Jhajjar: Four men died on Sunday night after inhaling suspected toxic gas inside an abandoned well while trying to rescue a calf in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. A police officer who later entered the well was hospitalised but is in stable condition. The district administration has ordered an inquiry, while announcing compensation and govt jobs for…
Chandigarh: The municipal corporation’s engineering department has begun work on constructing new pedestrian tracks around parks in Sector 46 at a cost of Rs 65 lakh, with reusable old paver blocks being incorporated into the project.Area councillor Gurpreet Singh said damaged and worn-out paver blocks surrounding the parks will be replaced using a mix of…
Mohali: The Mohali Congress Monday staged a protest at Jawahar Nagar to express solidarity with Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, while alleging a deterioration in law and order and civic services in the city.The demonstration was led by former minister Balbir Singh Sidhu and former mayor…
Mohali: Protesting prolonged power outages during the paddy cultivation season, farmers and residents from several villages in Derabassi Monday blocked the Mubarakpur-Sundran road outside the Mubarakpur electricity grid, alleging that erratic supply was affecting irrigation and leaving paddy fields dry.The protest, held despite intermittent rain, led to long traffic jams as demonstrators sat on the…
Support pours in for Wangchuk Chandigarh: Holding the Tricolour, copies of the Constitution and hand-painted placards, students and citizens gathered at Sector 17 Plaza on Monday to express solidarity with activist Sonam Wangchuk and demand accountability over repeated examination paper leaks, particularly those linked to NEET.The demonstration drew students, professionals, retirees and young aspirants, who…
UT Exploring Feasibility Of Two Busy Lots Chandigarh: In a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at easing chronic parking congestion, the municipal corporation (MC) Monday moved a step closer to introducing robotic multilevel parking in Chandigarh by sending detailed survey plans of two of the city’s busiest parking sites to the UT administration’s urban planning department for…
Chandigarh: Chandigarh Police has arrested a Maloya resident for allegedly stealing cash and valuables from a temple in Sector 42.Police said GK Giridhar of Shri Sanatan Dharam Sabha Mandir, Sector 42, lodged a complaint on July 3, reporting the theft of Rs 15,000-Rs 16,000 in cash and a brass kalash from the temple.During the investigation,…
Chandigarh: In a big relief for govt employees awaiting official accommodation, the Chandigarh administration has amended its govt housing allotment rules to ensure that licence fee is charged only after an allotted house is physically handed over in a habitable condition. The revised rules also remove discretionary extensions for taking possession, introducing a stricter and…
Chandigarh: In a move aimed at integrating environmental resources into official economic planning, the Chandigarh administration has constituted an interdepartmental group (IDG) to compile the UT’s environment accounts in line with international standards.The group has been formed by the finance department following directions from the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The Directorate of…
Jalandhar: With the controversy over the release of the movie ‘Satluj’ and its quick takedown from an OTT platform, a debate is raging on the number of deaths, especially of Hindus, in militant violence in Punjab in the 1980s-90s.Earlier, senior politicians would vaguely mention 25,000 to 35,000 deaths, and the implication was that they included…
