Canadian police in Chandigarh for Kanishka probe

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 […]

Delimitation did us in, rue heavyweights

Having been made to bite the dust by greenhorns during the Mohali Municipal Council elections, results of which were declared yesterday, the shell-shocked heavyweights today got down to the task of determining where did it went wrong. Most of them are of the view that the delimitation of wards carried out this time proved to […]

Punjab to be agri-dairy hub of Reliance

Punjab Tuesday moves towards becoming the agriculture and dairy business centre of Reliance Industries’ retail foray, a Rs.50 billion (approx $1 billion) investment that will see creation of five major agri hubs in the state.

Despite opposition to the deal, the Punjab government had last month cleared the necessary land allocation for implementation of RIL’s […]

Mother , son sentenced for kidnapping, rape and mur ...

A city court on July 29 sentenced a man to life imprisonment and his mother to five years in a case of kidnapping, rape and murder of a minor Dalit girl.
The duo were produced before the court of district and sessions judge Inderjit Kaushik, who sentenced Malkit Singh for life for rape and murder […]

Punjab to set up freedom memorial at Chandigarh, sa ...

The Punjab Government has decided establish a special chair at Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar on the life and works of the freedom fighters and patriots who made supreme sacrifices during the Indian freedom struggle and also set up a suitable memorial somewhere at Chandigarh to perpetuate the memory of thousands of known and unknown […]

RITES report says no bumpy ride on 90% city roads

There is a 405-km road network in Chandigarh, and 90 per cent of it is in good condition. As per the report submitted to the UT Administration by Rail India Technical and Economic Services Ltd (RITES), only 2 per cent of the total road length has poor road surface condition.
As per the report, […]

Rent Control Act gets flak in Chandigarh

The union urban development ministry’s move to resurrect the Rent Control Act attracted flak from property-owners in Chandigarh. The ministry had plans of resurrecting the Act first in the capital, and thereafter, in all major metros.
Setting different tariff bands for business and residential premises, a draft of the Rent Control Act was being prepared. […]