Shimla Four national highways (NH) and 110 main and lateral roads connecting villages and towns in four districts of Himachal Pradesh were cut off due to snowfall on Friday. More than 200 vehicles were stranded after intermittent snowfall in Shimla, Kinnaur, Chamba and Sirmaur districts threw life out of gear. NH-305 connecting Sainj to Luhri […]
Shimla Picturesque tourist spot Manali in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday experienced season’s first snow. Nearby spots of Shimla too were wrapped in a blanket of snow cover, bringing cheer to tourists. Some of the tourist spots in the upper Shimla district were cut off after snow piled on roads, officials said. The ‘Queen of Hills’, […]
Dr Anupma Gupta, one of the six victims injured in a vehicle pile-up near Bandala village on the Amritsar-Bathinda highway on Tuesday, is battling for her life at a local private hospital. Doctors had to amputate her legs to save her life.Dr Anupma, head of the Anatomy Department at Dashmesh Dental College, Faridkot, and her […]
CHANDIGARH: To improve quality of education, the Haryana government has decided to open one Sanskriti model school in each block of the state in 2020. At present, 22 such schools are operational in the state, one in each district. This was confirmed by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday while presiding over the meeting […]
The faces of six Class 4 students of a private school in Haryana, including two girls, were allegedly blackened and they were paraded in the school premises for scoring poorly in a test, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about […]
DHARAMSHALA: For the second consecutive day of the winter session, Congress created ruckus inside the state assembly on Tuesday, making an otherwise calm and composed chief minister Jai Ram Thakur attack the opposition aggressively. If the opposition was not happy with the clubbing of adjournment notice under Rule 67 into discussion under Rule 130, the […]
CHANDIGARH: Circumventing directions of the Supreme Court to appoint retired judge of the high court as chairperson of the state Police Complaints Authority (PCA), the Punjab government has finally notified the Punjab Police (Appointment of Chairperson and Members of Complaint Authorities) Rules, 2019, which will allow the state to instead appoint a retired officer of […]
Punjab Employees of a few departments of the state government on Monday observed a pen-down strike in protest against unpaid salaries for the month of November. The employees of technical education and industrial training, irrigation, industry and education departments also held a protest rally here over the issue.Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal had earlier said […]
Haryana A teacher of a private school in Haryana’s Hisar allegedly painted the face of six students, including two girls, black and paraded them inside the school for getting low marks in English language test. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about it. Her […]
Shimla Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday welcomed the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha. “Rising above the differences, the Modi government takes all sections along with it. The latest example of this is the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019. Devbhoomi Himachal congratulates the Centre and all the honourable […]