Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 6 (ANI): A trekker, who was part of a group that was stuck on a steep climb near the Khimloga Pass was rescued and taken to Chitkul on Tuesday, officials said.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 30 (ANI): Ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive meeting in Hyderabad, the Cyberabad Commissioner of Police M Stephen Raveendra on Wednesday issued prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) applicable under the limits of Cyberabad Metropolitan commissionerate area in the city from July 1 where the party meeting will be held.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 1 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Minister of Prisons and Home Guards Dharamveer Prajapati on Sunday announced the extension of the contract that ended on April 30 with the Home Guards to address their issue of unemployment.

Mumbai Nov 23 PTI Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has no first hand information on his corruption allegations against ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh as details of alleged wrongdoing were provided to him by some officers a lawyer of the senior IPS officer told an inquiry commission on TuesdayThe commission headed by retired Justice K U Chandiwal is probing allegations of corruption and misuse of official position levelled against DeshmukhIn March this year the Maharashtra government had formed the one-member commission to probe Singhs allegations against the NCP leader 71 who resigned from the state cabinet in April after a Bombay High Court orderOn Tuesday cross-examination of dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze was listed before the panelAs the proceedings began Waze moved a plea before the commission seeking to defer his cross-examination till Singh appears before the inquiry panel or files an affidavit However the commission rejected his pleaDuring the arguments Singhs lawyer Abhinav Chandrachud reiterated that the senior IPS officer does not have any further evidence to share in the matterI believe his Wazes apprehension is that today he is going to step into the witness box and tomorrow my client Singh will say something entirely differentThe affidavit will take a week It will say nothing more than what has already been said which is that the information given to him was provided by some officershe Singh has no first hand information of what transpired the lawyer saidHis information in that sense is hearsay Even if he were to step into the witness box it would have no value in law because it would be what someone else told him Therefore he has nothing to depose Chandrachud addedDespite the commission issuing multiple summonses and a bailable warrant against Singh he has not appeared before it so farOn Tuesday his lawyer told the commission that Singh will file another affidavit pertaining to the matterEarlier the former Mumbai police commissioner in an affidavit had told the commission he does not have any further evidence to share in the matterDays after he was shunted out as Mumbai police commissioner and transferred to the Home Guards in March this year Singh had claimed in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that Deshmukh used to ask police officers to collect money from restaurant and bar owners in MumbaiThe NCP leader has repeatedly denied the allegations against himThe Central Bureau of Investigation CBI and the Enforcement Directorate ED are separately probing corruption and money laundering allegations against DeshmukhThe former minister is in judicial custody in the case related to alleged money laundering PTI AVI RSY RSY

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 11 (ANI): Amid the Maharashtra bandh that was announced in light of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, state's minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Monday said that there are reports of stone pelting in the state and it is not right.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 11 (ANI): The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) on Monday said that eight of its buses were vandalised in different areas of Mumbai between midnight and 8 am today.

Amit BathlaTribune News ServicePanchkula August 21After an official of the Mansa Devi temple administration stated in the media that verbal directions had been issued for allowing no entry of devotees wearing shorts and other modern clothes to the shrine young devotees have disapproved of her statementNamita a regular visitor to the temple says its the belief what matters when you are visiting a temple or any other religious place not clothesAny such instructions will only lead to a reduction in the number of young devotees visiting the temple she addedThe temple administration has also distanced itself from the statement given by Secretary of Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board Sharda PrajapatiRecently Prajapati had stated they had instructed the Home Guards staff deployed at the historical temple to not allow devotees wearing shorts and other indecent clothes to enter the shrine

Amit BathlaTribune News ServicePanchkula August 21After an official of the Mansa Devi temple administration stated in the media that verbal directions had been issued for allowing no entry of devotees wearing shorts and other modern clothes to the shrine young devotees have disapproved of her statementAny such instructions will only lead to a reduction in the number of young devotees visiting the temple she addedThe temple administration has also distanced itself from the statement given by Secretary of Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board Sharda PrajapatiRecently Prajapati had stated they had instructed the Home Guards staff deployed at the historical temple to not allow devotees wearing shorts and other indecent clothes to enter the shrinePrajapati said the move was taken in view of complaints received by the administration from devotees especially the elderly that decency should be maintained on the temple premises