Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Iranian media on Friday published a list of major bridges across the Middle East region, in what appeared to be a warning of possible “tit-for-tat” retaliation after a US-Israeli strike destroyed a key bridge in Karaj a day before. The semi-official Fars News Agency indicated that several prominent bridges in neighbouring…
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Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau The Himachal Pradesh assembly has adopted a Congress-backed resolution to condemn remarks made by Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Mandi Kangana Ranaut for her recent comments on farmers’ protests. Kangana Ranaut had posted a clip of her interview with Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar in which she suggested that a “Bangladesh-like situation”…
Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau. Rudrapur: The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kumaon region has arrested Ashutosh Chaturvedi, the director of JKV Multi Credit Cooperative Society, in a major breakthrough. Chaturvedi, who had been absconding for two years, was arrested near the bus stand in Udham Singh Nagar district headquarters, Rudrapur on Tuesday. He is…
Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau The Jammu and Kashmir Police busted a major terror plot in Delhi-NCR and recovered a huge cache of ammunition from a village near Haryana’s Faridabad on Monday. The operation by Jammu and Kashmir Police was carried out in coordination with the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Faridabad Police. Working on specific intelligence…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. In a bid to address long-standing complaints regarding delays in garbage collection, the Kashipur Municipal Corporation (KMC) in Udham Singh Nagar district, has introduced a GPS-based monitoring system. This initiative, a first for the Kumaon division, aims to ensure timely door-to-door garbage collection and proper disposal across the 40-square-kilometer city. Commissioner…
Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau Social media went into overdrive after recent photos of Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, surfaced online—showing the former skipper looking remarkably slimmer and almost unrecognisable. Ranatunga was recently seen alongside his iconic teammates Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, and Muttiah Muralitharan during the Tamil Union’s 125th anniversary celebrations,…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau A coalition of multisectoral experts from a range of global institutions has lent its weight to petitioners in the stray dog case being heard in Supreme Court. The coalition warned that authorities’ proposals to remove and mass-shelter India’s free-living community dogs could undermine public health, go beyond the law, destabilise urban…
Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau The case that pertained to whether a ‘royalty’ was a tax also dealt with if a state could levy a tax on the mining of minerals or if its power is limited under Section 9 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act. The nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Weeks after a Class 4 student died after jumping from the fourth floor of a private school in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, the two-member committee formed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to probe the incident has submitted its report. Among other revelations, the committee found that the nine-year-old girl had…