Chandigarh: The administration has decided to set up a senior citizen home on part of the group home, Sector 31, which was originally constructed as a facility for people with mental and intellectual disabilities. The department of social welfare has invited Chandigarh residents to fill vacant seats of the paid senior citizen home.The senior citizen…
Chandigarh: Students at Panjab University (PU) sought corrective action within two days after newly-installed nameplates outside rooms and offices at University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) featured Hindi, English and Braille, but not the Punjabi language.Members of student organisation Sath submitted a memorandum to the Equal Opportunity Cell, seeking inclusion of Punjabi on new signboards…
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration has notified the Chandigarh Legal Metrology (Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules, 2026. According to the amended rules, licences to be issued to manufacturers and dealers of weights and measures under the Act and Rules shall henceforth be issued on self-declaration basis, without the need for physical inspection of the premises. All licences issued…
Chandigarh: A routine visit to the market or even a walk in the park may turn into a traumatising experience for residents targeted by snatchers. Besides the obvious financial loss, victims are also forced to cope with the emotional toll of having their sense of safety and personal space violated.A total of 36 snatching cases…
Times News NetworkChandigarh: In a bid to check encroachments set up by vendors in the evening and at night, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has extended duty hours of the enforcement department till 10pm. Most municipal councillors supported the move to extend timings during a recent MC house meeting. Duty roster of enforcement inspectors and their…
Chandigarh: In yet another attack on the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP govt in Punjab, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Friday that the situation in the state was “deteriorating fast” and it was “worse than West Bengal”.The Bhagwant Mann govt has completely failed to control the drug menace, illegal mining and the collapsing law…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out fresh searches against Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora and some others allegedly linked to him as part of a money laundering investigation, officials said.Among the five locations raided were Arora’s official residence in Chandigarh and the premises of a real estate company in Gurugram, Haryana,…
CHANDIGARH: The special detective unit of Haryana police Police claimed to have safely resecued rescued and recovered a schoolboy who was kidnapped for ransom from Baberu, Banda disrict district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.Acting swiftly, the SDU unit safely recovered the boy and restored his custody to the UP team. Haryana police Police also arrrester…
A bookstore in Sector 8, Chandigarh, made for an intimate and fitting setting recently as Chandigarh-based author Sakoon Singh stepped into conversation about her latest work, Fourteen Springs of Separation, a historical fiction that reaches back into the turbulent heartland of nineteenth-century Punjab. In dialogue with Dr Manpreet Kaur, a historian whose academic grounding lent…
Sonipat: The Congress on Thursday mounted a sharp attack on the BJP govt at a massive workers’ convention in Sonipat ahead of the municipal corporation (MC) elections, accusing the ruling party of corruption, poor governance and neglect of civic infrastructure.Addressing party workers, Haryana Congress in-charge B K Hariprasad alleged that the state was witnessing “institutionalised…
