At least 1,700 auto-rickshaws have been identified which have not submitted fitness inspection and permit fee worth around Rs 85 lakh in the last 10 years. The State Transport Authority (STA) has started serving notices on the owners of these rickshaws, instructing them to submit the fee as soon as possible. The fitness inspection of […]
For the last seven days, Mamta has spent her afternoon breaks shuttling between prominent private schools of Chandigarh, hoping to collect applications for her son’s admission into nursery. “Some places say they don’t have vacancies for nursery, some ask us to return later or check the websites regularly. Further, for those places that have given […]
Shimla Picturesque tourist spot Manali in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday experienced season’s first snow. Nearby spots of Shimla too were wrapped in a blanket of snow cover, bringing cheer to tourists. Some of the tourist spots in the upper Shimla district were cut off after snow piled on roads, officials said. The ‘Queen of Hills’, […]
Dr Anupma Gupta, one of the six victims injured in a vehicle pile-up near Bandala village on the Amritsar-Bathinda highway on Tuesday, is battling for her life at a local private hospital. Doctors had to amputate her legs to save her life.Dr Anupma, head of the Anatomy Department at Dashmesh Dental College, Faridkot, and her […]
CHANDIGARH: To improve quality of education, the Haryana government has decided to open one Sanskriti model school in each block of the state in 2020. At present, 22 such schools are operational in the state, one in each district. This was confirmed by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday while presiding over the meeting […]
India India’s PV Sindhu lost the opening match of her BWF World Tour Finals campaign in Guangzhou on Wednesday. The defending champion was beaten in 3 games by higher-ranked Akane Yamaguchi. Sindhu’s title defence in Guangzhou got off to a good start as she took the first game 21-18. However, Yamaguchi forced a decider by […]
The faces of six Class 4 students of a private school in Haryana, including two girls, were allegedly blackened and they were paraded in the school premises for scoring poorly in a test, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about […]
DHARAMSHALA: For the second consecutive day of the winter session, Congress created ruckus inside the state assembly on Tuesday, making an otherwise calm and composed chief minister Jai Ram Thakur attack the opposition aggressively. If the opposition was not happy with the clubbing of adjournment notice under Rule 67 into discussion under Rule 130, the […]
Chandigarh The Met department on Tuesday issued a forecast through SMS, informing residents about light to moderate rainfall expected on December 12 and 13. According to weathermen, the days and nights both will turn colder this week with clouds making their way to the city. Mist and shallow fog will continue this week. The message […]
CHANDIGARH: Circumventing directions of the Supreme Court to appoint retired judge of the high court as chairperson of the state Police Complaints Authority (PCA), the Punjab government has finally notified the Punjab Police (Appointment of Chairperson and Members of Complaint Authorities) Rules, 2019, which will allow the state to instead appoint a retired officer of […]