With the Congress re-nominating former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reposing faith in former Union Minister and ex-MP Harmohan Dhawan, both parties have a headstart and the BJP is lagging on this front.
On Saturday, an AAP leader said the party will firm up an alliance with the Congress in Delhi only if Rahul Gandhi's party agrees to fight the Lok Sabha polls jointly in Haryana and Chandigarh too.
The Lok Sabha elections in Chandigarh will be held in a single phase as announced by the Election Commission of India on Sunday.
The 50-year-old woman, who arrived in Chandigarh on December 19 and was staying in the hotel with a companion, claimed that she was raped by the spa staff member when she went for a foot spa service.
The Home Ministry's statement came after Sikh bodies, led by Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, made a representation to Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
The longest-running show in Indian television's history 'Aap ki Adalat' has completed 25 years.
One naxal was killed and two policemen were injured in an encounter between security personnel and ultras at a weekly market in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district
On Wednesday, Amit Shah had met Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit and veteran industrialist Rata Tata in Mumbai. Shah met Madhuri and Ratan Tata to share Modi government's achievements during the last four years.
Police, homeguards and NCC contingents were among other participants in the parades taken out in district headquarters in the two states and their joint capital Chandigarh.
Davesh Moudgil won the post of mayor, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon senior deputy mayor and Vinod Aggarwal deputy mayor in the 27-member Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, an election office spokesman said here after counting.
In an appalling case, a 21-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and dumped in an isolated place at Sector 53 of Chandigarh on Friday.
On Wednesday night, 10 passengers of the Delhi-Kalka Himalayan Queen express got injured when the train driver suddenly applied emergency brakes in Karnal's Gharaunda.
The apex court had on July 28 dismissed the plea seeking its nod for terminating the 32-week-old pregnancy of the rape survivor after taking note of a medical report that abortion was neither good for the girl, nor for the foetus.
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