The Department of National Service Scheme, Chitkara University, Punjab, under the guidance and support from Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India and NSS Regional Directorate, Chandigarh is organising a week long National Integration Camp at its campus. The camp is going to be a congregation of 200 volunteers who come to our […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday sacked Health Minister Vijay Singla over corruption charges.The Chief Minister said the health minister was involved in corruption cases and they had proof of that. He was allegedly asking for kickbacks in a tender. Singla was allegedly taking one per cent commission on all tenders floated by Health […]
Qutub Minar is not a place of worship and alteration of the existing structure is not permissible, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Tuesday told a Delhi court hearing a petition claiming the monument has pictures of deities suggesting the Hindu origin of the building. The plea sought permission to worship the deities. ASI said […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting on Tuesday in Tokyo, hours after the second in-person Quad summit kicked off with a focus on the Indo-pacific region, and the Ukraine war. In an address, after the meeting, PM Modi said, “India and the US partnership – in the true […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo. Besides Modi, the summit is also being attended by US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The Quad leaders summit is aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member nations of the influential grouping and discussing […]
President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday accepted Anil Baijal’s resignation and appointed Vinai Kumar Saxena as the next Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. A statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said Saxena’s appointment as the Lt Governor of the National Capital Territory will be effective from the date of he assumed charge of his office. “The President […]
The cash-strapped Pakistan government is examining the possibility of conserving fuel by reducing the number of working days, a move by which it is hoping to save an estimated USD 2.7 billion in foreign exchange, a media report said on Monday.The estimates are based on three different scenarios in terms of working days and fuel […]
AAP MLA from Patiala (rural) Dr Balbir Singh and three others, including his wife and son, were sentenced to 3-year rigorous imprisonment by additional chief judicial magistrate Ravi Inder Singh in an 11-year-old assault case here today. The court, however, granted bail to all of them on the spot. According to complainant Paramjeet Kaur, Dr […]
Prolonged high temperatures are credit negative for India, as that could exacerbate inflation and hurt growth, Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday. Over the longer term, India’s highly negative credit exposure to physical climate risks means its economic growth will likely become more volatile as it faces increasing, and more extreme incidences of climate-related shocks, […]
Days after separatist leader Yasin Malik was convicted by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on terror funding charges, Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday backed the chairman of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), calling upon world leaders to take note of what he said was India’s ‘mistreatment of political prisoners’ […]