A trader in Varanasi was caught on the wrong foot on Sunday when district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma and SSP Prabhakar Chaudhary went to a shop in Chetganj area to buy essential commodities, posing as a commoner.
The shopkeeper overcharged for the goods purchased and the two officers immediately ordered action against the erring seller.
The district magistrate warned that anyone found overcharging for essential commodities would face stern action.
After a week of birthday celebrations with actress-wife Anushka Sharma, crickter-husband Virat Kohli is back on the field, but with little youngsters playing ‘gully’ cricket in Indore.
The inauguration would be held at Guru Nanak Stadium in Sultanpur Lodhi followed by four matches.
The closing ceremony of the joint military exercise between the armies of India and France—‘Exercise Shakti-2019’ was held at the Mahajan Field firing range here on Wednesday.
From helping in cordon-and-search ops, negotiating obstacles to lobbing grenades at terrorists holed up in buildings, the Indian Army will soon have robots to help it in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Several districts in Punjab and Haryana reported air quality indices in the “severe” and “very poor” categories on Wednesday even as the number of stubble-burning incidents dropped in the two agrarian states over the past few days.
The national capital's Indira Gandhi International Airport will soon sport a dedicated terminal for private jets by early next year, a senior company official has said.