Madhumita Shukla murder SC seeks response of Uttarakhand on plea for remission of convict

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) The Supreme Court has sought the Uttarakhand government’s response on a plea seeking the premature release of one of the convicts in the 2003 murder case of 26-year-old poet Madhumita Shukla. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih issued notice to the…

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Pakistani wives of former Kashmiri militants to be deported despite pleas to stay

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau. Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday have set the ball rolling for the deportation of 60 Pakistanis, one of them the mother of a policeman killed in a terror attack, officials said. They were all collected from various districts and taken in buses to Punjab, where they will be handed…

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Endangered storks grace Terai region, forest department see hope in rising populations

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau. The Terai region’s rich biodiversity has once again been highlighted with the recent sighting of two bird species, the Asian Openbill Stork and the Woolly Necked Stork, near Haripura Dam and Baur Reservoir in the Gularbhoj area. These storks were spotted in large numbers, with nearly 50 mature individuals observed in…

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Mumbai rain: 14 flights diverted, local trains affected; red alert for Palghar | Maharashtra weather updates

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a ‘red alert’ warning for Mumbai, Maharashtra, till 8:30am, September 26, forcing the  brihanmumbai municipal corporation to declare a holiday for schools and colleges in Mumbai and its suburbs. School education minister Deepak Kesarkar, the guardian minister for Mumbai city, declared a holiday as…

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Mumbai bizman arrested for ₹137.05 crore dry ration scam linked to mid-day meal

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Ushik Gala, businessman and managing director of Suumaya Industries Ltd, as part of its money laundering investigation into the alleged misappropriation of ₹137.05 crore from another firm on the pretext of financing a fictitious business scheme purportedly linked to the mid-day meal programme. The so-called…

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Chhattisgarh: 4 killed as passenger train collides with goods train near Bilaspur

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau NEW DELHI: A passenger train coach hit a goods train near Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur station on Tuesday, killing four people and leaving several others injured in the incident, as news agency ANI reported. Measures are being taken to ensure the treatment of the injured. In a video showing the aftermath of the train…

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Air India plane’s tail catches fire after landing at Delhi airport; passengers safe

Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau. An Air India plane’s tail caught fire shortly after landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport (IGI) from Hong Kong on Tuesday. Though the aircraft sustained some damage, passengers and crew members disembarked from the plane safely. The Hong Kong to Delhi Flight AI 315 on Tuesday, July 22, suffered an auxiliary…

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Grounding for upgrade: Airbus A320 planes hit by software glitch globally; 350 of IndiGo & AI impacted in India

Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. NEW DELHI: Air travel will get every impacted in India and across the globe with the world’s largest selling single aisle – Airbus A320 family of planes going to be grounded this weekend for a software upgrade. In India, over 350 A320 family planes of IndiGo and Air India Group will be grounded for this…

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