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CHANDIGARH/MOHALI/PANCHKULA: In Chandigarh, nine patients tested positive for Covid and 22 patients were discharged, taking the active cases to 98 on Friday. Positivity rate has declined to 0.48%. The total discharged patients are 90,522 while confirmed cases are 91,785 including 1,165 deaths. There are eight patients on oxygen support, while…

CHANDIGARH: A woman was booked for allegedly hitting her car into an auto near Daria village on Thursday night.

CHANDIGARH: Close to the end of the current financial year on March 31, Chandigarh administration and Panjab University have property tax arrears amounting to Rs 67 crore. While the amount may decrease after reconciliation, as per the record of the civic body authority, the UT engineering department has to pay…

CHANDIGARH : With the state having suffered heavily during the second Covid-19 wave, the arrangements and healthcare facilities held up better during the third wave, thus ensuring Haryana witnessed far fewer deaths and cases in this year.

CHANDIGARH: If the first year of the pandemic was harsh, the subsequent year was worse with the devastation inflicted by the two waves of Covid-19 fuelled by different variants, putting people in a state of despair and the figures say it all.

CHANDIGARH : Haryana has witnessed an increase of 65% in the rape cases in the past eight years. A total of 944 rape-related cases were registered in the state in 2014, which reached 1,546 in 2021. While the state witnessed an almost equal number of cases from 2014 to 2017,…

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday dismissed the plea filed by controversial preacher of Satlok Ashram Barwala, Rampal seeking suspension of his sentence in connection with his conviction in the murder of some women followers inside the ashram. The incident had taken place in November 2014 at…

CHANDIGARH: The Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance, who ruled Punjab after the militancy period, have blamed Rs 5,800 crore special term loan taken between 1984-85 and 1993-94 to fight militancy for bleeding the state exchequer.

CHANDIGARH: A delegation of college teachers of government and aided colleges in Chandigarh met BJP leader Sanjay Tandon on Thursday to demand UGC, the Seventh Pay Commission and other retirement benefits on the pattern of other Union territories of the country.