A delegation from France arrived in Chandigarh on Monday for a five-day tour to study the 24*7 water supply project of smart city. Due to Covid, only some French Embassy officials have come, while other officials joined the online project review meeting. On the first day, officials gave a presentation and said that the French […]
The country’s ‘cheapest’ diagnostic facility will start functioning at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in December and an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) will cost just ₹50, according to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC). A dialysis centre is also being set up at Guru Harkrishan Hospital on the gurdwara premises. It will start functioning next week. […]
Due to drop in of Covid-19 occupancy at level-1 facilities, Punjab Government has decided to close all the care centres in the state with immediate effect. According to the orders issued by Health Department, these centres have been told to shift Covid-19 Level-2 patients to government hospitals and volunteers who were recruited on a temporary […]
Fourteen Sanjh Services, related to Department of Home, will be available with immediate effect at all Sewa Kendras of the district, informed Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan on Monday. These services are acknowledgment of complaint, information of action taken on complaint, copy of FIR or DDR, copy of untraced report in road accident cases, copy of […]
In Chandigarh, 133 cases and three deaths were reported on Monday, taking the total count to 12,578 and death toll to 174. There are 1,604 active cases in the city. In Mohali 63 positive cases were reported, taking the total tally to 10,963. With 169 recoveries, number of active cases came down to 1,431. As […]
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, mosquito-borne diseases have witnessed a declined according to government data. Lowest number of dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases were reported in 2020 compared to last six years. According to the Health Department, only 13 cases of dengue and only six cases of malaria have been recorded till August this year, whereas […]
DRDO India successfully tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha on Monday. All mission objectives, including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM), were met perfectly in the flight […]
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize 2020 for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver […]
Long before Harry Potter and Star Wars became a trend, British super-spy James Bond used to light up the silver screen. Six different actors have portrayed as the 007, willing do anything for the Queen and his country. They are (in order) Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. […]
Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park, popularly known as Chhatbir Zoo, is scheduled to reopen on October 15 after a gap of about seven months. Zoo’s field director M Sudhagar said, “We are preparing to reopen on October 15, but are awaiting the final orders from the state government.” The zoo employees have been instructed to ensure […]