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HP CM announces 3% DA hike with October salaries, pensions

Shimla, Oct. 16 -- Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday announced release of 3% Dearness Allowance (DA) for employees and pensioners to be credited with October salaries and pensions, pa... Read More


Green nod sets ball rolling for 13.79-km ropeway project

Shimla, Oct. 16 -- The stage-1 in-principle approval to the 13.79 km ropeway project by the Union ministry of forests, in Shimla, has set the ball rolling for the construction of India's longest and w... Read More


HP govt declared sole owner of Wildflower Hall with Rs.401-cr gain

Shimla, Oct. 16 -- Ending the nearly three-decade legal wrangling, the Himachal Pradesh government has finally emerged as the sole owner of the Wildflower Hall property in Mashobra - along with a fina... Read More


J&K assembly polls: BJP fields Devyani Rana from Nagrota

Jammu, Oct. 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Wednesday, announced candidates for the ensuing bypolls to two assembly seats of Nagrota and Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir. The party announced Dev... Read More


SC allows Wangchuk's wife to amend petition, challenge detention grounds

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, to amend her petition after she expressed her intention to challenge the grounds of detent... Read More


Supreme Court allows use of 'green' firecrackers on Diwali

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Delhi-NCR is set to have a cracker of a Diwali this year - quite literally. The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted the sale of green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR between October 1... Read More


Top court stays HC order quashing CBI probe against Corbett official

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an order of the Uttarakhand high court scrapping the ongoing CBI probe against a senior bureaucrat in the case related to irregularities in ... Read More


Dalit boy's suicide: SC panel chief orders suspension of IO

Shimla, Oct. 16 -- Taking strict note of laxity in investigations into the death of a 12-year-old boy who allegedly killed self after being harassed owing to "caste discrimination" in Rohru, Shimla di... Read More


Toll in Jaisalmer bus fire rises to 21: Officials

Barmer/Jaisalmer, Oct. 16 -- A day after a private bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur went up in flames, the toll reached 21 on Wednesday as a 10-year-old boy undergoing treatment at Mahatma Gan... Read More


No marital rape on minor wife conviction in cases before 2017

PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 16 -- The Allahabad high court, in its recent order, has held that a man can be convicted for having sexual intercourse with a minor wife of over 15 years age, only after Supreme Court... Read More