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Ex BJP chief Khimi Ram now enters Dhumal’s cabinet

Ex BJP chief Khimi Ram now enters Dhumal’s cabinet

Feb. 22 | Tweet Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Wednesday announced that he would expand his cabinet by inducting former state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Khimi Ram into...

Five injured as naval shell explodes in shipyard

Five injured as naval shell explodes in shipyard

Feb. 22 | Tweet Panaji: Five shipyard workers were injured Wednesday, two of them seriously, after workers at a defence shipyard tried to salvage the copper casing of an unexploded ordnance shell.”Total...

Locked in dark room by teacher, six-year-old dies

Locked in dark room by teacher, six-year-old dies

Feb. 22 | Tweet Karnal (Haryana): A six-year-old boy in Karnal district was locked up in a dark room by his kindergarten teacher for not doing his homework and died of trauma one and a half months later, police...

Punjab’s ‘Largest’ immigration firm WWICS on police radar

Punjab’s ‘Largest’ immigration firm WWICS on police radar

Feb. 21 | Tweet Chandigarh: Claiming to be the “world’s largest immigration group”, the multi-billion rupee WorldWide Immigration Consultancy Services (WWICS) here is under the police scanner...

Top Lashkar commander killed in Sopore town

Top Lashkar commander killed in Sopore town

Feb. 21 | Tweet Srinagar: A top commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was killed in a gunfight with security forces in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Tuesday evening, police said. “The seniormost...

Satpal Satti appointed new Himachal BJP chief

Satpal Satti appointed new Himachal BJP chief

Feb. 20 | Tweet Shimla: In a bid to pacify the rebels in its Himachal Pradesh unit, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday appointed a new president for the state. Satpal Singh Satti, a second-time legislator...

Six killed in Delhi road accidents

Six killed in Delhi road accidents

Feb. 20 | Tweet New Delhi: Four pedestrians, a motorcyclist and a man travelling in a mini-truck were killed in separate road accidents in Delhi since Sunday, police said. A teenaged car cleaner who was unauthorisedly...

Anti-incumbency may produce hung assembly in UP

Anti-incumbency may produce hung assembly in UP

Feb. 18 | Tweet Even at this early stage of the UP elections, a few predictions can still be made with reasonable certainty. One is the results will produce a hung assembly with neither of the two major parties...

Dalit loses hand for drinking ‘upper caste’ water !

Dalit loses hand for drinking ‘upper caste’ water !

Feb. 16 | Tweet Hisar (Haryana): Police have arrested a man for seriously injuring another man for daring to drink water from the earthern pot of an upper caste family, a Haryana official said Thursday. The...

Four Amritsar students injured in group clash

Four Amritsar students injured in group clash

Feb. 16 | Tweet Amritsar: At least four students were injured Thursday in a clash between two groups of school students in Punjab during which one group also fired at the other, police said. A police official...