Chamoli police have seized 18-kg of explosives from an ex-serviceman on Gopeswhar-Kedarnath road in Chamoli district on Sunday morning.  Acting on intelligence inputs, the Chamoli police arrested Satyapal Singh, former soldier and resident of Gopeshwar, from in front of a local hotel and recovered 45 sticks of gelatin, which is a prohibited ‘class-II explosive’. “We have arrested an ex-serviceman today ...

Pakistani troops heavily shelled areas along the LoC in Rajouri district for the second consecutive day on Sunday, causing heavy damage to buildings and forcing evacuation of 1,000 border residents. The Indian Army effectively retaliated. The Pakistan Army had on Saturday pounded civilian areas and forward posts along the LoC in Nowshera area with mortars, killing two civilians and injuring ...

New Delhi: Sacked AAP minister Kapil Mishra yesterday fainted at a press conference after charging Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with financial “irregularities”. Mishra was taken to the RML hospital here from his residence in Civil Lines, where he has been on a hunger strike for the last five days, demanding that the Aam Aadmi Party release details of foreign ...

Rohtak:  In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old girl here was found to be five months pregnant after being raped repeatedly allegedly by her stepfather, police said yesterday. The girl’s pregnancy was confirmed by the doctors when her mother took her to a hospital, they said, adding the accused was arrested. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam has ...

The first swine flu death in Kangra was reported from Dr Rajendra Prasad Govt Medical College, Tanda. Two persons, tested positive for the H1N1 disease, were also under treatment in the medical college. Medical Superintendent, Tanda hospital, Dr YD Sharma, confirmed today that a 65-year-old patient Joginder Kumar of Digger village in Dehra was admitted to the Tanda hospital a ...

A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain’s health system and global shipper FedEx. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other ...

A group of unidentified men have gangraped a woman and brutalised her before crushing her head in Haryana’s Rohtak district. Police said the attackers mutilated her private parts after the rape and ran a vehicle over her face to prevent identification. The incident allegedly occurred on May 9 but the body was recovered much later from Rohtak’s IMT area. The ...

World Bank will provide an assistance of Rs 960 crore for increasing green cover in the state. The proposal has been approved by the screening committee of the Union Ministry of Finance. Chief secretary S Ramaswamy said that the money would be spent on core activities such as plantation in forest areas, tackling forest fires, man-animal conflict and sustainable livelihood, ...

Nainital: Uttarakhand high court (HC) on Friday, while hearing a petition regarding tampering of EVMs in various assembly constituencies of the state, directed that its previous order, dated May 1 (in which the HC had asked for the sealing of EVMs in six constituencies of the state) should not be cited as a precedent anywhere in the country. The order, ...

The Election Commission held a meeting with all recognised National and State Political parties yesterday at Constitution Club, New Delhi to discuss the following issues: (i)                 EVMs and VVPATs. (ii)               Making Bribery in Elections a Cognizable Offence. (iii)              Disqualification on Framing of Charges for the Offence of Bribery in Elections (iv)              Suggestions on VVPAT Recount Rules. 07 National Parties and ...