Many areas in the city faced disruption in power supply as employees of the Electricity Department went on a three-day strike in protest against the privatisation of the department. Residents of Modern Housing Complex, Category IV, Manimajra, said that electricity went off just after midnight in their area and it was yet to be restored.Similarly, […]
Lalu Yadav was sentenced today to five years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh in a fifth case linked to the fodder scam.The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was convicted in the case last week. The case involves the illegal withdrawal of Rs 139.5 crore from the Doranda treasury, as part of the fodder […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Union Budget for 2022-23 would be of great help in implementing the National Education Policy on the ground and asserted that the decision to set up a National Digital University could address the problem of shortage of seats in educational institutes in the country. Addressing a webinar […]
Punjab, on Sunday, witnessed a voter turnout of 69.65 per cent till 5pm. Punjab is expected to witness a multi-cornered contest among the ruling Congress, AAP, SAD-BSP alliance, BJP-PLC-SAD (Sanyukt) and the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha. Over 2.14 crore voters will decide the fate of 1,304 candidates including 93 women. The voting will start at 8 […]
Punjab is all set for polls on Sunday with the Office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) making all arrangements to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections in the state. Briefing the media, Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju said the entire state machinery is working round the clock to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections.He […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Asia’s biggest Bio-CNG plant, called the Gobar-Dhan plant, in Indore virtually on Saturday. Addressing the event, PM Modi said that initiative of the Bio-CNG plant is very important as the wet waste released from houses, animals and farms in villages are “in a way Gobar Dhan”. “In the coming two […]
Two Army jawans were killed during a counter-terror operation at Chermarg in the Zainapora area of Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday. According to an ANI input, a terrorist also died in the encounter that began earlier in the day. The Kashmir Zone Police said a search operation was underway. “Police and security forces are […]
The National Investigation Agency arrested decorated Himachal IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi in connection with its own investigation into Lashkar-e-Toiba’s “overground worker network”. Negi, a gallantry award winner who was investigated for having leaked information to Khurram Parvez, a human rights activist booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), had recently asked to be […]
A special court has denied bail to three persons accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, saying that the material on record suggests that the trio, along with other members of the CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation, hatched a “serious conspiracy” to create unrest in the country and to overthrow the Modi government. A letter […]
Chitkara University, Punjab has always been a leap ahead in organising activities for the protection of the environment. We got the opportunity to be the regional partners for National Environment Youth Parliament-2022 and we hosted young minds from various colleges/universities of J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. NEYP-2022 is a platform created by Manav Rachna International […]