Saurabh Prashar

Ram Avtar Batra, owner of Indian and Imported Liquor House, was sitting inside his vend in Sector 9 Tuesday evening when two masked men arrived and fired half a dozen bullets on the vend in full public view and easily escaped.

Chandigarh Police said one of the victims sustained bullet injuries, while the others were injured when a broken glass door fell on them.

Migrants belonging to UP, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir had been stuck in the buffer zone. As many as 1,615 migrants and their children were evacuated from the area over the last three days.

Police said the five assailants with covered faces reached Rakesh Singla’s house after seeing Punjab police personnel at Arvind’s house, where they had gone to enquire about him.

Senior officers have decided to select talented personnel out of the 472 recruited in 2020, including 230 men and 242 women.

The woman, Gena and her husband, Pawan Kumar, were medically screened at the holding centre at CCET in Sector 26.

Over 50 farmers and their family members on Tuesday held a protest against the land acquisition policy of UT administration.

The man, who was suspected to be drunk, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a constable who stopped him from entering a Covid containment zone.

The 2019-20 Greening Chandigarh Action Plan had a target of plantation of 2.53 lakh trees. The forest department managed to achieve the surplus task by planting and distributing 2.80 lakh plants.

At least two incidents of attack on police personnel were reported in Chandigarh, at containment zone Kacchi Colony in Dhanas and Mani Majra, when the curfew was in force.

Migrant leaders demand more trains to cater to the number of migrants.

Almost one lakh people had registered their names for going to their native states including UP, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Himachal, West Bengal, UT Leh, Kashmir etc, and as many 23,409 people have been sent to their native states so far.

So far, the cyber cell has registered eight FIRs, clubbing around 61 complaints.

Almost 75,000 migrants -- all from UP and Bihar -- have got registered with the UT administration to board Shramik trains from Chandigarh railway station since May 10.

The scam was unearthed in January 2018 and an FIR with the Chandigarh police was registered in May 2018 by at least nine people from Chandigarh and Mohali. The complainants had alleged that they invested money in bitcoins, but did not receive any profit.

The department officials said, they will urge the villagers to assist them in the search of poachers and make announcements that laying traps (kuduki in local dialect) is criminal offence under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Bapu Dham Colony is constructed in three phases besides a particular block, which has triple story houses. As per information, majority of the Covid-19 positive cases were reported from Phase-1 and Phase-3.

"We had been sitting idle during the entire lockdown. Later, factory owners handed us the partial monthly salary. He told us that whenever production will start, he will call us. There was no one to assist us with how to reach our villages. Then we started marching," said Sachin.

The Haryana Wildlife Department has ordered an  FIR under relevant sections of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 with the Panchkula police.