The blood transfusion services of Chandigarh have been adjudged the best among the States and Union Territories in the country by NACO (National AIDS Control Organization) in its latest report released this year. Read the rest of this entry »

It could qualify as a real rags-to-riches story with a lot of determination and guts thrown in. A strong contender for the Chandigarh
Lok Sabha seat, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former MP Satya Pal Jain has come a long way from being a newspaper hawker.

The quick-speaking Jain, 56, is one of the youngest and probably the most educated contestant among the main contenders in the poll fray in Chandigarh.

“I have my feet firmly on the ground as I still remember the days when I used to help my father in his small newspaper shop on the roadside. I have faced many difficulties in life and all the memories are still fresh in my mind,” Jain told IANS. Read the rest of this entry »

On account of the Lok Sabha election, the Chandigarh Administration has declared a public holiday on May 13 in all offices/ boards/corporations/institutions under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.

The holiday will be a paid holiday in industrial shops, commercial establishments and for daily wage earners.

With cases of brawls, scuffles and eveteasing marking a gradual increase at the Night Food Street, the Chandigarh Police have decided to enhance security at the street. Read the rest of this entry »

he TB India 2008 RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme) status report has adjudged the Union Territory of Chandigarh as one of the top five states/UTs in the country for its success rate in countering tuberculosis. Read the rest of this entry »

The School of Hospitality and Resort Management (SHRM), Singapore has recently launched its first and principal campus in India at Panchkula, an outskirt area of Chandigarh. It will offer higher learning in the hospitality and resort management field. The institute claims to be the first of its kind to introduce its students to the OPERA Software for Front Office Operations. Read the rest of this entry »

Chandigarh is likely to get an in-market business office from British Columbia with an investment of Rs. 60 lakh. With this British Columbia will become the second Canadian province after Ontario to set up a trade office in India to promote business. The British Columbia government had already announced to invest Rs 5 crore for fostering its ties with India. The newly sanctioned 60 lakh is in addition to the earlier amount. Read the rest of this entry »

The Central Parliamentary Board of Janata Party has decided to extend full support to Mr Satya Pal Jain, BJP Candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat. This has been stated by the President of Janata Party Dr Subamanian Swami read by the Mr Ajay Jagga, President, Janata Party, Chandigarh, in a joint press conference with Mr Satya Pal Jain here. Mr Jagga said in Chandigarh Congressparty has failed to deliver on all its promises, Laldora extension, land acquisition, planning the city ? all these issues show neglect on the part of Congress party. Read the rest of this entry »

The central parliamentary board of the Janata Party has decided to extend support to Satya Pal Jain, BJP candidate. This was stated at a joint press conference by Jain and Ajay Jagga, president of the local unit of the Janata Party.

Jagga alleged that the Congress had failed to deliver on all fronts, including extension of lal dora, land acquisition and proper planning for the city. Read the rest of this entry »

The Chandigarh administration has initiated a campaign to promote gender education in college campuses, beginning with a gender sensitisation workshop for college lecturers.The five-day-long gender sensitisation workshop will be held for college lecturers beginning tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

Chandigarh 12 shops gutted in Sector 22 z Short circuit suspected z Fireman critical

Four people died in a major fire that broke out due to a suspected short circuit in a photo laboratory in the Sector 22 market around 8.15 pm on Thursday.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Interacting with the high level delegation led by Mr. Partap K. Aggarwal, Managing Director IDS - InfoTech Limited at Punjab Raj Bhavan, here today, General Rodrigues told its members that a sound IT infrastructure has been created in the City in the Rajiv Gandhi Information Technology Park along with Entrepreneurship Development Centre and the need now is to integrate our endeavour and coordinate our efforts for optimal utilization of the facilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike Delhi, Chandigarh was one of the first cities to allow sale of wine in supermarkets. This year a new concept of the establishment of a Modern Liquor Shops has been introduced to give a modern look to these stores. The annual license fee has been reduced from Rs. 2.5 million for the conventional retail shop to Rs 2 million for these shops which must be air-conditioned and would be allowed in the SCOs / SCFs on the sectorial grid roads or malls only, and will be allowed to sell liquor too. Apart from the obvious advantage of easier availability, the step will ensure better storage for wines. Read the rest of this entry »

On the auspicious occasion of ram naumi we have launched vote chandigarh (www.votechandigarh.com) with the mission “Your vote matters”

So in the coming parliament elections, today we are launching a website named www.votechandigarh.com where the details of all the contesting candidates will be put on the website so that people can have a look at the candidates at one site/place. We are sending invitation of all the political parties/candidates to send their bio-data and we shall be publishing the same on website so that the people can go through the same. Read the rest of this entry »