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…
Police drag away a student protester outside PU’s Convention Centre on Monday Chandigarh: At least 20 student leaders and activists were detained by Chandigarh Police Monday after they gathered outside Panjab University’s Convention Centre to protest a symposium featuring speakers linked to organisations ideologically associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).The protest was organised under…
Chandigarh: The Punjab Police on Monday claimed to have arrested 50,930 individuals, including gangsters and criminals associated with them, after conducting 96,964 raids across the state in six months of the “Gangstran Te Vaar” campaign.Praveen Sinha, special DGP (law and order), said that police teams recovered 913 weapons, along with 2,475 live cartridges and 293…
Shimla: The central govt has notified two improved potato varieties – Kufri Abhedya and Kufri Ruby – developed by the ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, marking a major milestone in potato research.The notification, published in the Gazette of India on July 8, allows production, certification and sale of quality seeds of these varieties in…
