North India continued to reel under intense cold on December 29 as the Haryana government decided to close schools for two days and reduced visibility due to dense fog affected the movement of flights and trains at several places. In Haryana, where the minimum temperatures have been hovering close to the freezing point at some […]
New Delhi Have you always been mystified and intrigued by the world of ghosts, the supernatural or the paranormal? Now you can learn ‘Bhoot Vidya’ or the ‘science of paranormal’ in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) which is starting a six month certificate course on the subject. Bhoot Vidya is essentially psychotherapy and in the […]
Ahead of the Delhi polls early next year, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the election campaign at a town hall on Thursday. The Aam Aadmi Party chief promised Delhi a shining, clean city with improved sanitation, 100 per cent piped pure water and a safer city for women in the town hall that had AAP […]
A day after JJP MLA from Narnaund Ram Kumar Gautam “resigned” from his party post and hinted of a revolt, the party’s leadership led by Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala went into a huddle for damage control, but the defiant legislator hardened his stance further. Dushyant today had a meeting with senior leaders of the JJP, […]
Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday asked the Centre to include Punjab in the ₹6000 crore ‘Atal Bhujal Yojana’ for conservation of groundwater resources. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the CM cited media reports about exclusion of Punjab from the scheme, urging him to direct the ministry of jal shakti […]
The Election Commission on Thursday began a series of meetings to decide on the dates for the Assembly elections in Delhi as the term of the current Assembly expires in February 2020. An official of the Commission said that “there will be a series of meetings to decide on the poll dates for the 70-member […]
In a major administrative reshuffle, the Punjab government on Saturday shifted 16 IAS and 15 PCS officers. As per the orders, Sanjay Kumar will now be additional chief secretary, local government, in place of A Venu Prasad, who will now be secretary, water resources. He replaces Sarvjit Singh. Prasad, it is learnt, had some differences […]
New Delhi: Trouble has erupted for the ruling BJP’s Haryana ally Dushyant Chautala, with a senior leader of his Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) quitting his party post in a huff. Ram Kumar Gautam, an MLA, resigned on Wednesday as the party’s vice president after going public with his criticism of Dushyant Chautala. Dushyant Chautala “should […]
The Punjab government on Wednesday clarified that the Governor had not returned the Punjab State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill, 2019. The Governor had sought from the state certain clarifications in the Bill, relating to conflict of interest in the case of appointment of six MLAs as advisers to the Chief Minister, a government […]
Shimla The era of 1980s came alive on the eve of Christmas as the historic Christ Church bell on The Ridge rang this midnight after 35 years. The 150-year-old bell was working till 1980s but due to unavailability of spare parts and non-maintenance, it was abandoned. There was nothing on the site and the structure […]