Chandigarh: The bharat bandh call to protest the petrol price hike has been fairly effective in Punjab. However, no incidents of violence have been reported from the region till the filing of this report. The Amritsar bus stand wore a deserted look with no buses plying. All buses stood lined up at the bus stand. Mounted police patrolled the streets even as shops remained closed. "We wanted to go to...
07:19 PM, May 31, 2012
Rail traffic was affected as the protestors stopped the Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi in Chandigarh. ...
03:26 PM, May 31, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was admitted to a hospital in Chandigarh on Wednesday night after his blood sugar level fluctuated, has been discharged on Thursday morning. "He was discharged this morning and his condition is much better now. Soon, he will resume his normal routine," former Union Minister and Congress MLA from Ambala, Venod Sharma, who had accompanied Hooda to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical...
12:15 PM, May 17, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was on Wednesday night admitted to PGIMER in Chandigarh after his blood sugar level fluctuated. 65-year-old Hooda was taken to PGI from his residence nearby Chandigarh at around 10 pm, hospital sources told PTI. A doctor in the PGIMER main emergency wing said that Hooda's blood sugar had gone up. The doctor said the Chief Minister's other parameters were alright and there was...
12:47 AM, May 17, 2012
Shimla: A 22-year-old Australian tourist has filed a police complaint against a Chandigarh youth, stating that he had raped her in a guest house at Kasol in Kullu district, 220 km from Shimla. In her complaint, police said, the victim alleged that the youth hailing from Chandigarh gave her some sedative and took her to Green Valley guest house where he raped her on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, he...
11:45 PM, May 14, 2012
Karnal: In a shocking incident in Karnal in Haryana, a French national, who was allegedly beaten up by fellow passengers on board the Amritsar-bound Sachkhand Express, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday night. The incident had occurred on board the train on Sunday. French national Frank Wilfred, 23, was found lying unconscious and bleeding at the Karnal Station. The Government Railway Police called an ambulance. However, some people who had...
01:20 PM, May 03, 2012
After struggling to make his way out from the Chandigarh Airport where a media contingent and eager fans made it difficult for him and other passengers from the same flight to exit, Yuvraj Singh reached his duplex home on May 1 in Mani Majra in a Mercedes car. Returning to Chandigarh for the first time after coming back from the US where he had received chemotherapy for a germ cell...
07:01 PM, May 02, 2012
Chandigarh: A suspected Pakistani intruder was on Sunday shot dead by women constables of BSF near Dera Baba Nanak Sector of Punjab, while he was trying to sneak into the Indian territory. "Two women BSF personnel of 74 Battalion noticed the movement nearby barbed wire on the border and they challenged the intruder to surrender as he was illegally trying to sneak into the Indian territory from the Pakistan side,"...
10:53 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Chandigarh: Just hours after the Cabinet on Thursday approved the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, a shocking story emerged from Chandigarh where a boy was sexually abused by a group of youngsters. An 8-year-old boy was sexually abused allegedly for several days by a group of youngsters. The accused also made an MMS of the incident and circulated it among their friends. All six of the accused, of...
09:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Chandigarh: The execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana has run into a solid wall, with both the state government and even Balwant's jail superintendent flatly opposing the court order. "I shall meet President Pratibha Patil tomorrow (Wednesday)," said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. "If the President decides to grant clemency or commutes the sentence from death to life, and in the mean time if...
11:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Chandigarh: A leopard has been stuck in a 75-feet long cable-carrying pipe underneath the IAF runway here for the past 11 days. Forest officials said frantic efforts were on in a bid to free the big cat stuck in the underground pipe at the Indian Air Force station's subsidiary runway in Chandigarh. Officials from the nearby Chhatbir Zoological Park on Thursday laboured hard for new methods to rescue the animal...
12:37 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Chandigarh: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protestors stalled the shoot of Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's biopic on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad killing. VHP activists were upset with the fact that the market at Sector 15 was converted into Lahore for the film, with all shop hoardings in Urdu and autos showing Lahore number plates. Local traders were protesting against the market being out of bounds for the public for 11 hours. Traders...
03:34 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: It seems that words are not transforming into action for big Indian cities when it comes to participating in large numbers to vote their favourite candidates in polls. Despite a high urban base with more discerning and affluent electorate, witnessing a low turnout in elections, local or general, is adage for these cities. Notwithstanding the hue and cry made through promotional activities and advertisements, cities like Mumbai, Delhi,...
07:10 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble seems to be brewing up for Army chief General VK Singh yet again as the Chandigarh bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal is all set to hear a petition against him, filed by Major General TS Handa. Maj Gen Handa filed an appeal against Singh saying his "annual confidential report" had been "spoilt" as he could not change the Army chief's date of birth. General Singh is...
08:56 AM, Feb 14, 2012
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