Chandigarh To facilitate economically backward students from the state aspiring to get into the armed forces, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday decided that the government would bear the cost of poor students at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (MRSAFPI), Mohali, for their Class XI and XII education. The institute has tied […]
New Delhi The Nanavati Commission report on the 2002 Gujarat riots gives a clean chit to the state government then led by Narendra Modi, who has been Prime Minister of India since 2014. Action should be taken against the police who were ineffective in controlling mobs and did not show the “competence necessary” to do […]
Punjab Employees of a few departments of the state government on Monday observed a pen-down strike in protest against unpaid salaries for the month of November. The employees of technical education and industrial training, irrigation, industry and education departments also held a protest rally here over the issue.Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal had earlier said […]
Haryana A teacher of a private school in Haryana’s Hisar allegedly painted the face of six students, including two girls, black and paraded them inside the school for getting low marks in English language test. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about it. Her […]
Shimla Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday welcomed the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha. “Rising above the differences, the Modi government takes all sections along with it. The latest example of this is the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019. Devbhoomi Himachal congratulates the Centre and all the honourable […]
Chandigarh The Chandigarh Administration’s claims of making onions available at nominal cost have been belied as the Centre has informed them that it will take 10 more days to supply those onions. The administration had announced around a week ago that they would make onions available at the rate of Rs 60-65 per kg as ‘immediate relief’ […]
Chandigarh Commuters on the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) buses, both local and long-route ones, will soon be able to make digital payments for tickets in addition to cash payments. The UT transport department has initiated the process of introducing electronic ticket vending machines compatible with digital payments. Confirming the development, Uma Shankar Gupta, additional secretary, […]
New Delhi Describing the Citizenship Amendment Bill as a “dangerous turn in the wrong direction”, a federal US commission on international religious freedom has sought American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal Indian leadership if the bill with the “religious criterion” is passed by both houses of Parliament. The Lok Sabha passed […]
“Nursing is a service, you have to commit your all when you are into this profession. Nothing should interrupt your engagement with your patient at any time,” says Shobhna Pathania, a nursing sister at the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH) in Sector 16, Chandigarh, who won the National Florence Nightingale Award on Thursday for her contribution […]
The CBI investigating the Rs 250-crore scholarship scam in Himachal Pradesh’s Education Department is all set to file a chargesheet against 16 persons, including six officers of the department on key posts during 2012-17, by December-end. Owners of 10 private institutions too will be prosecuted. Approval for the same has been given by the state […]