Washington: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan inched closer to scripting history as the first South Asian judge after a key Senate committee confirmed his nomination to the DC Circuit Court, America's second highest. Described as "trailblazer" by US President Barack Obama, Chandigarh-born Srinivasan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimously approved by the 18-member Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. He was first nominated to...
03:16:21 PM May 17, 2013
Chandigarh: The enrolment for Aadhaar card has touched 99 per cent and 88.6 per cent in Union Territory of Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh respectively. The enrolment figure under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) scheme in Punjab and Haryana is 62.9 per cent and 30.1 per cent respectively so far, Keshni Anand Arora, UIDAI, Deputy Director General (Northern Region), said. "We are aiming to cover the entire population in...
08:57:44 AM Apr 18, 2013
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Durg district of Chhattisgarh and died on Tuesday, police said. The girl, who was dumped in a ground adjacent to her house here with serious injuries on Tuesday morning, succumbed to her injuries in a government hospital in the evening, they said. ...
02:45:31 AM Apr 03, 2013
Four incidents of sexual assault, including that on a teenager and a minor, have been reported from Chandigarh within 24 hours, with one person getting arrested for his alleged involvement in one of the cases. In the first incident, a 25-year-old girl was allegedly abducted by some unidentified youths on Saturday, who tried to outrage her modesty in a car before abandoning her in the Sector 26 area, police said....
08:54:48 PM Mar 17, 2013
A Special Task Force jawan was killed and another injured in a gun fight with Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Tuesday, police said. "Special Task Force jawan Angad Kumar was killed and another jawan Yashwant injured in an exchange of fire between a joint party of security forces and ultras in the forests of Chintagufa and Dornapal police station area," a police official told PTI over phone. ...
02:55:13 AM Mar 13, 2013
A court in Chandigarh on Monday sentenced a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and his aide to 13 years in jail in a case of pilfering seized contraband. ...
04:35:38 AM Mar 12, 2013
Agitating advocates of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday decided to end their ongoing strike and resume work from Monday after a division bench took cognisance of the registration of a case against 20 lawyers for allegedly beating up a policeman recently. ...
12:23:24 AM Mar 08, 2013
There were violent scenes in Chandigarh and Jaipur as lawyers clashed with police in two separate incidents in the cities. While the police in Chandigarh fired water cannons at the protesting lawyers, the police in Jaipur fired teargas shells at the agitating lawyers. ...
02:49:26 PM Mar 06, 2013
The Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyers clashed with police in front of the Punjab governor's house, following which the police used water cannons to disperse them. The lawyers were protesting against an FIR filed against some advocates for allegedly thrashing a policeman on February 26. ...
02:16:35 PM Mar 06, 2013
Two people were on Sunday arrested from an inter-state bus terminus in Chandigarh after four detonators were allegedly recovered from their possession. ...
06:31:30 AM Mar 04, 2013
Legendary athlete Milkha Singh, a Punjab Congress MLA and a former Army officer have been booked by the police here in connection with a brawl between two groups at the Chandigarh Golf Club. Milkha, MLA Randeep Nabha, and retired Lt Col Vijay Singh Sandhu were booked in cross cases under various sections of the IPC, including causing hurt and intimidation, for the brawl which occurred on Saturday, police said. ...
03:35:23 PM Feb 18, 2013
An Income Tax officer has been arrested in Chandigarh for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a businessman to resolve a case involving him. The accused has been identified as Rakesh Jain, ITO, Chandigarh, CBI officials said. ...
10:50:17 PM Feb 06, 2013
A constable with the Chandigarh Police was arrested and suspended after a girl complained that he had misbehaved with her, police said Sunday. Constable Joginder Singh was also placed under suspension. ...
09:17:26 PM Dec 30, 2012
A 22-year-old woman, winner of a national bravery award, has been booked for allegedly posting abusive comments on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page. ...
01:37:46 PM Sep 18, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to quash corruption charges against former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Nirmal Yadav in the cash-at-the-door scam. ...
12:06:44 PM Sep 10, 2012
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