Sapna Thakur

LUDHIANA: In a recommend to give world-class healthcare services to residents, the Punjab government would rapidly start a new system in which each smart card proprietor would get fully free treatment up to Rs 30,000 once a year, said chief minister’s counselor Maheshinder Singh Grewal at a free medical health check camp here on Sunday. Grewal…[Read more]

CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Chandigarh after five and half hours. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted and apologized to the city for the VIP arrangements. He described it “totally avoidable”. Schools and colleges had been closed,because major roads were blocked, causing traffic jams.

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]

India’s celebrated boxing champion Vijender Singh, who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is set to join the professional ranks. If Vijender (29) turns pro, he would be unable to represent India in the amateurs-only events such as the Olympics or Asian and Commonwealth Games.
While the boxing fraternity seems to be aware of V…[Read more]

It was yet another dark day in the history of Tricity as it lost another artist of honour, Shiv Singh. Singh was diabetic and a heart patient too. His family informed that he had undergone two stent surgeries, the last one in 2004. On Tuesday he had a massive heart attack and was admitted to a private hospital in panchkula. However he could not…[Read more]

An 18-year-old youth, who had committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance on June 15, was being blackmailed by a man who tricked the victim over phone imitating a woman’s voice, revealed the FIR. The victim, Baljinder Singh, 18, had told his his parents that was going for work in a factory at Derabassi but instead, he left for his…[Read more]

A Panjab University panel has approved a fee hike of 2.5% for first-year classes at its colleges in Chandigarh for the 2015-16 session. The hike proposal was approved in a meeting of the PU’s fee committee on Wednesday that was chaired by dean (university instruction) A K Bhandari. The proposal is yet to be approved by the university’s…[Read more]

Chandigarh was named among the 100 cities selected nationwide under the Central government’s ambitious smart city mission, which was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday.Getting funds under the mission seems not an easy job and whether the city will be selected in the list of 20 cities in phase-1 will depend upon the p…[Read more]

Actress-turned-politician Kirron Kher today said she is planning to get a Media and Film City for Chandigarh.”I am trying to bring a hi-tech Media and Film City in Chandigarh, and this may happen soon. Chandigarh has tremendous untapped potential as a Film city to cater to the Punjabi and Bollywood film industry.Presently, the directors have to go…[Read more]