On Monday, a Nagpur court sentenced former BrahMos aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal to life imprisonment in a ruling of huge security implications. He was convicted under the Official Secrets Act for passing on classified information to the ISI of Pakistan. M.V. Deshpande, a district judge from Nagpur, sentenced Agarwal to 14 years in strict imprisonment […]
In Odisha, India, the death toll has now reached 99 due to the severe heatwave, with fatalities totaling 33 for the polling staff in Uttar Pradesh. In Delhi where the scorching temperatures in some parts reached record levels, the condition has worsened because of lack of water this time round. Several districts in Odisha state […]
The Pune crash that claimed the lives of Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhiya on May 19th has taken a dramatic turn. In a recent development, the accused 17-year-old driver, from a well-off background recently admitted to have been driving under the influence of alcohol during the accident while at the same time exposing more shocking […]
Over the weekend, Raveena Tandon, a Bollywood actress, had been involved in a violent argument believed to have been sparked by road rage. The incident occurred close to Tandon’s house on Carter Road, Bandra, on Saturday night, and it has become popular after a viral video showed the brawl Clash of Accounts According to reports, […]
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup’s second day was spectacular, as it had two close encounters that made fans anxious. The host nation, West Indies, kicked off their campaign with a comfortable victory against Papua New Guinea at Providence Stadium in Guyana. Electing to field first, the Windies bowlers restricted PNG to a manageable 136 […]
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Chandigarh has directed an insurance company, along with the owner and driver of a bus, to pay a compensation amount of Rs 16,45,100 to the parents of a girl who died in a road accident in 2018. Saroj Kumari and Raj Kumar, the grieving parents, filed a claim […]
In a major relief for thousands of government employees, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that flats under the UT Employees’ Self-Financing Housing Scheme-2008 will be allotted at the 2008 brochure rates. The verdict comes after a petition filed by Phool Kumar Saini and others challenged the Chandigarh Housing Board’s (CHB) inaction on […]
The police of Chandigarh has accused Akhil Sharma, a Sangrur dweller of publishing a counterfeit job ad for a data entry operator vacancy within the State Election Commission (SEC). Dinesh Gupta got approached by an anonymous acquaintance through a widely used communication app, WhatsApp notifying him of the employment opportunity. The information portrayed the employment […]