GURGAON: Overheated equipment, an oil spill, and a blast. The snag that took down a large section of the city’s power grid was triggered by a cocktail of problems that hit the critical Sector 72 substation of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) on Friday evening. Officials said the disruption began around 7pm when a technical…
GURGAON: A 29-year-old software engineer with Cognizant died in the early hours of Saturday after his car crashed into a crane allegedly parked on the road without warning signs near Sikanderpur metro station.Abhishek Kumar, who was from Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, was returning to his rented accommodation in DLF Phase-3 when the accident occurred around 1.05am…
Gurgaon: Four students of a private school sustained serious head and facial injuries after a wall of an under-construction building collapsed onto the roof of their classroom in Faridabad’s Kheri Pul area on Saturday morning.The incident took place around 9.30am at Hans Memorial Public School on the 35-feet road in Bharat Colony. Around 20 UKG…
AAP national Convener Arvind Kejriwal ahead of his visit to Bhondsi jail Gurgaon: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal visited Bhondsi jail on Saturday to meet jailed Punjab cabinet minister Sanjeev Arora.The two leaders met Arora, 62, for around 20 minutes and assured him of the party’s…
The maximum temperature in the city was recorded at 40.4°C Gurgaon: Despite a marginal dip in temperatures on Saturday, IMD warned of another spell of intense heat, with heatwave to severe heatwave conditions likely at several places in Haryana, including Gurgaon, on Tuesday and Wednesday.Parts of the city witnessed a brief spell of dust-storm and…
The review came a day after a major technical fault disrupted power supply in several parts of the city Gurgaon: Amid rising temperatures and a spike in power outages and tripping incidents, Haryana has ordered stricter checks to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply across the city.Special energy secretary and managing director of the North and South…
The services remained suspended since Thursday after the agency halted operations Gurgaon: Door-to-door waste collection will resume in Manesar from Sunday after the private garbage collection agency decided to restart operations following mounting complaints from residents.The services remained suspended since Thursday after the agency halted operations amid an escalating dispute with MCM over inspections, payment…
MCG joint commissioner Jaiveer Yadav holds a meeting of the tax department officials as MCG pushes transparency, time-bound tax work amid property tax corruption crackdown Gurgaon: MCG additional commissioner Jaiveer Yadav on Friday asked officials in the corporation’s zone-3 tax department to ensure transparent, time-bound and citizen-focused functioning, days after the civic body initiated a…
GURGAON: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal visited Bhondsi Jail on Saturday to meet jailed Punjab Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora.Heavy security arrangements were put in place by the police. Mann and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Arora for around 20 minutes.Arora was arrested by…
FIR filed under MV Act after JJ Board questions inaction (Representative image) GURGAON: An FIR has been registered against an unknown person under the Motor Vehicles Act in connection with a traffic challan case involving a minor, after Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) pulled up police for failing to act against the vehicle’s owner or the…
