Kullu: Heatwave conditions intensified across several parts of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, with the mercury soaring well above normal in the mid and low hill areas, even as the weather department issued orange and yellow alerts for May 22. Una remained the hottest place in the state at 44.3 degrees Celsius, 5.8 degrees above normal,…
Ladwa (Kurukshetra): Haryana chief minister (CM) Nayab Singh Saini on Thursday ordered strict action against officials responsible for installing electricity poles and a transformer in the middle of a farm access path in Bakali village, and directed police to register a case against those allegedly threatening the complainant.Addressing a Jan Samvad (public interaction) in Ladwa,…
KULLU: Terming landslides near the Shimla highway bypass project an ‘act of god’, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has refused to pay environmental compensation for the alleged damage to an apple orchard during four-laning work from Shakral to Dhalli near Mashobra in Shimla district.In a counter-affidavit filed before National Green Tribunal (NGT), NHAI has…
Chandigarh: The CBI on Thursday filed its first chargesheet running into approximately 10,000 pages in the multi-crore fraud involving the siphoning of govt funds from IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank.A CBI team submitted the chargesheet, annexures, and supporting documents in eight steel trunks before special CBI judge Vijayant Sehgal in Chandigarh. The…
Yamunanagar: An exclusive district court in Jagadhri, dedicated to heinous crimes against women, has sentenced a 36-year-old woman to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering her three-year-old daughter at a hotel in Amritsar in 2022.The convict, Maninder Kaur alias Simmy, a resident of Yamunanagar, had allegedly conspired with her lover to eliminate her children, whom they…
Hisar: Sirsa MP Kumari Selja on Wednesday directed officials in Fatehabad to speed up development works and improve civic amenities during a DISHA meeting at the mini secretariat. She expressed displeasure over the functioning of the municipal council and public health department, particularly regarding sanitation and incomplete civic projects.When municipal council officials cited pending court…
CHANDIGARH/PATHANKOT: A resident of Punjab’s Pathankot has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan-based handlers, police said on Friday.Preliminary investigation found that Baljit Singh, a resident of Chakk Dhariwal village, had installed a CCTV camera at a shop near a bridge on National Highway-44, allegedly to monitor the movement of Army and paramilitary forces,…
Chandigarh: UT police have booked owners and employees of several immigration firms in the city for allegedly duping job aspirants of around ₹1 crore in visa fraud cases. Seven separate FIRs have been registered at Sector 17 police station, and investigations are underway.In one case, Mora Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran, alleged that Anubhav…
Chandigarh: A Sector 37 resident was allegedly duped of Rs 55 lakh in a stock investment scam run via a WhatsApp group.Police said the victim invested Rs 54.63 lakh through a fake app after being lured by a group member. When he sought withdrawal, he was asked to pay Rs 11.3 lakh as charges. On…
Mohali: Acting on Supreme Court directions on stray dog management, Mohali deputy commissioner Komal Mittal has asked all civic bodies in the district to identify land for setting up dog pounds, alongside initiating measures to handle rabid and aggressive canines.Mittal said the directions align with apex court guidelines on managing ferocious and rabid stray dogs….
