ISRO
Regional Technology

ISRO invites applications for a free, four-day online certificate course

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is inviting applications for a free online course on Geographical Information System (GIS) for Supply Chain Management. GIS is a technology that is capable of capturing, storing, manipulating, visualising and analysing location-based data. The course is being offered as part of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s outreach program through […]

Satish Kaul
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Veteran actor Satish Kaul passes away at 74 due to Covid complications

Veteran actor Satish Kaul, who had 300 Punjabi and Hindi films to his credit, passed away due to coronavirus-related complications on Saturday in Ludhiana. He was 74. The actor’s funeral will take place on Sunday. He was best known for his role in BR Chopra’s mythological series Mahabharat wherein he essayed the role of Lord […]

land records
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Punjab Governor launches digitised land records in Chandigarh

VP Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab, inaugurated the Digitised Land Records of Revenue Department on Friday in presence of Manoj Parida, Adviser to the Administrator. With this, the Records of Rights (RoR) of 23 out of 25 villages of Chandigarh will be made available online. Also, more than 35,000 shareholders can access, check and even […]

Dera Bassi
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Ranjit Singh Reddy elected president of Dera Bassi Municipal Council

Congress councillor Ranjit Singh Reddy was elected as the new President of the Dera Bassi Municipal Council on Friday. The meeting of the municipal council was held on Friday in the presence of Dera Bassi Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kuldeep Bawa and the councillors elected their president. District Congress Committee, Mohali president, Deepinder Dhillon said, […]

Guru Tegh Bahadur
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Capt Amarinder urges PM to clear ₹937 cr projects for 400th Prakash Purab of Guru Tegh Bahadur

On 400th Prakash Purab of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to clear the state government’s proposal for launching various projects worth ₹937 crore, including the development of Sri Anandpur Sahib as Smart City, to pay befitting tributes to the 9th Guru. Participating […]

bird flu
Regional

Second wave of bird flu: 100 birds found dead in Himachal Pradesh

Around 100 migratory birds have been found dead in Pong Dam Lake in the last two weeks after the outbreak of a second wave of bird flu in Himachal Pradesh, said wildlife officials. In early January, bird flu had first been confirmed among migratory waterbirds at Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary which had left around […]

Zirakpur
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Udayvir Dhillon elected as Zirakpur municipal council president

Ward No. 12 councillor Udayvir Singh Dhillon, 32, was unanimously elected the president of the Zirakpur Municipal Council for a tenure of five years. Son of Dera Bassi Congress in-charge Deepinder Singh Dhillon and first-time councillor, Udayvir said, “Allround development will be done in Zirakpur and illegal constructions stopped. Bringing water from the Kajauli waterworks […]

government school
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Punjab issues new guidelines for admission in government schools

To address the problems faced by the students regarding admission in government schools, the education department has issued new guidelines and directed to the school heads not to refuse admission to any student on the basis of documents. Disclosing this, a spokesperson of the school education department said that following the directions of Education Minister […]

KGP
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NHAI increases toll tax, now pay ₹15 more on KGP Expressway

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has released a new list of hiked toll tax which will be applicable from April 1. With this, the toll tax on Kundli–Ghaziabad–Palwal (KGP) Expressway or National Expressway 2 has been increased by ₹15 for a car and ₹100 for a truck. The new charges of the KGP […]

Punjab
Regional

From April 1, free govt-bus travel for women in Punjab

Women in Punjab will get to travel for free in all the government-run buses within the state from Thursday (April 1), announced chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh earlier this month. He had announced the free travel scheme in the Vidhan Sabha on March 5, as part of his government’s efforts to empower women and […]