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 […]
High ammonia levels in the Yamuna due to discharge of pollutants from Haryana led to a 50 percent reduction in production at Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla water treatment plants which will affect supply in several parts of the national capital, officials said on Wednesday. The WTPs at Chandrawal, Wazirabad and Okhla can treat up to […]
Opposing the Central Information Commissions (CIC) order allowing an RTI plea seeking various information on the financial details of Hockey India, including records of fund transfer to bank accounts in foreign countries, the governing body of the game in the country on Wednesday challenged the December 13 CIC order before the Delhi High Court. Hearing […]
The Supreme Court Wednesday appointed a five-member committee headed by former apex court judge Justice Indu Malhotra to probe the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Punjab. The “questions cannot be left to one-sided enquiry” and a judicially trained mind needs to oversee the probe, a bench headed by Chief Justice […]