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India accounts for 25% of UK visas granted, says British envoy Caroline Rowett
Caroline Rowett has represented the UK in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Chandigarh since February 2021 ...
Neglected roads, dark streets: Chandigarh’s Air Force Colony crumbles amid civic apathy
Chandigarh: The condition of roads in the Air Force area of Sector 31 has deteriorated significantly due to the lack of ...
Bureaucratic inertia stifling Chandigarh’s growth, says MP Manish Tewari
From the stalled Metro project to five unresolved legacy issues, including share-wise sale of property, ownership rights of people living in resettlement colonies, extension of Lal Dora, need-based ...
Hongyingzi sorghum, Cabernet Sauvignon of China's Guizhou
Xinhua-AsiaNet/-- In August every year, the two banks of the Chishui River are covered with rolling waves of ears of grain.
UN meet to drum up trillions to combat poverty
Many of the world’s nations are gathering starting Monday in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap ...
Loose wires, poor roads put villages of UT at risk
Chandigarh: The people of Burail, Kajheri and Maloya are staring at disasters waiting to happen, with monsoon having ...
Chandigarh tricity crumbles on wettest June day in 52 yrs
As per the IMD, which started keeping records for the city in 1954, Chandigarh’s wettest day ever was on June 18, 1974, when 146.4 mm rain was recorded ...
The Writer’s Corner | Like, follow, fear: Punjab’s women take on patriarchy, one reel at a time
The 2011 Census showed female literacy in Punjab at 70.73 per cent, higher than the national average of 64.6 per cent. Among ...