A Venu Prasad has been appointed Principal Secretary to the CM.He is a 1991 batch IAS officer.He has remained the CMD of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for long, and was currently posted as ACS, Excise and Taxation.This has set in motion the administrative changes to be effected by the new AAP government.
Four terrorists, including a Pakistani commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), were killed and an ultra was arrested in three separate encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. The encounters took place in Pulwama, Ganderbal and Kupwara districts of the Kashmir Valley, a police official said.He said two JeM terrorists, including […]
India’s military accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said on Friday, claiming that routine maintenance made the missile go off because of a ‘technical malfunction’.The missile landed in ‘an area of Pakistan’, the defence ministry said in a statement, adding that a high-level inquiry had been ordered. India called the bombing […]
Aam Aadmi Party chief ministerial candidate in the Punjab Assembly elections Bhagwant Mann on Friday was elected as the leader of the AAP Legislative Party in the state.This came a day after the Aam Aadmi Party registered a huge win in the elections bagging 92 seats in the 117-member Assembly. Mann, who was the party’s […]
Punjab chief minister-elect Bhagwant Mann said on Friday he will announce the date of his swearing-in by evening, as he left for Delhi to meet Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal after the party emerged victorious in the Punjab assembly elections, the polling for which took place on February 20, followed by Thursday’s […]
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday morning tweeted that his party has “shown that the BJP’s seats” can be reduced in the state assembly, a day after the Samajwadi Party failed to stop its rival from returning to power in Uttar Pradesh. “We have shown that the BJP’s seats can be reduced. The fall for the BJP […]
Lauding BJP workers for ensuring an early Holi by making BJP victorious in four states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the election results highlight people’s stamp of strong approval for the party’s pro-poor and pro-active governance model. “It is a day of zest and festivities and this enthusiasm is for India’s democracy,” Modi […]
Charanjit Singh Channi says he humbly accepts the verdict. Charanjit Singh Channi said he humbly accepts the verdict by the people of Punjab and congratulated the AAP on the victory. Ferozepur: Rajnish Dahiya, AAP candidate from Ferozepur (Rural) declared winner with a margin of 27457 votes. Punjabi singer Balkar Sidhu wins from Rampura Phul. He […]
The National Medical Commission on Wednesday said it was doing away with the upper age limit for candidates taking the medical undergraduate entrance exam—the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-UG—from 2022. In a communication to the National Testing Agency, which conducts the exam annually, Pulkesh Kumar, NMC Secretary, said, “It has been decided that there should […]
McDonald’s and Starbucks are shutting their restaurants and cafes in Russia, and Coca-Cola is suspending its operations there in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. PepsiCo is also pulling some products from the country.”McDonald’s has decided to temporarily close all our restaurants in Russia and pause all operations in the market,” CEO Chris Kempczinski said […]