A Venu Prasad on Monday assumed charge as ACS to CM Bhagwant Mann. Prasad is a 1991 batch IAS officer.He has remained the CMD of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for long, and was currently posted as ACS, Excise and Taxation.This has set in motion the administrative changes to be effected by the new AAP […]
Punjab Chief Minister-elect and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on Monday attended the Lok Sabha for the last time before tendering his resignation to Speaker Om Birla. After resigning, Mann said he would miss the House.Speaking to reporters before leaving for Punjab, Mann, on his last day in Lok Sabha, said, “I will miss this House. […]
Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine are stepping up, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress over the weekend, while high-level U.S. officials are talking to European and Chinese counterparts. There’s been no let up in violence, however, with Russian missiles hitting a large Ukrainian base […]
Former US President Barack Obama has said that he had tested positive for Covid-19. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise”, Obama tweeted on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.He also wrote that he and his wife, Michelle, “are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested […]
India’s new ambassador to China Pradeep Kumar Rawat assumed charge on Monday. Rawat arrived in China on March 4 and underwent mandatory quarantine as per China’s Covid protocols.“HE Shri. Pradeep Kumar Rawat, Ambassador of India to the People’s Republic of China assumed charge @EOIBeijing today”, the Indian Embassy here tweeted.Rawat succeeds Ambassador Vikram Misri, who […]
India saw a further dip in daily Covid cases as 2,503 new infections were recorded, the lowest since May 2020, while the active cases dipped to 36,168, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. With the fresh cases, the total tally of Covid cases rose to 4,29,93,494.The death toll climbed to 5,15,877 […]
Punjab Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann on Monday said he would submit his resignation as a member of parliament. He is a two-time Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur parliamentary constituency in the state.“I will resign as Sangrur MP after going to Delhi today. The people of Sangrur have showered me with so much love for many […]
Five Indian students were killed and two others injured in a fatal accident near Toronto in Canada on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced today. Reports from Canada said that the students were killed in a fatal collision between a van and a tractor trailer on Highway 401 in Quinte West. An official […]
With the term of five members of the Rajya Sabha elected from the State of Punjab is due to expire in April 2022, Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced schedule for biennial Elections to the Council of States from the State of Punjab. The term of office of Rajya Sabha members including Sukhdev Singh, […]
The Congress on Sunday admitted that the results of the assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are a cause of concern but there’s no call for a change in the party’s leadership as every member of the party – the Congress leaders addressing the press meet stressed on the unanimous nature […]