Govt to build pre-fab shelters in u’khand
Dehradun: AICC General Secretary and Uttarakhand Congress in charge Ambika Soni, who had convened a meeting to assess the ongoing relief and rehabilitation work of the State Government on Saturday, said that State Government would build pre-fabricated shelters for 3000 homeless people of the State in next 45 days. Severely damaged villages will be rehabilitated on priority basis, and public representatives including MP and MlA have been asked to send reports.
Three PlFI cadre held; ammo seized in odisha
Rourkela: Three PlFI cadre, Sumit Khalko, Chaitan Jaipuria and Dharam Bag, were arrested under Hatibari Police limits of Odisha on Thursday evening, for allegedly demanding `5 lakh from Satyanarayan Agarwal, a businessman of Purunapani area. In another incident, four days after the encounter between the police and PlFI rebels in Jharkhand, one member of the extremist group was killed.
Water level in Himalayan rivers up
Dehradun: Water level in most of the Himalayan rivers and its tributaries in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand swelled following heavy rains on Saturday. Heavy thundershowers threw life out of gear with streets flooded with rain water on Saturday evening.
badal to take up kutch farmers’ cause
Bathinda/Chandigarh/New Delhi: With the threat of eviction of Punjabi farmers in Gujarat becoming a political issue in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday said that to protect the interests of Punjabi farmers who were apprehending displacement in the Kutch region, he would soon take up the matter with the BJP high command.
naxal blast: Rajdhani stranded at Gaya
Bhubaneshwar: Bhubaneshwar-Delhi Rajdhani Express was stranded at the Gaya railway station on Friday night as Maoists blew up railway track at about 11 pm near Gaya between Taraiya and Guraru stations. All trains were stopped prior to their reaching the blown-up track site.