West Bengal Chief Minister today demanded an inquiry into the derailment of five bogies of the Howrah-Dehradun Doon Express in Uttar Pradesh stating it should be probed whether it was an ‘accident or an incident’. “Since the accident has taken place during a countrywide bandh we want this to be probed. Who has caused this [...]
The Bharat Bandh call given by NDA evoked mixed response in Panchkula. Efforts of the BJP and Haryana Janhit Congress to get shopkeepers to down their shutters were resisted. Members of the BJP-HJC combine went around the Sector 7 market asking shopkeepers to keep the market closed. But they only managed to evoke mixed response. [...]
The big story of the day, the bharat bandh and the tricity. Well for all the passion on petrol price hike, life was not derailed in Chandigarh. In Chandigarh, not many were inclined to observe the bandh, not even to protest the petrol price hike. Impassioned appeals by BJP workers cut little ice. With the [...]
The bandh was successfully observed in Mohali. SAD BJP workers blocked the Landran road for more than five hours, causing traffic jam. In Mohali, the bandh could be called successful. SAD-BJP workers managed to convince workers to keep shutters down. They also blocked the Landran road in Mohali for more than five hours. A rally [...]
The division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notices to respondents on a petition alleging illegal detention and torture of minors by the Chandigarh police in a case of alleged involvement of a minor in a criminal case. Utsav Bains, an advocate, in his petition filed before the High Court, has [...]
General Officer Commanding in Chief of Western Command, Lt. General S.R.Ghosh was given a warm send off on Thursday, the day of his retirement at Chandimandir. After his last posting on the post of General Officer Commanding in Chief of Western Command, Ghosh retired on Thursday. Ghosh, the last veteran of 1971 Indo-Pak war served [...]
Choreographer-turned-filmmaker Farah Khan, who recently patched up with old buddy Shahrukh Khan, says she wants him to quit smoking. “I think everyday should be anti-tobacco day so that at least my brother and even for that reason Shahrukh would stop smoking,” Farah told a press conference yesterday on the eve of ‘World Anti-tobacco Day’ being [...]
The Olympians Association of India (OAI) has advised bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to disassociate himself from the IPL and rather promote a sport that brings glory to the nation. Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders had last week won the fifth edition of the highly-popular Twenty20 cricket league after defeating Chennai Super Kings. OAI [...]
Normal life was affected in Punjab due to the bandh called by NDA and Left parties to protest the steep hike in petrol prices. Commercial establishments, including shops and markets, at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Batala, Kapurthala, Pathankot and Amritsar remained closed, though factories and other industrial units were operational. However, chemist shops and medical services providers [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who took his ministers to a remote town near Line of Control (LoC) yesterday, has said the next month’s cabinet meeting will be held at another LoC town of Gurez in Bandipora district. “Next month a similar cabinet meeting will be held in Gurez,” Omar said on the [...]
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