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Tension absorbed parts of the town after the management of Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Mission Road, reportedly razed a gurdwara on the school premises in the wee hours of Friday. Even as the organization later in the day claimed that it would construct another gurdwara at a cost of Rs 2 crore on the premises, agitated locals and members of…[Read more]

Attacking Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused it of indulging in “negative politics”, saying 40 MPs were “conspiring” and “blocking” parliamentary process, thereby holding back India’s development march.Addressing public rallies in Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) and Saharanpur (UP) as also at a function in Chandigarh, Modi targeted…[Read more]

Punjab Government on 31 August 2013 declared Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala as Smoke-Free districts in the state. The declaration was made based on the study conducted by PGIMER, which revealed the absence of active smoking in more than 96.4 percent of public places in Kapurthala and 91.3 percent in Hoshiarpur districts. The PGIMER was entrusted with…[Read more]

A 14-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her house in Lalru in the wee hours of Thursday.The girl, a student of class XII, was alone in her house when she took the extreme step. Her father was away at work and her mother and brother at their native village in Bihar. The incident came to light only when her father…[Read more]

The defence counsel of Pooja Bagga, the main accused in the Rs 1.63 crore Panjab University pension cell scam, on Thursday indicated that high-rank PU officials were involved in the fraud. Urging the local district court to accept his client’s anticipatory bail, lawyer AS Gujral argued that a daily-wage clerk like Bagga could not have carried out…[Read more]

An Indian-American woman has become the first female to be appointed as the postmaster in Sacramento city of California in the last 166 years, a media report said.Jagdeep Grewal, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Panjab University (PU) in Chandigarh, started her career in postal services in 1988 as a window clerk.Grewal will…[Read more]

Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for the Olympics after 36 years. But despite the historic achievement, the team’s captain, Ritu Rani, is disappointed.“A lot of people have been congratulating us, but I don’t think it is enough. We’ll feel good when we get the same kind of attention that our men’s team gets, or that other sports team…[Read more]

Punjabi film ‘The Mastermind Jinda Sukha’, which was set to be released on September 11, has been banned in India.The film, which is based on lives of the assassins of former Army General Arun Kumar Vaidya, was previously granted clearance from the Censor Board on July 24, but has now been banned after the union home ministry and intelligence…[Read more]

Though the Election Commission claims to revise electoral rolls before every major election, more than 8 lakh ‘ghost’ voters have been detected in Punjab in the past five months. The ‘ghost’ or duplicate voters came to light during the linking of Aadhaar cards with elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs).
Though the process of linking the Aadhaar…[Read more]

In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Chandigarh International Airport on September 11 for its inauguration, the entire area on the Mohali side has been turned into a fortress. According to sources, nearly 1,500 policemen, including senior police officers, have been deputed in and around the airport and its vicinity.Special n…[Read more]

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu’s seemingly neverending wait is finally over. After spending countless hours, covering thousands of miles on the flight and enduring sleepless nights over a possible chance to wear India colours, the Mohali goalkeeper finally realised his much-awaited dream.On Tuesday evening, before the kick-off of the 2018 Fifa World Cup q…[Read more]

The state government’s move to transfer some colleges affiliated with IK Gujral Punjab Technical University (PTU), Kapurthala, to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh University, Bathinda, has put the students in a fix.The state government through a notification on June 30 ordered that 103 colleges situated in Bathinda, Barnala, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, F…[Read more]

Theatre artist Zulfiqar Khan had been sexually exploiting some students of his NGO Theatre Age since 2002, submitted the police in the challan filed before a local court in Chandigarh on Tuesday.Zulfiqar, director of Theatre Age, who is behind bars since his arrest in July, sexually exploited at least five youngsters, including a minor, in the…[Read more]

Two months after the UT police arrested Zulfiqar Khan, director of Theatre Age, an NGO, for allegedly sodomising children belonging to his school, the police today submitted a 360-page chargesheet in the court against the accused.
The chargesheet was submitted in the court of Additional Sessions Judge JS Sidhu.
The police have charged Zulfiqar…[Read more]

The safety of around 250 students studying in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) School at Rakoli village in SAS Nagar has been put at risk as the school has been ‘illegally’ constructed on the riverbed of seasonal rivulet Siswan. The school was set up in 2009 by the Mohali administration without taking the pre-requisite no objection cer…[Read more]

Come October 19 and you can fly to Dubai from the Chandigarh international airport that will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 11.
Besides, both domestic and international operations will be from the international airport in SAS Nagar. After the inauguration, a months’ time will be given for shifting all operations from…[Read more]

Union human resource development minister Smriti Zubin Irani has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to map the requirements of the states where they exist and work for their fulfilment.She was addressing a gathering on Monday after laying the foundation stone of Central University of…[Read more]

Transferred in the middle of an inquiry into a kidney scam, additional deputy commissioner of police (investigation) J Elanchezhian (34) is back in the city and back on the case on the deputy chief minister’s directive.He also remains part of the special investigation team (SIT) with deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Sandeep Kumar Sharma, ADCP…[Read more]

Is cricketer Yuvraj Singh off the market (again)? Is he dating a Bollywood actor (again)?
Well, we can’t confirm what the real deal is, but rumours are doing the rounds that the Indian cricket heartthrob and British model-turned-actor, Hazel Keech are more than “just friends”. According to reports, the two are dating.Hazel starred in Salman Kha…[Read more]