Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann and MLA Harpal Singh Cheema were detained by the police on Saturday for leading a protest outside the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at Siswan in Mohali against the power shortage in the state. Amid tight security at the chief minister’sRead More

Ottawa: Ottawa prepared Friday to send military aircraft and other help to evacuate towns and fight more than 100 wildfires in western Canada fueled by a record-smashing heat wave. According to wildfire officials, at least 143 fires were active in British Columbia, 77 of them sparked in the last twoRead More

Kabul: Hundreds of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce battles with government forces across several provinces of Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, as Washington announced it would finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August. Washington’s announcement came after all US and NATO troops vacated their mainRead More

The German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) has reportedly recommended that people who receive AstraZeneca vaccine, known as Covishield in India, as their first jab, should get either Pfizer or Moderna for their booster vaccination as the mixing of two different vaccines will augment immune responses against the virus. TheRead More

Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said major social media platforms such as Google, Facebook and Instagram publishing their first compliance report on voluntary removal of offensive posts is a “big step towards transparency”. Under the new IT rules, digital platforms with over five million users haveRead More

Canada’s inflation rate increased to 3.6 per cent in May, the fastest pace in a decade, Statistics Canada says. The data agency said in a news release Wednesday that the cost of just about everything is going up at a much faster pace than usual, from shelter and vehicles, toRead More

Chandigarh, June 16 Punjab registered 688 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the tally to 5,89,828, while 46 more fatalities pushed the toll to 15,698, according to a medical bulletin. The number of active cases dropped to 10,046 from 10,802 on Tuesday. New fatalities linked to theRead More

Mohali, June 16 An umbrella group of teachers’ unions on Wednesday laid siege to the Punjab School Education Board building in Sector 62, Mohali, seeking job regularisation and salary enhancement. Hundreds of teachers reached the seventh floor of the building to lay siege to the office of the Education Secretary.Read More

Geneva, June 16 US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Geneva on Wednesday for their first summit since Biden took office, but their talks lasted less than four hours—far less than Biden’s advisers had said they expected. Both had said they hoped for more stable andRead More

New Delhi, June 16 A single-day rise of 62,224 new coronavirus infections were reported taking India’s total tally of Covid-19 cases to 2,96,33,105, while the active cases were recorded below nine lakh after 70 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The Covid-19 death toll climbedRead More