Haryana Nine candidates have scored a perfect 100 in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)- Mains, the results of which were announced on Friday by the HRD Ministry’s National Testing Agency. The toppers for the engineering entrance exam include Delhi boy Nishant Agarwal, Nisarg Chadha from Gujarat, Haryana’s Divyanshu Agarwal, Landa Jitendra and Thadavarthi Vishnu Sri […]
Himachal A 68-year-old German tourist died in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district on Friday, police said. Rozowski Adelheid had been living in Malkota village in Bharmour tehsil for the last about four months, they said, adding no foul play was found behind her death. Her visa was found valid till February 2 and the German embassy […]
Chandigarh Arun Sood was on Friday unanimously elected president of the Chandigarh unit of the BJP for the next three years. Outgoing president Sanjay Tandon was unanimously elected member of the national council of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Both were elected unopposed. The announcement was made by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who […]
Chandigarh Kunwar Preet Singh has topped the city in the JEE Main 2020 examinations, the results of which were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA). According to the results issued late Friday night, he scored 99.99 percentile and is among the 41 state-wise toppers. A total of 8,69,010 students appeared in the exam. The […]
Jakarta Defending champion Anders Antonsen of Denmark advanced to the Indonesia Masters semi-final Friday after beating hometown star Jonatan Christie. Antonsen will meet Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu on Saturday at Istora Senayan stadium in the capital Jakarta. The Dane upset Christie, the 2018 Asian Games men’s champion, in a 21-14, 10-21 and 21-12 match […]
Punjab A resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed in the Punjab Assembly by voice vote on the last day of the two-day special session on Friday. The resolution, which was introduced by Local bodies and Parliamentary affairs minister Brahm Mohindra, called for doing away with CAA as it was “against humanistic […]
Haryana In the ongoing Khelo India in Guwahati, judo players from Haryana have won fifteen medals. Haryana has won two gold medals and four silver medals and nine bronze medals and Gurugram’s Rekha has captured the silver medal. In the 55 kg weight category under-17 age group, Garvit won bronze and in 73 kg weight […]
Shimla A 1,995-kg ‘khichdi’ dish made from rice and lentils, prepared by the Himachal Pradesh Department of Tourism in association with Shimla-based Durga Devi Behari Lal Charitable Trust, entered the Guinness World Records on Tuesday. It was served to devotees on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, the Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Surya, at […]
Chandigarh Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing alloy wheels of half a dozen four-wheelers in the last three months in Chandigarh. They were arrested by Crime branch Inspector Ranjeet Singh team. The accused were identified as Jaspartap Singh, 26, of Sector 38 and Aditya Rana, 23, of Toga village in Mohali. Police claimed that they […]
Chandigarh The administration has imposed complete ban on operating drones within the limits of the Mohali district with immediate effect. The ban has been imposed in anticipation of the VVIP movement in the district in coming days. Mohali district magistrate Girish Dayalan has issued prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC, which remain in […]