PSEB Engineers’ Association members have decided to support Chandigarh electricity employees, who have gone on a three-day strike, saying that they would not help the UT administration help restore power in the city. Chandigarh electricity employees are on the strike called by the Chandigarh Power Engineers and Officials against privatisation of the department.In this situation, […]
Polling for Punjab Assembly Elections on Sunday ended peacefully with 71.95 % of the total 2.14 crores voters in the state turned out to exercise their franchise. He said of total 15469618 persons who have casted votes, there were 8133930 Males and 7335406 Females, while 282 were Transgenders/Others. Giving the final details here on Monday, […]
Indian vaccine maker Biological E. Ltd said on Monday its Covid-19 vaccine received an emergency use approval in the country for use in children aged 12 to 18. The company’s shot, called Corbevax, is the third vaccine approved for use in children aged 12 and above in India, joining Zydus Cadila’s DNA shot ZyCoV-D and […]
The Centre on Saturday decided to give ‘Y’ category security to former leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Kumar Vishwas, official sources said. The central government had reviewed the security of Vishwas and the threat perception based on intelligence inputs in the wake of his allegations against AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.After […]
Home Minister Amit Shah has assured Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi that he would “personally look into” allegations against Aam Aadmi Party’s alleged ties with pro-Khalistan outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ).In a letter to Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday, Amit Shah wrote: “As per your letter, a political party being in contact with and seeking […]
Punjab Congress promised to end the mafia ‘raj’ in sand, liquor, and cable businesses; Rs 1,100 to women; eight free cooking gas cylinders a year; and one lakh government jobs in the 13-point poll manifesto. Chief Minister Charanjit Channi, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and former Sunil Jakhar resolved to work together […]
The central government is reviewing the security of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas and may give him protection through a central agency, official sources said on February 18.The move came in the wake of Vishwas’ allegations against AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The move came in the wake of […]
About 25,000 birds falling in a kilometre radius of an affected poultry farm in Thane will be culled in the next few days in the wake of a bird flu scare. The move came days after about 100 chickens died suddenly at the farm in Vehloli village of Shahapur tehsil in Thane district, officials said. […]
Breaking his silence on the controversy over his remarks on not letting “Uttar Pradesh, Bihar de bhaiye” enter the state, CM Charanjit Channi has said that the comments were aimed only at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was trying to rule the state through backdoor. The opposition had misconstrued it, Channi said.During Tuesday’s roadshow […]