India has reported 2,568 fresh coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours – a marginal spike of 65 cases in comparison to Monday’s tally. The overall Covid cases in the country – logged since the start of the pandemic – stand at 4,29,96,062. In the last 24 hours, 97 deaths were logged, taking the total […]
Punjab Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann on Monday said he would submit his resignation as a member of parliament. He is a two-time Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur parliamentary constituency in the state.“I will resign as Sangrur MP after going to Delhi today. The people of Sangrur have showered me with so much love for many […]
The Congress on Sunday admitted that the results of the assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are a cause of concern but there’s no call for a change in the party’s leadership as every member of the party – the Congress leaders addressing the press meet stressed on the unanimous nature […]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, days after he secured re-election in the state assembly elections. On a day two-day visit to the national capita, he also met meet Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda, Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh. Earlier in […]
The Indian embassy in Ukraine has been temporarily relocated in Poland, the ministry of external affairs said amid the war between Russia and Ukraine that entered the 18th day. “In view of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Ukraine, including attacks in the western parts of the country, it has been decided that the Indian […]
Russian forces pounded the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, shelling its downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and elsewhere to avoid the explosions. Fighting also raged on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Russia kept up its bombardment of other cities throughout the country. Mariupol has endured some of Ukraine’s worst punishment […]
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 […]