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The Panchkula administration on Monday launched a mobile application for local residents to avail of the district-level services.The city map is one of the congenial features of the application, through which citizens can know about the city. Through the ‘Contact us’ option, residents can contact deputy commissioner, commissioner, the municipal…[Read more]

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday condemned the terror attack in Gurdaspur district, saying he was taking stock of the situation every 15 minutes despite being unwell.The attack is very sad. Militancy is a national problem, not state problem. Being a national problem, it needs to be tackled with national policies,” Badal said.He…[Read more]

Hundreds of ex-servicemen held a black-flag protest over the delay in implementing one rank, one pension (OROP) in Mohali on Saturday as defence minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute.The ex-servicemen from Mohali, Chandigarh and Panchkula owing allegiance to different associations gathered at…[Read more]

Hundreds of candidates took the retest of the All India Pre Medical Entrance Test at select centres in the region under unprecedented security on Saturday.Despite instructions from the Central Board of Security Education (CBSE) not to wear earrings, watches, rings, belts and wristbands, candidates at various AIPMT centres did not adhere to the…[Read more]

None of the 65 Sikh convicts, for whose release Surat Singh Khalsa is on hunger strike for almost 190 days, is eligible for remission of sentence after today’s order by the Supreme Court, vacating stay over the power of the state governments to remit sentences.Though the stay was vacated, as per the conditions about the category of convicts to b…[Read more]

Hopes of the early completion of the six-laning of the Amritsar-Delhi national highway have been generated with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) fixing targets to relocate the boundary wall and shifting of certain Army structures in Jalandhar cantonment within six months.
The six-laning of the Kharar-Ludhiana and Chandigarh-Kharar…[Read more]

Aap sujhayein (you suggest)” was the terse reply of Punjab and Haryana Governor-cum-UT Administrator Kaptan Singh Solanki when asked about his views on the harassment faced by commoners due to traffic restrictions whenever his entourage moves within the tricity.Showing little concern towards the masses who are at the receiving end of traffic r…[Read more]

A rickshaw-puller was killed and two others were seriously injured when a speeding Verka truck rammed into a booth at the parking lot of the Phase V market this morning.The incident occurred at around 4.15 am. Amarjit Singh (40), a rickshaw-puller from Gopalganj, Bihar, died on the spot while two persons, Birbal, aka Bijli, and Saurav Kumar from…[Read more]

Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday criticised Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for terming people, who protested against the Akali Dal delegation in the US and Canada, as “anti-national”.This is unbecoming of the president of Akali Dal, a party that claims to represent and watch Sikh interests, to damn an…[Read more]

Taking extreme measures, the Chandigarh Police on Monday bolted some residents of Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran, inside their homes before Punjab and Haryana Governor and UT Administrator Kaptan Singh Solanki’s visit to the area to inaugurate the 24×7 water supply scheme. The vehicles that were part of the Governor’s motorcade were parked near the…[Read more]

Local police claimed to have solved a blind murder case of Nayagaon resident Lam Lakhan with the arrest of a 48-year-old acquaintance of the victim on Saturday.Lam Lakhan alias Pujari’s body bearing cuts and stab wounds was found in Mullanpur on July 13. Police, after registering the case had handed over the investigation to the Central…[Read more]

UT Adviser Vijay Kumar Dev announced several proposals during the inauguration of the Government Model High School in Sector 45 on Thursday. The proposals include evening schools for poor children, five new government schools, six sports centres, 1,100 more teachers, introduction of a new subject on social responsibility and installing air…[Read more]

At least five young people were brutally hacked to death in their house in Punjabs Moga district on Thursday, police said. The suspected killer, agranthi too was also found dead under mysterious circumstances.Police said they were investigating various angles, including tantric activity, behind the crime.The victims, including two women and a…[Read more]

At least five young people were brutally hacked to death in their house in Punjabs Moga district on Thursday, police said. The suspected killer, agranthi too was also found dead under mysterious circumstances.Police said they were investigating various angles, including tantric activity, behind the crime.The victims, including two women and a…[Read more]

At least five young people were brutally hacked to death in their house in Punjabs Moga district on Thursday, police said. The suspected killer, agranthi` (Sikh religious preacher) too was also found dead under mysterious circumstances.Police said they were investigating various angles, including tantric activity, behind the crime.The victims,…[Read more]

High drama prevailed on the Punjab Technical University (PTU) campus on Tuesday when its employees created a ruckus after they came to know that the varsity authorities had ‘secretly’ transferred Rs 75 crore to the newly set up Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University in Bathinda.The employees under the banner of the PTU Mulazam Front wer…[Read more]

Four persons wearing police uniforms allegedly looted Rs 1.68 crore from a vehicle of a private bank near Nanksar village on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur national highway, about 45 km from here on Monday, police said.The armed men came in a car and stopped the van, which was carrying cash to Ferozepur following which they looted the cash box at…[Read more]

In view of heavy rains which have lashed many parts of Punjab over the past few days, authorities at the Ranjit Sagar Dam have sounded an alert for villagers residing near the banks of River Ravi.
The water level of the dam today touched 523.90 metres as against the storage capacity of 527.91 metres, the highest this season, according to the control room.

The body of a 74-year-old man was allegedly found floating in a canal here, police said on Monday.Daya Ram, a retired steno of Public Works Department (PWD) was found dead in Uppar Bari Doab Canal yesterday, they said.
The victim, a resident of Budha Nagar had gone for a walk on Friday but did not return home, police said.
The body was spotted by…[Read more]

Ex servicemen will hold a protest march from Military Station at Bathinda here on July 8 demanding One Rank One Pension (OROP).Announcing this, president of the Indian Ex Services League (Punjab), Brig (Retd) Inder Mohan Singh said here today that their aim is to organise peaceful disciplined protest at Bathinda to apprise the serving soldiers who…[Read more]