To promote ease of doing business, Excise and Taxation Department UT, Chandigarh has introduced new excise policy to enable automatic renewal of brand/label registration of liquor in 2024-25, an official statement said. Provision was added. According to a press release issued by the Chandigarh administration, licensees can renew their liquor labels/brands by availing the online system. which were already approved last year in auto-mode through a simple process.

Cash worth Rs 35 lakh has been recovered from a car with Haryana number in Chandigarh. Police of police station 36 found this cash while checking at the gate. After which the police seized the cash and the car as well. There were two persons in the car including the driver. Both have been detained by the police and are being interrogated.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, along with his wife Dr Gurpreet Kaur Mann, brought his newborn daughter Niamat Kaur Mann to Chief Minister Residence on Friday. The babygirl was welcomed with dhol, flowers and cake by the family and relatives of CM Mann.

In continuation of the series of meetings being conducted by the Excise-Taxation Department with various stakeholders ahead of the New Excise Policy Year to commence from 1.4.2024 and the Election Model Code of Conduct currently in force, Deputy Commissioner cum Excise and Taxation Commissioner Sh. Vinay Pratap Singh IAS  conducted a meeting on 29.03.2024, with the Licensees of Retail Liquor vends and was attended by Collector (Excise) cum Addl. Excise & Taxation Commissioner, AETC, ETOs and retail vend licensees of U.T. Chandigarh.

The Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Shri Banwari Lal Purohit remembered Jesus Christ on “Good Friday” saying his life was devoted to mitigating human suffering. The Governor said,

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), even after the implementation of the code of conduct, is still harassing the opposition parties and are trying to poach AAP MLAs and leaders in Punjab by calling them from foreign numbers to threaten or tempt them to join the BJP ahead of Lok Sabha elections.

Day by day the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is getting way ahead of other parties when it comes to Fatehgarh Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. First prominent Dalit leader Gurpreet Singh GP joined the AAP and the party declared him its candidate for this seat for general elections 2024. Then another big leader of Amargarh assembly constituency Mai Roop Kaur Bagrian left Congress and joined the Aam Aadmi Party with her whole family to strengthen the party in Fatehgarh Sahib.

Panjab University (PU) is set to hire 50 new security guards to bolster campus security. The decision was taken at a security review meeting, but the recruitment is likely to be done after the model code of conduct is lifted in June.

Cinevester International Film Festival is being held in Chandigarh. It will be inaugurated by Boman Irani. This film festival is being held in Chandigarh from March 27 to 31. A large number of film stars will arrive in it. Preparations for this program have been completed.

The spurious liquor, which claimed the lives of 20 individuals in Sangrur district was found to be Methanol - a fatal chemical used in industrial products, which was procured by the accused persons from a Noida-based factory meant for factory use, said Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Law and Order Gurinder Singh Dhillon, who is heading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe this case.