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 Yamuna since Sunday morning.
The people had gone to the island to collect musk melons and water melons from the island. They got stranded after a flash flood following the release of 3.4 cusecs of water from the Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar district. The release of water led to the river flowing at the danger mark.
A Haryana government spokesman said there has been no loss of life and property....
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12:23 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Jind: Angry over allegations that a teacher at a government school in the Mohammed Kheda area in Jind had tried to defame a girl, locals on Tuesday beat him up in the presence of several policemen. Jagjivan Khedi, a teacher at the primary section of Government Senior Secondary School in the Mohammed Kheda area was beaten up by a group of villagers following allegations that he was trying to defame...
02:49 AM, May 29, 2013
Over 48 hours since the Bijapur encounter, the government has conceded that those killed were innocent villagers, not Naxals. One COBRA personnel and seven villagers were killed in an encounter at Ehadsameta village of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh late Friday night. CRPF and state police involved in the operation had initially claimed that the encounter was genuine. ...
12:57 AM, May 21, 2013
Bolangir: Protests by villagers displaced by the Lower Suktel power project turned violent at Bolangir on Monday. As many as 40 people were injured when the protestors clashed with police. 16 people were arrested. Villagers affected by the project staged a road blockade for over 2 hours, demanding higher compensation. ...
09:15 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Kotdwara: Two man-eating leopards were caught by forest officials in two different villages under Ekeshwar block in Pauri Garhwal district, an official said. "Two man-eating leopards who had claimed three lives were trapped in cages in Barsu and Patal villages. Both the leopards have been sent to Forest Rescue centre in Almora," DFO of Garhwal forest Division, Rajmani Pandeya said. One leopard was trapped in the cage set in Barsu...
03:16 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Violence swept a village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Tuesday after a man died after he was allegedly beaten up and shot by police, while another person died in police firing later and at least six others were injured. A probe has been ordered, said officials. ...
01:50 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The drought situation in Maharashtra has worsened with more villages being supplied water through tankers, an official said on Monday. The number of villages and hamlets depending on water tankers for survival went up to 7,075 from 6,488 last Monday. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife has demanded an outside state trial and hearing by a fast track court into her husband's murder. In a letter addressed to the UP government, Parveen Azad has asked that the probe should be done by a Delhi CBI team, which report directly to the court. ...
05:15 PM, Mar 10, 2013
In spite of being named in an FIR for murder and conspiracy, why is the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) still not questioning former UP Minister Raja Bhaiya over the killing of the Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq and two others? A team of the investigative agency is in Kunda probing the killings. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said. Utsav Goyal, a class VI student of a local school, was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons on March 2 from Vivekanad Colony when he was on his way for a tuition class, official sources said....
08:27 AM, Mar 05, 2013
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was killed during clashes between villagers and police in Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya's constituency Kunda. A gram pradhan and his brother also died during the gunfire exchange. ...
11:17 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was killed during clashes between villagers and police in Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya's constituency Kunda. A gram pradhan and his brother also died during the gunfire exchange. ...
08:29 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A group of villagers in south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Sunday staged a protest against alleged harassment of a family by some police personnel in a land dispute case pending before court. The residents of Laroo village, 75 kms from Srinagar, took to the streets against harassment of the family which is having a land dispute with relatives, official sources said. ...
04:40 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Even as there was no overnight firing reported along the Line of Control separating India and Pakistan, the tension remains. The villages along the Line of Control have been restless and its residents are living in fear. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Bhiwani: The situation in Bond Kalan village of Bhiwani district in Haryana continues to be tense following the killing of two brothers and the resultant violence by the villagers. The two brothers were shot dead by a notorious criminal of the area, Kulbir, following a dispute on irrigating the fields on Wednesday. While one of them died on the spot, the other died in the hospital. The villagers allege that...
12:26 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Bhiwani: Two people were killed after a person opened fire in Bhiwani, Haryana on Wednesday. After the firing and the resultant deaths, angry villagers blocked roads and indulged in arson and rioting. The mob even attacked some media persons covering the violence and broke their cameras. The villagers alleged that the police did not catch the person who opened the fire. According to the villagers the person who opened fire...
01:29 PM, Nov 15, 2012
The government, which conceded to demands of protestors in the first case of jal stayagraha at Khandwa, acted tough in Harda. ...
10:00 PM, Sep 12, 2012
The villagers, displaced due to two hydel projects, demand that the government gives them alternate land and more compensation. ...
09:13 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Shimoga: We have never seen any elected representatives visit our villages in recent years to learn of our problems or ensure basic facilities. But the police have become real social workers as they respond to our problems even if it is at midnight, said the villagers in Naxalaffected areas in and around Agumbe. When Express visited villages in the region, it noticed the changes which have been happening in the...
03:02 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Kandahar: Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the Taliban on Monday of beheading 17 villagers, including two women, in volatile Helmand province, in a gruesome attack recalling the dark days of the hardline group's rule before their 2001 ouster. He ordered a full investigation into the "mass killing", which a local official said was punishment to revellers attending a party with music and mixed-sex dancing. "This attack shows that there are...
02:40 AM, Aug 28, 2012
