A STRETCH of cycle track from Sukhna Lake towards Madhya Marg will be lit up at a cost of Rs 80 lakh. The street lighting of the track at this stretch would be done through underground piping. According to UT officials, cyclists have been facing trouble as the tracks would remain dark. Therefore, they decided […]
Chandigarh Come New Year and all 4,000 field employees of the Chandigarh municipal corporation will be under strict monitoring. The municipal corporation will provide the employees with GPS-enabled wrist watches from January 15 onward. This is a one-of-its-kind project of the civic body to keep a tab on employees at work. Each field employee will […]
Chandigarh Two college students from Haryana were shot dead by unidentified assailants at their rented accommodation in Sector 15 area here, police said on Thursday. The victims, both in their early twenties, have been identified as Ajay, a student of a private university, and Vineet, who was attending a government college here, Superintendent of Police […]
New Delhi The all-powerful GST Council, in its 38th meeting here on Wednesday, voted for uniform rate of 28% on lotteries across the country. Despite pressure to boost revenues amidst a shortfall, the GST Council chose not to tamper with the rates. It was decided to extend the annual date of GSTR 9 filing to […]
New Delhi The protest against the new citizenship law is heating up in national capital Delhi. As a precautionary measure, the government has asked mobile phone operators to suspend voice, data and internet services in some areas. The order to suspend the services was issued on Wednesday. The users of Airtel were first to find […]
New Delhi The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), one of the biggest education boards of the country, conducts class 10, 12 board exams for more than 30 lakh students, every year, in both class 10 and class 12 level. Of the 240 subjects in which the Board conducts the exams at secondary (class 10) […]
Chandigarh A couple of years back, he fell one short of equaling former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s record of 14 sixes in the Vijay Hazare trophy but on Tuesday, Ankit Kaushik bailed Chandigarh out with a sedate century as the hosts posted a healthy 274 for 5 before bad light forced an early closure […]
Chandigarh The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed the fast food chain to deposit Rs 5 lakh in the Poor Patient Welfare Fund of the PGI and to stop the unfair trade practice. Jitender Bansal, a resident of Sector 27-D, had filed a complaint against Domino’s Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, Sector 8-B, Chandigarh, and its […]
New Delhi Around 60 petitions challenging the Centre’s new Citizenship law – which has created a storm since being passed last week — will be taken up by the Supreme Court today. Among those who filed the petitions are senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, the Indian Union Muslim League and Asom Gana Parishad, an ally […]
New Delhi Protests over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) spread across the country on Monday with students, some sections of the civil society and opposition political parties holding demonstrations at several places urging the Centre to revoke the Act. Here is all you need to now: What is the Citizenship (Amendment) Act? The bill […]