Chandigarh: With just three days left before Punjab heads to the civic body polls, the state election commission (SEC) announced that a total of 7,555 candidates have been cleared to contest the upcoming municipal general elections. The state is gearing up for a high-stakes, multi-cornered contest scheduled for May 26.Leading the charge is incumbent Aam…
Jalandhar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Jalandhar, on Friday night arrested Punjab-based builder Ajay Sehgal in a money laundering case linked to forged consent letters allegedly used to obtain change of land use (CLU) permissions for a real-estate project in Mohali.Sehgal, secretary of Indian Cooperative House Building Society, was on Saturday produced before a Mohali court,…
Bathinda: India’s heat crisis is turning more relentless, more humid, and harder to escape, extending beyond searing afternoons into uncomfortably warm nights. Over the past decade, a clear pattern has emerged — the country’s summers are not just getting hotter, but increasingly more hazardous, a new study by research-based consultancy Climate Trends has found.Released on…
India’s summers are becoming dangerously hotter and more humid, with heatwaves increasing in frequency and duration. BATHINDA: India’s heat crisis is becoming more relentless, more humid, and increasingly inescapable, stretching beyond scorching afternoons into dangerously warm nights. The past decade is increasingly showing a clear trend that country’s summers are becoming not just hotter, but…
Sonipat: Nishant Gautam, a 30-year-old pursuing post-graduate (PG) diploma in cricket coaching at Haryana Sports University in Rai, Sonipat, drowned in a swimming pool on the campus Thursday night. His family has alleged murder. Police have launched an investigation.The incident occurred around 8:30 pm when Gautam, who belonged to Palwal, entered the pool after a…
CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested Ajay Sehgal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged GMADA and Change of Land Use (CLU) scam connected to the Suntec City project.Sehgal is likely to be produced before a court this afternoon. According to the ED, CLU approvals were allegedly secured using forged consent…
Mahendergarh: Haryana Police claimed to have busted a notorious interstate Pardi Gulel gang following a late-night gunfight in Mahendergarh, arresting seven alleged members involved in a string of serious crimes across multiple states.The operation, led by Mahendergarh superintendent of police Deepak, involved joint teams of the CIA units from Narnaul and Mahendergarh along with the…
Sonipat: The effect of the three-day transporters’ strike across the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) became more visible on Friday, with thousands of trucks remaining off the roads in Sonipat and adjoining districts, severely disrupting goods transportation and supply chains.The agitation against the implementation of environment compensation charges (ECC) and restrictions on BS-4 vehicles in…
Kurukshetra: The Kurukshetra district police on Friday claimed to have arrested the main shooter involved in the firing incident at a trader’s residence in Ladwa.Under the guidance of Kurukshetra SP Chandra Mohan, the crime investigation agency (CIA)-1 team arrested the accused, Arjun Pandit, from Kosi Kalan in Uttar Pradesh, said the police.A police spokesperson said…
Chandigarh: Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Friday raised serious concerns over the Centre taking an “unprecedented” dividend of nearly Rs 2.87 lakh crore from the Reserve Bank of India, warning that excessive extraction of RBI reserves could weaken the country’s long-term economic resilience and undermine the strength of the central bank.Referring to reports…
