Famous Punjabi actor and director Sukhjinder Shera passed away in Uganda at night. He had been suffering from typhoid-fever since few days. Jagdev Singh, Shera’s assistant, said that he had gone to visit his friend in Kenya, South Africa, on April 17. There, he had developed a fever on April 25. Soon after, he developed […]
Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla has given the consent to conduct online classes through DD Punjabi to curtail the loss of education due to closure of schools. A spokesperson of the school education department said that under the supervision of Secretary, School Education Punjab, Krishan Kumar, the online classes will start on May 5 […]
The latest to join the long list of Covid-19 symptoms is ‘happy hypoxia’ which means very low levels of oxygen in the blood, leaving medical professionals across the world baffled. The second Covid wave has infected many youngsters (0-25 years), unlike the first one. Young people are reporting lung infections and suffering from “Happy Hypoxia”. […]
Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) has been suspended after an SRH player tested positive ahead of their scheduled match against Mumbai Indians in Delhi today. In an advisory, the BCCI stated, “The Indian Premier League Governing Council and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in an […]
Twitter on Tuesday suspended actor Kangana Ranaut’s account after her post on alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal. Ranaut had targeted chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee in her post and called upon Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to rein in her. Kangana Ranaut wrote, “This is horrible… we need super gundai to kill gundai… she […]
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple.” “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted. “We have raised three […]
In the Special War Room meeting held on Monday, UT Administrator VPS Badnore reviewed the Covid situation in Chandigarh. Keeping in view that Chandigarh is the common capital of Punjab and Haryana, total sealing of borders will not be possible. It was also felt that a total lockdown for long period will adversely affect the economy […]
Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday announced all accredited and yellow card journalists in the state to be included in the list of frontline warriors in the fight against Covid. All Power Corporation employees in the state have also been brought into the ambit of frontline workers. These employees, along with the […]
The Punjab government has started preparations on a war footing to fight the second wave of Covid-19 infection. The state government is going to build two large temporary hospitals equipped with ICU facility in Bathinda and Mohali. Apart from these, nine additional small hospitals will be constructed at different locations in Punjab. The land identification […]
As Delhi grapples with an acute shortage of medical oxygen, Delhi got its first Covid care centre with its own oxygen plant at the Commonwealth Games village Sports complex. A plant with a capacity to produce around 1,500 litres of oxygen has been installed at the Commonwealth Games village Covid centre. The oxygen plant can […]