Ex-ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak – arrested last month in the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan fraud case – walked free this morning after getting bail from the Bombay High Court. Deepak Kochhar was released from Arthur Road Jail and his wife from Byculla Women’s Prison. Their arrest was ‘not in conformity with […]
Biting cold coupled with dense fog conditions prevailed over the northwest India on Monday morning.Low visibility was experienced in several parts of the region — especially in Punjab, Haryana and New Delhi. Punjab’s Bathinda recorded zero visibility on Monday morning. While several locations in Haryana and New Delhi, one could see up to 25 metres.“Due […]
Kuldip Singh, a Punjab Police constable posted as gunman with the Phagwara (City) police station SHO, was shot dead in an exchange of firing between a police party and unidentified armed masked robbers near Kot Grewal village late Sunday night. The critically injured constable was brought to Gandhi Hospital in Phagwara around 11 pm where […]
The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in a loan fraud case, noting their arrest was not done in conformity with provisions of law. The couple was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 23, 2022 in […]
When four students of a government school in Punjab’s Ferozepur district featured in the merit list of the state Board exams, ending a 12-year wait, the overjoyed principal did not hesitate to fulfil their wish of air travel.Rakesh Sharma, the principal of Shaheed Gurdas Ram Memorial Government Senior Secondary School (Girls) at Zira in Ferozepur, […]
A high-level meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will take place on Sunday on the Joshimath situation. Dr P K Mishra, principal secretary to PM Modi, will hold a high level review with Cabinet Secretary & senior government officials and members of National Disaster Management Authority at PMO today afternoon, the PMO said in […]
Team India head coach Rahul Dravid hailed Suryakumar Yadav’s scintillating unbeaten 112-run knock against Sri Lanka in the T20 series decider here, and jokingly said that the 32-year-old batter had “never seen him bat” when he was a young kid.”I have someone here with me, who I am sure, as a young kid, didn’t watch […]
A severe cold wave, accompanied by a blinding layer of dense fog, enveloped North India, including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, and the adjoining Central and Eastern parts of the country on Sunday, affecting road, rail and air traffic movement.The Met office had issued an “orange” alert for certain parts of north India, including Delhi, […]
Seven Congress MLAs were inducted as ministers in the Himachal Pradesh Government on Sunday as Chief Minister Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu expanded his Cabinet. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar administered the oath to the newly inducted ministers at a ceremony at the Raj Bhawan. Three-time MLA from Solan (SC) assembly constituency Dhani Ram Shandil was […]
Several parts of north India reeled under severe cold and dense fog affected railway movement, with Delhi recording a minimum temperature of three degrees Celsius — the lowest in January in two years — making it cooler than several hill stations.Most people kept indoors and turned to space heaters and cups of hot beverages to […]