A group of young volunteers is working at Calgary’s Dashmesh Culture Centre to help Sikh seniors with safety and proper mask use, which is an issue for some in the community. Some men struggle with their beards and turbans when it comes to wearing a mask correctly, and can alsoRead More

Faridkot, February 3 About a month after the resumption of physical classes for all students of day schools in the state, the school education department has now decided to open 10 meritorious schools — the residential/boarding schools in the state. These schools will resume functioning on February 9 but allRead More

Chandigarh, February 2 Amid boycott by the BJP and walkout by AAP leaders, the all-party meeting led by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday demanded immediate withdrawal of the three central farm laws. It also condemned the “sponsored” violence in Delhi and decided that an all-party delegation will goRead More

Islamabad, February 3 Pakistan began its countrywide coronavirus vaccination programme on Wednesday, with the first jabs administered simultaneously in all four provinces, a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the immunisation drive in capital Islamabad. As per the schedule, frontline health workers are being vaccinated first, followed by theRead More

New Delhi, February 3 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday threatened legal action against his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh for allegedly sharing a “doctored” video of him on social media. Kejriwal accused Singh of resorting to dirty politics for political survival. In the video shared on Twitter by Singh’sRead More

New Delhi, February 3 Speaker Om Birla adjourned the Lok Sabha for the day after Opposition MPs refused to pay heed to his repeated requests to allow the House to function. Union minister Arjun Meghwal said it was the “Constitutional duty” of MPs to thank the President for his addressRead More

Sonepat, January 31 Farmer leaders on Sunday said a committee has been formed to trace those missing after the January 26 ‘tractor march’ to Delhi. Addressing mediapersons, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 32 farmer organisations, said, “As many as 163 people who have been arrested by the DelhiRead More

Chandigarh, January 31 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has called an all-party meeting on Tuesday to evolve a consensus on the way forward on the issue of the farm laws and the farmers’ agitation in the light of the recent developments in Delhi. The meeting will be held atRead More

Moscow, January 31 Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 4,000 people were detained by police, according to a monitoringRead More

Baghpat (UP), January 31 The ripples of farmers’ protest against the new agri laws on Delhi’s borders spread further in western Uttar Pradesh with thousands of people converging for a ‘mahapanchayat’ on Sunday in Baghpat, the third such congregation in the region in as many days. The ‘sarv khap mahapanchayat’Read More