Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) founder and former MP Ajay Singh Chautala was chosen as the party president on Monday. The decision was taken at the national executive meeting of the party held in Panchkula. Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, who is Ajay Chautala’s son, extended his wishes in a tweet: “Founder of party and […]
Punjab chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday flagged off Corona Testing Mobile Clinic and Ambulance, which has been donated by Vikramjit Sahney, chairman of Sun Foundation & International. Explaining the salient features of the mobile clinic, Sahney said that it has contact-less thermal testing with nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab tests. “The fully air […]
Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar, 66, who was admitted to a private hospital in Gurugram for the treatment of Covid-19, is stable, hospital authorities said on Thursday. A press statement said, “CM Haryana continues to remain stable and active. His vitals are being maintained. He is kept under strict observation and monitoring in […]
The Punjab Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister (CM) Amarinder Singh, approved the ‘Sri Guru Teg Bahadur State University of Law Bill – 2020’ for presentation in the forthcoming session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. The law university in the border district of Tarn Taran will be established to commemorate the 400th birth anniversary […]
Punjab industries and commerce minister Sunder Sham Arora and two legislators from Patiala district tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Arora announced on Twitter, “I have tested positive for Covid-19 and have quarantined myself at my Chandigarh residence. I request all those persons who came in contact with me during the last few days to […]
Former chief minister (CM) Parkash Singh Badal’s residence at village Badal has been declared as a Macro Containment Zone after 19 people including security staff, cooks and some of them reported positive corona. However, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, his wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal, daughter Gurleen Kaur and son Anantveer Singh have tested […]
The Punjab Government issued new guidelines on Monday regarding medical fitness for home isolation of asymptomatic/mild symptomatic patients and patients aged more than 60 or with co-morbidities and pregnant women. All such patients will be offered the opportunity to give undertaking at the time of sampling regarding availability of home isolation facility at their residence, […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) shot down five intruders in an encounter on Saturday morning along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. The infiltrators were trying to enter the Indian territory through the Khemkaran border area when they were spotted by the BSF patrol team at around 5am, officials said. “Upon being challenged […]
One teacher from Punjab is among the 47 teachers selected for National Awards to Teachers, 2020. List of the selected teachers was released by Ministry of Education, Government of India, on Friday night. Rajinder Kumar is a teacher at the Government Primary School, Wara Bhaika village, in Faridkot district. He has been working since 2008 […]
Chandigarh’s Punjab University (PU) and Haryana’s Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) Agricultural University are among the top five government-aided varsities, while Chitkara University made it to the Top 25 in the private Universities’ category in the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020, launched by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. ARIIA is an initiative […]