Advancing the race to lure voters with promises of freebies ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday promised Rs 2,000 per month for women homemakers if his party is voted to power. Sidhu also promised eight free cooking gas cylinders to homemakers every year. The state Congress […]
Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev, who is the only woman member of a parliamentary standing committee that is examining the bill for raising the legal age of marriage for females, has written to its chairperson Vinay Sahasrabuddhe requesting him to invoke a rule that will allow all the women MPs to testify before the panel.The […]
The Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come clean on Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik’s allegation that he was “arrogant” on the farmers’ issue and demanded an unconditional apology if it was true. Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said the prime minister should come forward and tell the truth to the nation, […]
In the wake of the growing Omicron variant threat, star golfer Jeev Milkha Singh on Monday urged the people to follow all COVOD-19 related guidelines and not take things lightly. Singh, 50, who last year lost both his parents to Covid-related complications, said, “Covid is one such disease that some people still do not realise […]
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has approached the Delhi High Court seeking to quash the Air India disinvestment process and set aside the approvals given to it by authorities. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh is scheduled to hear the petition on Tuesday.Swamy, a Rajya Sabha MP, has sought to […]
Schools from classes 1 to 8 here remained shut on Monday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The schools, which were to reopen from Monday after winter vacation, remained closed in the wave of the government orders issued on Sunday.“The number of students attending school was already low and now as per the guidelines, classroom activities from […]
Newly elected councillors of the Aam Aadmi Party left for New Delhi and those of the Congress for Jaipur, amid suggestions that they might switch over to the BJP ahead of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation mayoral polls. An AAP leader, however, claimed that their Delhi visit was pre-fixed.Congress leaders could not be reached for comments. […]
Chandigarh on Monday reported 75 new cases of Covid-19 taking the total number of infections to 66,136. A positivity rate of 6.91 per cent was recorded today as 1,085 samples were tested.The number of active cases has risen to 383 as 13 patients were discharged, including persons from home isolation who have completed 10 days […]
In the wake of steep rise in Covid-19 cases, the Chandigarh Administration has decided to close down Rock Garden and Bird Park till further orders. The UT Administration had yesterday decided to close all activities, including boating, at Sukhna Lake from Monday to Saturday.The administration, however, had given a few hours relaxation for morning and […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ferozepur, Punjab on 5th January, 2022 and at around 1 PM, will lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 42,750 crore. These projects include Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway; four laning of Amritsar – Una section; Mukerian – Talwara New Broad Gauge railway line; PGI Satellite Centre […]