14 Aug :  Yaadgar-e-Rafi Society, Chandigarh, will hold the final round of singing contest for Best Singer Award-2010 for male and female in senior and junior categories on August 17 at Tagore Theatre at 5 pm. Geeta Bhukkal, Health and Education Minister, Haryana, will be the chief guest, while Madan Gulati, a businessman, will preside over the function.

Chandigarh,January 3 : India has been identified as the third largest market for alcoholic beverages in the world. As a result of such a big potential market, it has become a favourite playing field for most of the multinational liquor companies. Clubbed with the marketing and policy influence and intervention by the Alcohol industry, consumption of alcohol in all forms has increased many folds over the years. RTI information obtained by the NGO “People for Transparency” for its campaigning, “Stop! Underage Drinking,” shows how fast India is getting enmeshed into …

Chandigarh 26 October 2009: The Indian Bahá’í community is deeply anguished at the continued persecution of the 300000 Bahá’í Community in Iran.

To express solidarity with and to pray for the safety of the Bahá’ís in Iran, a large number of delegates from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Jammu will gather at the
Bahá’í Gulistan (the Bahá’í Burial Ground, next to Cremation Ground, Sector 25, Chandigarh), at 12.00 noon, on Sunday 1st November 2009.
The Secretary-General, United Nations, in his Report to the General Assembly, dated 23 September 2009, has referred in details …

21 Oct : The Congress is set to capture power in Maharashtra for a third consecutive term and sweep Arunachal Pradesh while a not-so-good performance in Haryana left it as the single largest party scrambling for numbers to get a majority.
The Congress, along with its ally NCP, was poised to form the government in Maharashtra as it was leading in 134 constituencies having already bagged 4 seats in the 288-member Assembly.
The alliance, which had won 140 seats in the last elections, may end up with almost the same figure and …

28 Aug  : The country will soon have seven new IIMs, of which four will start functioning from next year with the Union Cabinet approving a HRD ministry proposal to set up these management institutes.
The new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will be set up in Tami Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
Aimed at generating a highly competent and trained manpower, the institutes are also expected to act as a major catalyst for developing a knowledge society that would inevitably impact on the economic growth of …