Chandigarh

Avoid travelling to Delhi, Chandigarh health dept issues advisory

11:59 pm November 18, 2020

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh health department on Wednesday issued an advisory, asking city residents to avoid travelling to Delhi in the wake of rise in COVID-19 cases there. Due to the current surge and steep rise in COVID-10 cases in the national capital, people should avoid travelling to high risk zones like Delhi-NCR unless unavoidable as their probability […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Five killed as car hits truck and catches fire in Punjab’s Sangrur

9:28 pm November 17, 2020

Chandigarh: Five people were burnt alive inside the car they were travelling in when it caught fire after a collision with a truck on Sangrur-Sunam road in Punjab, a senior police official said on Tuesday. The five car occupants were returning to Moga late Monday night after attending a wedding reception in Sangrur district’s Dirba […]

Crackers, farm fires, unfavorable meteorology led to more pollution this Diwali against 2019

Chandigarh bans firecrackers

8:08 pm November 6, 2020

Chandigarh: Sale or use of firecrackers has been completely banned in Chandigarh in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, an official said here on Friday. The directions have been given as a containment measures to prevent the risk of spread of COVID-19 due to pollution caused by bursting of firecrackers, UT Adviser Manoj Parida said. “I […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Dy-CM Dushyant says Haryana alone leaving claim on Chandigarh will serve no benefit

11:57 pm November 1, 2020

Chandigarh: Haryana leaving claim on common capital Chandigarh will serve no benefit until Punjab too decides to do that, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Sunday. His remarks came on a day when Haryana is celebrating 54 years of coming into existence as a separate state after it was carved out of undivided Punjab in 1966. Chandigarh is the common capital of Haryana and Punjab and the two […]

Pulse polio drive in 13 Haryana districts

11:15 pm November 1, 2020

Chandigarh: The second round of the pulse polio drive began in high-risk areas of 13 districts in Haryana on Sunday. The districts where the drive is being carried out are Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Palwal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonipat and Yamunanagar. On the first day of the campaign, approximately 4.5 lakh children […]