Illegal mining on the Yamuna riverbed in Paonta Sahib subdivision of Sirmaur district is thriving in the absence of a defined mining lease area between Himachal and neighbouring Uttarakhand.
The CIA wing of the Ludhiana police has arrested panchayat officer Sandeep Singh Kahlon, nephew of SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon, for his alleged role in the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala.
The Chandigarh-Ambala national highway was waterlogged at several places in Zirakpur on Wednesday with traffic moving at snail's pace near Patiala chowk.