Chandigarh reported 17 new coronavirus cases—its highest since June this year—in the last 24 hours, a health bulletin from Chandigarh administration showed on Saturday. Chandigarh now has 85 active cases with a positivity rate of 0.78 per cent over the last seven days.The UT has reported no new deaths. Its fatality count since the pandemic […]
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir has been appointed the team mentor of the new Lucknow franchise ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, owner Sanjiv Goenka confirmed on Saturday. Gambhir is a two-time IPL-winning captain with KKR and considered a legend in the league who amassed 4217 runs from 154 games at 31.23 […]
In yet another case of murder over alleged blasphemy, a man was killed after an alleged sacrilege at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.The incident of sacrilege happened inside the sanctum sanctorum of Darbar Sahib today evening, when regular prayers were going on. CCTV footage shows that suddenly a man entered the sanctum sanctorum and hit […]
India continued their domination against arch-rivals Pakistan in hockey as reigning Olympic bronze medallist registered a thumping 3-1 win in the Asian Champions Trophy 2021 match in Dhaka. With one thumping win against minnows Bangladesh and a draw in the opening match against South Korea, India made a confident start and took a lead in […]
India has moved up in rankings from ninth to the fourth spot this year in the tally of top 20 countries affected by spam calls, owing to a significant increase in sales and telemarketing calls, as per a report by Truecaller. This year, all categories of sales-related calls made up a vast majority (93.5 per […]
The UT Administration today announced dry daysfrom December 22 to 24 and on December 27 ahead of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Elections in Chandigarh. The elections are scheduled to be held on December 24 and the counting of votes will be held on December 27.A detailed notification in this regard has been issued in this regard.
Union Health Ministry on Friday said that there is no evidence that the vaccines will not work against the Omicron strain of coronavirus. India’s tally of Omicron cases crossed the 100 mark on Friday, with fresh cases detected in Maharashtra and Delhi. Maharashtra recorded eight more cases of the new variant, while Delhi added 12 […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday it has granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to Covovax, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) in partnership with the US-based Novavax. “Covovax was assessed under the WHO EUL procedure based on the review of data on quality, safety and efficacy, […]
The seasoned SSP Chawrasia continued in the lead in round two of the Rs. 1.5 crore TATA Steel Tour Championship 2021 after returning a three-under 69 that took his total to 12-under 132. Twenty-one-year-old Karan Pratap Singh of Faridabad, playing only his second season as a professional, shot a blistering 65 to climb two spots […]
In a bid to improve the quality of higher education and increase the enthusiasm of the staff for teaching, the Punjab Cabinet on Friday approved to regularize the services of 1925 Assistant Professors appointed against vacant posts in various subjects and non-teaching staff in the government aided colleges of the state. A decision to this […]