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HVPN plans to shift panel to Sec 77 after fire at Sec 107 substation

The 220kV Sector-77 substation, built with gas-insulated technology, has been lying unused for several years due to ongoing litigation

The aftermath of the fire at the Sector 107 substation. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 18, 2025 07:46 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Delhi woman killed, husband, son hurt in Mumbai-Delhi E-way crash

The force of the impact was so strong that the car broke through the barriers and fell into a roadside ditch, flipping multiple times before coming to a halt.

The crashed car at the Delhi-Mumbai E-way site. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 18, 2025 07:20 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Man arrested for raping 4-year-old girl in Faridabad

The accused left the girl for dead in the bushes. She was discovered several hours later and remains in critical condition

Police said the suspect was from Kaluka in Palwal and worked as a ragpicker for a scrap dealer in Faridabad. (Representational image)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 14, 2025 05:08 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Fault in feeder likely to be primary cause of fire: HVPN

HVPN officials said that several new methods of preventing a fire will be adopted in all its substations across Haryana so that such incidents can be avoided

The connecting point of a 33kv feeder and the control panel of the substation in Sector 107 from where the fire is suspected to have started on Sunday morning. (Parveen Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Feb 13, 2025 06:14 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Nuh: Man kills wife over dowry, tries to pass it off as robbery

Based on the victim’s complaint, an FIR was lodged under BNS section 103(1) (murder) at Nagina police station on Tuesday

The charges may be updated to Section 80 (dowry death) as more evidence is gathered with further probes, police said. (File Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 12, 2025 06:06 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Power restored to Dwarka e-way societies after 61 hrs

Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPN) officials said the outage was a result of a fire at a 220kV substation in Sector 107 at around 8.30am on Sunday, and the subsequent blackout also hit water supplies and security systems, affecting around 10,000 families

Engineers and technicians checking the burnt control panel at the 220 kV sub station in Sector-102 near Dwarka Expressway on Tuesday. (HT PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Feb 12, 2025 05:38 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar, Debashish Karmakar

36 hours and counting: Mass outage continues in Gurugram; panel to probe

Over 10,000 families in Gurugram face a 36-hour power outage after a substation fire, raising concerns over backup costs and infrastructure safety.

The grid station in Sector 107 after the fire. (HT Photo)

Other Cities

Published on Feb 11, 2025 04:03 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

44-yr-old Bicyclist hit by car on Gurugram road, dies

The incident took place on Friday evening when the victim was returning to his rented accommodation at Chakkarpur in Sector 28

The victim worked as a chauffeur for the CEO of a leading telecom firm who lived in Sector 30. After the day’s work, he was returning on bicycle when the accident occurred. (Representational image)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 09, 2025 08:48 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Gurugram: Stalker shoots woman in head in Sector 37 over spurning his marriage offer

Locals found her lying in a pool of blood and rushed her to civil hospital in Sector 10A and later shifted her to Safdarjung hospital, Delhi, she survived as the bullet didn’t pierce through the skull

Gurugram

Published on Feb 09, 2025 08:22 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Gurugram:Delhi man killed in road crash in Sector 43

Singh worked for a Japanese firm on MG Road, Sector 28 and was travelling by car to pick an office colleague in Sector 54 at 6am

Such was the impact of the force that Singh lost control of his car and rammed a divider. He was rushed to a private hospital in Sector 43 in critical head injuries. But doctors declared him dead. (HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 09, 2025 07:30 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Faridabad woman, her lover held for killing husband over affair

A woman and her lover were arrested in Faridabad for allegedly killing her husband by sedating and strangling him to death due to alleged instances of domestic abuse and her relationship with the other accused, police said on Friday

During the investigation, Kumar’s decomposed body was recovered from a sewer in Sector 56 on February 3 (File Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 08, 2025 06:28 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Biker crushed to death as truck topples over on Gurugram road

A senior police officer said that the victim had stopped on the roadside to attend a phone call when the accident took place

Commuters alerted the police control room, and an emergency response vehicle was dispatched to the scene, officers aware of the case said (HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 08, 2025 05:48 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Two held for abducting raping 13-year-old in Nuh

The complaint alleged that the two of them often harassed girls in the village by stalking them and passing lewd comments on their way from the school

Police said the suspects, in their early 20s, abducted the girl around 2am from her residence and allegedly threatened to leak footage of the incident online if she revealed the incident to her family. (Representative photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 07, 2025 05:52 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Body with tied limbs found in locked house in DLF Phase-1

Police said they could not establish the identity of the victim and that they were informed about the murder around 4.30pm on Wednesday

Kumar said that previously, a private firm used to operate from the house but the management vacated the premises on December 20. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Delhi

Published on Feb 07, 2025 05:50 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Man duped of ₹41 lakh twice in 2 months by cyber frauds

The man was made to download two separate phishing mobile Apps belong to different firms, to track his profits on investments in the name of providing him demat accounts

The man transacted <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>15.49 lakh in four different bank accounts in Odisha and Maharashtra through first App. With the second one, he transacted <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>17.18 lakhs in a public sector bank account, and later paid <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>9 lakh as additional charges too. But he could not withdraw any money. (Representational image)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 04, 2025 08:22 PM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Ggm:Toll employee left critically hurt after bus runs him over

CCTV footage of the incident, which shows the bus driver deliberately breaking through the boom barrier and speeding away

Gurugram

Published on Feb 04, 2025 07:14 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Gurugram: Toddler puts nail in power socket, dies

While playing, the toddler approached a wall and inserted the nail into a power socket within her reach, leading to a severe electric shock, police said.

The child’s body was handed over to the family after an autopsy on Sunday, officers aware of the incident said. (Getty Images (Representative image))

Gurugram

Published on Feb 04, 2025 06:58 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

1 killed, 4 injured as car rams into parked truck in Dwarka E-way

According to police, the family had been returning from Sikar, Rajasthan, when the accident took place around 3.45am on Sunday

Investigators revealed that the truck had broken down, but the driver had left it parked on the expressway without any warning signs, and reflectors. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 04, 2025 06:26 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

19-year-old burnt to death in Gurugram car collision, blaze

Initial inquiry found that the Maruti Suzuki Alto collided with the stationary truck due to poor visibility, fire officers said

The charred remains of the car. (HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 03, 2025 06:06 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Police ask GMDA to fix SPR stretch following crash due to pothole

A senior GMDA official said that the work is already underway to fill all potholes across entire Gurugram

The accident was highlighted in the letter mentioning how Aryan Verma, a resident of Microtech Green Berg society in Sector 86, first fell after losing balance due to potholes and was then run over by the truck coming from behind. None of the vehicles were speeding at that time. (HT Photo)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 03, 2025 05:56 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

4 arrested in Gurugram for killing man over repaying loan

The victim was a cashier in a private firm where the prime accused worked as a delivery executive. He loaned the latter ₹30,000

Two prime accused, Avnish Kumar, 32, and Bobby Kumar, 34, were arrested on Friday, police said. Their two associates, Mukesh Kumar, 29, and Shivam Kumar, 28, were arrested on Saturday, police said. (Representational image)

Gurugram

Published on Feb 03, 2025 05:04 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Woman burnt alive as car catches fire after collision with truck on Pataudi road

Gurugram: A 19-year-old woman was burned alive on Sunday after her car caught fire following a collision with a stationary truck near Wazirpur on Pataudi Road

Investigation revealed that around 1 am, the car collided with the stationary truck due to poor visibility (Video grab)

India News

Updated on Feb 02, 2025 12:41 PM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Gurugram bar urges HC CJto transfer magistrate

The incident took place when the senior advocate, appearing for a client in a criminal case on January 24, opposed an attempt of an assistant public prosecutor to bring some documents on record during the trial. The judge supported the assistant public prosecutor and had asked the senior advocate to leave the courtroom, which he opposed

The Gurugram district bar association has written a letter to the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court urging him to transfer a first-class judicial magistrate. (FILE PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Feb 02, 2025 07:06 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Ggm: Illegal deaddiction centre busted; 2 arrested

Police arrested the centre’s manager Saksham, and Shiv Shankar Yadav, a supporting staff. The driver is at large, said PRO Sandeep Kumar, Gurugram police

Two people have been arrested by the Gurugram Police for running an illegal deaddiction centre. (HT PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Jan 31, 2025 11:18 PM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Teen beaten to death by friends in Gurugram Sector 37

Locals spotted the body lying in a pool of blood amid dense vegetation near the industrial area of the sector at about 1pm on Wednesday and informed the police

Other Cities

Published on Jan 31, 2025 05:32 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Two assault man for objecting to wrong side driving in Gurugram Sector 37

The incident took place at 10.30am on Wednesday on the Kargil Shaheed Sukhbir Singh Yadav Marg near the traffic police booth

Police said they will arrest the suspects soon. (Representational image)

Gurugram

Published on Jan 30, 2025 10:39 PM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Nuh woman’s murder: Husband shot her dead, reveal cops; 2 held

Investigators said that the husband, Mohammad Inayat, 28, was arrested following interrogation at the Bicchore police station late on Tuesday night, where he had been taken from his home in Hajipur Gauheta earlier on Tuesday evening

Nuh superintendent of police, Vijay Partap Singh, said that it was Inayat who had purchased a country-made weapon from Shakir which he used to kill his wife. (HT PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Jan 30, 2025 06:46 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Nuh woman shot dead for resisting rape

Investigators said the incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday, when the deceased and her husband — both farmers — were in their field when they were approached by four masked men. Police, quoting the husband’s complaint, said two of the men were armed with a pistol, and demanded that the couple hand over their valuables

A 25-year-old woman was shot dead in a village in Nuh, Haryana after she resisted a rape attempt, police officers said. (FILE PHOTO)

Other Cities

Published on Jan 29, 2025 07:16 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Man killed in Delhi-Jaipur E-way crash, suspect yet to traced

A speeding car fatally struck delivery executive Mohammad Akram Ahmed on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway; police are searching for the driver.

The accident spot on Delhi-Jaipur expressway. (HT Photo)

Other Cities

Updated on Jan 28, 2025 05:58 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Nuh: Jaipur-based arms smuggling gang busted, murder plot in Rewari uncovered

Police said they used Akil and Salim as bait to lure the three suspects into taking the delivery of the weapons consignment

The three accused: Ravi Singh, Sandeep Singh and Veer Singh. (HT Photo)

Gurugram

Updated on Jan 28, 2025 05:12 AM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

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The 220kV Sector-77 substation, built with gas-insulated technology, has been lying unused for several years due to ongoing litigation

The force of the impact was so strong that the car broke through the barriers and fell into a roadside ditch, flipping multiple times before coming to a halt.

The accused left the girl for dead in the bushes. She was discovered several hours later and remains in critical condition

HVPN officials said that several new methods of preventing a fire will be adopted in all its substations across Haryana so that such incidents can be avoided

Based on the victim’s complaint, an FIR was lodged under BNS section 103(1) (murder) at Nagina police station on Tuesday

Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPN) officials said the outage was a result of a fire at a 220kV substation in Sector 107 at around 8.30am on Sunday, and the subsequent blackout also hit water supplies and security systems, affecting around 10,000 families

Over 10,000 families in Gurugram face a 36-hour power outage after a substation fire, raising concerns over backup costs and infrastructure safety.

The incident took place on Friday evening when the victim was returning to his rented accommodation at Chakkarpur in Sector 28

Locals found her lying in a pool of blood and rushed her to civil hospital in Sector 10A and later shifted her to Safdarjung hospital, Delhi, she survived as the bullet didn’t pierce through the skull

Singh worked for a Japanese firm on MG Road, Sector 28 and was travelling by car to pick an office colleague in Sector 54 at 6am

A woman and her lover were arrested in Faridabad for allegedly killing her husband by sedating and strangling him to death due to alleged instances of domestic abuse and her relationship with the other accused, police said on Friday

A senior police officer said that the victim had stopped on the roadside to attend a phone call when the accident took place

The complaint alleged that the two of them often harassed girls in the village by stalking them and passing lewd comments on their way from the school

Police said they could not establish the identity of the victim and that they were informed about the murder around 4.30pm on Wednesday

The man was made to download two separate phishing mobile Apps belong to different firms, to track his profits on investments in the name of providing him demat accounts

CCTV footage of the incident, which shows the bus driver deliberately breaking through the boom barrier and speeding away

While playing, the toddler approached a wall and inserted the nail into a power socket within her reach, leading to a severe electric shock, police said.

According to police, the family had been returning from Sikar, Rajasthan, when the accident took place around 3.45am on Sunday

Initial inquiry found that the Maruti Suzuki Alto collided with the stationary truck due to poor visibility, fire officers said

A senior GMDA official said that the work is already underway to fill all potholes across entire Gurugram

The victim was a cashier in a private firm where the prime accused worked as a delivery executive. He loaned the latter ₹30,000

Gurugram: A 19-year-old woman was burned alive on Sunday after her car caught fire following a collision with a stationary truck near Wazirpur on Pataudi Road

Police arrested the centre’s manager Saksham, and Shiv Shankar Yadav, a supporting staff. The driver is at large, said PRO Sandeep Kumar, Gurugram police

Locals spotted the body lying in a pool of blood amid dense vegetation near the industrial area of the sector at about 1pm on Wednesday and informed the police

The incident took place at 10.30am on Wednesday on the Kargil Shaheed Sukhbir Singh Yadav Marg near the traffic police booth

Investigators said that the husband, Mohammad Inayat, 28, was arrested following interrogation at the Bicchore police station late on Tuesday night, where he had been taken from his home in Hajipur Gauheta earlier on Tuesday evening

A speeding car fatally struck delivery executive Mohammad Akram Ahmed on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway; police are searching for the driver.

Police said they used Akil and Salim as bait to lure the three suspects into taking the delivery of the weapons consignment

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