Saturday 21 March '09
A number of citizens, who bought residential and commercial plots in an open auction in 1996 and did not pay 75 per cent of the total cost...Thursday 19 March '09
The Chandigarh Administration has agreed to host one or more matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sector-16 Cricket Stadium.Wednesday
18 March '09In fresh trouble for the multi-crore Prideasia project, the Central Vigilance Commission has summoned all records pertaining to the allotment and transfer of land...Monday
16 March '09Authorities of James Hotels seem to be on a lucky run-for the last 20 years.Wednesday
11 March '09It has been almost a week since the Union Ministry of Home Affairs sent a communiqué to the UT Home Secretary, asking the Administration to restore Advisor Pradip Mehra’s powers of writing the annual confidential reports of his subordinate officers.Monday
23 February '09The Chandigarh Administration has drafted a detailed plan to rehabilitate persons with disabilities.Saturday
21 February '09Liquor in Chandigarh is all set to get costlier from next month. The new excise policy is almost final and the Chandigarh Administration has agreed to increase the Value Added Tax on liquor from 4 per cent to 12.5 per cent, bringing it on par with Punjab.Friday
20 February '09The Chandigarh Administration is all set to write to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to seek permission to invite fresh Expression of Interests for the multi-crore Medicity project.Friday
20 February '09The Chandigarh Administration is all set to write to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for permission to invite fresh Expression of Interests (EOI) for the multi-crore Medicity project.Saturday
14 February '09Nearly two dozen government model senior secondary schools in the city, with 1,500-2,000 students each, do not comply with the basic fire safety norms.Saturday
14 February '09With an inquiry by the Central Vigilance Commission under way to look into the alleged irregularities in the conceptualisation and allotment of a few mega projects worth crores of rupees...Wednesday
11 February '09The Chandigarh Administration has finally notified the building bylaws to affect more than 75 per cent of the city’s population and area.Monday
2 February '09The arrest of former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Saji Mohan, has brought under the scanner numerous cases registered by the agency during and before his tenure.Friday
30 January '09The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has given a clean-chit to Pradip Mehra, Advisor to the UT Administrator, in the controversial inquiry based on an anonymous complaint forwarded to it by the office of General SF Rodrigues (Retd) in October 2008.Wednesday
28 January '09Doctor Saji Mohan, the former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh, arrested for possession of heroin from Mumbai on Saturday last....Monday
26 January '09In a departure from the norms, the UT Estate Office allegedly allowed the registration of the sale-deed of a one-kanal house by two parties...Wednesday
21 January '09Chargesheeted Sub-Divisional Engineer Vipin Gupta, accused of allowing grave violations of building bylaws, has been exonerated of all charges by the Punjab Raj Bhawan.Thursday
15 January '09The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has freezed the escrow account of the Parsvnath Prideasia housing project, owing to the non-payment of Rs 304 crore, part of the Rs 821.21 crore the developer had bid for the much-hyped real-estate venture.Tuesday
13 January '09The Chandigarh Administration has finally stopped work on the three controversial mega projects-Filmcity, Amusement-cum-Theme park and Medicity-into which the Central Vigilance Commission had marked a probe on January 6.Wednesday
7 January '09In what can be termed as a big embarrassment for the Chandigarh Administration, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has decided to probe the “shady land deals” pertaining to the allotment of several mega projects in the city.Monday
29 December '08Before the Chandigarh Administration and real-estate giant Parsvnath sit across the table to scrap the multi-crore ambitious project, Filmcity...Monday
29 December '08The Divisional Commissioner (Patiala Range), in a recent communication sent to seven deputy commissioners of the range, has sought a detailed report on unauthorised and illegal occupation of government land.Friday
26 December '08In a move that seems to be headed towards controversy, the Chandigarh Administration is contemplating a shift in the location of Transport Area...Thursday
25 December '08Controversies and tussles at the top level and failed mega projects mired in controversies remained the highlights of 2008.Thursday
25 December '08Winter has truly arrived in the top echelons of the Chandigarh Administration as marked by a distinct cooling off in the relations between UT Administrator General S F Rodrigues (retd) and his Advisor Pardip Mehra.
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