Apart from victim refunds, independent police seizures from arrested suspects totaled approximately ₹2.3 crore. Panchkula: The Anti-emigration fraud unit of the Panchkula police has disrupted several inter-state fake immigration networks, resolving 285 out of 293 complaints received between January 2025 and May 2026. This sustained crackdown claimed to have achieved a disposal rate of over…
Police teams conducted raids across 11 states and arrested 74 alleged cyber fraudsters in the first five months of the year. Chandigarh: Cyber criminals have already swindled residents of the City Beautiful of Rs 46 crore in just over five months of 2026, surpassing the Rs 44 crore lost in the entire 2025, pointing to…
Senior UT officials said several improvement works have either been completed or are in advanced stages, while major components including road reconstruction and drainage overhaul are progressing through tendering and approval processes. Chandigarh: In response to mounting criticism over poor infrastructure and civic neglect, the Chandigarh administration has intensified efforts to revamp the city’s sole…
Across the fertile plains of Punjab and Haryana, the once-abundant groundwater that powered the ‘Green Revolution’ is rapidly vanishing. Decades of intensive paddy-wheat cultivation, unchecked tube-well extraction, inefficient canal systems, industrial pollution, and climate pressures have pushed the water table into a steep decline in many areas. Farmers are drilling deeper, spending lakhs of rupees…
MCG begins covering hazardous electricity poles ahead of monsoon Gurgaon: As part of its monsoon preparedness measures, the MCG has begun covering hazardous electricity poles with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipes across the city to reduce the risk of electrocution during the rainy season.According to MCG officials, the exercise is being carried out across different zones,…
RWAs were instructed to carry out mock drills by releasing water into the pits and observing whether the structures facilitate proper infiltration RWAs were instructed to carry out mock drills by releasing water into the pits and observing whether the structures facilitate proper infiltration RWAs were instructed to carry out mock drills by releasing water…
While the committee proposed a rate of Rs 3,000 per tonne, the agencies were unwilling to reduce their bids beyond Rs 3,750 per tonne While the committee proposed a rate of Rs 3,000 per tonne, the agencies were unwilling to reduce their bids beyond Rs 3,750 per tonne While the committee proposed a rate of…
New Delhi: Two businessmen from Haryana have been arrested for posing as members of the Kala Jathedi gang and allegedly extorting a Delhi businessman through threatening calls made using an international number.The accused, Rajan Kalra, 26, from Yamunanagar and Sahil Garg, 38, a medical equipment trader from Jagadhari, had no links with the gang and…
Times News NetworkKanpur: Police scored a significant breakthrough against drug traffickers when a combined unit from the Crime Branch and Rawatpur police intercepted a truck on GT Road and seized a shipment of more than 600 kg of cannabis. The international market value of the recovered narcotics is estimated to be about 10 crore rupees.ADCP…
Panchkula: A man has been arrested in connection with a sexual offence involving a 14-year-old girl, allegedly lured on the pretext of marriage.According to the complaint filed by the victim’s mother, the girl — employed as a childcare helper at a Panchkula residence — went missing on June 5 and returned home later the same…
