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Shimla girl bags production design award at IIFA
Shimla: Shimla girl Aparna Sud has bagged IIFA production designer award for a Bollywood film “Neerja”. She will receive the award tomorrow during the 18th IIFA ceremony in New York. She won Filmfare Award in February this year for designing the replica of Pan-American Airways’ Boeing aircraft for the movie.
Anger spills on to roads over ‘inept’ handling
Shimla: Even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe the heinous rape and murder of a 16-year-old Kotkhai girl that shook the state claimed that the case had been solved with the arrest of six accused, the public refused to accept the police theory.
Amarnath terror attack: Police arrest PDP MLA's driver
A policeman serving as a PDP MLA's driver has been arrested in connection with investigations into the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims this week, police sources said today. Touseef Ahmad, a policeman from the security wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Wachhi legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir's driver, was detained for questioning two days ago. Wachhi is in Shopian district of south Kashmir
16th batch of 3,398 pilgrims leave for Amarnath from Jammu
Amid tight security, the sixteenth batch of 3,398 pilgrims today left Jammu for the 3,888-metre Amarnath cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the south Kashmir Himalayas. Escorted by the CRPF and police, the batch consisting of 2,535 males, 758 females, 100 sadhus and sadhvis, and five transgenders left in a convoy of 191 vehicles for Baltal and Pahalgam base camps this morning, officials said
Goa desecration cases: 50-year-old man arrested
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Goa Police has arrested a 50-year-old man in connection a series of cases of alleged desecration of holy crosses in South Goa district, a senior officer said today
Shimla Rape-Murder Case: HP Govt to hand over probe to CBI
The Himachal Pradesh government on Friday decided to hand over the investigation into the Shimla schoolgirl’s rape and murder to the CBI. The announcement came amid a five-hour protest when a mob threw stones and ringed Shimla SP D W Negi at Theog, about 30 km from the scene of crime in Kotkhai, Shimla district
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)