CHANDIGARH: Nineteen new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Punjab on Thursday, taking the state tally to 2,158.

The end of a deadlock between Punjab Cabinet ministers and Chief Secretary (CS) Karan Avtar Singh without any high-level inquiry or fixing of any accountability for massive losses of revenue, has once again confirmed that elected representatives do not have guts to take on directly the influential bureaucracy.

CHANDIGARH, MAY 28: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab has vehemently opposed the Congress government’s decision to making medical education costly by 77 per cent, alleging that, like the previous Badal government, Capt Amarinder Singh, too, had been playing into the hands of the medical education mafia active in the …

MUMBAI: Actor Sonu Sood shared a video of his phone’s notification screen, filled with WhatsApp messages from people requesting for help amid migrant crisis during the lockdown.

NEW YORK: Scripting history, Anmol Kaur Narang has become the first Sikh woman to graduate the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

CHANDIGARH, 28 MAY: The Punjab Government has launched an online system for the facilitation of the citizens to pre-book time and date for giving the driving test to obtain a regular driving licence.

MUMBAI: Reacting to KKR not tagging him and Shakib Al Hasan in their throwback post on Twitter about their IPL 2012 victory, batsman Manoj Tiwary tweeted, “After seeing this tweet where you all forgot to mention and tag me and @Sah75official is insulting.”

CHANDIGARH MAY 28: Shiromani Akali Dal President Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal today lashed out against the Punjab government for its new move on the abolition of free power on the pretext of replacing it with Direct Benefit Transfer and said that the move ‘is merely a curtain-raiser for the total …

GENEVA: The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has risen over the past 24 hours by 5,581 to 349,095, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily situation report.

WASHINGTON: The death toll from the coronavirus in the US has crossed one lakh and more than 16 lakh have been infected due to it, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University tracker.