Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19.The 94-year-old Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch was admitted to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH ) in the afternoon.DMCH Medical Superintendent Dr Sandeep Sharma said Badal tested positive for coronavirus. “He is stable”, Sharma said.Hospital’s Covid section incharge Rajesh Mahajan said the […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has siezed around Rs 10 crore in cash, including Rs 8 crore from premises linked to a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, during the raids conducted in an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand mining operations in the poll-bound border state, officials said on Wednesday. The raids that […]
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav and late Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat’s younger brother Vijay Rawat, also a retired army officer, joined the BJP on Wednesday as the party moved to bolster its strength in poll-bound states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.BJP president J P Nadda also formally announced […]
Chandigarh on Wednesday reported 1,502 new cases of Covid-19 up from 1,275 cases reported a day earlier. A positivity rate of 25.91 per cent was recorded in the last 24 hours as 5,797 samples were tested.The positivity rate recorded yesterday was 21.96 per cent. The cumulative number of cases in the city has reached 81,269 […]
Complying with directions of Election Commission, 3,54,075 licensed weapons have been deposited with police ahead of February 20 Punjab Assembly elections, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Dr S Karuna Raju said here on Wednesday. “This is 91.10 per cent of the total 3,90,275 licensed weapons in the state,” he said.The licensed gun owners deposit their firearms […]
Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge came out in support of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday over the ED raids against his relatives and said this “vendetta” will help the party emerge victorious in the upcoming state Assembly polls.”ED raids on the relatives of Punjab […]
Senior ureaucrat Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of Air India Ltd as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle affected by the Centre on Tuesday.Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre.He has been appointed as the Air India chief in […]
The government will use the Supreme Court order calling the 2005 deal between ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix and privately-owned Devas Multimedia a fraud, to counter seizure of its properties, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday as she launched a blistering attack on the Congress for handing over airwaves used by the defence to the […]
The Election Commission on Tuesday let off the Samajwadi Party with a light rap for violating COVID-19 norms on its office premises last week, advising it to be careful and ensure such breaches do not happen in the future. Considering that it is the first reported violation during the current round of elections on the […]
Flagging a decline in the number of Covid-19 tests in many states and union territories, the Centre has asked them to enhance testing so that an effective track of the spread of the pandemic can be kept and immediate citizen-centric action can be initiated. In a letter to states and UTs on Monday, Additional Secretary […]