Chandigarh

Protests led to police using tear gas and lathicharge (AI-generated image used for representation purposes) HISAR: Fresh tension erupted in Channot village of Hansi late Monday night after the district administration removed an allegedly illegal T-point connection from a drinking water pipeline passing through the village, triggering protests that led police to use tear gas…

Badopatti toll plaza on the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway (Image credit-Social media) HISAR: A dispute over toll charges at Badopatti toll plaza on the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway allegedly led to the death of a toll manager after he was run over by an SUV late on Monday night.The deceased was identified as Sanjay Shukla, 39 ,…

Police suspect the contractor used his licensed firearm. (Image used for representational purposes only.) HISAR: A 30-year-old contractor working with the public works department’s (PWD) buildings and roads (B&R) branch allegedly died by suicide at his residence in Krishna Nagar on Tuesday, police said.The deceased was identified as Aman Sharma. According to the preliminary investigation,…

Despite being incorporated into the Master Plan more than a decade ago, the development of these pockets has remained largely on paper Chandigarh: High-rise residential development in Chandigarh’s peripheral villages has emerged as a cornerstone of the UT administration’s proposed amendments to the Chandigarh Master Plan-2031 (CMP-2031), with officials projecting it as the key mechanism…

Rewari: The death of a 25-year-old woman in Haryana’s Rewari district took a fresh turn on Monday, with police registering a dowry death case against her husband and in-laws and arresting her husband.Preeti was found hanging at her matrimonial home in Pithrawas village under Rampura police station limits. While the in-laws said she died by…

Chandigarh: Congress MP and former deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday alleged that Punjab was facing a crisis on multiple fronts, citing power shortages, deteriorating law and order and weak infrastructure.Accusing the AAP govt of focusing on political publicity rather than governance, Randhawa said chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s claims of making Punjab safe,…

CHANDIGARH: The AAP govt has reconstituted the special investigation team (SIT) probing the three interlinked sacrilege cases of 2015, appointing Bathinda range DIG Harjeet Singh as its chairman.Punjab Bureau of Investigation’s June 1 orders also named Malerkotla SSP Gurmeet Singh, Amritsar ADCP (special branch) Harpal Singh and Sangrur (rural) DSP Dalbir Singh as members. The…

A top Haryana IAS officer, Pankaj Agarwal, has been apprehended by the CBI. CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested IAS officer Pankaj Agarwal, who was serving as principal secretary of Haryana’s school education and agriculture departments, in connection with the alleged misappropriation of government funds from accounts maintained by two state…

Unidentified assailants on a motorbike hurled a petrol bomb at Dr. Tarsem Garg’s clinic in Bathinda late Monday night. BATHINDA: Two unidentified persons on a bike thrown a petrol bomb at the clinic of Dr Tarsem Garg late Monday night. The burning petrol bottle fell in the courtyard of the clinic. No loss of life…

Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday said women beneficiaries in Punjab would start receiving monthly stipends under the ‘Maavan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna’ from July 1.AAP media in-charge Baltej Pannu said a three-month payment of Rs 3,000 each would be directly transferred to the bank accounts of general category beneficiaries, while women from the…