After months of waiting and watching first showers of the monsoon lashed the Capital, parts of Uttarakhand and Punjab last evening.

Four people were arrested here Tuesday with arms and cash, police said, adding that they were members of an inter-state gang of highway robbers operating in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

So near and yet so far. Looking skywards, that's what people in many parts of northern India must have felt Monday, as the air was hot, humid and heavy with the possibility of rain, but the magical droplets eluded.

Chandigarh : Travelling abroad from Punjab and Haryana will not mean travelling to Delhi anymore with Chandigarh airport being upgraded to an international airport.

"I was working on an album with Janet and Michael Jackson. I'm producing and composing the album.

Promising a passport within three days, it peddled a dream to Indians crowding understaffed and overburdened regional passport centres.

Chandigarh, June 27 : Dutch pharmaceutical major Brema Pharma International Saturday launched photodynamic therapy, a pain-free technique for treating cancer with lasers and light sensitive drugs, saying it will invest 1 million euros in its Indian operations.

New Delhi/Chandigarh/It has been a wait in anger and desperation for the monsoon in scorched north India as Delhi saw protests over power cuts and water shortage, while even Manipur in the northeast officially declared itself drought hit after the failure of rains.

Australian News.Net Friday 26th June, 2009 Saurabh Sharma, a 21-year-student of Carrick Institute of Education, one of the largest vocational institutes in this Australian city with a strong Indian contingent, says he is lucky to be alive after being smashed up by a group of five lager louts while returning home last month.

Chandigarh, June 25 In the wake of delayed monsoon, the Bhakra Beas Management Board today decided to cut the supply of water for irrigation to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan by 6000 cusecs till July 10.