Stirring from a seven-month hibernation, pilgrims returned to Mecca on Sunday after Saudi authorities partially lifted the Covid ban on performing umrah (pilgrimage to Islam’s two holiest sites undertaken at any time of year). Pilgrimage will be revived in three phases, with Saudi Hajj Minister Mohammad Benten saying last week that 6,000 pilgrims per day […]
Chirag Falor from the IIT Bombay zone topped the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2020, scoring 352 marks out of 396. The results were announced by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) at jeeadv.ac.in on Monday. Among women candidates, Kanishka Mittal (AIR 17) is the topper. Mittal obtained 315 marks out of 396 and […]
Chandigarh Administration started a Help Desk to monitor Covid positive patients who have opted for home isolation and also to address to the queries of the general public. This help desk will be 24*7 operational, where staff and doctors will call all the patients in home isolation and advise them regarding the medicines to be […]
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated two passenger boarding bridges (PBBs) at Chandigarh Airport on Saturday. Now, the airport has five PBBs. The newly constructed PBBs have been built are at a cost of ₹10.5 crore and the tunnel of these passengers boarding bridges were manufactured at BEML, Bangalore. The minister was apprised about the ongoing […]
To avoid challan, Delhi government has urged vehicle owners to upgrade their vehicle number plates to high-security registration plates. The ministry of road transport and highways had made it mandatory for vehicle manufacturers to provide HSRPs from April 2019. The demand for High Security Registration Plates has risen with the state government’s notice last week. […]
Twitter is working on a new product “Birdwatch” to help fight misinformation on its platform. If a tweet has a Birdwatch note then a small binocular icon will appear next to it. One can tap on this icon to read notes that have been written about the tweet. There’s also an “add to Birdwatch” option […]
Mohali witnessed only 88 new Covid-19 cases today, taking the count to 10,833. For the first time after a month, no death was reported. Till now, 199 deaths have been reported in the district. There are 1,687 active cases in the district. In Chandigarh, three people lost the battle to Covid-19 on Friday, taking the […]
Pakistan government announced that Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib Corridor was reopened on Friday after the Covid-19 situation improved in the country. India on Saturday said it will take a decision on the recommencement of travelling through the 4.7-kilometre-long passage that connects Dera Baba Nanak Sahib and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, in accordance with the Covid-19 protocol. “We […]
Names of the 20 Indian soldiers who were killed in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15 have been inscribed on a war memorial in eastern Ladakh to honour them, said officials on Saturday. The Indian Army memorial has come up at ‘KM-120’, a point near the confluence of the Galwan and Shyok […]
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi inaugurated world’s highest Atal tunnel at Rohtang today. Earlier, Modi had tweeted, “Fulfilling Atal Ji’s dream of top quality infrastructure. Will be in Himachal Pradesh tomorrow to dedicate the #AtalTunnel in Rohtang to the nation. This is an iconic infrastructure project built at a height of 10,000 feet.” “The #AtalTunnel […]