Alert sounded as Yamuna swells

Sonepat: Deputy Commissioner KM Pandurang has sounded an alert following the release of more than 1.50 lakh cusecs of water into the Yamuna from the Tajewala headworks. He has directed the police to step up vigil on the riverbanks.

Traders continue indefinite fast in Panipat

Panipat: Cloth merchants, textile manufacturers and other traders continued their indefinite fast on the second day here today. A total of 21 members of various associations remained on fast from 11 am to 5 pm.

Plywood unit owners block NH against GST, market fee

Yamunanagar: Owners of plywood-manufacturing units, labourers and timber agents blocked National Highway 73 for several hours here today to protest against the imposition of 28 per cent GST on plywood, 18 per cent GST on poplar and eucalyptus and 2 per cent market fee charged by the state government.

Senior IRS officers appointed CBDT members

Senior bureaucrats Arbind Modi and Bajrang Dass Vishnoi were today appointed as members of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policy- making body of the Income Tax department. Both of them are 1981-batch officers of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre)

Court to hear Satyendar Jain's plea against Mishra on July 28

A city court today decided to record pre-summoning evidence in two criminal defamation complaints filed by Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain against sacked minister Kapil Mishra and a BJP MLA for allegedly defaming him by leveling graft charges

Student commits suicide: Police

A 22-year-old student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself here early today, the police said. The student of a Mayapuri college, who was studying to be a lab technician, had a message scribbed on her left hand in Hindi

CBFC wants no ‘cow’ in Amartya film, stirs a row

Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and author of 'The Argumentative Indian', led the chorus of angry voices that questioned the censor board's intent and interest in demanding the wipeout of words like "cow", "Gujarat", "Hindu India" and "Hindutva view of India" from a documentary film revolving around conversations between Sen and Kaushik Basu, chief economic adviser in the UPA-2 regime.

Jammu-Srinagar Highway reopened for traffic

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was today reopened for traffic after remaining closed for a day due to heavy rains in Ramban and Udhampur districts. Over 200 vehicles stranded at different places on the highway have been cleared after the road reopened. The highway was closed following landslides triggered by rains in Udhampur and Ramban districts yesterday

Three of family killed in house collapse

Three members of a family were killed after their house collapsed following heavy rains in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district. "The incident took place when the roof of a mud house collapsed due to heavy rains in Tanta Panchayat at 5 am", Sunny Gupta, Sub Divisional Police Officer, Gandoh, said

SC asks Centre to apprise it on issue of NRI voting in polls

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it within a week as to whether it is going to amend the election law or rules for enabling non-resident Indians (NRIs) to vote in polls here