Mohali: Thick, toxic smoke emanating from a fire at the legacy waste dumping ground at Phase 8-B, Industrial Area has triggered serious health concerns among residents. As fumes enter homes, people living in the vicinity have reported breathing difficulties.The municipal corporation has halted waste processing at the site and deployed water sprinklers to control the…
Sandeep.Rana1Chandigarh: The city recorded the hottest day of the ongoing summer season, with maximum temperature reaching 41 degrees Celsius on Friday.With temperature five degrees above normal, the city experienced its second heat wave of the season. The India Meteorological Department describes conditions when maximum temperature is 4.5 degrees Celsius to 6.4 degrees Celsius above normal,…
Chandigarh: The municipal corporation has tied up with BSNL to send messages asking around nine lakh owners of vehicles registered in Chandigarh to opt for parking passes. In the messages, the civic body has tried to persuade vehicle owners to avail of the parking facility in its paid parking lots.Launched in Jan, the “one pass”…
Ambala: Haryana cabinet minister Anil Vij and Delhi cabinet minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday accompanied candidate Akshita Saini to file her nomination papers for the Ambala municipal corporation elections and expressed confidence of a decisive victory. Akshita filed her nomination at the Ambala City ADC office. Earlier, a rally was organised in which the…
Amritsar: Amritsar police have suspended a traffic policeman after allegations of harassment by devotees visiting the Golden Temple went viral on social media.The incident allegedly took place during vehicle checking at a naka at Ram Talai chowk. A family from Thoba village, who had come to offer prayers and celebrate the purchase of a new…
Bathinda: Nearly 72% of the estimated wheat has arrived in Punjab’s purchase centers as of Friday evening. Out of the total 122 lakh metric tonnes (MT) expected this season, 87.89 lakh MT has already reached the markets, with 95.5% of the arrived grain already purchased by various agencies.While procurement remains swift, the lifting of purchased…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday branded the defecting AAP MPs “gaddars” (traitors) of Punjab, predicting their political oblivion in BJP and dismissing their exit as departure of “non-mass leaders”.“These six-seven people who have quit AAP are not Punjab, they are gaddars. A party and its organisation are bigger than individuals. They got…
Chandigarh: AAP media in-charge Baltej Pannu accused the BJP and Union home minister Amit Shah of a “coordinated attempt” to weaken AAP by “misusing central agencies and engineering defections” of its MPs, using Raghav Chadha as a tool to execute this plan.Addressing a press conference, Pannu alleged, “Amit Shah is actively working to weaken AAP…
Chamba: The recovery of two mysterious Pakistani balloons from two villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district within a week has triggered security concerns.On April 22, a white-and-blue balloon marked “PIA” and bearing an inscription in Urdu was found in bushes near Toba. A similar balloon was recovered from Chillari just a few days earlier. Chamba…
Sonipat: The race for the mayor’s post in the upcoming Sonipat municipal corporation elections picked up pace on Friday as three candidates filed their nominations, with the BJP nominee Rajiv Jain staging a high-voltage show of strength.Jain led a roadshow from Purkhas Adda through key city stretches — Geeta Bhawan, Mama-Bhanja Chowk and Tiranga Chowk…
