Chandigarh: Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of acting on "direct commands" of Congress to "vilify" SAD and its leaders through a raid conducted at the house of an Akali Dal candidate, a confidante of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in Muktsar district. A SAD press release in Chandigarh this evening said the raid conducted jointly by the IT department and the Election Commission officials...
01:17 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Riding on the support of nominated councillors, ruling Congress swept the Mayoral polls of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh on Sunday. All the three posts of Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor went in the Congress' kitty. Raja Bala Malik of the Congress will be the city's 18th Mayor. She secured 21 votes as against 12 secured by BJP's Asha Jaiswal. BSP's candidate Janat Jahan secured just two...
03:10 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Chandigarh: High drama broke out at the Chandigarh District Court on Friday when Babbar Khalsa International terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara was allegedly assaulted by five members of the Hindu Suraksha Samiti. Five Hindu Suraksha Samiti activists were arrested immediately after the attack. Hawara, convicted for the 1995 murder of former Punjab CM Beant Singh, had come to court for his ongoing trial in the jailbreak case. Both Hawara and another...
12:11 PM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: With the sale of thousands of kilograms of sweets being sold this Diwali, adulteration is on the rise and is making news. Agencies are carrying out raids across the country in order to avoid the sale of spurious sweets. Lucknow Additional City Magistrate Arun Kumar said, "We have found around two quintals of sweets that had been made in unhygienic conditions. We have destroyed this lot." Agencies in...
07:07 AM, Oct 25, 2011
Citizens fight against illegal construction and apathetic authorities. ...
10:32 PM, Oct 08, 2011
Puneet Sachdeva files a webcam report after the Chandigarh traffic police refused to respond to his complaints. ...
10:19 PM, Oct 08, 2011
Chandigarh: Pro-Anna Hazare agitators on Tuesday held a protest outside the private residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the upscale Sector 11 in Chandigarh. The protesters openly defied prohibitory orders enforced on Monday by the additional district magistrate outside the house. Nearly 25-30 protesters, including women, carried the national flag and posters and banners and staged a sit-in outside the house. Manmohan Singh used to reside on the Panjab...
03:51 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to relook at acquisition of land for the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust after CNN-IBN on Monday reported how the trust was given land breaking rules and regulations. In all, 65 petitions in Punjab and Haryana High Court have now claimed the "Gandhis as trustees" tag swung the deal. On Tuesday the Haryana government offered to reconsider the cases of the 65 petitioners that alleged...
11:27 PM, Aug 02, 2011
Chandigarh: A patient Kindher Singh was electrocuted to death due to a short circuit while undergoing treatment at the premier PGI hospital in Chandigarh. When the doctors attempted to jumpstart his heart, the defibrillator, the machine that is used to pump the heart by applying mild shock, malfunctioned. Following this, Kindher's heart deteriorated after a liver surgery. His family members said that he had undergone liver surgery three days back...
01:01 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Raveena Tandon is back on the silver screen with an item number titled 'Chandigarh ki kuddi' in 'Bbuddha Hoga Tera Baap'. ...
10:41 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Poor living facilities welcomed the Chandigarh team in Bhopal for the national championships. ...
07:16 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Yamunanagar (Haryana): At least 12 college students were killed and nearly 30 injured when their bus collided head-on with a truck near this town, police said on Thursday. Fifteen of the students are in a serious condition. The students were from the Sri Ram Institute in Yamunanagar, about 110 km from state capital Chandigarh. The accident took place near Manakpur village in Chachrauli sub-division of Yamunanagar district. The bus overturned...
02:49 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Chandigarh: Ensnared in love for a girl here, NRI Shaganpreet Singh never wanted to return to his parents in Canada. So the 22-year-old staged his own kidnapping with the help of a friend so that he could miss his flight but the plan was laid bare by the police. Shaganpreet and his friend Satinder Singh, 31, left their village Dhurkot in Punjab's Bathinda district April 20 for Delhi, from where...
03:35 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday busted an illegal human trafficking racket allegedly run by a Delhi-based politician, who contested 2008 Assembly elections on Samajwadi party ticket here, in collusion with some government officials including a Home Ministry official. The agency carried out searches at nearly 38 residential and official premises of recruiting agent Waseem Ahmed Gazi, officials, and other people allegedly involved in the racket. During the searches, spread...
09:49 PM, Apr 21, 2011
Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption is resonating nationwide. Thousands of people including young professionals and students have come out in support of the 72-year-old social activist and Gandhian in Ahmedabad, Jammu, Patna and Chandigarh demanding strict action against those involved in corruption. ...
03:39 PM, Apr 08, 2011
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