Union Minister for highways Nitin Gadkari promised an assured 7-hours travel time between Delhi and Kullu, the famous hill destination in the next two years. Laying the foundation stone for new roads and highways projects, Gadkari, who was at Kullu, said the road between Chandigarh to Manali takes nine hours and its condition is horrible. […]
Start-up Punjab Hub @STPI is inviting applications for their next cohort OCP 3.0 of Neuron A Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics (Big Data), Animation & Gaming (AVG) and Internet of Things (IoT) in 9 Directorates major cities of India. The Incubation Centre was launched on September 30, 2019. The core […]
A study by the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health to monitor the safety of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 confirmed on Thursday that it is the safest among the vaccines. “SputnikV shows the safest profile among #COVID vaccines used in the Buenos Aires province in Argentina, no deaths related to vaccination recorded – the […]
Repeatedly dubbed the happiest nation on the planet with world-beating living standards, Finland has been experiencing an acute workforce shortage amid an ageing population. With 39.2 over-65s per 100 working-age people, it is second only to Japan in the extent of its ageing population, according to the UN, which forecasts that by 2030 the “old […]
Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo drew level with Iran’s Ali Daei (109) and became the joint top-scorer in men’s international football. He achieved the feat in Portugal’s Euro 2020 game against France on Wednesday (local time) at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Daei, nicknamed the ‘Shariar’ (King in Persian), scored a remarkable 109 goals in 149 […]
S&P Global Ratings on Thursday cut India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal to 9.5%, from 11% earlier, and warned of risk to the outlook from further waves of Covid pandemic. The agency lowered the growth outlook saying that a severe second Covid outbreak in April and May led to lockdowns imposed by states and […]
Government of Canada announced the details of the first phase of its approach to ease border measures for travellers entering the country. These cautious adjustments are now possible because of the successes of the vaccine roll out in Canada and following public health measures. The government issued that – Beginning July 5, 2021 at 11:59 […]
Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday slashed India’s growth projection to 9.6 per cent for 2021 calendar year, from its earlier estimate of 13.9 per cent, and said faster vaccination progress would be paramount in restricting economic losses to the June quarter. In its report titled ‘Macroeconomics – India: Economic shocks from second Covid wave will […]
Punjab introduced free testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in all Government Health Institutions. Presiding over the statewide launch of the initiative at District Hospital Mohali, Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu informed that Punjab Government has introduced Hepatitis B screening tests and treatment in all medical colleges, District Hospitals (DHs), Sub-Divisional Hospitals (SDHs) and Anti […]
After a gap of 21 years, a Punjabi player will lead the Indian Hockey team in Tokyo Olympics 2022. Manpreet Singh, DSP, Punjab Police has been entrusted this responsibility. Manpreet belongs to Mithapur village of Jalandhar district. As many as 21 years ago, Ramandeep Singh Grewal had led the team as Captain in Sydney Olympics […]