A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.
The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which […]
A Senator on Tuesday accused the country’s nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in central Punjab province, causing cancer, miscarriages, and infertility among villagers and livestock.
Senator Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari said the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and Kahuta Research Laboratory (KRL), dumped radioactive waste in the area.
Leghari, a member of the […]
Tata Group, which last week announced plans to set up a manufacturing plant in West Bengal to roll out its Rs one lakh car, is in discussions with the Punjab government for a mega project.
The negotiations with the Tata Group is going on and “we are hopeful that Tata would announce fresh investments for Punjab […]
The probables for the Chandigarh team that will participate in the Super Zone National Twenty20 Cricket Championship, being hosted by Panchkula District Twenty20 Cricket Association at the Chaudhary Devi Lal Sports Complex, Sector 3, Panchkula from May 23 to 28, was announced on Sunday.
According to information given by Chandigarh (UT) Twenty-Twenty Cricket Association (CTCA) […]
Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has ordered the formation of a monitoring committee to be headed by the Punjab inspector general (IG) of police to evaluate the efficiency of district police officers (DPOs).
The committee will submit a monthly report to Elahi on the crime rate in Punjab districts and the performance of the police in […]
THE newly elected president of Panchkula Municipal Council, Manveer Kaur Gill, took over the charge as the president at the Council office in Sector 4, here, today. Gill took over the charge in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan at 4.30 pm.
Talking to the mediapersons, Chander Mohan said the Congress councillors who were […]
The Punjab government has decided to take over 378 colleges from the administrative control of the district governments from the next fiscal year and proposals for their development budget plans have been sent to the authorities concerned, source said.
An agreement has been signed with the World Bank and most of the funds would be spent […]
A blistering century by Subham Rana guaranteed District Cricket Association of Panchkula an 86-run win over DCF, Delhi during the 8th Hot Weather Cricket Tournament currently at the Military Grounds here on Tuesday.
Winning the toss DCAP chose to bat first and further went on to pile up a total of 229 runs for the loss […]
TERROR struck at the Emergency Wing of the Civil Hospital, Phase VI, Mohali, when a group of over 24 youngsters, brandishing swords, gandasi, and rods, attacked two youths who had come to the Emergency with an injured friend. The two were seriously injured and had to be admitted to the PGI.
The youth, who was brought […]
The Punjab government is considering appointing social welfare officers to all jails in the province to cater to the welfare of prisoners, Punjab Prisons Department officials told Daily Times.
They said the Punjab Home Department had discussed the idea and would soon finalise creating posts for social welfare officers in prisons. Officials said the Home Department […]