Chandigarh: The Sector 35-C parking lot and Ideal Truck Parking in Sector 26 went for the highest bid of Rs 59 lakh as all the 23 parking lots went under hammer on Friday. There were no takers for the Piccadilly Multiplex-II Sector 34 parking lot, and Shanti Kunj Sector 16 fetched the lowest bid at

Chandigarh: Punjab government has decided to bear the entire expenditure for higher education of students passing out from meritorious schools in the state. The state government has already earmarked Rs 15 crore as budgetary allocation during the current fiscal for this, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said on Friday. The decision was made after all

Chandigarh: Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor, Punjab and Haryana inaugurated PEC University of Technology’s newly built Academic Block at the university campus on Friday in the presence of Kirron Kher, Member of Parliament, Chandigarh. Prof Arun Gorver, Vice-Chancellor, Punjab University, Sarvjit Singh, Finance Secretary, UT Chandigarh, K K Jindal, Secretary, Technical Education, UT Chandigarh and

Chandigarh:Panchkula: Residents were taken by surprise after dust storm followed by rain hit tri-city on Friday evening. Heavy winds with speed of 48 knots uprooted many trees and branches. However, 5 ml of rainfall was recorded at MeT observatory. The dust storm and rain triggered major power failure in tri-city for hours. Traffic jams were

Mohali: AAP has taken a serious note of posters, describing Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM responsible for carrying out demolition of the piao at Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib in Delhi. The party spokesperson and head legal cell, Himmat Singh Shergill filed a written complaint with SSP Mohali, GS Bhullar on Friday seeking registration of a case

Chandigarh: In a major embarrassment for PEC, the name of Member Parliament from Chandigarh, Kirron Kher was missing from the foundation stones laid at the University on Friday. Offended Kher said that she will lodge a complaint with Home Ministry for being dishonoured at the function. Kher showed resentment to PEC director Manoj K Arora,

Chandigarh: US based Kare Partners Heart Centre on Thursday has announced to open its world class Heart Centre at Sector 19, Chandigarh. Besides state-of-art facilities, the centre will provide affordable treatment for heart attack patients. Addressing a press conference at Chandigarh Press Club, Dr Ashootosh Bhardwaj, Consultant, Interventional Cardiologist at Kare Partners Heart Centre said

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Police have booked the 19-years-old youth for allegedly eve teasing and harassing a city based girl. The youth is reportedly the son of Additional Advocate General of Punjab. Meanwhile, the accused is yet to be arrested. According to police, the accused has been identified as Afroz Brar (19). The accused has been

Chandigarh: A day after four fire fighters were hospitalised following an operation of chlorine gas leak at Sector 26, the Chandigarh Police on Thursday booked the owner of the plot in the matter for negligence. The police have arrested the owner of Kamal Goods Carrier for negligence along with other Mehak Chemical Private Limited, District

Chandigarh: A five day international public health management development programme has been organised by School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh in collaboration with International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Chitkara University, Punjab from May 16 to 20 at Seminar Hall, School of Public Health. Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Director, PGIMER, was the chief guest

Chandigarh: Mohali: Education Minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema handed over appointment and posting orders to newly promoted 250 headmasters here on Thursday. Stations were allotted to these Head Masters as per their choice. Dr Daljit Singh Cheema while addressing these newly promoted head masters said that the education department has allotted the station to the

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Traffic Police have released fresh two weeks schedule for the day wise challaning system in city. New schedule will commence from Friday onwards. According tothe first week challaning schedule initiating from Friday, the challaning process with the violations by school buses and Minors (underage driving) on May 20, followed by Helmet, triple

Chandigarh: The unscheduled power cuts have already started haunting the residents of tricity. With onset of summers, as the mercury rises, the power cuts take residents by a surprise. Many Sectors in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali have been facing such cuts on daily basis. However, power men have been claiming that the cuts are due

Chandigarh: With the fear of water-borne diseases the Chandigarh authorities had banned the sale of cut fruits and lemon juice in the city but despite of ban on this the sale is on rampant near the government offices in Sector 17 including the Deputy Commissioner office. Municipal Corporation office, Chandigarh is just few meters away

Chanidgarh: Keeping in view of the swe tering heat, Tressed Up international Academy (TIA), Manimajra, has announced a free summer workshop.“The idea is to train interested senior school students who have their vacations, college going students and even adult women how to take care of their hair,skin and beauty sitting at home, so that the

Chandigarh: The scene at CRB Public School, Sector7 B, Chandigarh, was really awesome on Thursday. It was a day full of enjoyment as it was a break from monotonous study schedule, with a splash pool party. The School had arranged a special Splash Pool Party, in which the children of LKG. and UKG turned up

Chandigarh: Panchkula: The Seven-day annual feature ‘SUKRITI Workshop’ was inaugurated on Thursday at DAV Sr Public School, Surajpur. The school was tastefully decked up with. Flowers, placards, banners and flags. The auspicious occasion was marked with the recitation of vedic mantras, shalokas hymens, as the very camp aimed at the spiritual and moral elevation along

Chandigarh: Mohali: Shemrock School ,Sector 69 organised awareness yoga camp at its campus.Students delivered speeches highlighting the relevance in our daily life and performed different asana to aware the fellow friends and parents about their benefits. It was social awareness and community development programs and adventure activities aimed at all round development .The students very

Chandigarh: A five -day International Public Health Management Development Programme is being organised by School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh in collaboration with International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Chitkara University, Punjab from 16th to 20th May, 2016 at Seminar Hall, School of Public Health. A total of 36 participants from 15 states

Chandigarh:  Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notice to Chandigarh Administration, Home Secretary, DC Chandigarh and MC Chandigarh, in a PIL filed by Pravasi Bhalai Sanghthan. This organisation has considerable number of inter-state migrant labourers and vendors as its members. The case came up for hearing before a Division Bench comprising of Justice