Farmers offer thieves UPI payments to spare tubewell motors
After dozens of tubewell motors vanished in a single night, Punjab farmers came up with an unusual solution: asking thieves to take digital payments instead.
A 64-year-old man died while seven people, including a minor, were injured in a lightning strike Wednesday morning, police said.
The incident occurred at around 9.30 am in Khanpur village near Sirhind town when Harvesh Singh and others had taken shelter under a tree because of rains, they said.
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Harvesh Singh died after a lightning strike while seven others, including a six-year-old boy, sustained injuries, the police said.
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The injured persons were admitted to the civil hospital, where local MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra and officials from the district administration inquired about them, the police added.
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