36 booked for using direct ways from NH-21

Sunday 14 October '12

A total of three dozen users of direct paths from the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway, including several housing projects, factories, hotels in Zirakpur, Dera Bassi and Lalru were booked under sect...

Hot Chocolate Nudge

Sunday 24 April '11

The social media is abuzz. Everyone on Twitter and YouTube wants to know who''s that pretty young girl biting into a chocolate bar in the new Cadbury Dairy Milk commercial. And who is the other chocol...

Wanted by 3 states, villager laughs at law from tree-top

Saturday 23 April '11

Making a mockery of the legal system, a wanted criminal in three states, Zirakpur resident Avtar Singh Nagla, has taken the police forces of Chandigarh

Govt school in Amlala village functions from 'unsafe'' building

Thursday 15 July '10

A Government senior secondary school at Amlala village near Dera Bassi continues to run from a dilapidated building declared "unsafe" by the Public Works Department (PWD) almost a year ago.

PNB''s faulty ATM leaves customers hassled

Monday 30 November '09

The users of the automatic teller machine at Punjab National Bank branch located on the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway-21 in Dera Bassi are bearing the brunt of the bank''s callous attitude to get...

Dera Bassi man meets mysterious end in Italy

Wednesday 5 August '09

A 27-year-old man died under mysterious circumstances in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday (July 28).

Fire at Dera Bassi unit leaves employee dead

Saturday 18 July '09

A man died while another sustained burn injuries after a major fire broke out in the premises of a chemical unit at Industrial Focal Point in Dera Bassi on Friday morning.

Personal journey

Thursday 25 June '09

Almost two months after his father Feroz Khan''s passing, actor Fardeen Khan is slowly beginning to piece his life together.

White tigress dies in Chhatbir Zoo

Sunday 21 June '09

The Chhatbir Zoo lost a four-year-old white Royal Bengal tigress on Saturday.

Cab driver strangled, body dumped on highway

Wednesday 17 June '09

A 24-year-old taxi driver attached with an IT company in Chandigarh was reportedly strangulated to death and dumped on the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway near Bhankerpur village in Dera Bassi on T...

In Lalru, girls say poverty led them to prostitution

Thursday 11 June '09

For the five girls arrested on charges of immoral trafficking from Lalru on Monday night, it was poverty that landed them in the illegal trade.

'Property dealers'' drug, rob NRI

Tuesday 9 June '09

A septuagenarian Non-Resident Indian Surinder Kaur was drugged and robbed of her jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakh at her house in Preet Colony in Zirakpur, the police said on Friday.

Villagers up in arms against liquor vend near school, temple

Saturday 30 May '09

The residents of Dyalpura village, near Zirakpur, are up in arms against the recently-opened wine shop in the village that is reportedly in close proximity to a government school and other religious p...

Cops solve abduction, nab three in 12-hour operation

Friday 22 May '09

In what will go down as one of the fastest solved cases of abduction, the Punjab Police successfully managed the release of a young woman, twelve hours after she was abducted from Zirakpur on Thursday...

Property dealers'' drug, rob NRI

Saturday 9 May '09

A septuagenarian Non-Resident Indian Surinder Kaur was drugged and robbed of her jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakh at her house in Preet Colony in Zirakpur, the police said on Friday.

70 per cent of Dera Bassi votes

Friday 8 May '09

Over 70 per cent of the total 1,59,343 voters in Dera Bassi Assembly segment (Dera Bassi, Zirakpur and Lalru) exercised their franchise on Thursday to elect its parliamentarian from Patiala Lok Sabha ...

Kanwaljit''s death not accidental: Amarinder

Wednesday 29 April '09

Adding a new dimension to the death of Punjab cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh in a road accident in Kharar last month...

Kanwaljit''s death not accidental, says Amarinder

Wednesday 29 April '09

Adding a new dimension to the death of Punjab cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh in a road accident in Kharar last month...

Engineering student dies as bike skids

Tuesday 17 March '09

A 19-year-old engineering student died after his motorcycle skidded on the Chandigarh-Ambala National Highway near Dera Bassi on Monday morning.

Chhatbir''s lone baby elephant makes first public appearance

Friday 6 February '09

Visitors to the Chhatbir Zoological Park were in for a treat on Thursday. They got to see Rajbir, a male elephant born at the zoo about one and a half years ago, who was put on display for the first t...

Choked sewage poses epidemic threat in Zirakpur

Friday 23 January '09

About 3,000 residents of Preet Colony on Zirakpur-Ambala Highway here are living under the threat of an epidemic outbreak with the locality''s sewerage system lying choked for almost a month.

Corporal punishment: Probe begins against teacher

Tuesday 20 January '09

The Mohali District Education Department on Monday began a formal probe into the allegation by 16 students of Class VIII of Government Senior Secondary School, Mubarikpur...

16 students beaten by teacher in Dera Bassi

Sunday 18 January '09

Sixteen students studying in Class VIII in Government Senior Secondary School Mubarikpur, near Dera Bassi, were brutally beaten by the computer teacher of the school on Friday.

Accident on NH-22 again, man critical

Sunday 4 January '09

Tension prevailed in Bhankerpur village near Dera Bassi a day after a youth died in a road accident on the Chandigarh-Delhi National Highway-22.

Bus runs over youth, torched

Saturday 3 January '09

The death of a youth in a road accident triggered a massive protest in Bhankerpur village located on the Chandigarh-Delhi National Highway-22 on Friday.