India India’s PV Sindhu lost the opening match of her BWF World Tour Finals campaign in Guangzhou on Wednesday. The defending champion was beaten in 3 games by higher-ranked Akane Yamaguchi. Sindhu’s title defence in Guangzhou got off to a good start as she took the first game 21-18. However, Yamaguchi forced a decider by […]
The faces of six Class 4 students of a private school in Haryana, including two girls, were allegedly blackened and they were paraded in the school premises for scoring poorly in a test, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about […]
DHARAMSHALA: For the second consecutive day of the winter session, Congress created ruckus inside the state assembly on Tuesday, making an otherwise calm and composed chief minister Jai Ram Thakur attack the opposition aggressively. If the opposition was not happy with the clubbing of adjournment notice under Rule 67 into discussion under Rule 130, the […]
Chandigarh The Met department on Tuesday issued a forecast through SMS, informing residents about light to moderate rainfall expected on December 12 and 13. According to weathermen, the days and nights both will turn colder this week with clouds making their way to the city. Mist and shallow fog will continue this week. The message […]
CHANDIGARH: Circumventing directions of the Supreme Court to appoint retired judge of the high court as chairperson of the state Police Complaints Authority (PCA), the Punjab government has finally notified the Punjab Police (Appointment of Chairperson and Members of Complaint Authorities) Rules, 2019, which will allow the state to instead appoint a retired officer of […]
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 […]