Syed Abid Rashid Shah, an IAS officer from Jammu and Kashmir, has been given the additional charge of Chandigarh's Health and Medical Education Department. The appointment is a temporary measure to ensure the department's smooth functioning.

Starting in 1965, Nek Chand Saini, a road inspector in Chandigarh’s public works department, built a secret garden pieced together with discarded material from the villages that preceded the city.

The Chandigarh Police on Monday registered a case on a complaint filed by Chandigarh municipal corporation which claimed that the fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) worth Rs 116.84 crore issued by a...