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MP report card: Health concerns, delay in projects mark Kirron Kher's second tenure

Chandigarh, April 16 -- MP Kirron Kher, 71, who rode the Narendra Modi wave to Parliament in 2014 and 2019, has opted out of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on health grounds, while her party colleague S... Read More


Chandigarh: 3 IAS officers blew rRs.r6.72 lakh excess on Paris tour, reveals audit

Chandigarh, April 11 -- Three senior IAS officers spent an excess Rs.6.72 lakh of taxpayer's money during a trip to Paris in June 2015 by extending their stay and upgrading their hotel accommodation, ... Read More


BJP treads cautiously, distances from Masih

Chandigarh, April 8 -- Three days after Chandigarh mayoral poll returning officer Anil Masih tendered an unconditional apology before the Supreme Court for making "false statements" on tampering of ba... Read More


10 years on, development graph wavy at Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher's adopted village

Chandigarh, April 8 -- While Rs.2 crore have been pumped in to set up a community centre, veterinary sub-station and sports complex, the village's still battling with broken roads, repeated waterloggi... Read More


Green ministry demarcates area around Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary on Haryana side

Chandigarh, April 7 -- Rejecting the proposal of the Haryana government to delineate an area of 1,000 metres around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary on the Haryana side as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ), th... Read More


Chandigarh admn failed to procure utilisation certificates for rRs.r458 crore: Audit

Chandigarh, April 6 -- The principal director of audit (central) has pointed out that the UT finance department failed to procure utilisation certificates (UCs) amounting to nearly Rs.458 crore from t... Read More


Chandigarh Estate Office failed to recover rRs.r50-cr dues: Audit

Chandigarh, April 5 -- The Estate Office failed to recover Rs.50-crore dues on various accounts between 2021 and 2023, the principal director of audit, Chandigarh, has flagged in a report. The Estate... Read More


Chandigarh: CITCO hotels high on bar permits but fire safety a burning concern

Chandigarh, April 4 -- Since 2017, CITCO's flagship hotels - Mountview in Sector 10, Shivalikview in Sector 17, and Parkview in Sector 24 - along with the renowned Chef Lakeview restaurant at Sukhna L... Read More


Chandigarh: Punjab's delay in releasing land halts Metro plan in its tracks

Chandigarh, April 3 -- UT administration's plan to initiate work on the ambitious Metro project by April this year is all but delayed, as the Punjab government has yet to give its nod for release of 5... Read More


Chandigarh admn to take a relook at its policy to rev up electric vehicles' adoption

Chandigarh, April 2 -- Having removed the cap on non-electric vehicles in November last year, a major feature of its ambitious Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy, the UT administration has decided to re-exa... Read More