A mobile app was launched in Chandigarh on Tuesday for city residents to assess their carbon footprints and steps to reduce it to make them climate-smart citizens. ‘Carbon Watch’ app, developed by UT Department of Environment works on all Android-supporting smartphones. Apart from Chandigarh residents, others too can create accounts on it to calculate their […]
German sportswear company Adidas plans to sell its underperforming Reebok brand – some 15 years after Adidas acquired the Boston-based brand to help it compete in the American market. Adidas acquired Reebok in 2006 for roughly $3.8 billion in an attempt to better compete with Nike, but the brand has posted disappointing sales figures in […]
The Chandigarh Administration has decided that all the Sampark Centres will accept the payments on behalf of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) from February 17. This was decided in a meeting chaired by Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to Administrator, on Tuesday with officers from CHB, Department of IT, Finance Department and National Informatics Centre (NIC). He […]
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) will hold a draw of 289 residential plots at Eco City-2, New Chandigarh, on February 22, 2021. Sharing the details, an official spokesperson said that the list of the applicants, who will be eligible to take part in the draw, has already been uploaded on the website gmada.gov.in […]
Following the irregularities in booth number 32 and 33 of ward number 10, State Election Commission (SEC) on Tuesday directed the Mohali Sub Divisional Magistrate-cum-Returning Officer to conduct re-polling of Municipal Corporation (MC) in the two booths. The re-polling will take place on February 17 from 8am to 4pm. The counting of votes has now […]
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 […]