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Chandigarh: Living up to its social commitment, the largest public sector undertaking in India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), has started providing a helping hand to the government agencies in combating unemployment, particularly in the rural areas.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the telecom giant has started a unique scheme to enrol rural youth as the direct [...]

Chandigarh: Stating that corruption in public life had implications that were wide-ranging and multi-dimensional, Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari said the challenge was to comprehend and confront the issue in its totality.
“Corruption is as much moral as a development issue,” he said while delivering the P.N. Haksar Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Research in Rural [...]

HISAR/CHANDIGARH: Evidence of a nine-year-old boy helped a Hisar fast-track court on Thursday to award death sentence to the rapist and killer of his seven-year-old sister. In fact, the child, Gobind had become unconscious after seeing the killer, Rajesh, walk out with an axe dripping blood. The boy, reticent at first, vowed to avenge the [...]

CHANDIGARH/PATIALA: More officials of Punjabi University resigned on Thursday in a show of solidarity with beleaguered VC Swaran Singh Boparai. This is probably the first time in academic circles that a large chunk of an university’s administrative team quit in an apparent protest against increasing political interference.
With the latest resignations, the number of such persons [...]

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Wednesday transferred four of its officers with immediate effect on Thursday. Principal secretary, information technology BR Bajaj has been appointed principal secretary, programme implementation and secretary, revenue, DP Reddy has been made director-cum-secretary, tourism.
Secretary, welfare of SCs and BCs, Narindrejit Singh has been given the additional charge of secretary, information [...]

Chandigarh: Tax evasion worth Rs 2.5 crore has come to light in the search and seizure operations that were carried out by the investigations wing of the Income Tax department on Wednesday across various business premises in the city, including Panchkula.
The amount is expected to increase manifold as the bank lockers of these business establishments [...]

Panchkula: Many important letters, various telephone and electricity bills have piled up at Sector 8 Post office, Panchkula, and have not been delivered to the recipients. The residents complain that they are not receiving their mails on time. Post office officials blame the shortage of staff for the delay in the delivery of letters.
“There has [...]

Panchkula: Indian cricket has witnessed a disputed opinion on the Indian Cricket League (ICL) Twenty20 for quite some time now. There has been intense speculation on whether the ICL would turn into reality, with the BCCI opposing it and getting other cricket boards to oppose it too.
But despite everything, ICL kicks off on Friday, November [...]

Chandigarh: Expressing deep shock and concern over the way a widow, a resident of Kapurthala, was paraded naked and gangraped by 10 persons, Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice V.K. Jain today came down heavily on the Punjab Police. “We are aghast to notice that in the 21st century, a woman can [...]

Chandigarh: A Group of 20 councillors have returned from their weeklong tour to South East Asia.
The group plans to discuss the details of the tour at the MC House meeting on Friday.
The councillors have already expressed their resentment over the “lack of arrangements” during the tour and the lack of informative avenues.
Kamlesh, a Congress councillor [...]