The Punjab Government led under chief minister Amarinder Singh has taken back its ‘general consent’ from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for investigating cases in the state, and joining various non-BJP ruled states, who have passed on the similar move. The other states, who had priorly acted on the move of withdrawing “general consent”…
The Department of Higher Education has drafted and provided with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), based on the UGC guidelines with reference to resuming the degree, engineering and diploma colleges in the state starting from November 17. Deputy Chief Minister, Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana, who is also in-charge of the higher education minister intimated on Monday…
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has taken the lead with 21 seats, alongside, Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are in-progress with six and one seats respectively, for the Madhya Pradesh by-polls, as per the Election Commission of India (ECI) revealed on Tuesday. According to the data given by ECI from counting till 3 pm,…
Under the Russian championship, the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will have discussions and summit at the highest level on Tuesday. The virtual summit among the Council of Heads of State will be the 20th meeting organized keeping on hold the major developments incident at the regional and global levels. The summit…
A study conducted by a team of American and Indian researchers as randomized Covid-19 testing, revealed that as much as 44.5% of Karnataka’s population was infected with Coronavirus by August end. This study stands in complete difference to the sero-survey conducted by state’s officials which estimated 27.3% of the state was exposed to Covid-19. This…
The President of Nepal, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, released a special anthology about the life of Mahatma Gandhi in a ceremony, titled, ‘maile bujheko gaandhii’ which means ‘My understanding about Gandhi’. The anthology was launched by Bidhya Devi Bhandari at a special ceremony held at Shital Niwas in Kathmandu in the presence of Indian Ambassador Vinay…
The Karnataka Government announced a hike in the power tariff, earlier last week. The approval passed by The Karnataka Regulatory Commission, revised the power tariff by 5.4 % increase starting from November 1. The opposition parties criticized the move announced by BJP-led state government. Congress spokesperson, N Chaluvaraya Swamy condemned the hike passed by the…
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC), headed over by Chairman NK Singh, presented the report for the time frame from 2021-22 till 2025-26 to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, according to the government statement released on Monday. The report titled “Finance Commission in Covid Times” was submitted together by members of the commission, Ajay…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a part of the inauguration ceremony via video-conferencing and laid the foundation stone of several development projects in Varanasi. He said the development projects will be examples reflecting the overall development in Varanasi. The projects are estimated to be worth Rs. 614 crore. In his address, PM Modi said, “I…
The CSIL company initiated with the process of production of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on Monday, according to the Australian media reports. As per the data given by Sydney’s 2GB radio, as many as 30 million doses will be subjected to manufacturing in Victoria starting from Monday. Australian…
