The Union Government has issued a notification regarding implementation of Central Service Rules for Chandigarh Administration employees. According to the notification, these rules may be called the Union Territory of Chandigarh Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2022, and will come into force from April 1.According to the notification, the condition of service of persons appointed […]
Physics, chemistry and mathematics are no longer mandatory for admission to architecture courses, the technical education regulator All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has said in its Approval Process 2022-23, released Tuesday. After announcing last year that students who haven’t studied physics, chemistry or maths in Class 12 would now be able to seek […]
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Kongkal Sangma to resolve the border dispute between the two states, on Tuesday.The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya signed the agreement at the office of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi to […]
In a coordinated decision, Belgium is expelling 21 Russian diplomats, amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, on suspicion of espionage, country’s foreign minister Sophie Wilmes said on Tuesday. Wilmes, who made the announcement to Parliament and on Twitter, said the move was coordinated with neighbouring Netherlands, which said it was expelling 17 Russian diplomats, news agency […]
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday termed the World Inequality Report ‘flawed’ and called its methodology ‘questionable’. The comments came in response to the World Inequality Report 2022, published by the Paris-based World Inequality Lab, which said India is a ‘poor and very unequal country’ and ranked it in the bottom half of the […]
Russia said on Tuesday it would sharply scale back military activity around Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, in the most tangible sign yet of progress towards a peace deal. Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin gave the undertaking after talks between delegations from the two countries in Istanbul.“In order to increase mutual […]
Fulfilling the assurance of AAP government , Punjab Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr. Baljit Kaur, on Tuesday, released Rs.214.16 crore under Post-Matric Scholarship and Shagun Scheme.Disclosing this, the Cabinet Minister said, “Clearing the pendency up till March 2022, Rs.184 crore have been released under Post-matric Scholarship, while Rs.30.16 crore released under Shagun scheme up […]
Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, on Tuesday, said that Punjab Government has decided to appoint nodal officers in all 23 districts of Punjab for the ease of Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). While chairing a high level review meeting with the officials of the NRI Affairs department and members of NRI Commission, the Cabinet Minister […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced a guarantee to make Punjabi University free from whopping debt so as to regain its pristine glory as a seat of higher learning in the northern India. While presiding over the valedictory function of three-day Punjabi cinema, television and theatre mega show jointly organized by the Punjabi […]
The voting on the no-confidence motion against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be held on April 3, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Tuesday. Rashid was addressing the media here in the federal capital over the latest political situation after the Opposition parties submitted a no-confidence motion against Khan on Monday during a session […]