Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has done an “exceedingly outstanding job” during his three months’ tenure and questioning his continuation as the CM after party comes back to power can be suicidal, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh on Monday said. “The issue of Chief Ministership was already settled for the Congress in Punjab three […]
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said his party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab Assembly polls will be announced on Tuesday. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has received around 22 lakh responses under its campaign to elect its CM face for the Assembly polls, a party leader said.Kejriwal had […]
Britain’s Prince Harry, now based in the US with wife Meghan Markle and children Archie and Lilibet, is taking legal action over a Home Office decision to prevent him from paying for police protection for himself and his family during visits to the UK. The 37-year-old Duke of Sussex, who stepped back from frontline royal […]
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has informed the Supreme Court that a total of 1,47,492 children since April 1, 2020, have lost either their mother or father or both parents due to COVID-19 and other reasons. Giving the details in a suo motu matter on children in need of care and […]
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen and the top men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty produced superlative performances to claim their maiden titles at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open on a ‘Super Sunday’ for the host nation.While Sen secured his maiden Super 500 title with a stunning 24-22 21-17 victory over world champion […]
COVID Health Control Room- (1075) Care in Home Isolation A 24×7 COVID Health Control Room is now functional in the GMSH-16 with 5 parallel telephone lines. Doctors, Interns and other support staff are available in the COVID Health Control Room, round the clock. Citizens can may call on Help Line Number-1075 for all the COVID […]
Seventy per cent of India’s adults have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 while 93 per cent received the first jab, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya while launching a postage stamp on indigenously developed vaccine Covaxin to mark one year of the inoculation drive. The drive was rolled out on January 16 last year with […]
Novak Djokovic left Australia on Sunday evening after losing his final bid to avoid deportation and play in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19. court earlier unanimously dismissed the No 1-ranked tennis player’s challenge to cancel his visa.Djokovic, a 34-year-old from Serbia, said he was “extremely disappointed” by the ruling but respected it. […]
The Ministry of Electronics and Information (MeitY) has sought applications from 100 academia, R&D organisations, start-ups and MSMEs under its Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme. The C2S programme aims to train 85,000 number of high-quality and qualified engineers in the area of Very large-scale integration (VLSI) and embedded system design as well as result in […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday held a pre-budget stakeholder consultation with BJP leaders as well as professionals, business leaders, academicians and economists associated with the party. Representatives from 25 BJP state units participated in the virtual discussion, the party said in a statement The consultation was also attended by national leaders, party general secretary […]