Chandigarh: Drunk girls kill 2 in car accident, escape
Chandigarh: In yet another case of reckless driving, two young girls in a Honda Accord car hit a motorbike, killing two of a family in Chandigarh on Tuesday evening. Both five-year-old Harpreet and 21-year-old Sukhwinder Singh died on their way to the hospital. After the accident girls took lift in another car and fled. An [...]
Chandigarh is officially India’s cleanest city
Chandigarh has emerged as the number one city in terms of sanitation in the National Rating Exercise, government said on Monday. Announcing this, Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy listed Mysore at number two, Surat at number three and the NDMC area of New Delhi in the fourth position. “The purpose of this exercise is [...]
Bypoll violence: Chautala named in assault FIR
ELLENABAD: Finally, the election scene at Ellenabad assembly segment, considered hypersensitive, is beginning to heat up. In what could be an indicator of things to come, Samast Bhartiya Party (SBP) Kusum Chaudhary on Sunday alleged that she was assaulted and issued dire threats by some leaders and their supporters at the behest of their party [...]
Rathore threatened his own boss too
CHANDIGARH: It wasn't just Ruchika Girhotra and her family who were hounded by former DGP SPS Rathore and his henchmen in Haryana police. Even Rathore's immediate superior — DGP R R Singh — was not spared as he probed the molestation charges against the then IG. Speaking to TOI, Singh minced no words recalling the [...]
Class X girl abducted from bus stop
CHANDIGARH: A class X student of Kendriya Vidyalaya-29 was abducted in full public view from the bus stop in Sector-29 on Thursday. The victim identified as Shivangi is a resident of Manimajra. Police sources said the incident took place around 2.30 pm when Shivangi along with one of her classmate was waiting to board a [...]
Blog infuriates estranged wife, FIR against NRI
CHANDIGARH: A Sector 41 resident, Vibha Sanan, lodged an FIR against her estranged NRI husband, Rohit Chandok, for posting objectionable remarks against her on an internet blog. The case was registered at Sector 39 police station. However, Chandok claimed the blog was posted when his wife, against whom he filed a divorce petition in a [...]
Chandigarh school closes due to swine flu scare
CHANDIGARH: A leading all girls school here in Sector 26 has been closed for a week starting Tuesday because of a fear of swine flu, officials said. The decision was taken after a class nine student of the Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School tested positive for the influenza A (H1N1) virus Monday. "Apart from one [...]
Late IAS’ daughter harassed for dowry
CHANDIGARH: Jasleen, daughter of Punjab’s former secretary for science and technology, Avinash Singh Chhatwal, has got an FIR lodged at Sector-39 police station against her husband Jagjit Singh Kohli, his father Daljit Singh and mother Harjit Kaur for dowry-related harassment. She has also levelled allegations of assault and wrongful confinement against the Kohlis and stated [...]
