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Accused admit to stabbing 76-year-old to death before dumping body in canal near Moga, divers trying to locate body.

India’s research ecosystem is poised for a major transformation with the operationalisation of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). This path-breaking initiative of the Narendra Modi government aims to elevate research and innovation across the demographics and geographies of the nation.

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The Punjab Aces’ strategy to load up on the four-ball pairings was a masterstroke as they swept the Tee Birds five to nothing in the four-ball game at the Chandigarh Golf League

Encroachments are witnessed in majority of the land belonging to the MC and Chandigarh administration and regular complaints are filed by the residents

The Panchkula constituency is set to witness a three-cornered contest between the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections scheduled for October 5

Deputy commissioner (DC) Yash Garg directed the Panchkula MC to carry out regular fogging and cleaning on the Mata Mansa Devi Temple premises as a large number of devotees are expected to visit for a fair

In 2016, the Chandigarh administration had mandated that residential houses with plot size of 500 square yards or more need to install solar power systems to comply with building bylaws

Police investigation has revealed that both suspects, who are drug addicts and school dropouts, were promised a hefty reward of over ₹5 lakh and a ticket to Canada via Dubai once their “task” was completed, only to be ditched later by US-based Khalistani gangster Happy Passia

Aiming to reclaim the Kalka assembly constituency, the BJP is banking on Shakti Rani Sharma, 71, who with assets worth ₹144 crore, including those of her spouse, is among the top 10 richest candidates in fray in Haryana

The order was passed on the plea from a Chandigarh resident, Alankar Narula, who in 2022 had approached the high court after he was asked to deposit 8% of vehicle’s price as road tax in place of 6%

To construct the bridge towards Kalka and Ambala, trains originating from, culminating at or passing through Chandigarh railway station’s platforms 5 and 6 have been directed towards platforms 1, 2, 3, and 4

According to Surinder Singh, 30, a resident of Dadumajra, he was delivering a gas cylinder near a house in Sector 38-A around 12.45 pm; meanwhile, two motorcycle-borne men approached them and aggressively told them to exit the vehicle

In his complaint, constable Sijagdeep Khan of Gharuan police station that they had received a tip-off that Ladi, along with another man, was driving towards Gharuan from Chandigarh University in a Punjab-registered car in a suspicious manner.

From Septemer 16, the Mohali admn has increased collector rates, depending upon the locality, by 26% to 50% for 2024-25

In a move to curb the menace of drunk driving, the Chandigarh Traffic Police have adopted stringent actions, including impounding vehicles of those found driving under the influence

Police said the severity of the accident, which occurred on the outskirts of Shampur village, Raipur Rani, Panchkula, indicated a high-speed impact, leading to the gruesome outcome

Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi in a post on X sought immediate release of Malvinder and said AAP government is curtailing freedom of speech.

A 60-year-old migrant labourer died of Malaria in Patiala, marking the district's first malaria death in a decade, with 13 cases reported this season.

AAP MLA Jaswant Singh Gajjanmajra also approached Punjab and Haryana high court challenging his arrest and remand order but the same were dismissed by the HC following which he approached the apex court.

Once the dominant political force in Haryana, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), whose patriarch, the late Chaudhary Devi Lal, was India’s deputy prime minister, has fielded just 51 candidates for elections to the 90-member state assembly with its ally Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) contesting another 38 seats.

Battlelines drawn: 1,031 candidates left in fray as 190 candidates withdraw nomination papers. During the single-phase polling on October 5, total 2,03,54,350 voters (1,07,75,957 men, 95,77,926 women, and 467 third gender) will decide the fate of 1,031 candidates and which party will rule Haryana.

AICC general secretary and National Conference-Congress coalition candidate Ghulam Ahmad Mir has been trying hard to wrestle back the constituency

Jalandhar Improvement Trust chairman Jagtar Singh Sanghera has been investigating allotment of commercial and residential plots from 2016 to 2022 on the basis of “forged” registrations.

In Ferozepur jail, 37 SIM cards, drugs, and intoxicants were found on a prisoner after his parole, prompting an investigation and legal action.

Top leaders of all the major political parties held rallies and programmes in various parts of J&K, making a last attempt before polling to woo voters

Two car-borne youths kidnapped NRI Mohinder Singh while he was heading to the gurdwara on the outskirts of Kang Sahibu village on Nakodar-Jalandhar road.

The complainant has alleged that these politicians committed a sacrilege by applying ‘tilak’ to the holy saroop of Guru Granth Sahib in 2008 at a dera.

2,546-kg heroin seized from across the state after carrying out cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas.

Punjab faces a critical shortage of Hepatitis C testing kits, prompting local purchases as the state health department promises supply within a week.

The gurdwara election commission extended voter registration for SGPC polls to October 31 due to high interest, with key dates set through early January.

The Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee is set to discuss shortly on supporting a party in the upcoming assembly polls.

The labourers were working on the roadside without any protective gear when the accident took place.

It’s ₹34,983 crore for the April-August period, up from ₹31,840 crore of last year’s corresponding period.

Sanction to prosecute ex-ministers Dharamsot and Arora is waiting for governor’s nod, while three others are pending with government

To manage the heavy traffic near the Pakhowal railway under-bridge and road over-bridge, the traffic police have reopened a cut around the Pakhowal Road bridge.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and Ludhiana member of Parliament Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, on Monday, laid the foundation stone for the much-anticipated project to upgrade the Jagraon to Hathur via Dallaha, Mallah and Chakar road.

A fraudster posing as a former colleague robbed a retired Food Corporation of India (FCI) official and his wife of gold after sedating the couple in Dakha.

The lawn at Civil Hospital here has had stagnant water for the last few weeks, turning it into a breeding ground for dengue causing mosquitoes.

The missing and faulty streetlights near the main lanes of Focal Point phases 5 and 6 have made factory workers and transporters vulnerable to petty crimes such as mobile snatching, cash snatching, and stabbings.

Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Pankaj Agarwal said that 20,629 polling booths had been established for the October 5 elections

Veteran Congress leader and four-time former lawmaker Anand Singh Dangi has passed on the electoral baton to his son, Balram Dangi, who is facing tough contest from Independent lawmaker Balraj Kundu, who floated the Haryana Jansewak Party, rebel BJP leader Shamsher Singh Kharkara’s wife Radha Ahlawat and BJP’s Deepak Hooda, former Indian kabaddi team captain

A 2016-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Aaditya Dachalwal on Monday took charge as the municipal corporation (MC) commissioner and asked the MC wings to set 100-day targets.

Youngest among all, 25-year-old Aditya Surjewala is a third-generation political aspirant. He is the son of Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala

The Shimlapuri police on Monday arrested three miscreants and seized 10 stolen mobile phones, a bike and a sharp-edged weapon from their possession, officials said.

Congress candidate from Sonepat Surender Panwar was arrested by Enforcement Directorate in July in connection with illegal mining operations and proceeds of crime made thereof

The midterm examinations for government school students across the district are set to begin on September 25 even as the syllabus for classes up to eighth is yet to be covered.

On Monday, the market in Solan remained closed until noon in response to a call from local traders protesting the increasing number of migrants from other states

The dynamic duo, Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi, nurtured and trained at the SMVD Sports Complex at Katra brought laurels to the nation with their exceptional performance

The highlight of Congress manifesto -- Haath Badlega Halaat -- is insurance for all crops against natural calamities and a minimum support price of ₹72 per kilogram for apple

The local police on Monday booked 10 miscreants for an alleged murder bid on two New Shimlapuri residents.

The local civil hospital saw a 66% surge in patients on Monday as the services at out-patient department (OPD) resumed, officials said.

Taking exception to the speech of Union home minister Amit Shah at Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee senior vice-president and chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma lamented that the BJP leader tried to create a fear psychosis among the people ahead of the assembly polls through speeches and advertisements

Due to the arrival of the monsoon, the tourism department in Kangra has decided to suspend the paragliding activities for two months, starting July 15

A massive landslide in the afternoon closed NH-5 near Kumarhatti in Solan district, the officials said, adding that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officers and police are on-site, working to clear the debris and reopen the road

The accused were involved in cross-border smuggling of drugs and were using hi-tech gadgets to smuggle heroin from Pakistan, police said.

BJP, like the Congress, will now be contesting 89 of the 90 assembly seats in the state. The Congress has left the Bhiwani seat for CPI(M).

Union home minister says attempts are on to revive terrorism as the National Conference and Congress manifesto talks about releasing terrorists.

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Three persons have lost their lives in the past two months on this stretch owing to negligence of authorities who seem to be in a deep state of slumber over damaged roads and blind curves

Hoping to have a great run in the league and eyeing the title win, the team co-owners, Karan Gilhotra and Kamal Dewan, backed their team in Season 3 of the CGL; Chandigarh Gladiators, a strong contender in this year’s league, boasts an impressive line-up that include seasoned and new golfers

Currently, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, Chandigarh, offers 150 MBBS seats, 100 BDS seats, and 50 BHMS seats

The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has yet again extended the deadline for filing of bids for the project amid multiple queries from bidders

The new rates are set to multiply the already hefty stamp duty on properties by lakhs; the revision in rates comes after a 35% hike in 2021 that had helped the administration rake in almost double the stamp duty compared to 2020, followed by 42% to 76% hike in 2022

The action came on the complaint of Ramandeep Singh, sub-divisional engineer of the Mohali water and sanitation department, following an inspection of the market

As of September 15, 97.7 mm rain has been recorded in Chandigarh; this is more than the whole month last year, when 37.8 mm rain was logged; however, in September 2022, the city had received 215.9 mm rain

In the action-taken report presented at the Administrator’s Advisory Council meeting on Saturday, the Chandigarh Estate Office clearly stated that a proposal regarding the conversion of residential units into nursing homes had not been approved by the competent authority

The resident doctors at PGIMER, Chandigarh, will also form a human chain across the campus, wearing black badges

The accused, identified as Nirmal Singh, a gardener and resident of Lohara Wala Mohalla, Dera Bassi, was arrested after a video of him beating the victim with slippers and dragging her by her hair came to fore

AAP leaders in Punjab praised Arvind Kejriwal's resignation as Delhi CM, calling it a "bold" move and expressing confidence in his integrity and electoral support.

In Bihar’s Bhagalpur, Bittu said if those “manufacturing bombs” were supporting him (Rahul Gandhi), he is the “number one terrorist”.

The two suspects, the main perpetrator Rohan Masih, who was arrested from Amritsar on Friday i.e. September 13, and Vishal Masih, had come in an auto-rickshaw, to lob a grenade at a house in upscale Sector 10 in Chandigarh on September 11.

SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami writes to the gurdwara election commission, raising doubts over the fairness and transparency of the process.

The PDP has fielded its most promising youth leaders Waheed ur Rehman Para, who is contesting his first assembly election, while the NC has resorted faith on former minister Mohammad Khalil Band, a former PDP leader.

For the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections, out of the 908 nominations accepted by the election authorities 44 are that of women.

Approval for the estimated ₹1.50 crore for the project is expected to be finalised in the next few days.

BJP is trying to open their account in the assembly elections of 2024 in Kashmir valley and are hoping that the growth in tourism sector would fetch them votes.

Devender Singh Rana has an edge over his rivals because of his secular image. He has a deep connect with the locals, a voter of Jandrah village said.

My library now looks neat but that’s how life is – the old, sometimes, has to be given away to make space for new. This doesn’t indicate reduced respect for anything but just an openness to change.

Call detail records of people who instigated the protest have been gathered and more cases will be registered, Shimla superintendent of police Sanjeev Kumar Gandhi said.

Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini is the BJP’s CM face and the party will score a hat-trick of wins in the state under his leadership, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan asserted on Sunday after its senior leader Anil Vij said being the senior-most in the BJP, he will keep forward the demand that he should be made the chief minister if the party returns to power.

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal claimed that the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2011, seeking legal guarantee of MSP on all crops but he failed to implement the same demands he had sent to the then Prime Minister in the last 10 years.

The People’s Democratic Party’s chief said that if elected to power the party will first undertake a fast-track recruitment for about one lakh government jobs in a transparent manner.

Addressing a rally in Bahadurgarh, Hooda said that Congress will form the government in Haryana and its aim is to ensure safety to all state residents. Hooda further said that even before the formation of the Congress government in 2005, gangs used to operate from jails.

Addressing the office-bearers and workers of the OBC and kisan morcha in Rohtak, Poonia alleged that Congress is an anti-Dalit and anti-farmer party and highlighted the steps taken by the “double engine governments” for the welfare of the OBC and farmers.

She won the medal in the under 73 kg girls’ category and is also a gold medallist at 1st Khelo India Women’s Taekwondo League Nationals in U-67 kg, held at Cuttack, Odisha. On this occasion, Jasbir Singh Gill, general secretary, Haryana State Taekwondo Association, congratulated all the medallists and participants.

Haryana CEO said that 25 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 15 of Border Security Force (BSF), 30 of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), 25 of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), 35 of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), and 25 companies of Railway Protection Force (RPF) will be deployed September 24 onwards.

The former chief minister questioned what was the compulsion of the People’s Democratic Party to form an alliance with the BJP in 2015?

Jammu and Kashmir will undergo its first assembly elections since 2014 in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1.

The CM said that the decision to create separate wings has been a long due especially after implementation of the GST Act in July 2017.

Himachal Pradesh to acquire 122 hectares for Kangra airport expansion, displacing 942 families. Objections hearings set from Oct 18 to Nov 11.

Identified as Amritpal Singh, the accused was also wanted in another case related to the recovery of 33-kg of heroin from Jammu and Kashmir. He is said to have been a part of the Pakistan-linked heroin smuggling racket.

Two robbers were injured in a shootout with police in Jalandhar, leading to the arrest of three accomplices and the recovery of firearms and cash.

Mothers Against Drugs’ is an initiative of the Punjab Lit Foundation to help women take an active role in safeguarding their children from falling into the trap of drug addiction.

The Chandigarh-based Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory had filed a case on June 8, 2022 and the case under Official Secrets Act has been registered now after a preliminary probe.

Priority is release of Amritpal and delivery of justice in the sacrilege cases, says Mandeep Singh Sidhu

The construction of the new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Ward at the cost of ₹73.03 lakh has been completed at ESI Corporation (ESIC) Model Hospital, Ludhiana.

In an effort to encourage the reading habit among the community, senior citizens, union leaders, and veteran educators from Jagraon have come together to open a free library for locals.

Despite Cheema Chowk being a significant commercial hub and part of Ludhiana’s green belt, its parks remain in a deplorable state due to the absence of dedicated staff and proper maintenance.

A city resident lost ₹50.2 lakh to fraudsters who lured him on the pretext of investing for quick and huge benefits, officials said.