BJP drops 2-time Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced Sanjay Tandon as its candidate for the lone Lok Sabha seat of Chandigarh, replacing two-time MP Kirron Kher. IMAGE: Incumbent Chandigarh MP Kirron......

BJP wins senior dy mayor, dy mayor posts in Chandigarh

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday won the re-election for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, defeating the Congress candidates who were......

Ahead of SC hearing, Chandigarh mayor quits; 3 AAP councillors join BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manoj Sonkar resigned as Chandigarh mayor and three AAP councillors joined the saffron party on Sunday, a day before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a plea......

Ensuring free, fair election imperative for representative democracy: SC

Ensuring a free and fair electoral process is imperative for maintaining people's trust in representative democracy, the Supreme Court has said. IMAGE: Returniong officer Anil Masih. Photograph:......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

India's metros see a major water scarcity!

This is the first in a Business Standard series on water woes faced by the country's biggest cities and the lack of strategy to deal with the crisis that bothers every household. This week the......

India's new growth centres

When we talk about urbanisation, the image that commonly comes to our mind is that of mega-cities like Delhi or Mumbai. An important fact central to the present day demographic transition that......

For ISPs, WiMAX is the way to go

Indian Internet Service Providers are upbeat about Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) as a solution for the country's last-mile connectivity problems. Companies such as VSNL,......

Jr Nat hockey: Karnataka, SAIL in semis

Karnataka and Steel Authority of India Limited from Orissa scored hard-fought victories in their respective boys' quarter-final matches to set up an interesting semi-final in the 35th Junior......