By this year-end, law to check illegal migration

India is going to have a fresh and stringent law by this year-end to deal with its citizens going abroad through unscrupulous agents, mostly from Punjab.

Dept accords warm farewell to UT SSP

SS Srivastva, SSP (UT) was accorded a warm farewell by his senior and junior colleagues at Sector-26 police lines sector 26 on the last day of his around 3-year-long tenure in the city on Thursday.

Ghaggar fury: Leaping into dangerous waters

The near-death experience of six persons who were saved from the furiously flowing Ghaggar doesn't seem to have served as a lesson for others who put their lives in danger by jumping in the river to fetch a few coins and some metal items every day.

50L rent recovered from vends

The municipal corporation on Thursday recovered around Rs 50 lakh from the liquor vends, that had not been paying rent from the past few months. Recently, the civic body had detected and sent notices to more than two dozen such vends.

Monsoon heads towards a perfect ending

Monsoons are always eagerly awaited and leave you with some surprises. This time, city's tryst with rain gods proved to be a fulfiling experience and one that left no scope for complaints as an above-average rainfall was recorded during the past two months.

HC strictures against bank zonal manager

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Thursday, passed severe strictures against Surinder Singh, zonal manager (Haryana zone) of the Punjab & Sind Bank for non-compliance of its interim order passed on July 26.

VB arrests Punjab joint secy for graft

The Vigilance Bureau of Punjab on Wednesday arrested joint secretary in the department of welfare of SC/BCs TK Goel for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

From food basket to drug den

Punjab, hitherto known as the food basket of the nation, has earned a dubious distinction now - it's the state from where the highest number of drugs - both, hard and prescription drugs - have been recovered in the country even though it covers less than 1.5 per cent of the total landmass of India.

Flood fury again breaches calm

Bringing misery to the people of Haryana for the third time this monsoon season, the swollen waters of Yamuna rose up to submerge several villages and thousands of acres of farm land in Yamunanagar, even as the river is once again posing a serious flood threat to the national capital and some places in NCR .

No objection over abortion: Police

UT police on Wednesday filed their reply before the Chandigarh district courts on the abortion plea of the 13-year-old Snehalaya inmate filed by her maternal grandmother.

A struggle to stay afloat

A few hours of rain on Wednesday was enough to puncture the claims made by Mohali municipal council and public health division regarding the adequacy of drainage facilities in Mohali city.

WW-I Indian voices now priceless piece of history

Ik admi si…ohne angraze di larraee…naukri ki…maharaj kirpa kare cheti sulha hoi (There was once a man, who fought the battle for the British, served him…God bless him, and bring mutual accord soon)..."

Could remove only 31 of 86 illegal tents: MC

Municipal corporation (MC) informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday that out of the 86 tents pitched illegally on parks/MC land in the city by 49 VVIPs, they could remove only 31.

Three jail-buddies held for robbery

Police on Wednesday claimed to have nabbed a gang of three robbers, who had recently struck the house of a mediaperson by holding his two minor sons hostage.

28 injured as bus falls into gorge

As many as 26 engineering students and two faculty members of Maharishi Markendeshwar University were injured when the bus they were travelling in fell 30 feet into a gorge along Tangri river after hitting the railing of a bridge near Barwala at 7.30am on Wednesday morning.