In Guree village, the family home of Adil Hussain Thoker, a suspect in the Pahalgam attack, was demolished by security forces after they claimed he had recently visited. His family denies contact since 2018, when he purportedly left for studies. BIJBEHARA: Before security forces levelled her home with controlled explosives, Shahzada Bano was shown the…
NUH: Seven sanitation workers, including six women, were killed on the spot and four others critically injured after a speeding multi-utility van ran over them on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Saturday morning. The accident took place around 10am near pillar number 76 at Ibrahimvas village in the Firozpur Jhirka block of Nuh district. The group…
PATIALA: Four days after the first deaths were reported following the consumption of spurious liquor in Gujjran village of Dirba in Punjab’s Sangrur district, chief minister Bhagwant Mann and finance minister and Dirba MLA Harpal Cheema on Sunday visited the families of the victims at the village.The death toll has already climbed to 21. Around…
NEW DELHI: In a major political development in Himachal Pradesh, six rebel Congress MLAs joined opposition BJP on Saturday.The MLAs Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Rajinder Rana, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Chaitanya Sharma and Devinder Kumar Bhutto, were disqualified on February 29 for defying a party whip.They joined the saffron party in presence of state BJP president…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government is all set to pass fresh orders regarding the detention of radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh and his associates under the National Security Act (NSA). A formal statement regarding the state government’s intention to pass fresh orders was made before the Punjab and Haryana high court by the counsel representing the…
CHANDIGARH: A day ahead of the announcement of the election date, the Haryana government on Friday gave an additional charge of chief secretary post to 1988 batch IAS TVSN Prasad.Prasad is currently at ACS (home) and FCR the current development emerged as the incumbent Chief secretary Sanjeev Kaushal has proceeded on earned leave on Friday…
CHANDIGARH/PANCHKULA/MOHALI: Chandigarh reported 25% fall in number of traffic challans issued on New Year’s eve (December 31, 2023) as compared to slips issued on the last day of 2022.The UT police issued 978 slips on December 31, 2023, as against 1,317 challans issued on the same day in 2022. On New Year’s eve in 2021,…
PANCHKULA: Three persons have been booked for attacking a resident of Indira Colony with swords over an old rivalry. In his complaint to the police, Ashu Kumar, a resident of Indira Colony, Sector 17, said the trio – Aman Pakodi, his brother Bittoo and their friend Vikki – attacked him when he was standing at…
