HOSHIARPUR DCA LIFTS Trident Inter District One Day Cricket Tournament 2021 18th Feb 2021: Chandigarh / Barnala: Hoshiarpur DCA won the Trident Inter District One Day Cricket Tournament 2021 by beating Muktsar DCA in the finals played at Trident Complex Barnala by 44 runs. The ground covered under the thick fog in the morning compelled the organizers to reduce the […]
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said the protesting farmers will take the agitation to the poll-bound West Bengal if the Centre does not concur with their demands against the new farm laws. Addressing a maha panchayat at Kharak Punia here, he said, “Crops prices are not increased, but fuel prices have […]
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 player auction took place in Chennai on Thursday. The IPL 2021 auction saw eight franchises aggressively bidding for nearly 300 players. South Africa all-rounder Chris Morris became the most expensive buy in the IPL history as he was picked up by Rajasthan Royals for a record price of ₹16.25 […]
Uttar Pradesh’s Shabnam, who was convicted along with her lover Salim in the Amroha murder case, will be the first Indian woman who will be hanged to death after India’s independence. The Mathura Jail administration has already started preparations to hang this Uttar Pradesh resident. In April 2008, Shabnam, brutally murdered seven of her family […]
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) will hold a draw of 289 residential plots at Eco City-2, New Chandigarh, on February 22, 2021. Sharing the details, an official spokesperson said that the list of the applicants, who will be eligible to take part in the draw, has already been uploaded on the website gmada.gov.in […]
Punjab government on Monday decided to establish nine more fast-track courts under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Sexual Assault Response Teams in all the 27 police districts of the state to deal with cases of sexual attacks on women. This decision was undertaken to strengthen the investigation and prosecution machinery for […]
Actor Sandeep Nahar, who was seen in the Sushant Singh Rajput starrer ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’, followed by the Akshay Kumar – led ‘Kesari’ and then in the Sonakshi Sinha movie ‘Khandaani Shafakhana’ died allegedly by suicide, last evening (Monday, February 15). The actor Sandeep Nahar before his suicide had posted a long post […]
The Department of Punjab Forest and Wildlife Preservation, in collaboration with the World-Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India), recently released another lot of 23 critically endangered long-snouted gharials into the Beas flowing in Hoshiarpur district. The gharials were transported in boxes from Chhatbir Zoo in Chandigarh, where they had been kept for a year after being […]
Voting turnout recorded a new high in general/by-elections of 8 Municipal Corporations and 109 Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats of Punjab as 71.39% of votes have been polled. These polls have been delayed by at least six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesperson of the Punjab State Election Commission said that the highest […]
The Haryana government is planning to reopen primary schools in the new academic session. Education Minister of Haryana said, “The academic session now has very little time left. So, the state government is considering reopening schools for primary classes from the next academic session.” On February 10, 2021, Education Minister Kanawarpal Gurjar put a pause […]