New Delhi: While Uttarakhand reels under floods with the Ganga flowing above the danger mark, Delhi too is under threat as the Yamuna crossed the danger mark on Tuesday. The Delhi government on Monday began evacuating people from low-lying areas along the banks of the Yamuna.
Apart from the capital, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments have also started evacuating people living in the low-lying areas along the river. The Yamuna river, which enters Haryana from Uttarakhand at Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar district, had swelled since early Saturday after over 800,000 cusecs of water was released Monday morning through the Hathnikund barrage.
Arriving almost a fortnight in advance than its usual date, the southwest monsoon brought heavy rains in several parts of North India.
(With additional information from IANS)...
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09:45 AM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: The monsoon fury has taken its toll across North India. While thirteen people have died in Uttarakhand floods, in Haryana's Yamunanagar, dozens have been stranded after a sudden rise in water levels. Yamunanagar has been taken by surprise by heavy rains. More than 50 people are stranded after a sudden rise in the water level of the Yamuna river near the Lapara village. Army and NDRF teams have...
08:43 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government has achieved 97 per cent of the target of providing free water connections to households of members belonging to Scheduled Castes in the state. Stating this in Chandigarh on Sunday, a spokesman of Haryana Public Health and Engineering Department said that under the Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme, out of the targeted more than 10.35 lakh such households, the water connections have already been given to...
03:00 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Chandigarh: Rescue operations were on late on Sunday to save 52 villagers marooned on an island in the flooded Yamuna river, state government officials said in Chandigarh. Indian Air Force helicopters have been pressed into service and the army was on standby to rescue at least 52 residents, including 15 children, of village Lapra in Yamunanagar district, 110 km from Chandigarh. They have been stranded on an island in the...
12:23 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Gurgaon: The police have released a sketch of the accused in the Gurgaon child rape case and have launched a manhunt to nab him. The accused brutally raped a five-year-old girl in the NCR on Saturday, before dumping her near a metro station. The girl, who was shifted to New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday evening with severe genital injuries, is now stable and out of danger. The incident occurred...
11:12 PM, Jun 16, 2013
The public distribution system remains in shambles with food grain rotting in several states. Wheat storage continues to be a major problem in Punjab and Haryana and fears are that foodgrain will be rotting in several states. ...
08:05 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Deoli: Even as the UPA pushes for its ambitious food security legislation, there has been little improvement when it comes to storage infrastructure for food grains. CNN-IBN on its visit to Deoli in Haryana for the third consecutive year has found out that 22,000 quintals of wheat, which was brought for storage in Deoli, has been decaying in sacks and has now been declared unfit for human consumption. In 2011,...
09:30 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Gurgaon: The Haryana Civil Medical Services Association (HCMSA) has alleged that Narnaul's chief medical officer (CMO) was suspended for not accommodating Haryana health minister's men in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) staff appointments and threatens stir. Haryana Health Minister Rao Narender Singh is in the dock over the suspension of Narnaul Civil Surgeon Chander Mohan. Narnaul, a district headquarter town of south Haryana, is 90 km from Gurgaon. Haryana...
05:50 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Karnal: A day after Union minister Kumari Selja and some Congress leaders attacked him over "tardy implementation of Centre policies for the uplift of Dalits", Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said those "in air conditioned rooms should personally visit" the villages to see the development. Hooda said that those sitting in air conditioned rooms in Delhi could not see how many plots have been allotted to the...
02:20 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Faridabad: A man accused of rape and murder of a 10-year-old was sentenced to death on Friday. In 2012, Inder Soni had raped the daughter of his tenant and stabbed her to death in Faridabad. The victim's family belonged to Munger in Bihar. The accused had raped and murdered the girl when she went to his room to give him food. After the girl did not return, her father searched...
08:36 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Faridabad: A 1.5-metre long rope of hair was removed by doctors from a 14-year-old girl's stomach, hospital authorities said in Faridabad on Thursday. The rope had been in the girl's stomach for about four years. "Sukanya (name changed) used to complain of severe abdominal pain over the past four years. Her parents eventually took her to Asian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), where we examined her abdomen and found that...
10:57 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday allowed CBI to bring 80 more witnesses, who it claimed were not listed earlier due to "inadvertence", in the trial against INLD chief and former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. Special CBI Judge Manu Rai Sethi allowed the agency's plea to lead 80 additional prosecution witnesses and as many as 15 documents which the agency claimed...
07:56 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: The family of the Delhi girl who succumbed to acid attack injuries at a Mumbai hospital on Sunday threatened to block roads at the Delhi-Haryana border if their demands for a CBI probe wasn't met. The family said it will not cremate the body until their demands were met, which also include cremation with state honours and a government job. They plan to block traffic as part of...
01:27 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Chandigarh: Nearly 69 per cent of over 17 lakh voters on Sunday cast their ballots in elections to seven municipal corporations and two municipal committees in Haryana where polling ended peacefully. Polling was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported from the municipal corporations of Ambala, Hisar, Karnal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak and Yamunanagar, State Election Commissioner Dharam Vir told reporters here. In the case of the two municipal committees, the...
10:58 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Chandigarh: All necessary arrangements have been made for smooth and peaceful conduct of elections to the seven municipal corporations in Haryana on Sunday. The municipal corporations which will go to the polls are Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak and Yamunanagar. Besides, polls will also be held in two municipal committees of Farukh Nagar (Gurgaon) and Kalanaur (Rohtak), Haryana's Election Commissioner Dharam Vir said in Chandigarh on Saturday. The counting...
01:07 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Fatehabad: In a suspected case of honour killing, a 28-year-old youth of Issar village was killed after he was allegedly attacked by six assailants on Dharamshala road here, including the kin of a young woman, whose family was fiercely opposed to the couple's recent marriage, police said on Saturday. Satpal Dhaka (28) was attacked using sharp weapons and killed on the spot last evening, they said. Dhaka, who belonged to...
11:30 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Haryana government over the death of two labourers while cleaning a sewer line at a factory in the state's Bahalgarh town of Sonipat district. "Notices have been issued to the chief secretary of Haryana and district magistrate of Sonipat, calling for a report in the matter within four weeks," an NHRC official said. The incident took...
06:02 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday attached a residential property of former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala under the criminal provisions of money laundering laws after he was recently convicted in a teachers recruitment scam. This is the first attachment order by the agency against the five-time Chief Minister even as it prepares to attach assets acquired by him "illegally and beyond his known source of income" with an...
10:46 PM, May 30, 2013
Palwal: A four-year-old girl who had fallen into a borewell in Balai village of Palwal in Haryana on Wednesday night was finally taken out after an eight-hour long rescue effort by Army personnel. The incident occurred in Palwal district of Haryana where Tanu's family had come to her maternal grandmother's house for a relative's marriage. Tanu was playing outside the house when at around 4 pm on Wednesday she suddenly...
11:33 AM, May 30, 2013
Palwal: A four-year-old girl on Wednesday fell into a 200-ft deep borewell while playing, police said. The child had come to her maternal uncle's home at Amarpur village along with her mother, they said. The district administration and police personnel have reached the spot and efforts are on to rescue the girl. ...
11:40 PM, May 29, 2013
