Cities

According to the latest findings of the Forest Department, Chandigarh has become the greenest city in the country. The joint capital of Punjab and Haryana has a forest and tree cover of 35.5 per cent in its 114-sq km area, says the Forest Department. The city, the first planned one in post-independent India, came into being in the early 1950s through the design of French architect Le Corbusier. An agriculturist-bureaucrat, MS Randhawa, is credited with the large variety of ... [full story]