Day: March 24, 2021

Six deaths, 981 new COVID cases in Haryana

11:44 pm March 24, 2021

Chandigarh: Haryana reported six COVID-19 fatalities on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 3,110 and the tally to 2,82,569 with 981 fresh cases, a health department bulletin said. While two deaths were from Ambala, a fatality each was reported from Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hisar and Jind districts. Among the districts to report fresh cases included Gurgaon […]

UP Irrigation Dept carries out anti-encroachment drive

11:41 pm March 24, 2021

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department carried out an anti-encroachment drive on Wednesday in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar area, where it owns land along the banks of Yamuna. The department plans to carry out more such drives on a bigger scale. It owns land in various places, including Okhla, Jasola, Madanpur Khadar and Khureji Khas, […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Results announced for March session of JEE-Mains: NTA

11:35 pm March 24, 2021

New Delhi: Thirteen candidates scored perfect 100 in March edition of the engineering entrance exam JEE-Mains, results of which were announced on Wednesday, according to officials of the National Testing Agency. The exam was conducted from March 16 to 18 and a total of 6,19,368 candidates had registered for it. The perfect scorers are Siddharth […]

Faridabad court convicts two in Nikita murder case

11:21 pm March 24, 2021

Chandigarh: A fast-track court in Haryana’s Faridabad on Wednesday convicted two men in connection with the murder of Nikita Tomar, five months after she was shot outside her college in a crime caught on camera. Prime accused Tausif and another man, Rehan, were held guilty and a third accused Azharuddin acquitted in the case, defence […]

CBI books DHFL over fictitious home-loan accounts

11:15 pm March 24, 2021

New Delhi: The CBI has booked the DHFL and its directors for allegedly creating over 2.60 lakh fictitious home-loan accounts, some of which were used to claim interest subsidies in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY), officials said on Wednesday. The irregularities were pointed out in the report of auditor Grant Thornton, appointed by the […]