Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said Haryana is a leading state in the installation of solar water pumps to promote micro-irrigation under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM). Khattar provided solar pumps to the farmers during an inauguration programme held through videoconferencing from Chandigarh.The government is giving a 75 per […]
Top-order batter Jemimah Rodrigues and seasoned pacer Shikha Pandey were on Thursday dropped from India’s 15-member squad for the Women’s ODI World Cup scheduled to be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3. he selectors have rewarded performers of the Australia tour earlier this year with left-handed batter Yastika Bhatia making the […]
Virat Kohli has already been in the nets and “should be fine” for the Test series decider against South Africa, said India’s stand in captain K L Rahul on Thursday. Skipper Kohli was ruled out of the second Test due to upper back spasms.South Africa won the second Test by seven wickets to level the […]
South Africa captain Dean Elgar produced a heroic unbeaten innings of 96 runs to lead his team to a seven-wicket victory over India in the second test at the Wanderers on Thursday.Elgar defied a hostile Indian attack and body blows from balls that struck him on a difficult pitch to deliver a match-winning performance as […]
A total of 125 passengers on a Milan-Amritsar charter flight were found to be Covid-positive when tested on arrival, government officials said on Thursday. Officials said there were a total of 179 passengers on the charter flight YU-661 that landed at the Amritsar airport at around 1.30 PM on Wednesday.Since Italy is one of the […]
Israel is cancelling its designation of the United States and seven other countries as high COVID-19 risks, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, as the fast-spreading but relatively low-morbidity Omicron variant prompts reviews of restrictions.Moving fast after Omicron was first detected abroad, Israel in late November barred foreigners and expanded a list of “red” countries […]
Taking a tough stance, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday spoke with Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and expressed her displeasure over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach on Wednesday.In a major security lapse, the prime minister’s convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by protesters at Ferozepur in Punjab on […]
The Election Commission on Thursday reviewed the Covid situation with the Union health secretary and experts, collecting inputs on necessary safety measures to be ensured during the democratic exercise and emphasising the need for vaccination of all eligible people in five poll-bound states, sources said. The government shared with the poll panel the weekly positivity […]
Thirty-nine students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, a district official said. With this, 81 NIT Hamirpur students have been found infected with the coronavirus in the last two days. On Wednesday, 42 students of the institute were found COVID-19 positive.Apart from the 39 NIT students, 23 […]
In a massive surge, Delhi Thursday recorded 15,097 fresh Covid cases, the highest single-day rise since May 8, and six deaths while the positivity rate mounted to 15.34 per cent, even as Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the situation does not warrant a lockdown yet.Jain also asserted Delhi is in a comfortable position in terms […]