Defending champions France learned their opponents as the draw ceremony for FIFA World Cup 2022 at the Doha exhibition center on Friday as much-criticised Qatar gears up to host football’s biggest showpiece event. France, who won the title in 2018, will face Denmark and Tunisia in Group D at the World Cup, which gets underway […]
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday praised India’s stance on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and said Russia appreciates that India is taking the situation in the entirety of effect and not just one-sided way. India has called for an immediate ceasefire but abstained from all UNSC resolutions condemning Russian aggression. The meeting between external […]
Ahead of the commencement of the next school academic year, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday ordered Punjab schools against imposing any hike in school admission or tution fee. This will bring relief to hundreds of thousands of children and their parents in the state, many of who are forced to either change schools […]
After a coronavirus pandemic-induced hiatus of over two years, regular international flights are set to resume from Sunday with airports and airlines getting ready for normal overseas operations.Battered by the pandemic, the airline industry is slowly coming back to normalcy and the resumption of normal overseas flights is expected to provide a fillip to the […]
In the first major decision of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, the state cabinet on Saturday decided to extend the free ration scheme initiated during the Covid pandemic by three more months. The programme was supposed to expire in March.A total of 15 crore people are benefiting from the programme in the state, […]
IIT Delhi assistant professor Sandeep Pathak, Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and ex-spinner Harbhajan Singh are all set to file nominations for three of the five Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant from Punjab and set for elections on March 31. The five vacancies in Punjab are arising due to the term of the […]
In less than a week after an international kabaddi player was killed, Punjab Police have solved the high-profile murder case with the arrest of four accused persons involved in conspiring the crime. A prominent kabaddi player identified as Sandeep Singh alias Sandeep Nangal Ambia was shot dead by five unidentified assailants during an ongoing Kabaddi […]
The United States remains in touch with Indian leaders and continues to encourage them to work closely with it to stand up against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the White House said. “As you know, we remain in touch through a range of channels from our national security team with leaders in India and continue […]
Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh could follow the footsteps of his illustrious teammate Sachin Tendulkar as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha as he is likely to be Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) candidate for a seat in the Upper House. AAP, after sweeping the polls in Punjab, formed the new government with Bhagwant […]
Congress MP Manish Tewari shares invitation card, says was not invited to Channi’s swearing-in. Punjab CM swearing-in: Three stages at venue Bhagwant Mann swearing-in: Over 3 lakh people expected to attend. Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann is all set to be sworn in Punjab chief minister at Khatkar Kalan, Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village. […]