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…
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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…
Sectarian strife in Kashmir valley needs firm handling
bySrinagar: Deployment of the Indian Army and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is helping restore calm in Jammu and Kashmir’s central Badgam district…
Shunted from railway ministry, Bansal struggles to remain politically relevant
byChandigarh: His fall from grace was much faster than his political ascendancy. Having reached a high of being the country’s railway minister, Chandigarh MP Pawan…
Jailed in Delhi, unwanted in Haryana
byChandigarh: Most politicians would go to any extent to keep their opponents at bay. But Haryana’s Bhupinder Singh Hooda would surely take the cake for…
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…
Himachal Pradesh High Court throws out suit to sue judges
byShimla: For having the ‘audacity to seek relief including of damages / compensation against the Judge,’ the High Court threw out one such suit…
Haryana farmers get Rs 2/- compensation for crop damages
byAfter a wait of nearly two years, farmers in Haryana have received cheques of as low as Rs 2 as compensation for crops that were damaged in 2011 season. Asked to present photocopies of the offending cheques, the farmers handed originals ones saying, xerox copies would cost more that the compensation.
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…