Shimla The tourism industry is buoyant as tourists are making a beeline to key tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh to ring in the New Year and all hotels in the state capital are packed to capacity. There is a surge in tourist arrivals with record footfall expected following a prediction of snowfall on New Year […]
Fall in power demand following economic slowdown and ongoing winter season has prompted Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to shut all units of its thermal power plants and instead buy power to meet the local demand. Power-surplus Punjab is currently finding it hard to sell electricity due to poor demand. As power demand in […]
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 […]