SRINAGAR: A 109-year-old Shiva temple tied to Kashmir’s erstwhile royal family was gutted in a dawn blaze Wednesday in the tourist town of Gulmarg, 55km from Srinagar.Built in 1915 by Mohini Bai Sisodia, queen of Kashmir’s last king Maharaja Hari Singh, the temple – Mohinishwar Shivalaya Shiv Mandir, also known as Maharani temple – stood…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday acquitted the Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder case of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.Division bench comprising Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra of the HC has passed these orders while allowing an appeal filed by Dera chief against…
CHANDIGARH: An IndiGo flight from Ayodhya to Delhi attempted to land twice at Delhi airport but was unsuccessful due to bad weather. The flight had a close call after being forced to divert to Chandigarh with barely any fuel left.The incident took place on Saturday (April 13) on flight 6E2702. The incident has sparked safety…
KARNAL: Cousins Mukesh (21) and Sunny (24), from Haryana, have claimed that more than 200 men, mostly from South Asia, are trapped in camps set up by fraudulent immigration agents in a Russian forest on the border between Russia and Belarus. These agents then force them to join the Russian army, they claimed.The cousins said…
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal has resigned from the Congress, following her son Naveen Jindal‘s switch to the BJP. Savitri, 84, made her announcement on social media, stating her decision was influenced by family advice. She served as an MLA for Hisar for a decade and as a minister in Haryana.“I represented the…
