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 […]
AGENDA items worth more than Rs 2.5 crore were passed today in the second meeting of the Municipal Council, Mohali. The meeting was chaired over by president Rajinder Singh Rana. This is the first time that the elected council had come up with major development works in Mohali’s wards.
While the councillors were satisfied with […]
Prem Sagar Jain, a former senior deputy mayor of Chandigarh, Monday committed suicide at his residence in Sector 15 here, police said.
Jain, 76, shot himself in the head with his .32-bore revolver after breakfast. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was suffering from depression due to failing health, his family members told police.
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal Deputy Chief Minister Punjab called upon the girls to acquire excellence in their subjects/vocations, so that, they could compete with their counter part at the international level, as the whole world had been shrunken into a small village with the fast development of Computer based technology.
Bhattal was addressing the students on […]
Stylish middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh, who is out of the ICC Champions Trophy following an injury on Saturday, certainly needs a lesson or two in humility and good manners in public.
The southpaw, who has not been handling the ball too well recently on the field was seen manhandling a photojournalist in Chandigarh, 10 km from […]
It started out as drug abuse, but this sleepy hamlet in Sangrur district is now faced with the fact that it may be a step short of an AIDS epidemic. It all began when sarpanch Hari Singh sought help from Punjab’s health officials to rid the village of its drug menace. Little did he know […]
All the political parties and groups opposed to the Congress, Akali Dal (Badal) and BJP in Punjab were coordinating among themselves on the seat sharing for the ensuing assembly polls in Punjab, a senior leader of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD-Longowal) said here on Monday.
“The Panthic Parties such as SAD (Longowal), SAD (1920) and SAD […]
Administration has constituted the Chandigarh Tourism Advisory Forum under the chairmanship of renowned Bollywood director Yash Chopra to promote Chandigarh as a tourist destination.
This forum would advise specifically with a view to promote Chandigarh as a destination for film making, medical tourism, adventure tourism, heritage tourism, etc. This forum would also advice on how […]
The driver and security guards of Punjab Chief Secretary KR Lakhanpal displayed the “power of khaki� today.
After ramming into a scooter in Sector 26 parking lot from behind, they assaulted the scooterists. Their colleague tried to save them from the Punjab police personnel. And while all this was happening, Lakhanpal sat inside his Skoda, […]
South Africa should quickly step out of the comfort zone of playing on a seaming track and face the stark reality of contesting their Champions Trophy semifinal on a typical subcontinent wicket, their wicketkeeper-batsman Mark Boucher said.
The Proteas had the luxury of bowling on a wicket that offered exaggerated bounce and seam movement, uncharacteristic […]