A Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft carrying 22 passengers – including four Indians and three Japanese nationals – flying from Pokhara to Jomsom in Nepal, lost its contact with the airport authorities on Sunday morning, news agency ANI reported. The plane lost its contact at 9:55am, it added. The remaining were Nepali citizens, ANI […]
Maharashtra on Saturday reported its first cases of the Covid-19 infection with BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron strain of the virus in at least seven cases in Pune. According to the state health department’s report on whole genomic sequencing, four patients of BA.4 variants and three patients of BA.5 variants were detected in […]
Session on Mental Health issues faced by Journalists organized by Facebook and Fortis Healthcare Chandigarh, May 28, 2022: Mental Health issues of journalists must be debated and addressed and the media houses should pay attention to the mental stress faced by the media persons at different levels and in odd situations like COVID times. The […]
The Punjab government has withdrawn the security of 424 VIPs in the state. These include former MLAs and former police officers.Ten personnel from the security of Dera Radha Soami, Beas, have also been withdrawn. Two personnel from Majitha MLA Ganeive Kaur Majithia’s security have also been withdrawn.One person from the security of former Punjab DGP […]
A Mohali court on Friday sent sacked Punjab minister Vijay Singla to 14-day judicial custody.Singla, who held the health portfolio in the state government, was arrested on corruption charge on Tuesday after chief minister Bhagwant Mann sacked him as he was accused of demanding “one per cent commission” in tenders and purchases by his department. […]
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, son of film actor Shah Rukh Khan, in the October 2021 ‘drugs on cruise’ case in which he was arrested last year.Officials of the NCB, which filed its chargesheet in a Mumbai court, said Aryan Khan and five others had not […]
A video of Shahrukh Pathan, who was accused of pointing a gun at a policeman during an anti-CAA protest in Jafrabad, being welcomed by his supporters as he got four-hour parole has gone viral. The video is of May 23 when Shahrukh Pathan reached his residence to meet his 65-year-old ailing father. In the viral […]
India has the potential to become a global drone hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday as he inaugurated the country’s biggest drone festival. “During the earlier governments, technology was considered part of the problem, efforts were made to prove it was anti-poor. Due to this, there was an atmosphere of indifference regarding the […]
National security advisor Ajit Doval on Friday urged the participant countries at a dialogue with counterparts from seven other countries, including China, to enhance the capability of Afghanistan to counter the terrorism and terrorist groups which pose a threat to regional peace and security. Right to life, dignified living, human rights, and accessibility to assistance […]
Uttar Pradesh finance minister Suresh Khanna on Friday presented the first budget of the Yogi Adityanath government in its second term in the Legislative Assembly. Stating that the economy of the state is improving rapidly, Khanna said, “We believe we will be successful in taking the economy to $1 trillion.” Tabling the budget, the finance […]