Holding the Gandhis solely responsible for the complete rout of the Congress in all the recent Assembly polls, PLC chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday hit out at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for trying to put the blame of their party’s dismal defeat in Punjab on him instead of gracefully admitting to their own […]
The Centre is likely to begin the Covid vaccination for children in the age group of 12 -14 this week, while the co-morbidity clause for administering precaution doses to senior citizens would be removed, official sources said on Monday. Biological E’s Corbevax will be administered to 12-14 age-group.The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) […]
More than 60 per cent of mid-sized Indian organisations fell victim to a cyberattack last year, a new report showed on Monday. Just under one fifth (19 per cent) of respondents surveyed said they discovered the attack within two weeks, but 22 per cent took three to four weeks to realise they had been targeted, […]
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 […]