Guinea has declared an Ebola outbreak for the first time since 2016, when a two-year outbreak in West Africa finally ended after killing more than 11,000 people. The new outbreak, in the town of Gouécké, has already killed three – two women and a man. They were among seven people who attended a nurse’s funeral […]
Punjab government on Monday decided to establish nine more fast-track courts under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Sexual Assault Response Teams in all the 27 police districts of the state to deal with cases of sexual attacks on women. This decision was undertaken to strengthen the investigation and prosecution machinery for […]
From next year, MPhil at Punjab University will be discontinued. Instead, it will be replaced by a four-year degree course. After that, students will be able to take admissions in PhD directly on completing their Masters. MPhil will no longer be required for PhD. The course has been going on for quite some time which […]
Actor Sandeep Nahar, who was seen in the Sushant Singh Rajput starrer ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’, followed by the Akshay Kumar – led ‘Kesari’ and then in the Sonakshi Sinha movie ‘Khandaani Shafakhana’ died allegedly by suicide, last evening (Monday, February 15). The actor Sandeep Nahar before his suicide had posted a long post […]
Ajai Malhotra has become the first Indian to be elected as the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, said the Permanent Mission of India at United Nations, Geneva, on Monday. “Congratulations Ambassador Ajai Malhotra on your election as the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council; the first […]
Prisoners on parole during the Covid-19 period will now have to return to the prison soon. The Empowered Committee constituted by the Supreme Court to deal with Covid in prisons has decided not to further increase the parole of prisoners. The process of bringing the prisoners back to the jail will start from February 17 […]
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Facebook and WhatsApp and sought their response on a plea challenging WhatsApp’s latest privacy policy which was introduced in January this year in India. Asking the companies to respond in four weeks, a Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde noted that people’s privacy must be protected in […]
The Department of Punjab Forest and Wildlife Preservation, in collaboration with the World-Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India), recently released another lot of 23 critically endangered long-snouted gharials into the Beas flowing in Hoshiarpur district. The gharials were transported in boxes from Chhatbir Zoo in Chandigarh, where they had been kept for a year after being […]
After the Centre rebuked Twitter for not complying with its orders to take down certain content, home-grown social media app Koo started witnessing a surge with top politicians flocking to it. After Twitter refused to block accounts of journalists, politicians, and activists tweeting on farmers’ protests, a push has been started by many to an […]
Examinations for students pursuing diplomas from Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (CCET) will begin on February 19 that will continue till March 19. Students have been given the option of both online and offline medium for the exam. Punjab Technical Board has asked all the students to submit their choice of medium of exam by […]