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 […]
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 […]