India’s 30 percent lawmakers don criminal records
byNew Delhi: About 30 percent of Lok Sabha MPs and 17 percent of Rajya Sabha MPs have criminal cases against them, with Shiv Sena members…
Crime
Thief walks away with $ 53 million diamond bonanza from Cannes
byLondon: A gunman pulled off one of the biggest daylight jewelry thefts in French history as he walked out of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes…
Visa fraud – Punjab demands action
byChandigarh: Punjab’s NRI commission has asked the police to act on a girl student’s complaint against a Britain-based couple of Indian-origin for allegedly cheating her…
Vanishing Gods of Himachal
byShimla: The deities are no more gracing the “land of the gods”, as Himachal Pradesh is known. They have been silently whisked away by antique…
Guard murdered, robbers decamp with antiques from Himachal temple
byShimla: Robbers in the intervening night of yesterday and today decamped with antique idols from a temple premises in Rohru and on being confronted…
Indian student in New Zealand goes missing
byWellington: Police in New Zealand are seeking information about an Indian student who has been reported missing since early last month. Ankur Sharma, 23,…
Jobs on chits scam comes back to haunt Virbhadra government
byShimla: Ghost of alleged illegal recruitments made between December 1993 to Februray 1998 has come back to haunt the Virbhadra Singh led Congress government…
Polling may be put off in landslide-hit Himachal’s Kinnaur
byShimla, June 20 (IANS) Polling for the Mandi parliamentary by-poll in landslide-hit Kinnaur district, which has been cut off from the rest of the…
Uttarakhand in misery, thousands still stranded (Intro Roundup)
byDehradun, June 20 (IANS) Grim tales of death, destruction and food shortages poured out of Uttarakhand Thursday as about 70,000 people still remained trapped…
Sonia monitoring rescue operations in Himachal, Uttarakhand
byNew Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi is monitoring the rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, a party…