Chandigarh: MC house adjourned for the day after BJP councillors create ruckus over demand of former union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's resignation from Lok Sabha and MC house.

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.

Punjabi rapper Honey Singh will for the first time, be seen singing on the big screen in a song in the film, Zaalim Dilli. And director Japinder Kaur says it is a “situational dance number”.

Three Masters of Fine Arts students from Government College of Art, Sector 10, bring together a painting exhibition called Triangle at Tagore Theatre, Sector 18, Chandigarh. The three-day exhibition, organised by Chandigargh-based 4C (Chandigarh, Creative, Cinema Circle) is on from May 23 to 25. Excerpts from a quick conversation with the three artists, as they talk about their work and discuss the scope of art for students.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of the country's first Indian National Defence University (INDU) at Binola village of Gurgaon district on Thursday.
Call it a problem of plenty or blame it on poor planning, Haryana is stuck with "surplus" electricity on which its power utilities lose money when they enter the market to sell it.
A 33-year-old doctor from Ludhiana allegedly committed suicide by jumping into Sukhna Lake here on Thursday.
The heatwave blowing across the region intensified on Thursday, with the maximum temperature reaching 43.8°C — the hottest day this year so far.
An eight-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped before being sodomised on Wednesday. The minor is a resident of Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran.

The aspiring doctors of north India will have a much-improved chance of fulfilling their dream. This year, the medical colleges of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana will add nearly 500 seats under the bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) programme.
The Punjab and Haryana Bar Council elections scheduled for June 1 and municipal corporation elections for June 2 have left more than 5,000 advocates of Haryana in a tizzy.
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.

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.