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Police probe terror link to Chandigarh blast, Punjab ex-cop on separatists’ hit list was likely target

Police suspect Pakistan-based gangster-turned-militant Harvinder Singh Rinda's involvement. Family currently living in the Sector 10 house, narrowly escaped. Auto driver held.

Chandigarh Police announces reward for information leading to arrest on Sector 10 blast suspects

Investigation is on and security teams have been deployed following a pressure-type blast in the residential area.

Delhi-Katra expressway hangs in balance as NHAI tells Punjab govt its contractors ‘not feeling safe’

NHAI’s complaint to chief secretary came barely month after Punjab lost 3 vital road projects on account of farmers protesting land acquisition, and demanding better prices for land.

At least 4 dead, 23 injured after 8 coaches of Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derail near Gonda in UP

North Eastern Railway says relief vehicles have arrived & 4 SDRF teams are making their way to site of accident. CMO statement says all hospitals & health centres nearby on high alert.

Kangana Ranaut ‘slapped’ by CISF constable at Chandigarh airport for ‘disrespecting farmers’

The actor, who won from Mandi Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket, claimed she was slapped by the constable during security check when she was on her way to board a flight to Delhi.

Congress’s Manish Tewari wrests Chandigarh from BJP after 10 yrs, Sanjay Tandon loses by slim margin

Tiwari was the joint candidate of the Congress and the AAP. Actor-turned-politician Kirron Kher held the seat for the last two terms.

SAD’s Chandigarh candidate withdraws from LS race citing party indifference — ‘cannot go on’

Three-time councillor Hardeep Singh Buterla was up against Congress-AAP candidate Manish Tewari & BJP’s Sanjay Tandon. Someone else pulling his strings, says SAD.

After 10 yrs as Chandigarh BJP chief, Sanjay Tandon gets ticket to contest Lok Sabha polls

The incumbent BJP MP from Chandigarh, actor-politician Kirron Kher, had stepped aside citing ill health.

SC will direct recounting of votes polled in controversial Chandigarh mayoral election

The top court voiced its deep concern over the ‘horse-trading’ and said it will examine the ballot papers and video recording of the counting.

‘Should be prosecuted’: SC slams returning officer for putting marks on ballots in Chandigarh mayor polls

BJP won the mayoral elections in January following the returning officer’s move to scrap eight opposition votes.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.