Guest column | Rebuke equivalent to love, care in disguise
A 14-year-old girl in Lalkuan (Uttarakhand) recently hit the headlines for committing suicide after her elder brother reprimanded her for excessive screen time. The headline took...
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Activist flags pothole-riddled road stretch in Ludhiana, seeks repair
Social activist Arvind Sharma on Saturday wrote to municipal corporation commissioner Ankur Mahindroo, seeking urgent repairs to a badly deteriorated road connecting Model Town Extension to...
Chandigarh Chord | The TS Library: Where Chandigarh learnt to read
There was a time when going to Sector 17 meant dressing up a little. Before the malls, before the multiplexes, before smartphones became the place where...
Wildbuzz | Hunters: Good, bad and ugly
Domestic buffaloes can more than just threaten leopards by closing ranks, as narrated in these columns two Sundays ago. They can cause bodily harm, if the...
SGPC to put up anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota’s portrait at Central Sikh Museum
Bathinda: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Saturday announced that it would install a portrait of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota at the Central Sikh...
Row erupts as Centre seeks report from Punjab on drug-linked killings, ‘suicide’
The Centre on Friday sought a detailed report from the Punjab government in two cases of drug-linked killings and a “suicide” by an addict’s father, igniting...
Cutting across religious barriers: Meerut Muslim family keeps effigy-making for Dussehra alive for 70 years in Shimla
Cutting across all religious barriers, a Muslim family from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh is continuing a decades-old tradition of making effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad...
Five dead, 12 injured in Bhiwani, Kaithal mishaps
Two people, including a 20-year-old NEET aspirant, were killed and 12 others injured after a crowded private bus overturned near Prem Nagar village in Haryana’s Bhiwani...
Haryana: Four booked for burning plastic, PVC wires in Jhajjar field
Jhajjar police have booked four people for allegedly burning plastic waste, PVC wires and other material in an open field near the Delhi-Rohtak highway in the...
No number plate, no fuel in Ambala
Ambala deputy commissioner (DC) Sachin Gupta on Friday issued orders banning the sale of fuel or CNG to vehicles that do not display a valid number...