Former Akali Minister Bikram Majithia is in Mohali court to surrender in drugs case on Supreme Court direction. He has also applied for bail. Majithia’s bail application hearing adjourned till February 25.Court sends SAD leader Majithia to judicial remand till March 8.Majithia formally arrested by SIT in connection with drugs case. Speaking to reporters outside […]
India cancels special flights to Kyiv after Ukraine shuts airspace Ukraine says killed ‘around 50 Russian occupiers’, reports AFP. Russian ground forces cross into Ukraine, AFP reports citing border guards India’s advisory to citizens as Russia strikes Ukraine. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday came out with a to-do list for the world as […]
The strike of the power union in UT, Chandigarh has been withdrawn and the power supply has been normalised in most of the areas. The Power Union gathered at Sector 17 have been dispersed and have resumed their duties. A strike by employees of the electricity department in Chandigarh was withdrawn on Wednesday evening, in […]
Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik was today arrested after questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case linked to the activities of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. The 62-year-old Minister was taken to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office this morning for questioning. ED officials reached this […]
Voting for 59 Assembly constituencies spread over nine districts in Uttar Pradesh began on Wednesday morning. The polling started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.This is the fourth phase of the Assembly polls in the state, where elections are to be held in seven rounds. As many as 624 candidates are in […]
Seven people were killed and 10 suffered serious burns on Tuesday in an explosion at a factory in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district where firecrackers were allegedly being made illegally. People heard a huge explosion in the industrial area about 11.30 am and later found seven labourers working in the unit charred to death.Ten others, including […]
Many areas in the city faced disruption in power supply as employees of the Electricity Department went on a three-day strike in protest against the privatisation of the department. Residents of Modern Housing Complex, Category IV, Manimajra, said that electricity went off just after midnight in their area and it was yet to be restored.Similarly, […]
Lalu Yadav was sentenced today to five years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh in a fifth case linked to the fodder scam.The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was convicted in the case last week. The case involves the illegal withdrawal of Rs 139.5 crore from the Doranda treasury, as part of the fodder […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Union Budget for 2022-23 would be of great help in implementing the National Education Policy on the ground and asserted that the decision to set up a National Digital University could address the problem of shortage of seats in educational institutes in the country. Addressing a webinar […]