Pallavi Singhal

Home-owners have fast taken advantage of the relaxations in the state’s building code to construct new floors without much thought to the structural stability of the buildings.

According to the latest statistics by the Panchkula police, which was three years ago, as many as 262 such thefts were reported in 2019, out of which only 22 per cent was solved.

It was first on February 24 when Aanchal had first realised that the situation has become serious and the city was converting into a war zone.

The state’s Anganwadi workers have been protesting against the state government for the past several months, demanding wage hikes, better working conditions, and facilities like insurance among other things. The workers had given a call for march to the Vidhan Sabha on March 3 under a pre-decided programme.

In January, 21 deaths were recorded in Panchkula while 11 deaths have been reported in February

Pawan Rawal (63), a retired Indian Oil official, who had booked a flat in 2011, has been running pillar to post for the past several years in an attempt to get back his hard-earned life savings.

The matter had then gone to court. On August 24, the accused was granted bail. The next hearing is in April.

🔴 The district had on January 12, reported 1,065 cases, the highest ever since the pandemic swept through the country.

Panchkula on Friday met its target to jab 100% of its target population with two doses of the Covid vaccine, thereby becoming the third district in Haryana — after Gurugram and Ambala — to achieve such a feat.

Of the 1,065 cases reported today, as many as 734 hail from the district itself while the rest belong to neighboring areas.

As per Chief Medical Officer of Panchkula, Dr Mukta Kumar, “The case load is rising but the deaths are almost negligible. We fear cases are going highly under-reported. People need to be careful for the symptoms and protect themselves

The health department, has taken several steps to increase the pace of vaccination and motivate people to come forward. But as the Haryana government rolled out orders and Covid cases grew, vaccination numbers swelled on their own.

The rise in active cases is due to a high positivity rate in Panchkula. As many as 1,122 remain home isolated, while 32 are currently admitted in hospitals.

The cases, which started surging at the end of November, have in the last three days of December, seen a drastic rise

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A boost in the vaccine doses was witnessed on Thursday, a day after the orders were rolled out. There was a rise of almost a 100 doses.

The target population of Panchkula, as per norms, is 4.4 lakh people, of which around 3.9 lakh people have now been fully vaccinated.

Panchkula district immunisation officer, Dr Meenu Sasan, said that the aim was to fully vaccinate all the residents of Panchkula by the end of December this year. Incidentally, Panchkula had vaccinated 100 per cent of its target population with the first dose of Covid vaccine in the first week of September.

🔴 In a letter, penned by Group Captain Varun Singh after he was awarded the Shaurya Chakra this year, he had shared his thoughts on his own life, to help and inspire children, especially those who feel they are “meant to be mediocre in this hyper-competitive world”.

🔴 The officer at present is battling for life at a military hospital in Bangalore.

In 2017 and 2018, the Union Human Resources Ministry had notified the UGC pay scale and all states, except Punjab, implemented the scale in 2019. Punjab, Himachal and Chandigarh were the only states which didn't implement the new pay scales.

🔴 The son of a retired Brigadier, Lakhbinder Singh Lidder had commanded a Brigade on the Himachal border with Tibet. Lt Col Harjinder Singh, who belonged to 11 Gorkha Rifles, had served in Siachen.

Meanwhile oxygen plants as well as oxygen storage units, the need for which was felt at the time of second wave, which started to get constructed this May, have become functional.

While the district had been pioneer in waste segregation in Tricity, it could not maintain it