimentation, for others it may be due to peer pressure, yet others may want to try it for the risk and the thrill which they may have heard or seen others experience. Director Fortis Hospital ludhiana Vivan Gill said that extending a helping hand in State Government's battle against drug menace, the Fortis Hospital ludhiana has launched its de-addiction services, which has state-of-art facilities to treat addiction.
Tanishq announces offers on diamond
Chandigarh: Tanishq has announced offers on its wide range of diamond jewellery. Customers can avail a flat 15 per cent off on entire diamond jewellery collection priced within Rs2 lakhs and up to 25 per cent off on those priced above Rs2 lakhs at any Tanishq store between July 24 and September 7.
food dept starts mobile vegetable vans
Chandigarh: Food and Supplies Department, UT, Chandigarh has started two mobile vans to function as low price stalls for onion and potato in view of the recent price rise in the vegetables of daily need. This was done as per the directions given by Administrator of UT, Shivraj Patil. These vans are being given sufficient quantity of onion and potato (directly bought from wholesalers with the help of Government machinery) to be sold at no profit and no loss basis at different locations in Chandigarh having sizeable amount of poor and underprivileged people.