Investigative unit for crime against women
Haridwar: Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Haridwar Sweety Agrawal announced the formation of Investigative Unit for crime against women (IUCAW) unit here in the district. Under the supervision of SP City, Haridwar, this unit will work across the district to curb crimes against women. The unit has come up following the direction received from police headquarters, Uttarakhand. This unit would be the third one in the state with Dehradun and Udham Singh Nagar districts having one such unit each.
Tusker dies of injuries
Haridwar: One of the injured elephants which had fought among themselves somewhere in a forest under Nainital Division about 20 days back died on Tuesday. The injuries the beast sustained on neck and thighs turned septic. The carcass was found in the jungle under Chhidyapur Range. Divisional forest officer H K Singh confirmed the death. Postmortem done, the tusks were severed and kept while the body was cremated, he added.
Power consumers to get relief
Dehradun: Power consumers may get relief from power cut situation following new initiative being taken by Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) managing director Sumer Singh Yadav on Tuesday. Yadav presided over a meeting with executive engineers and directed them to avoid shutting down at sub-station level to complete some works in future. Fault found at any place should be rectified on war- footing so that customers get minimum inconvenience due to power cut, he added.