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Woman gets life term for killing adopted girl

Shimla, Aug. 6 -- Terming the act as "barbaric", a local court in Nahan convicted and awarded life imprisonment to a woman for thrashing her 4-year-old adopted daughter to death in 2020. The court of ... Read More


Varsity student held for supplying arms to gangsters: Jammu cops

Jammu, Aug. 6 -- An engineering student of Central University of Jammu (CUJ), from Bihar, who was arrested last month for his involvement in illegal arms trade has revealed that he supplied at least n... Read More


SC cites 'worst order' as it takesHC judge off criminal matters

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- The Supreme Court has directed that an Allahabad High Court judge be stripped of all criminal jurisdiction until his retirement and made to sit with a seasoned senior judge to und... Read More


Jaisalmer scion objects to text book reference

Jaisalmer, Aug. 6 -- A member of the erstwhile royal family of Jaisalmer has condemned a map featured in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Class 8 social science textbo... Read More


Mann bats for Yamuna-Sutlej link as5th round of talks ends in deadlock

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- The fifth round of talks between the Centre, Punjab and Haryana governments on Tuesday to resolve the decades-old Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal dispute remained inconclusive. Th... Read More


HP govt's act to regularise encroachments illegal: HC

Shimla, Aug. 6 -- In a significant ruling, the high court on Tuesday declared Section 163-A of the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1954, which empowers the state government to frame rules for regul... Read More


Don't stop outstation vehiclesneedlessly: UT DGP to cops

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- Director general of police (DGP) Sagar Preet Hooda has instructed all Chandigarh traffic police personnel to refrain from unnecessarily stopping vehicles with outstation number p... Read More


SOP to combat pvt media leak in works

BENGALURU, Aug. 6 -- The Union government has set up an expert committee to create a standard operating procedure for combating the spread of non-consensual intimate images (NCII), following direction... Read More


'Just the beginning': PM on Shah as the longest serving home min

NEW DELHI, Aug. 6 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, while acknowledging Union minister Amit Shah as the country's longest serving home minister, said this was just "the beginning" for him, s... Read More


Pharma, chips tariffs coming 'next week or so': US president

Washington, Aug. 6 -- President Donald Trump said US tariffs on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports would be announced "within the next week or so". "We'll be putting an initially small tariff on... Read More