Flags at all federal buildings in Canada, including the Peace Tower, will be flown at half-mast, following the discovery of the bodies of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. A statement released Sunday by the Department of Canadian Heritage said the action wasRead More

Hoshiarpur, May 30 Veteran Congress leader and two-time MLA from Hoshiarpur’s Tanda, Surjit Kaur Kalkat, passed away following prolonged illness in Mohali. She was 91. Kalkat had won from the Tanda assembly constituency in 1980 and 1992. She was a cabinet minister in the Harcharan Singh Brar-led government in Punjab.Read More

Chandigarh, May 30 Punjab on Sunday registered 2,627 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 127 more fatalities while Chandigarh recorded 182 new instances of the infection and five deaths in a day, officials said. With Punjab witnessing a decline in the number of fresh cases of the infection for the pastRead More

London, May 30 Britain’s retail sector will endure a “tsunami of closures” if the government does not extend a moratorium on aggressive debt enforcement, industry lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said on Sunday. Citing survey data it said two-thirds of British retailers have been told by landlords theyRead More

New Delhi, May 30 India recorded a single-day rise of 1,65,553 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in 46 days, taking the country’s infection tally to 2,78,94,800, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The daily positivity declined to 8.02 per cent, remaining below the 10 per cent-mark forRead More

New Delhi, May 30 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India has witnessed well-rounded progress and development during the last seven years against odds and has given a befitting response to those who conspire against it. Modi government has completed seven years since it assumed the reins in 2014.Read More

Top officials in Nova Scotia are set to unveil the province’s reopening plan later Friday, a day after Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick presented multi-step plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions. Nova Scotia reported 33 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, continuing a downward trend in single-day cases. The province,Read More

Chandigarh, May 28 With an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections, the Capt Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Government has announced a cut of 50 paise to Re 1 per unit for domestic power consumers in the state. The tariff for the commercial consumers and small and medium industry will remain unchanged,Read More

May 28 US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday addressing a rise in acts of anti-Asian bias and violence in the United States, the White House said. The order will establish the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and expand languageRead More

New Delhi, May 28 The single-day rise in coronavirus cases in India fell below the 2-lakh mark for the second time this month taking the total tally of Covid cases to 2,75,55,457, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. A total of 1,86,364 new coronavirus infections wereRead More