On Wednesday, 239 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Chandigarh, taking the tally to 4,789. This is the first time that the city has crossed the 2,000 mark in active cases. Two deaths were also reported taking the death toll to 59. As many as 2,670 patients have been cured till date and 2,057 cases […]
The result of Times World University Rankings 2021 was announced on Wednesday. The world ranking is based upon the five indicators which represent key areas in higher education excellence. These are teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook. In the overall category, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, has topped the list. Indian Institute of […]
Exams for final-year students of all universities and colleges in Haryana will be conducted by the end of September and the results will be declared before October 31, 2020. The decision was taken in a meeting organised by Haryana State Higher Education Council through video conferencing which was attended by the vice chancellors and controllers […]
The odd-even system of opening shops in congested markets in Chandigarh will end from September 4. This decision was taken on Wednesday in war room meeting presided over by Governor Punjab and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore. Also, the vegetable market which is presently operating from Sector 17 bus stand will be shifted back to […]
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi is expected to address the UN General Assembly on September 26, according to a provisional list of speakers issued by the world body for the high-level meeting. For the first time in the UN’s 75-year history, the annual General Assembly session this year will be held virtually due to the […]
Indian astronomers have discovered one of the farthest star galaxies in the universe, which is estimated to be located 9.3 billion light years away from Earth, announced the Department of Space, Indian Government. This is a landmark achievement for the country’s first Multi-Wavelength Space Observatory ‘AstroSat’. Sharing this information, Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra […]
Ophelie Belin has been appointed as the new directrice of Alliance Francaise (AF), Sector 36, Chandigarh. The former director, Sylvain Choin, went back to France to start a new chapter as a director of a school. He was the youngest director at AF who had spent almost four years in Chandigarh. With his help, the […]
Simranjit Kaur, the first Punjabi woman boxer to qualify for the Olympics, received a cheque of ₹5 lakh by the Punjab Government on Tuesday. The cheque was handed over by Punjab Cabinet Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, to the boxer’s mother Rajpal Kaur in Ludhiana. In January, Simranjit had shared […]
After his sudden return from the UAE, Suresh Raina finally broke his silence in a tweet on Tuesday about an incident wherein two of his relatives were killed. Raina’s uncle was allegedly killed in an attack by robbers in Pathankot district of Punjab. The left-handed batsman also said that one of his cousins also passed […]
As many as 7,263 students appeared for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) that commenced in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Many students arrived for the exam Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Preparations for the JEE mains were conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). The exams were computer based and the following centres were allotted: Aaja Dashmesh […]