Group wants to end setting dogs on chained bears
GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat High Court Monday allowed the brother and maternal uncle of slain right to information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa to plead in a petition challenging illegal mining around Gujarat's Sasangir lion sanctuary.
GURGAON - A car mechanic drowned after he fell into a drain in this satellite town of the national capital and his body was recovered Sunday, police said.
BANGALORE - Heavy rains lashed this garden city of Karnataka for over two hours Saturday afternoon and claimed the life of an autorickshaw driver whose vehicle came under a huge tree that was uprooted in the downpour, a police official said.
CHANDIGARH - Some villages in Haryana's Ambala and Yamunanagar districts went under three-four feet water Thursday and scores of residents were evacuated to safe locations as the Tangri river was flowing over the danger mark.
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