Latest News, highlights Today August 31, 2024: Punjab to face hefty penalties for delay in Flue Gas Desulphurisation installation at thermal power plants
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Latest news on August 31, 2024: The Punjab government might face penalty nearing <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>400 crore per year for its failure to comply with timely installation of Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) systems in thermal power plants (TPPs) across the state. (HT File)
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Aug 31, 2024 11:16 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Senior citizens above 85, voters with disability to get pick-and-drop facility on polling day
- Gurugram district has over 50,000 voters who are either above 85 years old or have more than 40% disability. These voters can register their details by calling the district election office’s toll-free number, 1950
Aug 31, 2024 11:13 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Court sends six accused in death of IAS aspirants in Delhi to 4-day CBI custody
- The court said custodial interrogation is necessary to aid probe. It said accused would be medically examined and allowed to meet counsel for 30 minutes daily
Aug 31, 2024 11:13 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Delhi realtor gets extortion call from ‘gangster’, police case filed
- The caller allegedly identified himself as Goldy Brar and demanded ₹2 crore from the developer who lives in Vasant Vihar
Aug 31, 2024 11:12 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: 1985-batch officer named Delhi’s new chief secretary
- During his over 34 years of service, Dharmendra has held several key positions in the Delhi government, central government and other places
Aug 31, 2024 11:09 PM IST
India News Live Updates: India braces for above-normal September rainfall: Boost to crops, but flood risks loom
- Below-normal rains likely in some parts of northwest, southern peninsula and northeastern regions.
Aug 31, 2024 11:09 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Police: Singer murdered elderly man on Aug 25; car used in crime recovered
- A day after his arrest in a murder case of an elderly man, the accused, Baljinder Singh alias Gulli alias Mona of Bath Kalan village of Jalandhar district, who is the nephew of Punjabi Singer Ranjit Singh Kahlon alias Ranjit Bath, who is the key accused, revealed that they strangulated the man with a piece of rope near Baddowal on August 25 before dumping the body on the roadside. Bath is still on the run.
Aug 31, 2024 11:08 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Every religion should be protected: Farooq on Assam’s ‘namaz’ break row
- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has discontinued the precedence of a two-hour break on Fridays in the state assembly provided to Muslim legislators.
Aug 31, 2024 11:07 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Parents counselled to let their girls study after Ludhiana school becomes co-ed: Principal
- Government Senior Secondary School, Division No. 3, which initially was dedicated to just girls, has now started enrolling boys as the school got the status of ‘School of Eminence’ last year.
Aug 31, 2024 11:01 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: Man held for bid to kidnap 9-year-old girl
- Locals foiled a kidnapping bid on a nine-year-old girl outside her school in Basti Jodhewal on Friday afternoon. The locals nabbed the accused and handed him over to the police. The Daresi Police lodged an FIR against the accused.
Aug 31, 2024 11:00 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Surinder Choudhary from NC-Congress alliance files papers from Nowshera
- National Conference’s provincial president Rattan Lal Gupta says the BJP has failed to address the concerns of the people.
Aug 31, 2024 10:59 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: Three liquor vends robbed of ₹1.8 lakh
- A gang of miscreants targeted three liquor vends on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday at Noorwala road and Rahon road.
Aug 31, 2024 10:58 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: BJP’s Samba, Jammu leaders quit over ticket distribution
- Three leaders have resigned from the saffron party, protesting over the party’s choice of candidates.
Aug 31, 2024 10:56 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: College students booked for assaulting classmate, vandalising car
- The Sadar police have registered a case against a group of college students who allegedly attacked a fellow student and vandalised his car using weapons outside a private college at Jhande village.
Aug 31, 2024 10:53 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: Roadways employees halt operations for two hours over new timetable
- Confusion created at bus stand as new timetable was released for166 buses operating on Ludhiana-Malerkotla- Sangrur route
Aug 31, 2024 10:52 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Youth assaulted, robbed of ₹2.70 lakh in Pune’s Ganesh Peth area
- The suspects attacked the victim, forcibly extracted his bank password. They also stole his wallet, which contained an ATM card, an Aadhaar card, and ₹20,000 in cash. Later, by using his ATM, the accused duo withdrew ₹2,63,800 from his bank account, says police
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