Mohali
Regional Sports

Mohali & Patiala Dist to meet in finals of Inter-District U-19 years Tourney 2021-22

Mohali achieved a magnificent victory over Amritsar by 8 wickets while Patiala beat Hoshiarpur by an innings and 152 runs to reach finals of Dhruv Pandove Trophy. The First semi-final of Punjab State U-19 years Tournament 2021-22 was played at Gandhi Grounds Amritsar between Mohali v/s Amritsar from 17th -20th July, 2021. Amritsar won the […]

Chandigarh
Regional

Chandigarh: All colleges & universities to open from this August

Chandigarh administration has provided more relaxations in the Covid restrictions after holding a war room meeting presided by UT administrator VP Singh Badnore on Tuesday. After detailed discussions in the War Room, the following decisions were taken:- (i)    Strict action be taken by the Chandigarh Police against the violators of the Covid protocol, particularly for […]

Punjab
Regional

Punjab CM directs to open schools for classes 10 to 12, allows further relaxations

Schools for Classes 10, 11, and 12 in Punjab are all set to open from July 26, with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announcing further relaxations, including increase in the number of people in indoor gatherings to 150 and outdoors to 300, subject to an upper limit of 50% of the capacity. Taking […]

dose
Health Regional

Prospect of third Covid ‘booster’ dose gains interest with spread of Delta variant

As the Delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the world, the prospect of a third “booster” dose is gaining interest even in nations where a large proportion of people are vaccinated. Experts say it is too soon to know for sure if countries will need to organise a third vaccine round later in the year. Some […]

PEC
Regional

Trident Group Chairman Rajinder Gupta re-appointed as Chairman of reconstituted Board of Directors of PEC

The Punjab Engineering College (PEC, Deemed to be University) on Thursday reconstituted the Board of Governors with Chairman Trident Group Rajinder Gupta continuing in his post as Chairman of the board. Mr Gupta has been holding this office since 2018. Rajinder Gupta founder chairman of Trident Group  and a Padam Shree Awardee is known for his […]

WhatsApp
Regional Technology

WhatsApp messages have no evidential value: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court said that the messages exchanged on WhatsApp don’t hold evidential value as the author of such messages cannot be tied to them especially in business partnerships governed by agreements. A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy said, “What is evidential value of WhatsApp […]

NGDRS
Regional

NGDRS shifted to State Data Centre, Mohali, from Delhi

The National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) and its database has been migrated from NIC Cloud Meghraj, New Delhi, to State Data Centre, Mohali, informed Ravneet Kaur, Additional Chief Secretary Revenue, Punjab. After sharing the necessary credentials the test run of the system was successfully conducted on July 11 by the Sub Registrars and the […]

Haryana
Regional

Haryana to reopen schools for Class 9 to 12 from July 16

With Covid cases declining, the Haryana government has given a go-ahead to resume offline classes in both government and private schools in the state. According to an order issued by the Directorate School Education, offline classes will resume for students of Classes 9-12 from July 16. For Classes 6-8, the offline classes will resume from […]

OTT
Regional

Upcoming OTT platform: After a year of job losses, Pollywood sees a rise in employment

After a year of struggle dealing with the economic recession, people associated with the industry have now found a silver living. The upcoming regional OTT platform has proved to be a new ray of hope for many. Soon-to-be-launched by Pitaara TV in August, this regional OTT platform has provided a myriad of opportunities to people from […]

Kempty falls
Regional

After viral video of Kempty falls in Mussoorie; dist administration imposes new norms

After a video had gone viral on social media that showed a large number of tourists bathing at Kempty Falls in Mussoorie, the district administration has imposed new norms. As per the new rules, only 50 tourists would be allowed to bathe at Kempty falls for maximum 30 minutes at a time. A check-post to […]