The Khelo India Youth Games Haryana 2021, scheduled to be held between February 5 and 14 this year, stands postponed owing to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country. Fresh dates of the Youth Games will be announced after reviewing the Covid situation.India logged 1,68,063 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 […]
Health services in government hospitals in Haryana were hit on Tuesday as doctors suspended OPD work in support of their demands, prompting the authorities to declare their stir as illegal by invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act. The doctors are demanding the creation of specialist cadres for them and stopping the direct recruitment of senior […]
Former Punjab MLA Arvind Khanna and several other politicians from the state joined the BJP on Tuesday as the party asserted that it will write a new chapter in the region’s electoral history with its success. Khanna, a businessman and two term former MLA, had not been much active politically after quitting the Congress some […]
Cold weather conditions on Tuesday prevailed in many parts of Punjab and Haryana. Hisar in Haryana reeled under intense cold recording a minimum temperature of 4.7 degrees Celsius, according to the Meteorological Department’s weather report here. Rohtak also experienced a cold night, recording a low of 6 degrees while Gurugram’s minimum settled at 6.9 degrees […]
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati will not contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, party general secretary S C Misra said here on Tuesday. Misra said he will also not contest the state elections, which will be held in seven phases starting February 10.Since elections are being held in five states, including Punjab, Uttarakhand, and […]
In a jolt to the BJP in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the state cabinet while three other MLAs announced they are quitting the party.Maurya, who is expected to join the Samajwadi Party (SP), said he resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet due to “gross neglect” towards Dalits, […]
Authorities in Uttar Pradesh have seized over 33,000 litres of liquor worth over Rs 82 lakh after the imposition of the model code of conduct for the upcoming assembly polls, Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said on Tuesday. The model code is a set of guidelines, issued by the Election Commission, for political parties, […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said the recent breach in the prime minister’s security in Punjab was a conspiracy hatched by the Charanjit Singh Channi government to embarrass the BJP. He also accused the chief minister for trying to downplay the issue of security breach and refusing to own responsibility for the same, […]
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India, Farid Mamundzay, on Tuesday called upon Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and both discussed issues of mutual interest, an official statement said. The mutual discussion centred on an “invigorating relationship” with Afghanistan and other issues of mutual interest, it said. Stating that India enjoys mature bilateral relations and strong socio-cultural linkages with […]
