Saurabh Prashar

Ashok Kumar is among 190 BSNL employees, who retracted and withdrew their forms opting for Voluntary Retirement Scheme on the last day of filling the forms, which was December 3.

PCA said, "the ADA was posted to assist the Authority, which cannot mean ... defending the delinquent police personnel."

The effective date of voluntary retirement is January 31, 2020. The last day to fill online VRS forms was Tuesday. The process had begun on November 3.

In July, PCA had directed DGP and SSP, Chandigarh, to clear their stand on the issue of verbally allowing Additional District Attorney (DDA) Atul Sethi for appearing on the behalf of two policemen against those a complaint is pending in PCA.

The cost of one electricity pole being given a tree-like shape is around Rs 20,000.

“The CAG report has exposed how the Manohar Lal Khattar government turned a blind eye towards illegal mining and over-exploitation of valuable minerals. The report states how the course of the rivers were changed for illegal mining and open loot of minerals,” Surjewala said.

According to the official figures, 4,278 complaints out of the total of 6,518 were disposed of — a rate of 65 per cent. Out of 2,240 pending complaints, merely 30 FIRs were registered.

The email from the hacked account of Harwant Singh stated that he was out of country and travelling on a cruise with his family, and needed immediate financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh, which have to be transferred in one account for the construction of his housing project in Shimla.

The car, which escaped through the slip road of TPT-26 light point towards Madhya Marg, bore Chandigarh registration number with initial digits of CH-01 AJ.

Chandigarh Railway Station, which was set up in 1954, was selected for the World Class Railway Station during the tenure of Ex-MP from Chandigarh and former Union Railway Minister, Pawan Kumar Bansal.

Four-year-old twins Baban and Gagan and the Bengal tigress were brought under the animal exchange program from Kamla Nehru Prani Sangrahalaya in Indore and they reached Chhatbir Zoo on October 20.

As many as 63,183 violators were sent such messages during the last five months, out of which only 12,799 have responded and paid the amount, while 50,384 violators were yet to respond.

Randhawa is a law graduate from Panjab University and an Indian passport holder. According to a senior police officer, he is believed to be hiding in Canada or the USA.

The list includes 90 wanted for murder, 740 for cheating and 16 for molestation.

A caretaker, who was associated with making the pre-delivery arrangements, said, “Before the delivery, Diya was shown video clips of recently delivered cubs on the wall of her dark enclosure about the delivery."

A senior zoo official said that although the cubs are healthy and active, the zoo team is making all the necessary arrangements for them to survive and cross this winter successfully.

After being beaten up, Jagmale was reportedly left on a street near his house. He remained at his house for three days. On November 10, as his condition deteriorated, he was taken to a nearby hospital.

Chandigarh witnessed 98 accidents in 2018. As many as 25 auto-rickshaw passengers were critically injured in these accidents and three of them died— all the three were auto drivers.

The registration record of autorickshaws from 2001 to 2018 shows 2010 and 2017 witnessed the highest registration of autos. In 2010, 1,249 new autos were registered. As many as 2,050 autos were registered in 2017.