Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh has introduced fresh reforms to reduce the regulatory burden on MSMEs through rationalisation, digitalisation and decriminalisation of the regulatory landscape, enabling entrepreneurs to focus on expanding their operations. “The reforms on removing imprisonment terms, building flexibility and reducing oversight in the labour rules, and pursuing a data driven […]
As many as 70% of the 60 samples sent by Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) for genome sequencing in March to National Centre for Diseases Control (NCDC) turned positive for the UK variant of Covid-19. Among the 60 patients sampled, 45 were from Chandigarh. Detailing further about the inference, Prof Jagat Ram, […]
In a milestone law, New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, said minister for climate change James Shaw. “We simply cannot get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 unless the financial sector knows […]
The Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCB) has completed construction of two new automated air quality monitoring stations in Sector 22 and 53. According to UT administration officials, they will be inaugurated by the end of this month. Officials claim that this will improve the air quality of the city. Apart from these, the work of […]
Amid the continuing Covid surge, Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday announced that all Class 5, 8 and 10 students be promoted to the next class, without taking any examination. Decision on Class 12 Punjab State Education Board (PSEB) exams, which have already been postponed, will be taken later, based on the […]
With the Olympics Games just 99 days away, a senior Japanese ruling party official has admitted that cancelling this year’s Olympic Games remains an option. Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Japan might have to ‘give up’ on the Tokyo Olympics if rising coronavirus cases in the country made the event “impossible”, […]
The number of new Covid-19 cases in India hit a record daily high on Thursday with over 2 lakh infections, while the active cases surpassed the 14-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data. India also reported 1,038 fresh Covid-related fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 1,73,123. India […]
Indian-origin Akanksha Arora, 34, is running run for the post of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General. She is the first person to declare her candidacy against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as the chief of the world organisation. Akanksha Arora, who works as an audit coordinator for the […]
CBSE Board exams for Class 10 will not be held this year and the students will be promoted on the basis of an internal assessment, said Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday. The government has postponed Class 12 examinations which were scheduled for May. The situation will be reviewed on June 1 and revised […]
As many as 219 health workers of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) have been infected by Covid-19. Of these, nine doctors are admitted to the Covid Hospital while 210 health workers are placed in home isolation. According to the PGI administration, those infected include doctors from different departments, nursing officers, technical […]