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Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Police have arrested five persons after a fight broke out between the drivers of Ambala Bus Syndicate and Chandigarh Transport Undertaking at the Sector 17 bus stand.

The fight broke out after some objection from the CTU employees regarding the bus timings of the syndicate. According to Jagdish Singh, former president of CTU Workers’ Union, the drivers of Ambala Bus Syndicate pick up passengers for destinations they are not authorised for.

“If their bus is supposed to go till Kharar, they will call and take passengers for areas like Khanna and Morinda. We objected to this,” said Singh.

Inspector Kulwant SIngh Pannu, SHO, Sector 17, said the police have arrested five persons and have registered a case under sections 107 and 157 of the Indian Penal Code.

CHANDIGARH — The ground that has been home to the likes of India’s World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev among others will host a one-day international cricket match after 14 years.

The centrally located Sector 16 stadium here will host the ODI between India and Australia on October 8.

Former president Ranbir Singh Mahendra on Tuesday formally informed the Chandigarh Administration about the decision of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to hold the tie here. Top administration officials assured Mahendra that the newly renovated stadium would be made ready for the event just over three months away.

Adviser to the Chandigarh administrator, Lalit Sharma, said that the best international standard facilities would be made available for the match. He added that all requirements of the BCCI and the International Cricket Council (ICC) would be met.

Besides facilities for players, officials, media and spectators, a giant electronic scoreboard was being installed.
The stadium hosted its last international match in 1993.

Chandigarh: The first trial run to increase speed of the trains running between Chandigarh and Kalka was successfully completed on Thursday when the rake of 17 bogeys along with a back-up engine crossed 50 kmph and touched the speed of 75 kmph on the tracks.

The trial run conducted by the locomotive inspectors from Ambala, was the first one in the series of three trials that would be conducted by the senior engineers. The commissioner of railway safety will conduct the final trial.

Although, today’s trial was conducted with a WDM-2 diesel engine, the electric locomotives, local as well as with the Swiss make, would do the other two.

A locomotive driver said, “In higher gradient if the front engine fails due to some reason there is always a chance of the train being pulled down due to the weight of the rake. To avoid such a mishap, the train always has a back up engine when going uphill.” During the trial the distance of 25 km was covered in 29 minutes with the train running at a speed of 75 kmph for about 16 km between Chandigarh and Surajpur.

Chandigarh: Furniture and raw material kept in the basement of a showroom in Sector 26 market were gutted in a major fire that broke out this morning in the showroom. As thick smoke spread towards other showrooms, people there ran out in panic; two boys jumped from the first floor of a nearby showroom. They escaped unhurt.

On seeing the intensity of the fire, the officials had even informed the Airforce and Panchkula Fire Brigade officials but before they could come the fire was already brought under control.

Earlier in the day at about 9 am, someone had called the fire brigade on seeing smoke coming out of the basement of Salwan Furnitures at SCO 5. On receiving the call, one fire tender and one Advance Fire Fighting Technology (AFT) vehicle were rushed to the spot. Around 10 persons were later brought down from the building with the help of hydraulic platform-cum-turn -table ladder. Those working in the various other showrooms in the building had to stay out for hours as smoke had filled up other showrooms as well. The market houses offices of many private companies, shops, restaurant, hotels and some government offices.

There were a lot of combustible material like clothes, thinner, paints and plastics stored in the furniture shop which fuelled the fire. Thremal Imaging Camera was used to detect the source of fire at the basement. Besides hydraulic machine, three fire tenders and two water dousers were also summoned.The furniture and raw material stored in the basement suffered substantial damage.
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CHANDIGARH: After focusing on hair and oral care categories in the FMCG market, Dabur India Limited has chalked out plans to expand its product portfolio in the Ayurvedic segment. By launching a new line of ayurvedic and herbal soaps under the Dabur brand, the company is eyeing a major share in the Rs 4,500 crore soap market. It plans to launch a new flavour of the Ayurvedic Chyawanprash targeted at kids.

A senior official of the company told FE, “We would be bringing the chocolate flavored chyawanprash for kids in the third quarter of this fiscal. Besides this the Vatika soap brand will be expanded with the introduction of a new summer special variant, Vatika Orange Peel and Saffron soap. We are following a two pronged strategy whereby we would be expanding the Vatika brand of soaps with newer health and beauty care variants. And we would introduce ayurvedic and herbal soaps in the market under the Dabur brand. The new Dabur ayurvedic soap will hit the stores soon. New products would be added and mass marketing methods would be explored for our Gulabari brand based on rose water.”

DELHI/ CHANDIGARH: “MAMA I am coming home,“ soulful lyrics by Ozzy Osbourne hold true for many NRI employees in the aviation industry who are now homeward bound to India.

Thanks to the boom in the aviation industry and dearth of employees, many CPL (commercial pilot license) holders and aircraft engineers who migrated in search of greener pastures are now returning to their motherland, where they are getting a red carpet welcome by Indian companies.

A reunion with their family coupled with lucrative salaries offered by airlines is attracting pilots back home.

According to sources, while Emirates pays around Rs 3 lakh per month to a pilot, Indian carriers pay anywhere between Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh per month. “On top of this, they get accommodation too. It’s an attractive option for NRI pilots to work in India,” says Captain A Ranganathan, member, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP).

Canada, Australia, US, Singapore and the Gulf countries are some places from where NRI pilots are returning. Air India’s deputy general manager, training operations, Harpreet A De Singh says, “In India, the age of retirement for pilots is 65 unlike many countries where it is 60.

NRIs, like expats, are also coming to the country to fly for few more years.” Besides, the comfort of being in one’s own country is always alluring. “As salaries are at par with the global standards, it is a better option for them to work in their own country where they have strong cultural ties,” said Surajit Banerjee, VP (HR), SpiceJet, that has recruited a couple of NRI pilots.
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