Pallavi Singhal is a Correspondent with The Indian Express, Chandigarh Bureau. She tweets @singhalpallavii

June 10, 2020 11:09 IST
The covid patients have been brought to Panchkula and have insisted on being treated at the Alchemist hospital.
Wed, Jun 10, 2020
June 10, 2020 11:04 IST
With no medical colleges and a team of almost a 100 doctors including medical officers, senior doctors and consultants spread throughout the district, Panchkula Civil Hospital has been bearing the brunt of the situation.
Wed, Jun 10, 2020
June 08, 2020 05:24 IST
MC Commissioner Sumedha Kataraia, said that the main task remaining is to compile a list for permissions to the workforce and issue passes to factory workers and construction labourers.
Mon, Jun 08, 2020
June 08, 2020 04:54 IST
The Indian Express called several outlets across the Tricity, all of whom expressed dismay over the current situation of the industry and said, “We think we will have to let more than 50 per cent of our staff go.”
Mon, Jun 08, 2020
June 07, 2020 06:03 IST
The 250 gamchas ordered by the state government, according to designer Neetu Arora, are specifically for officials of Haryana's Forestry department and medical research centre.
Sun, Jun 07, 2020
June 06, 2020 03:14 IST
The victim, Ajay, had taken over from his father- three years back- to start collecting garbage from door-to-door in Sector 12 of the city.
Sun, Jun 07, 2020
June 02, 2020 13:30 IST
St Xavier’s in Panchkula, which hiked its fee in February, did not reduce its fee to last year’s, claiming that the parents knew about the hike well in advance.
Tue, Jun 02, 2020
May 30, 2020 09:04 IST
The health department which had completed testing its rural population for community spread and had found zero positive cases has now moved on to conduct similar tests in its urban population.
Sat, May 30, 2020
May 29, 2020 12:14 IST
Speaking to The Indian Express, Kaur said, “I had received three such complaints. This is a serious issue.”
Fri, May 29, 2020
May 28, 2020 14:14 IST
Yadava, however, says that he has held several meetings with officers, sharing reports of trends noticed in the lockdown period in Haryana as well as in other states to prepare the force for any such spike.
Thu, May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 13:23 IST
As the family handed over the deceased's body to the police on Tuesday, they had no money to perform his last rites.
Thu, May 28, 2020
May 25, 2020 05:30 IST
Even though Panchkula has been able to contain its cases, the need to devise a method to check the population was pertinent as the district’s borders mingles with neighbouring UT and other districts, where the number of COVID-19 cases have been rising.
Mon, May 25, 2020
May 24, 2020 01:19 IST
The decision to conduct home counselling of these patients was taken keeping in mind the incidents reported from across the country regarding the discrimination faced by those who recovered from COVID-19.
Sun, May 24, 2020
May 21, 2020 23:09 IST
Stranded in a government school outside Bethia, they are now waiting for their families to join them. The Indian Express retraces their footsteps to how their journeys began last Saturday.
Fri, May 22, 2020
May 21, 2020 13:13 IST
This is the second such complaint in Panchkula in the past three weeks, since the state education department issued directions ordering private schools to only charge ‘tuition fees’ from students.
Thu, May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 12:35 IST
The auto unions of both Panchkula and Chandigarh have written to their respective Deputy Commissioners for a change in the order.
Thu, May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 12:25 IST
The order passed by the state's Principle Secretary said, inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses “with mutual consent of the state/UTs is allowed”.
Thu, May 21, 2020
May 19, 2020 09:42 IST
With only one ride to his name today, he decided to head home around 2 pm. “I stood all day but did not receive even a single ride. The only one that came wanted me to drop them nearby, so I did. I earned Rs 20 today,” an auto driver said.
Tue, May 19, 2020
May 18, 2020 13:50 IST
Sonu had shifted to work as a furniture polisher when he was only 10 years old to help his father and earn some money to send to his family back home.
Mon, May 18, 2020
May 17, 2020 09:33 IST
The 54-year-old, father of a doctor at civil hospital, Panchkula had tested positive for the novel coronavirus late Thursday night. The following day, when his samples were re-sent for testing, he first tested negative at the lab PGIMER.
Sun, May 17, 2020
May 16, 2020 14:38 IST
While as many as nine buses were scheduled to run, at least two did not, due to a lack of registrations.
Sat, May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020 13:08 IST
Several migrant labourers with no way to reach home stand in long queues all day long in Panchkula to get a medical certificate which may declare them fit for travel.
Sat, May 16, 2020
May 15, 2020 13:00 IST
The sector had faced a similar outage on May 1, while over three-hour outage was also experienced by Sector 31 residents from 4pm on Thursday.
Fri, May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 02:33 IST
The process requires a person to show the OTP sent on their phone when they registered on e-disha service for migrant transportation and filling a medical form, which gets a stamp of approval once they are screened and no symptoms are found.
Fri, May 15, 2020
May 14, 2020 08:25 IST
The event took place twice, on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday morning, during which officials seemed or have forgotten the norms to be followed.
Thu, May 14, 2020



