Rash driving and driving under the influence of alcohol were responsible for 10.4% and 6.3% of the fatalities, respectively.

Alerted by the foul smell, the neighbours alerted the police, who found the victim, Sukhwinder Singh, dead, while his father, Balwant Singh, who was in the same room on a different bed, was unable to speak or move

UT had raised eight objections to its own proposal of allowing conversion, but SC termed all of these as “untenable” and pointed flaws in each of the UT’s arguments

NCRB statistics show a 20% jump in cognisable crimes against children in 2021 compared to the previous year, making them vulnerable. In the year gone by, 2,556 cases of crimes against children were registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and special Acts and local laws (SLL) as compared to 2,121 cases reported in 2020

The city witnessed a 23% increase in rape cases in 2021, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2021 has revealed.

A total of 708 incidents of consumption of illicit/spurious liquor caused 782 deaths in the country in 2021. The maximum such deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh (137), followed by Punjab (127); Madhya Pradesh (108) and Karnataka (104).

Punjab and Haryana HC on Monday sought a response from the Haryana police on a plea by journalist Deepak Chaurasiya seeking quashing of an FIR registered by the Gurugram police in 2015.

SDO Anuj Puri was put under suspension after receiving a complaint from XEN Anurag Bishnoi, who alleged that Puri assaulted him in his office room

In a letter issued to the jathedar, committee president Avtar Singh Hit said, “For last some days, your name is also being attached to the embezzlement of the money donated by Gurwinder Singh Samra. Keeping in view of these reports, maryada of Takht and religious sentiments of the Sikh devotees have got hurt. A five-member committee has also been constituted to probe the matter”.