Viswanathan Anand defeated Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the Armageddon after the two-game mini-match ended in a draw for his first victory in the Rapid event of the 7th Vugar Gashimov Memorial chess tournament here on Monday. arlier in the day, Anand had lost 0.5-1.5 to Sergey Karjakin in the fifth round.In the match against […]
The government is monitoring the Omicron situation everyday and constantly assessing this new Covid variant with experts, the Parliament was told on Monday.”I have spoken with the states on this Covid variant and also an SOP has been issued for travellers landing from abroad for preventing the infection,” Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya told the […]
WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Monday called for the expansion and strengthening of the COVID-19 vaccination programme across the world in view of the rising cases of Omicron variant. Speaking virtually at one of the plenary sessions at the PANEX-21, organised at the Armed Forces Medical College here in Maharashtra, Dr Swaminathan said […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday held a phone conversation covering bilateral defence cooperation, supply of fertilisers and ways to enhance India’s engagement with the Russian Far Eastern region. he talks came two weeks after Putin visited Delhi for the 21st India-Russia annual summit that witnessed the inking of 28 […]
After the alleged sacrilege bid incident in Kapurthala in which an unidentified man was killed by a mob on Sunday, Punjab police officers had at a presser stated that a case of murder had also been registered but soon backtracked on their statement. Inspector General of Police Gurinder Singh Dhillon first said at the press […]
A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district has sentenced a 35-year-old man to death for raping and killing a 10-year-old girl, officials said on Monday. The man, also convicted under the stringent POCSO Act, has been slapped with a penalty of Rs 50,000 as well by the district and sessions court.”Accused Chandrapal should be hanged […]
The Opposition Congress on Monday demanded a high court judge-supervised CBI probe into the alleged dental surgeon and HCS officer recruitment scam in Haryana, and the removal of the Haryana Public Service Commission chairman over the issue. Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the chairman of the commission cannot be […]
Cold to severe cold wave conditions are very likely to continue in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh during next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. Cold wave conditions at isolated pockets would likely continue for subsequent 24 hours and very likely to abate thereafter in […]
Giving a much needed relief to trade and industry in the state, the Punjab Government has exempted around 40,000 statutory form related outstanding cases under Central Sales Tax / Value Added Tax (VAT), out of over 48,000 cases related to each of the financial years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Notably, Punjab Chief Minister S. Charanjit […]
Exposing the lies being spread by AAP leadership directly from ground level, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr Charanjit Singh Channi today visited the school in his maternal village Makdona Kalan to show that it was not only perfect but one of the best schools in the state. The Chief Minister during walk from Morinda to […]