Pallavi Singhal

I wanted to choose the service which had public interface and of course administrative services and police services are the best for such a profile.

As the three bodies were taken away, another crowd of people milled around policemen looking for the body of a child who died Friday night after falling off the third floor balcony that had no boundary wall.

The occupants told the fire department officials and the police that they had complained of “sparking in the electricity points” to the caretaker earlier too, but the problem persisted.

“I was sleeping in the back room when Pakshi woke me up, saying there is a small fire in her room. I did not believe her, she was taking it so lightly,” Jasmine says. “But as I got up, we realised the fire had spread. It happened within nano-seconds.”

The Panchkula police and administration are dragging their feet when it comes to conducting drives to check and penalise school buses found violating norms.

Former Chandigarh MC councillor claims per km cost for passengers here is highest in the country.

The rain corrodes away the rear side of the mountain-like structure where their houses are built.

Former SHO of Mansa Devi, Inspector Ravi Kant was able to evade the police for more than two months before finally surrendering himself after availing all options. 

The vendors whose rehris were not picked off by the civic body have found shelter in the verandahs of the shops and inside the shops itself in several markets, including that of Sector 7 and Sector 15.

The problem of bad roads is one of the oldest ones that the youngest city of Haryana has been suffering. It has been more than two-and-a-half years since Panchkula roads were last re-carpeted.

This is second such death in the past six months that has come to light in the city. On September 28 last year, another 34-year-old motorcyclist was killed after his bike crashed into stray cattle roaming on the NH-73.

Bataur is a small village where farmers have been struggling as their fields continue to get flooded with water from a pond built to help them in case of water scarcity

On January 28, the first draw of lots in Panchkula was postponed after only a small number of street vendors of the total registered had showed up for the allotment. For a site at Sector 19 of the city, as many as 458 zones had been made.

The remediation and reclamation project of the dumping ground of Sector 23 was, however, given an approval in the meeting, which was attended by the Director of Urban Local Bodies.

The case that began in January 2018 has kept the Panchkula Municipal Corporation without a House of councillors for more than a year and half now.

The case that was filed in the first week of January 2018, has had only four substantial hearings over the span of two years, compared to the 12 times it was listed to be heard.

Lakshyanand, who was arrested on the charge of raping two minor girls, was sent to judicial custody on Thursday.

The ULB sent out letters to the civic bodies of Haryana, instructing officials to implement the Street Vendors Act

In the first phase of the draw of lots that was supposed to happen Tuesday, of the 230 vendors belonging to Sector 19 of Panchkula, only 162 names were left in the updated list.