Chandigarh News Headlines in English

Rs 74.90 CR VALUABLES SEIZED AFTER ENFORCEMENT OF CODE Chandigarh: After the Model Code of Conduct came into force in the state for Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections, various enforcement teams have seized valuables worth Rs 74.90 crores in violation of code till January 22 (Saturday). The state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)

Himachal Government is providing social security pension to 6.35 lakh persons in the state. About 4,15, 993 senior citizens, 125343 widows, single women and destitute women, 1482 leprosy patients and about 150 transgender are being covered under the social security scheme in Himachal, said an official spokesman of the State Government. He

Already at daggers drawn with his partys candidate from Sultanpur Lodhi. Navtej Singh Cheema, senior Congress leader and Punjabs Technical Education Minister Rana Gurjeet Singh on Sunday urged the party president Sonia Gandhi to expel Sukhpal Singh Khaira, former MLA and party nominee from Bholath, from the Congress party for

Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha on Sunday said that party candidate and party workers from Malerkotla lodged an FIR against Mohammad Mustafa, principal strategic advisor to Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, for his provocative and peace threatening statement. He tried to disturb the atmosphere of

Punjab police have booked former top cop and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhus principal strategic adviser Mohammad Mustafa for allegedly making a provocative speech in Baghwala Mohalla in Malerkotla on January 20. Terming the FIR baseless and rejecting all allegations, Mustafa asserted that it has been registered without proper

The Vedas contain two types of knowledge namely the ritualistic activities for getting material gains, and spiritual wisdom for attainment of divine perfection. The ritualistic activities (karma-kanda) section of the Vedic literature has prescribed various rites, rituals, regulations, ceremonies and sacrifices (yagyas) etc. for getting worldly rewards and also for

Punjab on Sunday registered 30 fatalities and 5664 fresh cases of COVID-19. The daily positivity rate of 13.28 percent was recorded in the state. Among 30 fatalities, seven were reported in Ludhiana, five in Jalandhar, three each in Pathankot and SAS Nagar, two in Hoshiarpur and one death each in Amritsar,

Settled on contesting on around 32 per cent of the total 117 Assembly seats in Punjab in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led SAD (Sanyukt), Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday announced 22 candidates of his new outfit, Punjab Lok Congress, by following social engineering formula

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced that 1,000 youth of the state would be imparted training in adventure sports every year by the State Government so as to enable them to get employment. Besides this, adventure-sports will be started in the hills of Kalesar, Dhosi, Aravalli and Mewat,

Amidst growing resentment among the Sikh community over the delay in release of 1993 Delhi blast convict Prof Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, Punjabs five-time former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday called for his immediate release in the larger interest of consolidating peace and communal harmony in Punjab. Badal urged the

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday laid the foundation stone of the State Information Commission building to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 36.49 crore in Sector 3, Panchkula and announced to name this building after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He extended greetings to the people of

--7 more patients die --1,532 infections in BBSR The downward trend in the Covid-19 cases continued in the State on Saturday with 8,845 persons testing positive in the 30 districts and the State pool on Saturday. With this, the total tally increased to 11,96,140. Among the newly-infected were 927 children in the age