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Commercial waste collection MoU among agendas cleared

Chandigarh, Dec. 31 -- The municipal corporation (MC) House on Tuesday passed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to regularise and streamline door-to-door garbage collection from commercial units acr... Read More


Short circuit triggers fire in delivery ward of civil hospital, patients shifted

Panchkula, Dec. 31 -- A short circuit triggered panic among patients and medical staff at the civil hospital in Sector 6 on Tuesday evening. The fire broke out around 5.30 pm in the delivery room comp... Read More


Tribune Flyover project mired in legal hassles

India, Dec. 31 -- Approved by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in June 2016, the Tribune Chowk flyover was aimed to ease congestion at one of Chandigarh's busiest intersections. Its f... Read More


NH-105 four-laning crawling ahead

India, Dec. 31 -- The Pinjore-Baddi-Nalagarh National Highway (NH-105) four-laning project, a critical 34.5-km corridor spanning Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, was launched in April 2022 with a complet... Read More


16 years on, Metro project chugging along planning stage

India, Dec. 31 -- In a city where the number of registered vehicles (14 lakh) is more than its population (12 lakh), the Chandigarh Metro was envisioned as a mass rapid transit solution to the everyda... Read More


moving to sec-39 mkt: a 'high-hanging' fruit

India, Dec. 31 -- To decongest Sector 26, the UT administration had acquired 78 acres in 1990 to move the fruit and vegetable market to Sector 39. Over two decades later, the project still remains lar... Read More


A long way to go for Chandigarh-Baddi rail link

India, Dec. 31 -- Sanctioned in 2007-08 and declared a "special project" by the Railways in 2019, the 28-km Chandigarh-Baddi rail link aims to connect the Tricity with Baddi, Himachal Pradesh's larges... Read More


UT employees' endless battle for housing

India, Dec. 31 -- The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) floated an ambitious housing scheme in 2008 to construct around 4,000 flats in Sectors 52, 53 and 56 exclusively for government employees. In 2010,... Read More


Smart Parking plans caught in slow lane

India, Dec. 31 -- Originally conceived in August 2022, the smart parking initiative aimed to modernise all 89 paid parking lots in Chandigarh, replacing manual slips with FASTag-enabled digital paymen... Read More


Chandigarh Airport's global take-off delayed

India, Dec. 31 -- Determined to sustain itshard-earned 'international airport' tag, Shaheed Bhagat SinghInternational Airport, operated by Chandigarh International Airport Limited (CHIAL), is pushing ... Read More