The Punjab Cabinet on Thursday gave in-principle approval for setting up of a Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) Plant by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) at the now closed Cooperative Sugar Mills at Rakhra, Patiala. The plant, to be developed in collaboration with Sugarfed, will help reduce stubble burning through use of paddy straw for bio-gas generation […]
Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered the discontinuation of 2 digit or old registration numbers of vehicles running in the state to stop their misuse by owners as status symbol, often tricking police not to check them. The chief minister asked the Transport Department to stop the practice of transferring special and […]
Cold wave conditions are very likely in some pockets over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and other regions for the next two days, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday. The IMD has issued an orange alert on Thursday and Friday. Cold wave is declared when minimum temperature falls 4.5- 6.4°C below normal after going below […]
Punjab Transport Department has extended the last date for digital driving license upgradation till January 15, 2021. Transport Minister Razia Sultana said that in order to empower people to upgrade their manual driving licenses to digital driving license, a special campaign was launched by Transport Department in November, 2020. The objective of the campaign is […]
Visitors can now visit the Wildlife Sanctuary and Wetland at Harike Pattan which was reopened by Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Minister of Forest, Social Security and Minorities, Punjab, on Tuesday. It was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic as a precautionary measure. He said, “The Harike Wildlife Sanctuary has been a source of attraction for the […]
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, who had tested positive for Coronavirus after taking a trial dose of Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’, was referred to Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, on Tuesday. Earlier, a team of doctors from Medanta had reached Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, for the treatment of […]
Due to the spread of Covid-19, the Municipal Corporation (MC) has decided not to organise the Chrysanthemum Show this year. This is the third time in 35 years that the Chrysanthemum Show has been cancelled. Started in 1985, this event is held in December every year. More than 250 varieties of the flower are displayed. […]
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University has become the first agricultural varsity in the country to establish seven community radio stations. University vice-chancellor Prof Samar Singh launched three community radio stations simultaneously in various agricultural science centres of the institution: Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Jind, Panipat and Kurukshetra. Three community radio stations in Hisar, Jhajjar and […]
One of the country’s oldest regional party, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) became 100-years-old on 14 December, 2020. SAD was founded exactly a month after the formation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee with the prime motive to take control of the Golden Temple and liberate other historical gurdwaras from the possession of Mahants. At that […]
Intensifying their protest against the Centre’s farm laws, farmers took over some toll plazas in Haryana on Saturday and did not allow authorities to collect fees from commuters. All four toll plazas in Hisar district—located on the Delhi road, Rajgarh road, Sirsa road and Chandigarh road—were taken over by protesting farmers, who allowed vehicles to […]