The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday allowed quashing of two cross first-information reports (FIRs) registered at the Sector 26 police station after a brawl at the Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) on February 16.
The UT estate office removed the illegally constructed annexe in a Sector 16 house here on Friday.
Panjab University's sexual harassment committee dealing with the case involving chairperson of University Business School (UBS) AK Vashisht and another faculty member Dinesh Gupta for allegedly threatening and sexually harassing an assistant professor at the department met on Friday.
Controversial former deputy chief minister of Haryana and Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) leader Chander Mohan may be away from politics, but he definitely enjoys a stronghold not only in his own party but among BJP leaders as well.
The state election commission, Haryana, issued a notification recently that the Aadhar Card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) can also be produced as documentary evidence by the electors who have not been issued electoral photo identity cards by the Election Commission of India.
To ensure that Panjab University (PU) students do not deface public property by pasting posters and publicity material, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday directed the university to provide a designated spot, inside the campus, to all parties for a limited period. The space must be divided equally, the court has added.
Two municipal corporation (MC) officials, scheduled to go on a seven-day study tour of Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore on Wednesday, cancelled their South-east Asia trip at the last minute.
In a suspected case of suicide that sent shockwaves across PU campus, the charred body of Amandeep Singh, a final-year student at the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) here, was found after a blast and fire in his room at hostel number 2 on Thursday afternoon.
The heatwave blowing across the region intensified on Thursday, with the maximum temperature reaching 43.8°C — the hottest day this year so far.
Additional district and sessions judge Preeti Sahni on Thursday acquitted two UT cops, after the victim, wife of one of the accused, retracted from the allegations against them of trying to kill her.
An eight-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped before being sodomised on Wednesday. The minor is a resident of Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran.
A 33-year-old doctor from Ludhiana allegedly committed suicide by jumping into Sukhna Lake here on Thursday.
The members of traders association of Sector 17 held a meeting with area councillor Pardeep Chhabra on Thursday and expressed their resentment over the decision of the municipal corporation of levying hourly parking charges.
The Easyfive-TT vaccine, following the administering of which a month-and-half-old baby had passed away at the Advanced Paediatrics Centre (APC) of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) last month, has got the clean chit from Central Research Institute, Kasauli.
Two days after attempts were made to outrage the modesty of a woman in a moving autorickshaw, the Sector-39 police on Wednesday arrested auto driver Naveen Kumar, 25, and his alleged accomplice Kamal Kumar, 24, near SAS Nagar opposite Palsora police post.