Chandigarh administration has provided more relaxations in the Covid restrictions after holding a war room meeting presided by UT administrator VP Singh Badnore on Tuesday. After detailed discussions in the War Room, the following decisions were taken:- (i) Strict action be taken by the Chandigarh Police against the violators of the Covid protocol, particularly for […]
Schools for Classes 10, 11, and 12 in Punjab are all set to open from July 26, with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announcing further relaxations, including increase in the number of people in indoor gatherings to 150 and outdoors to 300, subject to an upper limit of 50% of the capacity. Taking […]
Recently, you might have come across the news of Israeli spyware Pegasus hacking into people’s mobile phones and being able to read their messages and tap calls. There have been reports that accused several governments including India spying on key public figures using this spyware. In India, at least 300 people are believed to have […]
Between April 2020 and March this year, India witnessed 18.5 million lightning strikes, marking a significant 34% increase in 13.8 million bolts from the blue in a similar period the previous year, a study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down to Earth found. Some of the states that have been at the […]
The Chandigarh Administration transport department is in the process to update all the local CTU buses Smart under the Intelligent Support System. The transport department will start issuing smart cards to commuters. The Chandigarh administration issued an order concerning the revised rates/ E-Sampark facilitation charges/printing cost-per-card basis. Moreover, Chandigarh’s first electric bus will reach here […]
30-year-old Sanjal Gavande from Maharashtra is part of the team of engineers that built Blue Origin’s suborbital space rocket New Shephard, which will carry Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three others to space on July 20. A systems engineer at the spaceflight services company, she was born in Kalyan and dreamed of building a […]
China has reported its first human infection with Monkey B Virus (BV) and subsequent death. A Beijing-based veterinary surgeon was infected with the virus after he dissected two dead monkeys in early March, according to China CDC Weekly. The 53-year-old veterinarian started experiencing nausea and vomiting and a month later, fever and neurological symptoms followed. […]
Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a database of targets for hacking that used ‘Pegasus’, an Israeli spyware, only available to governments, reported The Wire and other publications. According to the report, more than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three […]
Yamaha‘s new bike FZ-X was launched on Saturday at CMPL Automobiles by Narinderjit Singh Director, CMPL, in the presence of company officials, prospective customers and staff of various banks & NBFCs. On the occasion Narinderjit Singh said that the All New Yamaha FZ-X comes to India as a crossover motorcycle that is inspired by Neo-Retro design thinking. […]
As the Delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the world, the prospect of a third “booster” dose is gaining interest even in nations where a large proportion of people are vaccinated. Experts say it is too soon to know for sure if countries will need to organise a third vaccine round later in the year. Some […]