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 […]

Overwhelming response for PUDA auctions

PUDA has fetched a total revenue of Rs 1788.47 lakh has been fetched from the auction of 27 commercial sites in Urban Estate, Sector 39, Samrala Road and Urban Estate, Dhandari Kallan. The auction was held on August 29 and August 30 under the supervision of S R Kaler Additional Administrator PUDA.
Kaler informed Newsline […]

Punjab Govt clears proposal for upgradation of GRH ...

The mortuary of the Government Rajindra Hospital is all set to get a fresh lease of life after the Punjab government has approved a proposal submitted by the hospital authorities to upgrade it.
The morgue, where large number autopsies are conducted every year, is the only dead room in the Patiala region. The only […]

Amritsar airport to get perishable cargo centre

Anticipating increased horticulture export orders from the northern region, Punjab government is going to construct a new perishable cargo centre at the Amritsar airport at a cost of Rs 18.5 crore.
CEO council for value added horticulture in Punjab, VS Chimni told TOI, “The Airports Authority of India has agreed to give us joint […]

US calling! KallDesk goes global, has mega plans

CHANDIGARH-based IT company Universal Cyber Infoway Pvt Ltd (UCIPL) is all set to expand the operations of its call centre, KallDesk, in the US. It is the first call centre from the city to set up an office abroad. KallDesk will be establishing a marketing division in the state of North Carolina, US. Set up […]

Buy Centurion Bank of Punjab

Ashish Kapoor, CEO of Investshoppe is of the view that after that merger with Lord Krishna Bank, one can go ahead and buy Centurion Bank of Punjab.
Kapoor told CNBC-TV18, “I would wait for the whole merger to go through and then buy because Centurion Bank of Punjab has run up. It is a good […]

Encroachers cock a snook at PUDA

While the enforcement wing of PUDA is busy clearing the encroachments in the villages and in the periphery, in the heart of the city in Phase-IX, some slum dwellers have constructed more than three dozen jhuggis inside the Sports Complex towards the road dividing Phase-9 with Sector 68. The area ironically is not far from […]