Here are some of the latest news stories from Chandigarh :
– Weather: Warm start at 26.87 °C, with a cloudy sky and occasional rain.
– Sports: Taniyaa Bhatia showed her mettle and scored a match-winning 94 off 56 balls with 14 boundaries, while Priyanka Mutreja made 30 off 29 balls with four boundaries in a match between Jalandhar and Mohali.
– Crime: Two held for snatching jewellery at knifepoint in Mohali’s Sector 99. The accused were identified as Vicky and Rakesh, of Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh; Sohana police are still searching for their third accomplice.
– Health: PGIMER wins national award for best ROTTO for 2nd time. National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) organised a special event on Saturday to celebrate the 14th Indian Organ Donation Day at Dr BR Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi.
– Education: 250 new teachers to be recruited in Chandigarh schools. Chandigarh education department has taken up recruitment for 993 posts of teachers, including 396 posts for JBT teachers, 98 posts for postgraduate teachers and 100 posts for nursery teachers.
– Infrastructure: 3 new schools coming up in Chandigarh by October 2025. A Government Senior Secondary School in Kajheri, Chandigarh, will finish construction by October this year and as per the department’s deadline it will be inaugurated in the first week of November.
– Politics: Amit Shah to inaugurate 24×7 Manimajra water supply project today. 24×7 Manimajra water supply project, whose foundation stone was laid on November 13, 2021, is finally ready after missing four deadlines — August 2023, December 2023, January 2024 and March 2024.
– Accidents: Speeding car kills 58-year-old scooterist in Mohali, drags him for 100m. The accident occurred early Saturday around 4 am near the Phase 7 light point on the road from YPS Chowk to Sohana.
– Crime: Ex-Punjab Police officer shoots dead son-in-law in Chandigarh court complex. Shot twice, the cop’s injured son-in-law writhed in pain for at least 10 minutes before help arrived, but could not survive.
