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Chandigarh residents raise red flags over power tariff hike proposal at JERC hearing

Chandigarh, July 26 -- Residents vehemently opposed the proposed hike in electricity tariffs during a public hearing conducted by the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) on Friday. The hear... Read More


Soldier killed in 'friendly fire' during op can't be denied benefits: HC

Chandigarh, July 26 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has said a soldier killed in 'friendly fire' while deployed in a military operation cannot be denied benefits applicable to those killed in act... Read More


Expert panel to examine two compressed biogas plants in Ludhiana: Punjab CM

Chandigarh, July 26 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday asked the environmental expert committee to thoroughly examine the Bagga Kalan and Akhaara compressed biogas (CBG) plants in Ludhiana and ... Read More


Punjab cabinet approves Bill to make sale of spurious seeds non-bailable offence

Chandigarh, July 26 -- In order to curb the sale of spurious seeds in the state, the Punjab cabinet on Friday gave its consent to introduce The Seeds (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to make... Read More


Chandigarh: Classmate, aides assault teen with iron rods, knives outside Sec-40 school

Chandigarh, July 26 -- A Class 12 student was allegedly attacked with iron rods, knives, and bricks by a group of individuals, including a classmate, outside his school in Sector 40-D on July 17. The ... Read More


Police recruitment to start soon: CM

Chandigarh, July 26 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday said that recruitment in the state police will be started soon and that directions have already been issued to the concerned o... Read More


Four cops to receive CM Rakshak Padak on I-Day for saving 11 from drowning in Sirhind canal

Chandigarh, July 26 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday felicitated four police personnel who saved the lives of 11 people after a car fell into the Sirhind Canal in Bathinda on July 23. Mann s... Read More


168 child beggars rescued in a week across Punjab: Minister Baljit Kaur

Chandigarh, July 26 -- The Punjab government on Friday claimed to have rescued 168 child beggars from the streets across the state in just one week under its flagship 'Project Jiwanjyot 2.0' programme... Read More


Energy tariff for industries: Gurugram-Faridabad industrialists seek regulator's intervention

Chandigarh, July 26 -- A delegation of industrialists from Gurugram and Faridabad associated with the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) on Friday sought the intervention of Haryana Electri... Read More


Chandigarh: ED busts fake tech support call centres duping foreign customers

Chandigarh, July 25 -- The Chandigarh Zonal Office-I of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted midnight searches across multiple locations in the tricity, busting illegal call centres that were du... Read More