IndiaJul 18, 2022
Presidential election: Manmohan Singh arrives in wheelchair to cast vote, garners social media attention
The pictures and videos of former Prime Minister and Congress MP Manmohan Singh reaching Parliament in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the presidential election 2022 on Monday are being widely shared on social media.
"Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India and Congress leader, casts his vote in the Parliament for the Presidential election in a wheelchair. Long Lives Singhji, Long Lives India!," a Twitter user wrote.
Singh, 89, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were reportedly among the first few electors to cast their vote in the initial two hours of the presidential poll. When Singh
IndiaJul 18, 2022
Punjab: CM Mann reviews Infrastructural development in the state
With an aim to expedite work on all ongoing projects in the state along with initiating and completing the other ones for giving a major boost to the infrastructural development, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday chaired a review meeting of the department his official residence.
The state chief asked the officials to accord top priority to all approved and sanctioned works for their timely completion.
He directed the Public Works Department (PWD) officials to ensure proper checks at every stage of the project to ensure good quality of the works.
Chief Minister directed the office
IndiaJul 15, 2022
India sets global example with ban on single-use plastic items
With the ban on select single-use plastic items from this month, India has set a global example in the fight against plastic pollution.
Single-use plastics are typically items that are discarded after being used only once and do not go through the recycling process. Heavy usage of plastics across the world has caused quite a lot of menace, governments and various global regulatory bodies are trying hard to arrest it.
The ban on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items, which have low utility and high littering potential, has come int
IndiaJul 14, 2022
Singer Daler Mehndi gets 2 years jail in human trafficking case
Patiala district court on Thursday sentenced Singer Daler Mehndi to two years of imprisonment in a 2003 human trafficking case.
Following the court's order, the singer was taken into custody by Punjab Police.
According to Advocate Gurmeet Singh, Mehndi's application for release on probation was also dismissed by the court.
Bakshish Singh, the complainant alleged that Mehndi and his brother took Rs 13 lakh from him on the pretext of sending him to Canada.
"Daler Mehndi and his brother Shamsher Mehndi took Rs 13 lakh from me to send me to Canada. Neither did they send me abroad, nor did they re
IndiaJul 14, 2022
MP to procure black moong at MSP, registrations to start on July 18
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said that the government will procure black moong at Minimum Support Price (MSP).
In a conversation with ANI, he also said that the process of registrations will start on July 18.
"Farmers in Madhya Pradesh have produced black moong in the summers but their prices in the market are very low. Since we are a government of the farmers, we have decided to purchase the Moong at the MSP of Rs 7,275 per quintal," CM Chouhan said.
MSP stands for the Minimum Support Price which the government offers to pay to the crop producers, to ensure
IndiaJul 14, 2022
Suspected monkeypox case in Kerala, samples of traveller from UAE sent for testing
A suspected case of monkeypox, the first in India, has been reported from Kerala, the state health minister said on Thursday.
A traveller who arrived in Kerala three days ago from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hospitalised after he displayed symptoms of monkeypox.
Samples from the traveller have been sent for testing to the National Institute of Virology in Pune, health minister Veena George said today adding that the case can be confirmed only after the results of the test are obtained.
Human monkeypox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a 9
IndiaJul 13, 2022
Free COVID-19 booster dose for adults for 75 days from July 15
The government announced on Wednesday that citizens above 18 years of age will be given booster doses free of cost from July 15 for the next 75 days as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations and Azadi Ka Amrit Kaal.
The facility will be available at all government centres. "India is celebrating 75 years of independence.
On the occasion of Azadi ka Amrit Kaal, it has been decided that from 15th July 2022 till the next 75 days, citizens above 18 years of age will be given booster doses free of cost," Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the media here.
India's COVID-19
IndiaJul 13, 2022
Punjab CM orders comprehensive enquiry into irregularities in post-matric
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday announced a comprehensive enquiry into the irregularities in the post-matric scholarship scheme.
"My government is committed for ensuring that oil and truth comes out in this scheme so that embezzlers are punished as per the law," said the Chief Minister.
According to Chief Minister's Office (CMO), Mann assured the people of Punjab that this enquiry will be a bear thread analysis to ascertain every lapse and embezzlement of the public money under the post-matric scholarship scheme.
He said that these discrepancies are an intolerable crime again
IndiaJul 12, 2022
Bhagwant Mann appoint Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha as Chairman of Advisory Committee
The Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has appointed Rajya Sabha Member Raghav Chadha as Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the state government.
Disclosing this here a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said that the Chief Minister cleared the file to this regard here on Monday.
An alumni of top educational institutes across the globe like Modern School, Barakhamba and London School of Economics, Raghav Chadha is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He has the distinction of having worked with some of the biggest corporate firms in the world.
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