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 […]
Cotton cultivators in Punjab are selling their crop to Rajasthan and Haryana owing to high tax rates, a trend which may hit the state’s earnings and create shortage for the local ginning and spinning industry.
“Fifty per cent of our factories have shut down as they do not have cotton for ginning process. The spinning industry […]
The Congress-led UPA government has done for the SAD-BJP government what it did not do for its own Chief Minister - Capt Amarinder Singh. It has increased the wheat quota under the Antodaya scheme manifold to ensure the government can sustain the populist “aata-daal” (wheat-pulses) scheme, which was universally accepted to have become a white […]
This city is all set to host its third annual International Students Peace Festival from Sep 28 to Oct 1.The education department of Chandigarh, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, Commonwealth Youth Asia Centre, Chandigarh and a local non-government organisation, Yuvsatta, will jointly organise this peace festival.
“Around 250 students from Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Iran […]
A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices C K Thakker and D K Jain transferred the petition of former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, challenging his expulsion from Punjab State Assembly for his alleged involvement in Amritsar land scam, to some other bench.
Justice D K Jain was the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court […]
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned funds amounting to Rs 201 crore to Punjab and Rs 33 crore to Haryana under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund scheme.
NABARD has sanctioned these funds for two projects to Punjab government, which involves building of roads in 14 districts and tackling the problem of water-logging in […]
BIG 92.7 FM, Chandigarh’s No. 1 FM station in a first-of-its-kind initiative presents ‘Ab Dillie Dur Nahin’, an activity to trap the Traffic Violators of the city. BIG 92.7 FM is organizing this activity in association with Chandigarh Traffic Police. ‘Ab Dillie Dur Nahin’ is a satire on the traffic violators as they get gifts […]
In the last 10 months, various wings of the Punjab Police, Border Security Force (BSF) and Narcotics Cell have seized a total of 167 kg heroin in the state.
Between May 11 and 16, 123 kg of heroin has been seized from various parts.
This was revealed in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Baldev […]
Rahul Gandhi on Monday (September 2) paid obeisance at the Golden Temple, Amritsar, in a rare visit by a member of the Gandhi family to the shrine. It was the first visit to the shrine by the 38-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family who was escorted by employees of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) […]
The week-old deadlock between the employees of Mohali Municipal Council (MC) and the district administration on Wednesday reached flashpoint with striking civic staffers threatening to snap essential services like power and water supply, sanitation and streetlight services indefinitely in entire Mohali from Thursday.
As their demand to cancel an FIR lodged against the animal catching staff […]