Chandigarh, India News

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday stayed the illegal conversion of residential land for commercial use in the area of municipal corporation Faridabad.

The new Haryana Year Planner 2012 is impressive indeed. For each day of the year, the planner gives you the time of sunrise and sunset, separately for Delhi and Chandigarh.

Chandigarh, Feb 12 The cold conditions have abated from Punjab and Haryana due to remarkable increase in the temperatures, the Met department here said.

CHANDIGARH: Major-General T S Handa alleged his annual confidential report was "spoilt" by General V K Singh as he did not change the Army chief's date of birth.

Chandigarh: Haryana's plans to become the first state in the country to electronically transfer pension across its 21 districts has hit a roadblock due to inadequate banking infrastructure.

Chandigarh: Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 has been ranked 17th in the country in the field of medical research.

The construction of the Metro Rail project is likely to start by February 2013 and be completed before the end of the next Five-Year Plan.

Tata Housing Company and its builder have denied the Chandigarh Administration's claim that the land where the Tata Camelot housing project is proposed is a 'controlled area'. It also said that the UT has allowed several developments to take place on 'controlled areas'. 'Chandigarh itself has carried out/ permitted varied development works in the ... (more)

To strengthen its case for scrapping of the Tata Camelot housing project, the Chandigarh Administration has brought late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to its rescue.

Edward Lutyens planned the city of Delhi. And French architect Le Corbusier did that for Chandigarh.

The cold wave continued unabated across north India Thursday as temperatures dipped across the region.

Chandigarh: Coming down heavily on Haryana Police for resorting to 'unreasonable' means of security at the toll plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday warned Haryana Police against resorting to such measures.

CHANDIGARH: The Intelligence and Criminal Investigations wing of the income tax department conducting operations claimed to have recovered jewellery and cash worth Rs 6 crore from the liquor baron Jagdeep Singh Chadha alias Ponty Chadha during the last week raids.

Finally, the Punjab government has decided that it will not oppose if the investigation of the case pertaining to alleged illegal properties owned by various high-ups in the periphery of Chandigarh is handed over to a special Tribunal.

Murray Guy is very pleased to announce an exhibition with Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle, bringing together works that take up the design and architecture of gardens.

Three days after 37,000 pure-bred birds were culled at the Central Poultry Development Organisation of the country's eastern region in Odisha, its northern counterpart is on high alert.

Chandigarh: It's a tussle between a premier sports school in Haryana and a public sector school with impressive sports infrastructure in Noida for one of FIFA's first footballing academies in the country.

Even as preparations are on for the the Railway Budget for fiscal 2012-13, the proposals in the previous budgets for the city are yet to be fulfilled.

Chandigarh: Haryana's much-touted and internationally acclaimed Surajkund Crafts Mela is being eclipsed by incidents of theft and hooliganism.

Chandigarh, Feb 6 : The minimum temperatures across Punjab and Haryana remained one to five degrees above normal Monday, an official said here.