Ahead of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Elections, Congress and AAP witnessed a rift within the party as dozens of their leaders joined BJP on Saturday. Jora Singh, former state president of SC, ST cell in AAP, Ashok Beniwal, former General Secretary of ward number four and a large number of AAP leaders including youth president Aniket […]
India has confirmed its fourth case of Omicron variant of coronavirus (Covid-19), hours after a senior citizen from Gujarat was found infected with the highly transmissible variant. The infection has been reported in a 33-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Kalyan-Dombivli who has a travel history to Cape Town in South Africa, people familiar with the development […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha on Saturday alleged that illegal sand mining is being carried out in Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s constituency Chamkaur Sahib as he paid a surprise visit to a village there. Terming it an “expose”, the AAP leader also accused the ruling Congress in the state of “patronising” the sand […]
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said he has suggested to the Centre that area in the radius of up to 100 km around Delhi should be kept in the National Capital Region (NCR). He also said that when the NCR was formed, people of far-off districts thought that they would get a […]
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday said that India-Pakistan friendship will increase trade.While speaking to the media in Amritsar, Mr Sidhu said, “If our friendship is increased with Pakistan then our business will also be increased. I admire our former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s scheme when he started Aman Eman […]
Mumbai-born left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel on Saturday entered the record books as he became only the third bowler in the 144-year-old history of Test cricket to take all 10 wickets in an innings on the second day of the second Test against India here. Patel, who had migrated to New Zealand with his parents back […]
Veteran journalist Vinod Dua, 67, passed away on Saturday, he was in an intensive care unit of a Delhi hospital. Earlier this year, he had contracted Covid-19 and was hospitalised when his condition deteriorated. A pioneer in TV journalism in India, Vinod Dua worked with Doordarshan and NDTV for the larger part of his journalistic […]
Ahead of General Elections to the Legislative Assembly Punjab 2022, Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday reviewed the poll preparedness in the state. The virtual review meeting was chaired by Deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) Nitesh Kumar Vyas, in the presence of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju. All the Deputy Commissioners-cum-District […]
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said he will invite farm union leaders for talks to look into their demands pertaining to the state government.When he was informed that farm union leaders have said they haven’t so far got an invite from him for a meeting, Mr Khattar said, “right, we will invite […]
India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday said he expects to get more clarity from the BCCI on the upcoming tour of South Africa in the next couple of days and does not want to be left “confused” following the emergence of the new COVID-19 variant — Omicron. It is understood that head coach Rahul Dravid […]