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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

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.