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SHIMLA: Heavy snowfall across several districts of Himachal Pradesh continued to severely disrupt daily life in the hill state on Sunday, affecting transport, communication, power, water supply and leaving people stranded in cars in freezing temperatures. Lahaul and Spiti district has been cut-off from the rest of the state due to blocked roads. As of…
NEW DELHI: A spate of shootings at wedding venues across Punjab including the killing of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sarpanch in Amritsar and a deadly gang shootout at a Ludhiana banquet hall has once again brought the spotlight on the state’s deepening gun culture and the failure to secure even private social gatherings. Police…
Pakistan-sent weapons seized in Pathankot PATHANKOT: Punjab Police claimed to have foiled a possible terror attack after recovering a cache of weapons in the Narot Jamal Singh area. Deputy Inspector General (Border Range) Sandeep Goel said that acting on a tip-off, police conducted checks and seized three AK-47 rifles, five magazines, two pistols of Turkish…
MOHALI: Punjabi singer Dilnoor has lodged a complaint with the SSP Mohali after receiving a threat call demanding a ransom of Rs 10 crore.According to the complaint, the caller identified himself as Arju Bishnoi and instructed Dilnoor to inform his friend, Bollywood and Punjabi singer B Praak, to pay the ransom within a week, warning…
CHANDIGARH: A wrong CIBIL tag turned into a costly mistake for a leading credit card company after the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh, ordered it to erase the error and cough up Rs 20,000 in compensation. The verdict came after a Sector 18 resident, who had cleared his dues way back in 2007 and…
SHIMLA: A massive fire engulfed the old bus stand area of Arki market in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district in the early hours of Monday, claiming the lives of three people, including an eight-year-old boy, Priyansh from Bihar.The blaze broke out around 2:45 am in an old wooden residential building housing eight migrant families from Nepal…
SHIMLA: At least two residential buildings were evacuated near Sanjauli in Shimla district on Friday night after cracks developed in the structures, allegedly due to ongoing tunnelling work beneath the Chalaunthi bypass.Around 40 people from 15 families were forced to evacuate around 10 pm amid intense cold, with temperatures plunging close to 1°C. Many affected…
AI Image Used For Representational Purpose Only JIND: A woman in Haryana has given birth to her 11th child — a son — after having ten daughters, prompting renewed discussion around maternal health risks and the deep-rooted preference for male children. The woman, 37, and her husband Sanjay Kumar, a daily-wage labourer, have been married…
PATHANKOT: Security forces in Punjab have uncovered a chilling new frontier in cross-border espionage after apprehending a 14-year-old boy allegedly recruited by Pakistani intelligence to map sensitive military installations.He was a tech-savvy teenager with a history of psychological struggles; to the ISI, he was the perfect “soft target”, a pawn in a chilling narco-terror tactic…
ROHTAK: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving sentences in cases related to the rape of two sadhvis and the murder of a journalist, has once again been granted a 40-day parole. He is currently lodged in Sunaria Jail, Rohtak, and will stay at the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa…
