India’s Covid-19 count witnessed a slight dip as the country reported 2,483 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Tuesday. Yesterday, India logged 2,541 Covid cases. With the new infections, the total cases in the country have gone up to 43,06,02,569 including 15,636 active cases. The […]
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, struck a deal Monday to buy Twitter for $44 billion, capping a saga complete with hostile takeover threats before delivering him personal control of one of the most influential social media platforms on the planet.Twitter famously served as a megaphone for former US president Donald Trump before the platform […]
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab VK Bhawra on Monday launched a one interface multifunctional web-portal “cybercrime.punjabpolice.gov.in” for the convenience of citizens to immediately report all kinds of cyber frauds and crimes. After launching the web-portal in the presence of DIG State Cyber Crime Nilambari Jagdale and DSP Cyber Crime Samarpal Singh, the DGP congratulated […]
India and the European Union (EU) on Monday launched the India-EU Trade and Technology Council, a strategic mechanism to tackle challenges at the nexus of trade, trusted technology, and security. This is the first time that India has agreed to set up such a trade and technology council with any of its partners. For the […]
The Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad have apprehended a Pakistani boat with nine crew members on board in the Arabian Sea near the state coast and seized heroin worth Rs 280 crore from the vessel, a defence spokesperson said on Monday.The Coast Guard ships intercepted and apprehended the Pakistani boat ‘Al Haj’ […]
The US secretaries of state and defence met on Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia’s invasion.The meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, which was confirmed by a senior Ukrainian […]
Clashes between radicals and law enforcement officers erupted in Paris after the announcement of preliminary presidential election results, with police having used tear gas against the demonstrators, a Sputnik correspondent reports. The French presidential election runoff was held on Sunday. The French Interior Ministry said after processing 80 percent of the ballots in the second […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to Europe from May 2 to May 6 to have bilateral meetings with re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz apart from addressing the key India-Nordic summit in Copenhagen. With Macron getting re-elected as French President for the second tern with a resounding vote, […]
In a bid to revamp the existing health and education infrastructure across the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann would undertake a whirlwind tour of the premier health and school educational institutes in the national capital on Monday. He would be accompanied by a battery of senior officers from both School Education and Health […]
Anti Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of the Punjab Police on Sunday arrested a most wanted terrorist and an active member of terrorist module Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) identified as Charanjit Singh alias Patialavi, who has been evading arrest for last 12 years by using different Identities and hideouts. Pertinently, Punjab Government has recently constituted an […]