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% […]
At least five people were killed and more than 45 injured when 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derailed and some overturned near Domohani in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Thursday, an official said. The accident occurred around 5 p.m. in an area under Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway, an NFR spokesperson said […]
Chandigarh once again crossed the 1000-mark as 1,338 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours. On Thursday, the city had recorded 1,114 cases. This is now the highest spike for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020.Active cases in the city now stand over 5,500. The union territory’s positivity rate […]
In order to provide the public a handy access to all the meaningful information on Covid, the Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Shri Banwarilal Purohit on Thursday launched COVA Chd App. Stressing upon the need for active surveillance, Shri Purohit said that maximum people should install this App on their cell phones.Appreciating UT Administration’s […]
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday asserted that he is not hankering for any post but working to demolish a system which could not give justice to “our Guru” and could not punish “big fishes” involved in the drug racket. He said his fight was to change this system which “eroded Punjab like […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia was on Wednesday questioned for more than two hours by a special investigation team probing a drugs case registered against him.Majithia, who was granted anticipatory bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court two days ago, appeared before the SIT at the state crime branch at 11 am. Talking to […]
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) that guards the country’s major civil airports and other vital installations has provided the precautionary or booster Covid vaccine jabs to more than 9,000 personnel since these doses were launched countrywide on January 10, a senior officer said on Wednesday. Out of these, 2,500 personnel belong to the Delhi […]
Active COVID-19 cases have increased 14 times in Uttar Pradesh in the last seven days while Punjab saw an 8.65-fold rise in such infections during the same period, government data showed. Goa has witnessed a 4.35 times rise in active Covid cases during the last one week, according to the government data shared during a […]