CHANDIGARH,JAN 21 : This year, the 13th Indo-Pak peace calendar by Aaghaz-e-Dosti features a painting of India’s Javelin star Neeraj Chopra’s mother with her hands draped across the shoulders of Neeraj and Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem; the men had claimed the silver and gold medals respectively at the Paris Olympics 2024. A letter exchange program took […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, DEC 30 : Farmers blocked roads at many places across the state on Monday as part of their Punjab bandh call, hamstringing the commuter traffic. A call for a shutdown was given last week by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha over the Centre not accepting the demands of protesting farmers. The […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, DEC 3 : Chandigarh has become the first Union Territory in the country where the three new criminal laws Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam have been 100 per cent implemented. Prime Minister Narendra Modi here today dedicated to the nation the successful implementation of the three new criminal […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,OCT 5 : Polling for all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana began on Saturday morning amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates, will be decided in the polls in which […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 1 : A month before the assembly elections in Haryana, Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Saturday pledged her unstinted support to the protesting farmers at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana, who marked the 200th day of their agitation there. The farmers were on a ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation demanding legal guarantee for […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,JULY 17 : Months ahead of the assembly polls, Haryana’s BJP government announced Wednesday a 10 per cent reservation for Agniveers in the recruitment of constables, forest guards and jail wardens, along with quotas in other posts. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini also said that the government will provide interest-free loans of up to Rs […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, JULY 8 : More than 40 schoolchildren sustained injuries injured after a Haryana Roadways bus overturned near Pinjore in Panchkula district on Monday. The injured were admitted to Pinjore Hospital and Sector 6 Civil Hospital in Panchkula. A woman, who sustained critical injuries was referred to PGI Chandigarh. As per the police, the accident […]Continue Reading
Chandigarh, Jun 6 : Kangana Ranaut, Bollywood actor and BJP’s MP-elect from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, on Thursday alleged that a CISF security official at Chandigarh Airport slapped her while she was travelling to Delhi. According to Ranaut, when she was proceeding to the boarding point after the security check, the CISF woman official, Kulwinder Kaur, […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, MAY 28: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder case of his former manager Ranjit Singh. The Sirsa-headquartered sect chief, who is also serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, is currently lodged in Sunaria jail in […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,FEB 19: Newly elected Chandigarh Mayor Manoj Sonkar resigned from the post on Sunday, amid allegations that the January 30 mayoral polls were rigged, according to sources. This comes a day before the matter is to come up for hearing before the Supreme Court. Mayor Manoj Sonkar has submitted his resignation to the municipal commissioner, […]Continue Reading