IT Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: Faced with complaints pouring in from Bacchus lovers, UT excise department has decided to launch a massive and random check of more than 200 English and country liquor shops across the Union Territory.
Disclosing this, UT additional excise and taxation commissioner Inderjit Singh Sandhu on Sunday said surprise raids would be carried out to check [...]

CHANDIGARH: Rakesh Sharma, president of Chandigarh Trade Union, was assaulted in Daddumajra village over a group rivalry on Sunday. Sharma was attacked by about half-a-dozen youths when he was going home along with another colleague Gurbachan Singh.
He suffered injuries on his face and chest and his clothes also got torn in the assault.
Sharma had reportedly [...]

CHANDIGARH: If elopement cases are any indicator, then youngsters from the middle and lower middle class seem to be getting bolder and smarter.
While parents try to get the boys booked for abduction and rape, the love-lorn girls, apparently under legal guidance, scuttle their parents schemes. They boldly declare that they had eloped on their own [...]

CHANDIGARH: A day after the arrest of constable Ranjeet Singh, who created a ruckus in an inebriated condition, another constable was arrested for allegedly molesting his neighbour in Sector 41 on Sunday. The cop, Manohar Singh, had been arrested twice earlier for creating ruckus and under preventive charges.
Inspector Gulshan Sharma, SHO of PS 39, said [...]

CHANDIGARH: A day before the CBI was to file its inquiry report on charges, including those of rape and murder, against Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a Bathinda police team arrested and questioned the cult chief in Sirsa on Monday in a case registered against [...]

CHANDIGARH: Top industrialists of the state on Monday agreed to set up 100 adarsh schools and adopt some government primary schools following an assurance by the government to provide them free land up to 25 acre, besides the freedom to run the establishments. The mode of public-private partnership between the government and industrial houses was [...]

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court, disposing of a writ petition by city-based Singh Legal Foundation through its chairman Dr Malkiat Singh Rahi, declined to interfere in the matter relating to continuing ban on wearing of turban by Sikh students in French schools .
“Making use of international forum was solely the discretion of the [...]

Stickers on traffic direction confuse people
Chandigarh: Though there is some time to go for elections, student unions are already stepping out.
The boundaries of the university campus and colleges are no longer the battlegrounds and parties are proclaiming their presence around the city too.
Posters and stickers adorning walls, barricades and even sign-boards have come up and [...]

Says nodal cell adequate; HC Bench had felt otherwise
Chandigarh: Growing importance of rights issues notwithstanding, the UT administration is of the opinion that the there is no need for a full-fledged rights commission, keeping in view UT’s small size and few complaints of rights violations.
The opinion has been expressed in a reply dated July 24 [...]

Chandigarh: The monthly house meeting of the MC today passed all items on the agenda. However, the house witnessed unruly scenes over a question raised by councillor Chandermukhi Sharma.
Sharma had demanded information on the PSC pipes being laid for tertiary treated water along Shanti Path and Udyog Path. Alleging that an exception had been made [...]