Chandigarh

Season’s heaviest showers in Delhi; country braces for more rain in next 2-3 days

11:52 pm August 13, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi witnessed its heaviest spell of rains this season on Thursday, and a flood-related death was reported in Bihar, while the meteorological department predicted more rainfall in the country over the next two-three days. In Uttar Pradesh, two members of a family were killed and as many seriously injured when a wall of their ‘kutcha’ […]

Large parts of country likely to receive heavy to very heavy during next 2-3 days: IMD

7:28 pm August 13, 2020

New Delhi: Large parts of the country are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next two-three days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. The IMD said a low pressure area has formed over northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha and West Bengal coasts. There is also a monsoon trough plus a convergence of southwesterly winds with […]

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

No large gatherings during I-DAY celebrations in Haryana

9:55 pm August 11, 2020

Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Tuesday decided not to allow large gatherings and advised against the participation of children below 10 years in the Independence day functions across the state, according to an official. The decision has come in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. An official spokesperson said other preventive measures such as social […]

UP: Missing man's body recovered from car found in canal

Ghaziabad: NDRF recovers bodies of two men from Ganga Canal

10:26 pm August 9, 2020

Ghaziabad: An NDRF team on Sunday recovered the bodies of two men from the Ganga Canal near here, two days after their vehicle fell into it and they drowned, police said. They have been identified as Ashish Dhyani and Vinod Kumar, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said. On Friday, the men, along with their friends Paramvir and […]

Chandigarh records 28 fresh COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

11:23 pm August 1, 2020

Chandigarh: Twenty-eight more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Chandigarh on Saturday, taking the union territory’s tally to 1,079, while three more fatalities pushed the toll to 18, a medical bulletin stated. A 96-year-old man tested positive for COVID-19 after he died on July 30. He had suffered a paralytic attack in the past, it said. A […]