India skipper Virat Kohli and his teammates lost their cool during the final 45 minutes on the third day after rival skipper Dean Elgar got a massive reprieve due to a contentious DRS decision. Some of the unsavoury comments made about umpiring and technology as well as broadcasters might not go down well with the […]
The BJP on Thursday finalised its candidates for 172 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh and is likely to field both Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who are currently members of the Legislative Council, party leaders said. Polling in most of these 172 seats will be held in the initial […]
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal asked people on Thursday who should be the party’s chief ministerial face in the February 14 Punjab Assembly polls, even as he stated that his own preference for the post is Bhagwant Mann. Kejriwal, however, ruled himself out of the race as the AAP launched its “Janta Chunegi Apna CM” […]
Haryana’s farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni has expressed displeasure over SSM chief Balbir Singh Rajewal offering only a few seats to his political outfit SSP for the February 14 Punjab assembly polls. Chaduni made known his displeasure days after talks between his outfit Sanyukt Sangharsh Party (SSP) and Rajewal-led Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) for a […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked chief ministers to ensure minimum damage to the livelihood of common people and economic activities as they work to contain the coronavirus, while noting that its Omicron variant is infecting people many times faster than earlier variants.”We have to be alert, be careful. But we also have to […]
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal Thursday described as a “drama” the Aam Aadmi Party’s move to seek people’s suggestion on who should be its chief ministerial candidate for Punjab. The Shiromani Akali Dal leader alleged that AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal himself wants to become Punjab’s chief minister.Earlier in the day, Kejriwal launched the Aam Aadmi […]
Six people succumbed to COVID-19 in Punjab on Thursday, while 6,083 fresh cases took the infection tally to 6,42,182, according to a medical bulletin.A death each was reported from Patiala, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Pathankot and Mohali, raising the the toll due to the pandemic to 16,708 in the state.The number of active cases climbed to […]
There was no breakthrough in the 14th round of talks between the militaries of India and China and the two sides agreed to stay in close contact and maintain dialogue to work out a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues at the earliest, according to a joint statement. Indian Army Chief General M M […]
The Ladakh administration granted Rs 5 lakh each as ex-gratia to the kin of 14 soldiers who were killed in Operation Snow Leopard in Galwan Valley along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Union territory, officials said on Thursday. As many as 20 Army personnel were killed in the operation while fighting Chinese […]
The green efforts of the Department of Forest & Wildlife, UT Chandigarh and other Greening Agencies of Chandigarh Administration has paid dividend in enhancing the Green Cover of the UT Chandigarh. In a recent report of India State of Forest Report (ISFR), 2021 shows that the Green Cover of UT Chandigarh has increased from 46.25% […]