Ambala: BJP candidate Akshita Saini won the Ambala City municipal corporation mayoral election by 21,358 votes on Wednesday, securing 52,794 votes against Congress candidate Kulwinder Kaur Saini’s 31,436. Independent candidate Sonia Chaudhary polled 21,730 votes.The BJP also dominated the ward elections, winning 16 of the 20 seats. Congress won three wards, while one seat went…
Panchkula: Special Lok Adalats for cheque bounce cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act will be held on May 30 and July 18 at the District Courts Complex here.The announcement was made by Ajay Kumar Ghanghas, chief judicial magistrate and secretary, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), during a legal awareness camp organised at…
BATHINDA: Raghav Goyal allegedly arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a Rs 20 lakh bribery case from a five-star hotel in Chandigarh late on Monday belongs to Malout town in Punjab’s Muktsar district. Malout resident Raghav Goyal is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He was reportedly in Chandigarh with…
Chandigarh: Punjab School Education Board’s Class X results this year presented a mixed picture, with the overall pass percentage declining from last year even as rural students significantly outperformed urban candidates and girls maintained their lead over boys.The PSEB declared results on Monday, with 2.5 lakh students clearing the examination out of nearly 2.7 lakh…
Chandigarh: A multicentric study across Punjab and Chandigarh has flagged high levels of non-medical use and dependence on Pregabalin among patients undergoing treatment for substance-use disorders, prompting calls for urgent clinical and policy intervention.Pregabalin is a prescription medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, epilepsy, fibromyalgia and generalised anxiety disorder. The study, conducted by doctors…
Panchkula: Reflecting strong faith in the democratic process, many elderly citizens defied age-related issues to cast their votes in the MC election on Sunday.“This could be my last poll, please take me to the polling booth this time,” said 93-year-old Bharto Devi to her family members. Bharto, a resident of Billa village, could not go…
Chandigarh: Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora, 62, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday in connection with a newly registered money laundering case involving him and several entities allegedly linked to him.The operation began Saturday morning when ED teams arrived at Arora’s residence in Sector 2, Chandigarh. After a daylong search, the minister…
Chandigarh: Flagging lack of progress for nearly four years, French development agency Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has written to the department of economic affairs (DEA), Union ministry of finance, seeking an early meeting to discuss cancellation of the proposed pan-city 24×7 water supply project in Chandigarh.In its communication, AFD said the move would trigger…
Times News NetworkChandigarh: In a bid to check encroachments set up by vendors in the evening and at night, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has extended duty hours of the enforcement department till 10pm. Most municipal councillors supported the move to extend timings during a recent MC house meeting. Duty roster of enforcement inspectors and their…
A bookstore in Sector 8, Chandigarh, made for an intimate and fitting setting recently as Chandigarh-based author Sakoon Singh stepped into conversation about her latest work, Fourteen Springs of Separation, a historical fiction that reaches back into the turbulent heartland of nineteenth-century Punjab. In dialogue with Dr Manpreet Kaur, a historian whose academic grounding lent…
