The Punjab cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, has approved the home delivery of wheat flour to 15.4 million beneficiaries. The beneficiaries will start getting the flour from October 1.
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20th May 2022 | Updated at 06:59am 20th May 2022
Punjab govt to end VIP culture in jails
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said his government will soon end the ‘VIP culture’ in state jails by converting ‘VIP cells’ there into administrative blocks. Mann made the announcement in a video message emphasising that jails...
Fire at Amritsar hospital, over 600 rescued
Amritsar: A major tragedy was averted at the Guru Nanak Dev Hospital here after a massive fire broke out in two wards and the outpatient department (OPD). The staff and the attendants scrambled to save patients and there was no loss of life...
Karnataka bans use of loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am
Bengaluru: Karnataka government has banned the use of loudspeakers between 10 pm and 6 am amid a raging debate over loudspeakers. The government said that a loudspeaker or a public address system shall not be used (between 10 pm to 6 am) except...
Amit Shah sounds poll bugle in Telangana
Hyderabad: Sounding the poll bugle in Telangana, Union home minister Amit Shah hit out at the TRS government in the state for alleged corruption and unkept promises and said his party is ready to face the polls, due in the state next year.
CAA won't be implemented in Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata: Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah`s remark about implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that the BJP will not return to power in 2024 and no CAA will be implemented.
AFSPA may soon be lifted from entire Assam: Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah exuded confidence that AFSPA will soon be revoked from entire Assam, as improved law and order and peace accords with militant outfits during the last six years have already led to its partial withdrawal in the...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
Patiala: Even as the police arrested Shiv Sena leader Barjinder Singh Parwana, the main accused in the Patiala violence, government sources said the Centre...
India will launch an open network for digital commerce (ONDC) as the government tries to end the dominance of US companies Amazon.com and Walmart in the fast-growing e-commerce market, a government document showed.
The income-tax adjudication authority has passed a confiscation order under the amended Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act on immovable properties spread over 100 acres (worth over £7 million) in Igatpuri that belonged to fugitive...
Prime minister Narendra Modi pitched for speedy release of 350,000 undertrial prisoners languishing in jails for years and requested the chief ministers and chief justices of high courts to resolve this issue on priority.
BJP president J P Nadda during his one-day to Gujarat said that the state is a “laboratory” for his party for matters pertaining to governance and party organization. “Gujarat is a laboratory of governance and party organization (for the BJP)....
Gujarat and Maharashtra celebrated their foundation day on Sunday, May 1, with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending greetings to people of the two states on the occasion. On this day in 1960, the former state...
The proposed “Hindu Mahapanchayat” at Dada Jalalpur village near Roorkee in Haridwar district was stopped and its supposed organiser, Swami Anand Swaroop, was put under preventive detention in the morning while trying to enter the village and...
India reported over 22,200 fresh Covid-19 cases during the week (April 25-May 1), up more than 41% from the previous week's tally of nearly 15,800. Last week, cases had seen a 96% surge over the preceding seven days. Delhi, Haryana and UP accounted...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) announced it had seized more than £550 million in assets from the Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, saying it had made illegal remittances to foreign entities and shown them as royalty payments.
