Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and the Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu for their reckless and irresponsible response to the grave security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Punjab visit on Wednesday. “Channi, Randhawa and Sidhu […]
With Social Media emerging as a new challenge, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Friday organised a workshop for all the District Public Relation Officers (DPROs) on ‘Social Media Monitoring’ to help them in countering fake news and identification of paid news during upcoming Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. Dr Rubal Kanozia, […]
To impart quality and world-class education to youngsters of the state, the Punjab Government has initiated a new idea to impart IELTS coaching through Govt Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in synergy with Cambridge University Press India. Cambridge University Press India is a subsidiary of the Cambridge University Press UK, which is the publishing business of […]
Heavy rain lashed several parts of Punjab and Haryana during the past 24 hours until Thursday morning. he minimum temperatures, however, hovered above normal limits in the two states. According to the meteorological department’s weather report, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Mohali, Moga, Gurdaspur, Ambala, Hisar, Narnaul, Rohtak, Panchkula and Bhiwani […]
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said Haryana is a leading state in the installation of solar water pumps to promote micro-irrigation under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM). Khattar provided solar pumps to the farmers during an inauguration programme held through videoconferencing from Chandigarh.The government is giving a 75 per […]
A total of 125 passengers on a Milan-Amritsar charter flight were found to be Covid-positive when tested on arrival, government officials said on Thursday. Officials said there were a total of 179 passengers on the charter flight YU-661 that landed at the Amritsar airport at around 1.30 PM on Wednesday.Since Italy is one of the […]
Taking a tough stance, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday spoke with Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and expressed her displeasure over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach on Wednesday.In a major security lapse, the prime minister’s convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by protesters at Ferozepur in Punjab on […]
The Election Commission on Thursday reviewed the Covid situation with the Union health secretary and experts, collecting inputs on necessary safety measures to be ensured during the democratic exercise and emphasising the need for vaccination of all eligible people in five poll-bound states, sources said. The government shared with the poll panel the weekly positivity […]
Thirty-nine students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, a district official said. With this, 81 NIT Hamirpur students have been found infected with the coronavirus in the last two days. On Wednesday, 42 students of the institute were found COVID-19 positive.Apart from the 39 NIT students, 23 […]