Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced names of ten Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators, including senior leaders Harpal Cheema and Vijay Singla, who will becomes ministers in his cabinet. The new ministers will take oath on Saturday, Mann said in a tweet.Cheema is the AAP legislator from Dirba area, and is one of […]
G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday, a day after members of the dissenting group held a flurry of meetings over measures to revamp the party. After the Group of 23 pitched for an “inclusive and collective leadership” in the Congress, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, one of its members, met Rahul […]
The CBI has booked former J&K Bank chairman Mushtaq Ahmad Shaikh and 18 others for a Rs 800-crore loss to the bank caused due loans to REI Agro, which were issued in violation of guidelines, without tangible security and on fake documents, officials said. In addition to officials of the bank, the Central Bureau of […]
An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader on Friday alleged that the Municipal Corporation authorities removed over 50 hoardings of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann from different parts of the city. Parminder Singh Dhot said the local party unit had spent more than Rs 2 lakh on installing these hoardings to congratulate Mann who took […]
Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger told Russians in a video posted on social media on Thursday that they’re being lied to about the war in Ukraine and accused President Vladimir Putin of sacrificing Russian soldiers’ lives for his own ambitions. Schwarzenegger is hugely popular in Russia, and apparently also with Putin. The President of Russia Twitter […]
A truck driver and a mechanic, engaged in repairing the vehicle on the roadside, died after being hit by a car on Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway on the outskirts of Phagwara, police said on Friday. The cleaner of the truck was seriously injured in the incident on Thursday evening.Sadar Police Station SHO Jatinder Kumar said the […]
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann met Sangrur and Patiala SSPs at his Sangrur residence on Friday. He also received the guard of honour from Sangrur Police.The CM met all senior police officers of Sangrur. Sangrur MLA Narinder Bharaj, on the occasion, said they would get investigated all “scams” under the previous government in the coming days.
Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early on Friday, the mayor said, while Japan and Australia imposed new sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for its invasion. Western sources and Ukrainian officials said Russia’s assault has faltered since its troops invaded on Feb. 24, further dashing […]
The Canadian government’s announcement it is dropping the requirement for vaccinated travellers to show a negative Covid test result to enter the country was greeted with relief by tourism and business groups on both sides of the border. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said tests would no longer be needed beginning April 1.Currently, fully vaccinated travellers […]
Amid a fresh surge in coronavirus cases in southeast Asia, the government has written to states to ensure an “agressive and sustained genome sequencing, intensified surveillance and (to) keep an overall vigil” on the Covid-19 situation. The five fold strategy of ‘Test-Track- Treat-Vaccination and adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour’ has yet again been reiterated by […]