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LUCKNOW: Nearly 7,000 potted plants worth around Rs 10 lakh were looted within 24 hours of the inauguration of Rashtra Prerna Sthal. The stolen plants were part of a Rs 60 lakh horticulture project executed for the event.LDA officials said the thefts began on Thursday evening, soon after the programme concluded. People were seen removing…
CHANDIGARH: A single day cannot erase a year of service, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled while deciding that a retiree cannot be deprived of an earned increment simply because his superannuation falls a few hours before it.The court passed these orders while granting relief to a retired BSF inspector who was refused…
NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Tuesday honoured 19 of its personnel for having displayed “exemplary courage and composure” in the face of heavy shelling and firing from Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, to keep critical national assets along the Indo-Pakistan border as well as residents of the surrounding townships, from harm.CISF director…
NEW DELHI: Eight personnel were injured in an accidental blast at the Nowgam police station in Srinagar late Friday night, officials told PTI.The explosion occurred while police were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives seized recently in the ‘white-collar’ terror module case. The material had been brought from Faridabad, Haryana, and was part…
NEW DELHI: Days after the blast near Red Fort, in which nine people were killed and 30 injured, security agencies were on Wednesday thrown into a tizzy after IndiGo received a message threatening that five airports, including Delhi and Mumbai, would be blown up within 24 hours.The bomb disposal squad, along with fire department personnel,…
BERHAMPUR: The special Pocso court in Berhampur on Friday sentenced two Army personnel to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a four-year-old nursery student.The crime occurred on January 2 while the girl was returning home from school in a bus designated for transporting children of defence personnel, in which the convicts were employed as escorts. Sources…
Firefighters carried the woman in the stretcher for about 1 km Berhampur: Fire service personnel in landslide-hit Gajapati district on Friday carried a 22-year-old pregnant woman in labour on a stretcher for about 1 km and helped her reach the nearest hospital. She later delivered a baby boy at the district headquarters hospital in Paralakhemundi.A…
Violent protests in Leh (AP) NEW DELHI: Ladakh lieutenant governor Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday alleged a conspiracy behind the statehood protest in Leh turning violent, claiming people were being incited by drawing parallels with the youth-led movements in Bangladesh and Nepal that toppled governments there.Also Read | Ladakh violence: 4 dead, 30 injured amid violence;…
