India, April 19 -- In July 2004, while dealing with a petition seeking directions to increase forest cover around Chandigarh, the Punjab and Haryana high court ordered the demarcation of the Sukhna ca... Read More
India, April 19 -- The 2004 Burail jailbreak by four inmates, including assassins of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, by digging a 109-ft tunnel made national headlines. On the night of Janua... Read More
India, April 19 -- Anupama Sarkar, 16, lost her life to medical negligence at Advanced Trauma Centre of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on July 24, 2012. Her par... Read More
India, April 19 -- In December 2014, 35 geese and ducks died in a fortnight at Sukhna Lake. After one of the six samples tested positive for avian flu, the UT administration began culling 200-odd gees... Read More
India, April 19 -- On October 27, 2005, an estimated 1 lakh of Dera Sacha Sauda protesters marched through Chandigarh against the alleged mistreatment of followers by CBI officials during a probe into... Read More
India, April 19 -- Over the past decade, Chandigarh administration has been unable to check the auction of the city's heritage furniture abroad. Last month, a report was submitted by the Government C... Read More
India, April 19 -- Named after the eldest son of Guru Gobind Singh, Sahibzada Ajit Singh, SAS Nagar, which was earlier a part of Rupnagar district, became the 18th district of Punjab on April 14, 2006... Read More
India, April 19 -- A 20-year-old German tourist visiting Chandigarh to attend a friend's wedding was kidnapped in an SUV from the parking lot of Taj hotel in Sector 17 and gangraped by five youngsters... Read More
India, April 19 -- Khushpreet Singh, a five-year-old KG student and son of dairy owner Lakhbir Singh, was kidnapped from near his house at Burail village in Sector 45, Chandigarh, on December 21, 2010... Read More
India, April 19 -- Shiromani Akali Dal youth wing leader Vikramjit Singh, alias Vicky Middukhera, 36, was chased and shot dead in full public view in the market of Sector 71, Mohali, on August 7, 2021... Read More