December 2021

Merrut, Dec 23: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday inaugurated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious project Delhi-Merrut Expressway. Constructed with a cost of Rs 10,265 crore, the expressway's…

Chandigarh, Dec 23: Senior Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party leaders on Thursday joined the Punjab Lok Congress in presence of party chief Capt. Amarinder Singh. Welcoming them in the party fold, the former chief minister said, their…

Hamirpur (HP), Dec 24: Under the Chief Minister's Swavalamban Yojana, twenty-seven cases were given approval by the committee headed by Deputy Commissioner, Debasweta Banik here on Thursday evening. A sum of four crore rupees would be…

New Delhi, Dec 23: Chairman of the PM's Economic Council Bibek Debroy said on Thursday that as the per capita GDP rises, quality of the environment tends to improve. "There is a co relation between the two. Empirical exercises establish…

New Delhi, Dec 23: In a bid to boost the horticulture sector in Punjab, Horticulture Minister Rana Gurjit Singh accompanied by Lok Sabha MP from Amritsar Gurjeet Singh Aujla, called upon Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare…

Chandigarh, Dec 23: Expressing deep anguish over the loss of life of two civilians in the blast that rocked the Ludhiana Court Complex early this afternoon, Governor Punjab and Administrator UT Chandigarh Banwarilal Purohit said, "It is a…

New Delhi, Dec 23: Litigants and lawyers were shattered by a powerful bomb explosion in Ludhiana court on Thursday noon.  Two persons were killed and many injured in the blast which brought down the toilet walls. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on…

New Delhi, Dec 23: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Nagaland counterpart Neiphiu Rio on Thursday called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah here. During the meeting, they discussed several issues pertaining to the region. The…

Paris, Dec 23: Protesters against pandemic restrictions broke into a regional council building in the administrative center of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, the city of Basseterre, local media reported on Thursday. Several…

London, Dec 24: UK experts are constructing a naval base for Ukraine in the southern port city of Ochakiv, while their safety is ensured by officers of a private military company, Vasily Prozorov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Security…

US also waives in-person interviews for H-1B, other visa applicants in 2022

New Delhi, Dec 22: A tumultuous session of Parliament came to an end on Wednesday, a day ahead of schedule, with the government and the opposition accusing each other of creating conditions that disallowed proper functioning of both the Lok…

Dhaka, Dec 22 (UNI) India went down to hosts Bangladesh by a solitary goal in the final of the SAFF U-19 Women’s Championship at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium here on Wednesday. The only goal in the game came in…

Chandigarh, Dec 22: Former Punjab chief minister and Punjab Lok Congress supremo Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that terror and trade cannot go hand-in-hand and there was no point in starting business and trade with Pakistan as long…

Bhubaneswar, Dec 22: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile ‘Pralay’. The missile was fired from the Dr A…

Dehradun, Dec 22: Signalling trouble for the Congress in poll-bound Uttarakhand, former chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat said on Wednesday he was not getting the party's support ahead of upcoming assembly elections. In a…

New Delhi, Dec 22 (UNI) Father and son, who allegedly duped more than 600 people, including Rajya Sabha Deputy Director (Security), were arrested from Delhi’s Paschim Vihar, police said on Wednesday. The accused have been identified as…