Minerva Academy FC Clinches 4th State Futsal Club Championship Chandigarh: Minerva Academy FC were crowned champions of the 4th State Futsal Club Championship, sealing an emphatic 7-3 win over PIS FA in the final to complete an unbeaten run.The side dominated the tournament with an average of seven goals per match. They opened with a…
Chandigarh witnessed rain and thunderstorm on Thursday night Chandigarh: The southwest monsoon has finally made landfall over Kerala — three days behind schedule — but for the Tricity, the wait is unlikely to stretch any further. If current weather systems stay on course, the rains are still expected to arrive around their usual date of…
Mohali: Police on Thursday said they had foiled a major terror attack by arresting two aides of a foreign-based terror operative and defusing a 2.5kg RDX-based IED.Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav said the IED was “fully assembled and ready for use”. The police operation prevented an attack on critical public infrastructure in Mohali and averted a…
Mohali: A 30-year-old woman working at a private firm in Sector 66 was allegedly stabbed to death by her former partner on Thursday evening. The accused later attempted suicide using the same weapon.The deceased, identified as Dimple, a resident of Patiala, worked at a packers and movers company along with the accused, Harvinder Mann alias…
Bomb threat e-mail targeting the Panchkula Mayor’s Office Panchkula: A bomb threat e-mail targeting the Panchkula mayor’s office and several temples prompted an immediate security response on Thursday.MC commissioner Vinay Kumar and other staff members were asked to vacate the premises. Following which, the police carried out checking inside the complex.According to information, authorities received…
Fee portal issues in Chandigarh Chandigarh: Technical glitches and repeated verification requirements on the Chandigarh Education Department’s online fee payment portal for govt schools are causing inconvenience to parents and students while substantially increasing workload for teachers, who say they are frequently required to intervene manually to resolve failed transactions.The portal, introduced last year to…
Chandigarh: A student seeking admission through Panjab University’s entrance route pays between 68% and 104% more than applicants using several comparable public university admission systems. At Rs 2,850 each for PU-CET (UG) and PU-CET (PG), Panjab University’s entrance examinations cost Rs 1,150 more than the fee charged for many entrance-based admissions at Punjabi University, Patiala,…
Panchkula: Panchkula Police arrested two alleged shooters linked to the Rohit Godara gang after an encounter on the Yamunanagar highway, just hours after a club owner and his associate were shot at outside a Sector 5 club.Police said the attack took place on the night of June 3 when Ratan Lubana, who runs a club…
Panchkula: Bahbalpur is set to become the first gram panchayat in Panchkula district to manage and maintain its drinking water supply system under a new initiative of the public health engineering department.The decision was approved unanimously at a gram sabha meeting chaired by sarpanch Priyanka Devi. Representatives of the gram panchayat, village water and sewerage…
Chandigarh: The UT administration will undertake a comprehensive clean-up and restoration of Sukhna Choe, with the forest department set to clear polythene waste and weeds from the choe bed and its banks, even as work to realign the channel has been tendered and is expected to be completed within 90 days.Officials said the project aims…
