Chandigarh, India News

Besides announcing a proposed rail link connecting Chandigarh with Jagadhri and Yamunanagar, the Railway Minister also included the city in the list of 50 stations that will be upgraded to world-class standards on a public-private-partnership model.

After months of waiting and watching first showers of the monsoon lashed the Capital, parts of Uttarakhand and Punjab last evening.

Four people were arrested here Tuesday with arms and cash, police said, adding that they were members of an inter-state gang of highway robbers operating in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

So near and yet so far. Looking skywards, that's what people in many parts of northern India must have felt Monday, as the air was hot, humid and heavy with the possibility of rain, but the magical droplets eluded.

Chandigarh : Travelling abroad from Punjab and Haryana will not mean travelling to Delhi anymore with Chandigarh airport being upgraded to an international airport.

"I was working on an album with Janet and Michael Jackson. I'm producing and composing the album.

Promising a passport within three days, it peddled a dream to Indians crowding understaffed and overburdened regional passport centres.

Chandigarh, June 27 : Dutch pharmaceutical major Brema Pharma International Saturday launched photodynamic therapy, a pain-free technique for treating cancer with lasers and light sensitive drugs, saying it will invest 1 million euros in its Indian operations.

New Delhi/Chandigarh/It has been a wait in anger and desperation for the monsoon in scorched north India as Delhi saw protests over power cuts and water shortage, while even Manipur in the northeast officially declared itself drought hit after the failure of rains.

Australian News.Net Friday 26th June, 2009 Saurabh Sharma, a 21-year-student of Carrick Institute of Education, one of the largest vocational institutes in this Australian city with a strong Indian contingent, says he is lucky to be alive after being smashed up by a group of five lager louts while returning home last month.

Chandigarh, June 25 In the wake of delayed monsoon, the Bhakra Beas Management Board today decided to cut the supply of water for irrigation to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan by 6000 cusecs till July 10.

After holding a crucial meeting with representatives of all these states, BBMB has decided to supply 22,000 cusecs against the current supply of 28,000 cusecs, a move that would raise the water level in Bhakra reservoir which has been fast depleting due to lack of rains.

Nicosia , June 24 : Flydubai, the recently established low-cost airline, on Wednesday announced its plans to start flights to Lucknow, Coimbatore and Chandigarh cities of India in July, offering low fares to serve expatriate Indians in the UAE and to people flying to the region for business or pleasure.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the mercy petition of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who has been on death row for 18 years, after his lawyer failed to appear in the court despite being specifically directed to do so.

New Delhi, June 24 : Rain gods don't seem to be smiling on the national capital this monsoon as Delhi is likely to receive much less rainfall than the national average, a forecast released by the India Meteorological Department said Wednesday.

The patient, who is originally from Gurdaspur in Punjab, came to Chandigarh on June 19 to visit relatives and friends.

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Chandigarh, Jun 17 : Haryana Governor A R Kidwai and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda have expressed shock and grief over the sad demise of noted Hindi poet Alhar Bikaneri in a hospital at Noida today.

South East Asia News.Net Sunday 14th June, 2009 Chandigarh, June 14 : Indian and Pakistani artistes sang a song titled 'Bhaichara' together here on Saturday with the aim of spreading messaged of friendship and harmony between both countries.

Chandigarh, Jun 17 : As many as 121.68 lakh mandays have been generated in the rural areas of Haryana under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by spending over Rupees 201 crore since the inception of the scheme in the state in 2006.