SK Sharma

CHANDIGARH: The reconstituted Institute Body (IB) of PGI in its first meeting at New Delhi on Wednesday unanimously decided to place PGI Director S K Sharma under suspension.

The Centre on Thursday defended its decision to appoint Shashi Kant Sharma as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, saying he has an “unblemished record” as a bureaucrat and his appointment to the post has been made as per the practice being adopted in the past.

Encroachment, a common complaint across the city, is bleeding the railways and has stalled plans to add facilities and improve services in NCR.

In accordance with the directives of Allahabad high court, the district administration along with irrigation department, on Sunday, made alternative arrangements for idol immersion.

Actor Rajpal Yadav received interim bail extension until April 1 from the Delhi High Court in a ₹9 crore cheque bounce case. Having already made substantial payments and served time, Yadav has decided to contest the matter in court rather than settle. The court acknowledged his cooperation and granted him relief, with the next hearing scheduled for April 1.

Officers with the Pune division of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Saturday saved a man after he fell between a moving train and the tracks in his hurry to deboard on platform 3.

A biker’s stunt on railway tracks nearly caused a major accident in Sagar district when the stunt went awry and the train rammed the bike, which got stuck in the cow-catcher. Railway officials say it could have caused a derailment, jeopardising lives on board. The biker is in hospital.

In a major relief for the local bodies director SK Sharma, Vigilance Bureau has given a clean chit to him from the charges of helping a colonizer, husband of a MC councillor, for declaring private roads public and allegedly causing loss of Rs 4 crore to the state exchequer.

BSP released the names of five candidates for the remaining seats in the first phase of polling scheduled on February 10, and changed seven contestants in the list of 53 nominees declared on January 15.

A sub-inspector got killed during a gun-battle with the Maoists at Pardhoni village in the Naxalites-affected Manpur region close to the inter-state Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border in Rajnandgaon district late on Friday night.

A person travelling from from Dubai to Lucknow was held at Amausi airport foe carrying 236 gm gold powder concealed in in long pocket on the waste line at the upper portion of the trousers, on Wednesday.

CHANDIGARH: Prof KK Talwar, head of department of cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, is likely to be the next director of PGI Chandigarh, replacing the present incumbent Prof SK Sharma, who retires on March 31.

A health check-up camp ‘Lifesaver Training Programme’ under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava was organised in the Audit Commissionerate Lucknow on Wednesday in memory of Jalliawalah Bagh massacre. The event was inaugurated by audit commssioner SK Sharma.

A retired colonel, whose daughter-in-law was allegedly bitten by a dog in Sector 29, has filed a police complaint against the pet animal’s owner, a retired major general, living in Brahmaputra Apartments in the sector.

Ten days after MCD engineer Ansar Alam was brutally beaten up by goons, an advocate was thrashed by unidentified men for launching a campaign against illegal construction.

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, Government on Thursday appointed IAS officer Sunil Arora as Election Commissioner and former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi as Comptroller and Auditor General of India.