Chandigarh, June 12 Amid eroded base, credibility crisis and faceless organisation, can the BSP sway Dalit voters in the favour of Shiromani Akali Dal? Experts have their doubts. As Punjab has the highest percentage of Dalit population among all states, it saw the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as a newRead More

London, June 13 World leaders gathered at the G7 Summit in Cornwall discussed the possibility that a laboratory leak in central China’s Wuhan city may have a connection with the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief saying all hypotheses behind the origins of theRead More

New Delhi, June 13 More than 1.53 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and union territories, and over 4 lakh more will be delivered to them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said Sunday. More than 26 crore (26,64,84,350) doses have been provided toRead More

New Delhi, June 13 India reported 80,834 fresh Covid-19 cases, the lowest after 71 days, while the daily positivity rate further dropped to 4.25 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. With the fresh cases, the country’s tally of cases has climbed to 2,94,39,989. TheRead More

Most of the federal contracts for COVID-19 vaccines allow for Canada to donate some of its doses to other countries or international aid organizations, and in at least three cases, say doses can be resold. Public Services and Procurement Canada quietly tabled eight contracts with the House of Commons healthRead More

Chandigarh, June 12 Punjab on Saturday registered less than 1,000 cases of coronavirus infections after almost three months. The state reported 979 cases, taking the total count of infections to 5,86,947, while 56 more fatalities pushed the toll to 15,503, said a medical bulletin. The number of active cases droppedRead More

Chandigarh, June 12 The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday announced an alliance for the 2022 Assembly elections in Punjab. The parties had jointly contested the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, where the Akalis had won eight, while the BSP three out of the totalRead More

Dallas, June 12 The airline industry’s recovery from the pandemic passed a milestone as more than 2 million people streamed through US airport security checkpoints on Friday for the first time since early March 2020. The Transportation Security Administration announced Saturday that 2.03 million travellers were screened at airport checkpointsRead More

London (Ontario), June 11 Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when NathanielRead More

New Delhi, June 12 Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions, on Saturday formed committees to address complaints and issues raised by women farmers at the protest sites in the backdrop of alleged sexual assault of a woman activist. The committees formed at all the protestRead More