2 Sep : As Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exercised its authority under the Clean Air Act to temporarily waive certain federal clean gasoline requirements for parts of Texas where they apply until Sept. 10, 2008.  This waiver will allow greater flexibility for the fuel distribution system to support an adequate supply.

Dr. Avnish Jolly, The India Post, Chandigarh, 2st September, 2008:World’s first Sikh university would be set up in Fatehgarh Sahib, the holy town in the northern Indian state Punjab. The university, Guru Granth Sahib World University, will deal with contemporary issues like the authentic interpretation of Sikhism in the modern context and idiom, role of Sikhism in the making of the 21st century society and the third millennium civilisation, a state government spokesperson shared. The university authorities are also planning to rope in the Sikh diaspora in the new …

The India Post, CHANDIGARH- SEPTEMBER 01, 2008 : Today, An Eye-Donation Awareness Programme inaugurated  by Prof. S.S Bari, Registrar, Panjab University,Chandigarh was held at Senate Hall,  Administrative Block.

Badal writes to PM, HRD MinisterChandigarh, September 1:The Punjab Govt. today asked the Union Government not to a go ahead with the proposal to grant the Central University Status to the Punjab University, Chandigarh. 

1 Sep :Catholics have invited acclaimed Hindu leader Rajan Zed for an interfaith dialogue.Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, has been invited to attend the Diocesan Ecumenical Interreligious Commission meeting of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento on November 18.

1st Sep, Kalyani Singh , 2008 :As a part of the ongoing Awareness and Sensitization Programme on the hazards of use of tobacco being run by the Chandigarh Administration, Govt. Home Science College, Chandigarh organized a presentation to enlighten the students on the dreadful consequences of indulging into the use of tobacco in the form of smoking and chewing tobacco.

By Sargun Makhni 1st September 2008 :The consistency and determination of the people to sweat and work laboriously with their ignited minds and souls to keep the lamp of knowledge, prosperity and development burning helped India to be stamped as a “GOLDEN BIRD”.