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Dalit youth's death: Kin get job, Rs 20 L

11 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The family of a Dalit man, who was forced to drink urine and died after being mercilessly thrashed, ended its protest on Monday after the Punjab government offered Rs 20 lakh compensation, a government job to his wife and free education to his three children...

Chd corporation set to check 1,000 water samples

21 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The engineering department of Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) will be collecting around 800 to 1,000 water samples across the city. The decision has been taken a day after 10 water samples collected from across the city by the Central government failed the quality test...

Chandigarh: 12k appear for defence academy exam

21 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

More than 12,000 candidates thronged the 36 centres set up in the UT for National Defence Academy (NDA) examination conducted by the Union Public Service in Chandigarh...

Truck climbs pavement in Chd, kills daily wager

22 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A truck ran over a 33-year-old man sleeping on a pavement at the transport area in Sector 26 in the early hours of Sunday...

Mohali: Birth of 4 tiger cubs delights Chhatbir

22 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Four cubs were born to a white tigress at Chhatbir zoo on Sunday, taking the total count of tigers to 11...

Man held for trying to rape 7-year-old girl

12 hours ago

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After Mexico deportations, 2 Kaithal agents booked

23 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Nearly a month after 311 Indians were deported from Mexico, Haryana police have registered a case against two agents for cheating two brothers from Haryana at Thanesar in Kurukshetra on their father’s complaint...

Panchkula residents take grievances to MLA

yesterday

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Residents of Panchkula raised their demand of developing Panchkula while sharing their grievances with second-time MLA Gian Chand Gupta, who is also a speaker of Haryana Vidhan Sabha Sabha...

Punjab: Protests in Sangrur over Dalit's death

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Punjab: 40 booked for bid to kill sarpanch

yesterday

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The police here have booked around 40 persons for making a murderous attack on a Congress Sarpanch in Ghanaur block of Patiala district on Friday following a tussle between two groups of Takhtumajra village...

14 active criminal gangs busted in Haryana: DGP

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Haryana Police busted 14 active criminal gangs operating in different parts of the state in October, Director General of Police (DGP), Manoj Yadava said in a statement here on Sunday...

Punjab ranks 2nd in severity of road accidents

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Punjab has ranked second in the country in severity of road accidents, even as the state has ranked overall 18th for total accidents between 2014 and 2018, as per the latest report prepared by the Union ministry of road transport and highways...

Mohali cops mark six drug pockets

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The district administration has identified six drug-abuse pockets in the district for a targeted de-addiction campaign and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kuldeep Singh Chahal has formed spy teams for these areas...

Punjab: Women shot by 2 miscreants in Ludhiana

2 days ago

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Youth, who was forced to drink urine, dies

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A number of dalit organisations have launched stir after a 37-year-old dalit man, who was thrashed and forced to drink urine in Changaliwala village of Sangrur of Punjab, died at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh on Saturday...

Patiala: 3 held for forcing Dalit to drink urine

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Sangrur police on Friday arrested three persons accused of beating up a Dalit youth and forcing him to drink urine...

SGPC president’s poll: All eyes on Badal

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

With the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) set to elect its next president during its general house meeting on November 27, leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) have started brainstorming on who would head the largest Panthic body...

Mohali: Wanted drug, arms smuggler arrested

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Mohali police have arrested a 40-year-old drug smuggler, who was a proclaimed offender since 2017. He has allegedly been involved in large-scale smuggling of drugs and arms for many years now...

29k Punjab farmers get Rs 19 cr compensation

3 days ago

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When Punjab took a day off burning straw

3 days ago

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In a first since September 23, no cases of paddy stubble burning were recorded in Punjab on Thursday. However, the number of such incidents remains high as compared to the corresponding period last year...

Wagah: 10-day pilgrimage costs just Rs 2,000

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

As much as the corridor was hailed, devotees are beginning to realise that it is perhaps most cost effective - as well as adventurous - if they skip the corridor route and take the regular crossing via Attari border...

4 members of gang held after shootout

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Barnala police have arrested four members of a gang and have recovered four weapons from them while one of the gang members escaped...

Pb: Rs 2.5k per acre for not burning stubble

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Punjab government has decided to pay Rs 2,500 per acre as compensation to small and marginal farmers who have not burnt paddy straw this season...

Bishnoi gang produced in Panchkula court

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Sampat Nehra and 7 other gang members were produced in a local court on Wednesday in two cases that took place in 2017 in Panchkula...

Delhi bomb blast: 8 prisoners up for release

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Chandigarh To Ask Centre To Put Up Rajoana's case before President. Prof Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, whose death sentence for 1993 Delhi bomb blast was commuted to life imprisonment in March 2014, is among eight Sikh prisoners undergoing sentences for crimes committed during the militancy period whose names have been cleared for special remission by the Centre as a humanitarian gesture on the 550th Parkash Purb of Guru Nanak Dev. He had been sentenced to death in 2001 by a TADA court...

Ludhiana: 2 booked for murdering villager

5 days ago

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Man murdered by friends over juice sharing

5 days ago

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Stubble issue: Pb experiment gets little result

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Stubble management experiment in Punjab for which Rs 500 crore was spent this year on crop residue management (CRM) machinery was not successful this year. On Tuesday, 529 incidents of stubble burning were recorded in Punjab, taking the total to 48,684 since September 23 this year. The number is close to the last year’s mark of 49,000 and is likely to rise by the time harvesting is over...

Sewa, langar, prayers mark Gurpurb in Tricity

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Devotees Savour Langar, Offer Prayers. The 550th Parkash Utsav or the birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev, was observed on Tuesday. The day was celebrated with great fervour and devotion across the Tricity...

Rajoana’s death sentence commuted to life term

6 days ago

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Prakash Parb: Cops scale up crowd management

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

As crowd management and movement of lakhs of devotees are the biggest challenges in the town which has a population of just around 17,000, Punjab Police have taken their monitoring system to an unprecedented level with every single police vehicle and personnel being monitored through live surveillance...

Low turnout blamed on online system

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Pilgrims have been trickling in dismal numbers through the Kartarpur corridor from Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab's Gurdaspur district to Darbar Sahib gurdwara at Kartarpur in Pakistan's Punjab province. On Monday, only 130 went to the gurdwara in Pakistan via the corridor, and on Sunday, the first day the corridor was open to regular pilgrims, 229 used it...

Two years after launch, AIIMS team to assess Punjab de-addiction centres

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

For strengthening its drug de-addiction programme, the Punjab government has decided to get its outpatient opioid-assisted treatment (OOAT) clinics evaluated by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi...

Justice Sanjay Karol takes oath as CJ of Patna HC

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Justice Sanjay Karol on Monday took oath as the new Chief Justice of Patna High Court. He was sworn-in by Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan at a ceremony organised at the Raj Bhawan here...

Chandigarh: DAV denied affiliation for MBA

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

DAV Institute of Management was on Saturday denied affiliation for the MBA course by Panjab University (PU) syndicate for the 2019-20 session...

Sarangpur land allotment's process to PGI begins

8 days ago

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The estate office of the Chandigarh administration has started the process to handover 50-acre land in Sarangpur to PGIMER. ..

Admin seeks WWF help for Sukhna mgmt plan

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Chandigarh administration has sought the help of World Wide Fund (WWF), India, to prepare Sukhna Lake Management Plan. UT administrator VP Singh Badnore has given approval to prepare the plan. ..

Ambala: One dead, 20 injured in bus accident

8 days ago

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42 people run over by trains in Chd this year

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Chandigarh railway station jurisdiction has reported the second highest number of human run over (HRO) cases in the Ambala division so far this year, according to a report of the division...

Kharar killing: ‘Friends’ who called cops nabbed

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Two days after a 27-year-old man from Ferozepur was shot dead in Kharar’s Darpan City, Mohali police on Saturday arrested the two friends of the victim who were accompanying him on the day of the crime and said they were on the lookout for five other men involved in the murder...

Cabbie accused of stalking, molesting 2 women

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A taxi driver and his friend have been booked after they were accused of molesting and stalking a make-up artist woman from Sector 22 to 20 on Friday night...

Want house in UT? Sign up today for e-auction

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

If you have been looking to buy a residential plot in Chandigarh and have a couple of crores handy, the UT administration's e-auction of 26 properties on November 13 and 14 should interest you...

Chandigarh: New onion stock to stabilise rates

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The onion rates are constantly fluctuating in the city markets.The onion prices on Friday, as seen in Sector 46 vegetable market, touched Rs 70 per kg and tomatoes managed to remain at Rs 50 per kg...

Sudden half-day school holiday creates chaos

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A sudden half-day holiday notification issued by the UT administration on account of 550th Parkash Utsav of Guru Nanak Dev caused a lot of chaos in government schools on Friday. Calls had to be made to parents, buses informed and the students of second shift sent back from the gate...

Attack on lawyers: HC seeks fresh status report

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana high court has expressed dissatisfaction over the status report filed by the assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Panchkula, in a case over attack on its lawyers. Asking the Haryana Police to file fresh status report by the next date of hearing, the high court has given them a month’s time for the same...

Ludhiana cops book farmers for stubble burning

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Ludhiana rural police booked many farmers including three women for stubble burning in the area...

Court sentences realtor to two years in jail

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The district consumer disputes redressal forum has sentenced Emerging Valley Private Limited managing director (MD) Gurpreet Singh Sidhu to two-year civil imprisonment and fined him Rs 10,000. In case of default in fine payment, he will have to undergo another six months of jail. ..

Farm fires so far: Pb at 42,000, Haryana 5,400

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Till Wednesday, the cumulative farm fires reported through satellite imagery in Punjab were 42,676 against 30,207 last year, while there were 5,463 incidents in Haryana compared with 5,935 in 2018...

Punjab: Patiala’s blood bank gets national award

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A local charitable blood bank in Patiala has received the national award for outstanding contribution in the field of Blood Transfusion Services...

Chd: Race on among 4 BJP women mayoral aspirants

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A race has finally begun in the BJP for the 2020 mayoral candidate as the election for the post of mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor is scheduled in January, 2020..

Dera violence: Honeypreet gets bail

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Honeypreet, main accused in the Panchkula violence case, was granted bail on Wednesday by Panchkula’s chief judicial magistrate Rohit Wattas just days after the city’s additional district and sessions judge Sanjay Sandhir dropped sedition charges against her and 39 others...

Honeypreet gets bail in Dera violence case

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Panchkula’s chief judicial magistrate court on Wednesday granted regular bail to Honeypreet, who was main accused in Panchkula Dera violence case...

No let-up after SC warning, Pb sees 6,668 fires

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Despite SC strictures, Punjab on Tuesday recorded the highest number of stubble burning incidents of this paddy harvest season. A total of 6,668 fires were reported on Tuesday, higher than 5,953 fires counted on Monday. Till Nov 5, 37,935 cases of farm fires have been reported in Punjab compared to 49,000 such cases last year...

Pb signs 18 MoUs during first innovation summit

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

In a step aimed at making Punjab a leading state in innovation and technology by bringing universities, research institutions and industrialists on a common platform, the state government on Tuesday signed 18 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in its maiden ‘Innovation and Technology Summit-2019’...

'Schools liable to reserve 15% seats for EWS'

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Schools are claiming that there is no clarity on the reservation of seats under the land allotment scheme, since the UT education department says that there should 15% reservation for economically weaker section (EWS) students under the scheme, while the letters issued to them had a varying percentage of seat reservation requirements...

Chandigarh: Misuse notice to Elante mall

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

For covering public area and setting up kiosks bigger than what was permitted, the UT estate office issued notice of misuse to Elante mall in Industrial Area, Phase 1, Chandigarh, on Tuesday...

2 killed, 4 hurt in two separate road accidents

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Two persons were killed, and four other got injured in separate road accidents at near old airport light point and paddy market , Sector-39 last night . In both cases , accused vehicle drivers fled the spot after leaving their vehicles on the accident spot...

'Nine new MCH centres to be ready by next year'

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

To provide quality healthcare services in the government hospitals, nine new mother child health (MCH) centres will be made operational by next year...

‘No work day’ for Panchkula advocates too

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Expressing solidarity with advocates of Tis Hazari court in New Delhi, the advocates in Panchkula also observed ‘no work day’ at the district court, on Monday...

Man kills nephew over property in Bathinda

14 hours ago

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Civic body to start night lifting of garbage

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The municipal corporation (MC) has decided to introduce midnight lifting of garbage...

Kumbra firing case: Accused to be interrogated

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Manish Prabhakar, 30, one of the accused in Kumbra firing case which took place on October 18, was arrested by Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) in Barnala and soon will be called to Mohali on production warrant for investigation...

Dairy farm owner wins Rs 2.5 crore lottery

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

In a big turn of luck, a small-time dairy farm owner of Meharban village has won Rs 2.50 crore in a Punjab government lottery...

US dream: Family sells land to pay Rs 30L

yesterday

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18 injured as bus overturns in Yamunanagar

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Eighteen passengers were injured when a bus carrying them from Kalka to Haridwar overturned in Haryana's Yamunanagar district on Sunday, police said...

HC seeks layout plan for additional parking

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

After the Chandigarh administration submitted that construction of a multilevel parking in front of the Punjab and Haryana high court museum cannot be allowed as it is a green area, and came up with some other possible arrangements, the high court on Saturday directed the city's chief architect to submit a layout/ site plan before the building committee of the court within the next three weeks...

Domestic lounge's closure: Citco moves court

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Citco (The Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation) has filed an application in Mohali court over the closure of its domestic lounge at the Chandigarh International Airport...

Air quality 'very poor' in Punjab, Haryana

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The pollution level continued to remain a cause of concern in Haryana and Punjab on Saturday, with several districts reporting air quality indices in the 'very poor' and 'poor' categories...

Pb: Dalit man thrashed, succumbs to injuries

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A 37-year-old Dalit man, who was mercilessly thrashed and forced to drink urine in Punjab's Sangrur district, succumbed to his injuries Saturday morning at a hospital here, police said...

Warrant against witness in sexual harassment case

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Chandigarh district court has issued a bailable warrant against the complainant and witness in a case of sexual harassment, in which Jasjit Singh Bunny, the son of Punjab former cabinet minister and SAD leader Capt Kanwaljit Singh, is the accused. The two failed to appear in the court for recording of their statements, after which the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) issued the warrant...

Rs 10L relief to 3 sexual assault survivors

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Panchkula, has awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to three sexual assault survivors on Friday...

Youth beaten up: Punjab SC panel seeks report

3 days ago

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Punjab: Gangster gets married inside Nabha Jail

3 days ago

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Sikh prisoner walks free from Patiala jail

4 days ago

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Sikh prisoner Nand Singh (42) who had been granted remission by the Centre in view of 550th birth anniversary special celebrations of Sikh Guru Nanak Dev, walked free from the Patiala Central Jail late Thursday evening. However, Subheg Singh, who has also been granted freedom, could not be released from the jail as his family failed to file the release bonds...

Make best use of technology: NCW member

4 days ago

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Chandigarh-Baddi railway line under revision

4 days ago

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Guv approves remission of activist’s life term

5 days ago

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Punjab governor VP Singh Badnore has approved the remission of life sentence awarded to farmer activist Manjit Singh Dhaner (62) of Barnala in a murder case dating back to 2001. Dhaner is senior vice-president of the farmer organization, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Dakaunda)...

Mohali: 65-year-old cyclist killed

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A 65-year-old man was killed after a truck hit him in Zirakpur on Wednesday morning.The victim has been identified as Puran Singh.He belonged to Rampur Kalan village in Zirakpur...

Kids send truck full of warmth for J&K soldiers

5 days ago

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Akansh Sen murder case: Order likely on Nov 16

5 days ago

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'JJP have no concern for people’s problems'

5 days ago

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Teams formed to check waste segregation

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Notices to Residents If Found Flouting Orders. The Mohali municipal corporation (MC) has constituted teams to check the ground reality of garbage segregation at source...

Panchkula farmer booked for burning stubble

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A farmer has been booked by the Panchkula administration for burning crop residue in his field.A case under the Air Pollution Act has also been registered against him...

'Haryana cabinet expansion within next 2 days'

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The first expansion of the Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana Cabinet will take place within the next two days, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said here on Tuesday...

Panchkula: Pinjore man killed as truck hits car

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A 37-year old man, a resident of Pinjore, was killed after a speeding truck hit his car on the Pinjore-Baddi bypass on Sunday at11.30pm. The truck driver fled from the spot...

Three buses of Tangori college catch fire

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Three buses of Shaheed Udham Singh College in Tangori caught fire under mysterious circumstances at its parking lot on the campus on Sunday night...

4 booked for assaulting a man in Ludhiana

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Sadar Police have booked four unidentified persons for seriously injuring a person by inserting a wooden stick inside his rectum at Pabbiyan village of Jagraon on Monday. The 32-year-old victim, a native of Bihar, was working as a labourer in the grain market...

Stubble burning: Mohali starts fine recovery

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Orders are out to recover Rs 2.55L fine from farmers who burnt their paddy stubble, while a reward of MSP bonus awaits who chose not to pollute the air...

Chd: CSIO comes up with sprayer to reduce smog

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

To settle pollution-induced smog, the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) has developed a prototype of a water sprayer...

10 laptop, 5 cycle thefts on PGI campus in 2 weeks

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

In the past two weeks, the PGI campus has seen five cycle and 10 laptop thefts. These incidents were reported soon after Diwali, when the resident doctors had left for holidays...

One hurt as auto hits road bern, bus and overturns

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

A drunk auto-rickshaw driver was injured after his speeding three-wheeler overturned near Ramdarbar and Hallomajra roundabout on Sunday morning. Three passengers, who were aboard the auto, had a narrow escape...