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PMC fraud: ED arrests top men of Viva Group
By Vijay Kumar Yadav
PUBLISHED ON JAN 24, 2021 01:12 AM IST
ED suspects that Mehul Thakur and Madangopal Chaturvedi had complete information of the alleged irregularities linked to Pravin Raut, former director of Guruashish Constructions Private Limited, a subsidiary of Housing Development Infrastructure Limited (HDIL)

Tricity buzz: HT Chandigarh reporters’ tracker on all those making, or faking, news
PUBLISHED ON JAN 24, 2021 12:46 AM IST
Chai in kulhad puts tea vendor in soup, Road Safety Week lasts a month in Chandigarh, former Mohali councillor takes eco-friendly route to win over voters, and more...

Bird flu: Highly infectious H5N1 virus found in samples sent from Panchkula
By Tanbir Dhaliwal and Gagandeep Jassowal, Panchkula
PUBLISHED ON JAN 24, 2021 12:40 AM IST
The National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal, has confirmed presence of the highly infectious H5N1 influenza virus in four samples collected from farms in Panchkula’s Barwala-Raipur Rani poultry belt

Day 2: 18,000 more birds culled at Dera Bassi farm
By HT Correspondent, Mohali
UPDATED ON JAN 24, 2021 12:40 AM IST
Surveillance in the district has been doubled with special attention being given to areas around water bodies, live bird markets, zoos and poultry farms

Greater Noida paralympian Varun Singh Bhati to receive Laxman Award
By Shafaque Alam
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 11:50 PM IST
Greater Noida: Twenty-five-year-old paralympian Varun Singh Bhati will receive the Laxman Award from the Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday

Man who allegedly sought to incite violence at stir given clean chit by Sonepat police
By Sunil Rahar
UPDATED ON JAN 23, 2021 11:45 PM IST
Rohtak: The Sonepat police on Saturday gave a clean chit to a man detained by farmers agitating at Singhu borders the previous day, for allegedly attempting to enginer violence at their protest site or during the upcoming tractor rally on Republic Day, as senior police officers claimed the man had made “false statements” before the media

Security stepped up, police extra cautious as R-Day nears
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 11:44 PM IST
New Delhi
Delhi police on Saturday increased security at the interstate borders, where farmers are camped to protest against the three farm laws

AAP says DDA owes civic bodies ₹2,000 crore; BJP says pursuing matter with Centre
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 11:43 PM IST
New Delhi
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday alleged that the Delhi Development Authority( DDA), which comes under the Centre, owes more than ₹2,000 crore to the BJP-led north and south corporations

Baltana woman hurt in accident with SUV gets ₹6.6-lakh relief
By HT Correspondent, Panchkula
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 07:16 PM IST
A 30-year-old woman, who suffered injuries in a road accident in 2017, has been awarded ₹6

Amarinder unquestioned leader of Punjab: Rawat
By Gagandeep Jassowal
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 04:47 PM IST
Asked who will lead the party in the run-up to next year’s Punjab assembly election, the AICC state affairs in-charge said Capt Amarinder Singh is already in command and no one has objected to it.

Ambala building collapse: Contractor held for labourer’s death
By Bhavey Nagpal, Ambala
UPDATED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:24 AM IST
Another labourer who was injured in the cave-in alleged that the accused used substandard material in the building construction which ultimately killed his workmate

Sri Lankan drug kingpin, associate held in Chennai’s Karapakkam
By Divya Chandrababu
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:20 AM IST
- They were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985 on Friday and the process for their remand is on.

11,000 poultry birds culled in Dera Bassi on Day 1
By HT Correspondent, Mohali
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:20 AM IST
After confirmation of bird flu, 53,000 chickens are to be culled at two poultry farms in Behra village

Police proposes route map for tractor rally, farmers to respond today
By Anvit Srivastava
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:19 AM IST
New Delhi: The Delhi police on Friday proposed a route map to the farmers where they could hold a tractor rally on January 26

Air quality panel ropes in agencies to develop tool to read nature of emissions
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:19 AM IST
New Delhi: The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and adjoining areas (CAQM) has commissioned several agencies to develop a ‘Decision Support System’ tool to capture the nature and source of emissions in the region, to focus interventions to curb emissions

Delhi gets colder: Temperature to fall further from Sunday, IMD predicts
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:18 AM IST
New Delhi: The minimum temperature in the national capital dipped to 4

Days after dead owl tested positive for bird flu, six samples sent from Delhi zoo return negative for avian infection
UPDATED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:17 AM IST
New Delhi: Six samples collected from Delhi zoo earlier this week tested negative for bird flu, officials said on Friday, days after a brown fish owl that was found dead in its enclosure, was diagnosed with a strain of the infection

Snatching of ₹200 leads to murder in Rohini, seven arrested
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2021 12:17 AM IST
New Delhi
A 21-year-old man’s blind murder case —that happened in outer Delhi’s Rohini three weeks ago — turned out to be the result of a snatching, Delhi Police said on Friday, after arresting the seven alleged killers

Meeting on Pune city’s water quota inconclusive, Ajit Pawar to meet MPs, MLAs on Monday
By Abhay Khairnar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 10:53 PM IST
PUNE As elected members from Pune city and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) remained firm on not reducing city’s water quota Ajit Pawar, Pune district guardian minister, has decided to call another meeting on Monday (January 25)

Schools for Class 5 to 8 to resume in PMC from February 1
By Namrata Devikar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 10:53 PM IST
PUNE The regular physical classes will resume for Class 5 to 8 from February 1, according to a notification issued by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), on Friday

SII estimates loss of ₹1,000 crore, Covishield production unaffected
By Steffy Thevar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 10:52 PM IST
PUNE A day after a major fire broke out at Serum Institute of Indian (SII) on Thursday afternoon, the institute estimated a loss of ₹1,000 crore and also assured that no damage was reported to the Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’

MIDC fire officials give clean chit to Serum, CM says lets wait for final report
By Steffy Thevar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 10:52 PM IST
PUNE The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) fire officials visited the Manjri site where the fire broke out on Thursday and upon inspection have given a clean chit to the Serum Institute of India (SII)

Face mask not mandatory while travelling with family in private vehicle
By Mansi Deshpande
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 10:52 PM IST
PUNE The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has relaxed norms and said wearing of face masks while travelling with family members in a private vehicle will no longer be mandatory within the boundaries of the city

Soldier killed in firing at LoC cremated with full state honours in Ambala
By Bhavey Nagpal, Ambala
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 09:25 PM IST
Havildar Nirmal Singh belonged to 10 JAK Rifles unit of the army; he was critically injured in Poonch and succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on Thursday.

Mohali MC elections: Balbir Sidhu’s brother among 50 in fray from Congress
By HT Correspondent, Mohali
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:16 PM IST
The Congress on Friday released its list of 50 candidates for the Mohali municipal corporation (MC) elections, retaining 14 of the 15 former councillors

NAAC accreditation: Bihar’s tally drops to below 100, deadline for all is 2022
By Arun Kumar
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 06:11 PM IST
PATNA
Bihar continues to fare poorly in the ranking of institutions by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) despite the fact that all institutions have to get accredited by next year

Lone BSP MLA joins JD(U)
By Prasun K Mishra
UPDATED ON JAN 22, 2021 07:32 PM IST
PATNA
Lone BSP MLA in Bihar, Md Jama Khan, who won Chainpur seat in the 2020 Assembly polls, joined the ruling JD(U) after meeting chief minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Friday evening

25-year-old Tamil Nadu man held for being a member of ‘terror gang’
By Divya Chandrababu
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 05:01 PM IST
The NIA statement said swords and pamphlets of the gang, Shahadat Is Our Goal, have been seized from the possession of the accused

Sikkim to become more accessible to foreign tourists as Ramman checkpost reopens
By Pramod Giri
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 09:50 AM IST
Foreign tourists have had to travel longer distances to get inner-line permits as such permits were issued only at two checkpoints, Melli and Rangpo

Assam: PM Modi to address 18th convocation of Tezpur University today
PUBLISHED ON JAN 22, 2021 08:55 AM IST
Friday’s address by the PM comes a day ahead of his visit to Assam to take part in a rally at Sivasagar where he will distribute land allotment certificates to 106,000 persons