Today Mohali's CBI An important hearing will be held in the court regarding the Bhola drugs case. In this case, today the court can give a big decision. This case is from 2013, during which drugs worth crores were uncovered. Let us tell that Jagdish Singh Bhola was arrested for the first time in November 2023 and later ED. took him into custody and interrogated him on charges of money laundering linked to drug cases. Bhola was arrested by CBI of Mohali. The court had sentenced 24 years in three drug cases.

The board of directors formed to take decisions on issues related to Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has not met for the last one year, due to which thousands of issues related to CHB's 70 thousand houses are hanging in the middle. This mainly includes the decision to make necessary changes in CHB houses on the Delhi pattern, while people are continuously demanding regularization of changes in flats. Seeing the demand of the people, the non-official members of the board have written to the officials of the board and demanded to call a meeting of the board of directors. According to the information received, about 70 thousand flats have been allotted by the board in the city. Out of this, about 60 thousand flats have been changed as per the need of the people, although the CHB had approved the need based changes in the year 2010 but later revised and canceled that policy several times.

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has removed illegal encroachments on government lands in Dhanas on the orders of the Supreme Court. The corporation team has removed the temple and mosque built on government land in Dhanas. According to the corporation, earlier due notices were issued in this regard but the encroachment was not removed. After this today the municipal corporation has carried out this operation.Regarding this action, when the team of the Municipal Corporation arrived with a heavy police force, as soon as the news spread about it, the residents of the area gathered and opposed this action of the Corporation. The Corporation continued its operation under heavy police security and removed the encroachments with the help of JCB.

Deputy Commissioner Chandigarh Vinay Partap Singh today chaired a meeting to review the arrangements for the celebration of Independence Day- 2024.

In the meeting, it was informed that the main function would be held at Parade Ground, Sector 17 where the national flag will be unfurled. The meeting finalized coordination between different departments so as to ensure smooth and error free conduct of national event.

Good rain was recorded in some sectors 46, 47, 48 and 49 of the city around 5 pm last evening. It has been cloudy for the past few days but it is not raining much. Chandigarh Meteorological Center Director A. K. Singh says the monsoon has not slowed down. In 7 days, intermittent light and heavy rain will continue in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Monsoon is progressing at a decent pace.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued orders to open the closed road at the Shambhu border. The Punjab Haryana High Court has asked the Haryana government to remove the barricade from the Shambhu border within a week. It may be mentioned that barricading was done on Shambhu border from last February 13. This barricading was done to prevent farmers from going to Delhi. However, the farmers' protest is still going on. In this regard, a petition was filed in the High Court. Along with this, the High Court has issued orders to form an SIT to investigate the death of farmer Shubkaran Singh who lost his life on the Khanuri border.

At the commencement of the proceedings of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today, tributes were first paid to former Mayor Pardeep Chhabra, who passed away after several days of illness. After this, commotion started in the house as soon as the meeting started. In the meeting, MP from Chandigarh Manish Tiwari also reached the house, where he was welcomed by the councillors.

Today, Justice Sheel Nagu took oath as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office to him. Meanwhile, Haryana Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini was also present.

Pedestrians on the road from Panjab University to PGI in City Beautiful face more problems due to which the UT administration has decided to construct an underpass for pedestrians from Panjab University to PGI. Although the administration had decided to build the underpass four years ago, the file has been lying in limbo for four years. Now again the UT administration has expedited the process to build an underpass from PU to PGI. The administration has invited applications for the appointment of a consultant for engineering consultancy for the underpass.

Heavy rain is falling in Chandigarh today after two days of drought. This rain started at eight o'clock this morning. Due to this, people have got relief from heat. Apart from this, there are reports of rain in Mohali and Panchkula today. The mercury has also dropped after continuous rain. The weather department has predicted rain tomorrow as well.