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UBS Alumni Takes Charge of ONGC

Mohali  April 4, 2021:       University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh is proud of Subhash Kumar, who completed the Master of Commerce program of Panjab University with the distinction in 1983, for having assumed the additional charge of the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) …

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Pope, at Easter vigil, hopes for post-pandemic rebirth

VATICAN CITY, 4 April 2021 -Pope Francis, leading an Easter vigil service scaled down due to COVID-19, said on Saturday he hoped the dark times of the pandemic would end and that people could rediscover “the grace of everyday life”. This year has been the second consecutive Easter that all …

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India’s daily coronavirus infections hit six-month high

MUMBAI 4 April 2021 – India’s daily coronavirus infections hit another record on Saturday for the highest tally since September, while daily deaths reached a five-month high, a Reuters count based on data from the health ministry showed. The south Asian nation recorded 89,129 new infections and 714 deaths, the …

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KMV Goes Eco-Friendly on the Eve of Holi

Kanya Maha Vidyalaya- the Heritage & Autonomous institution, Seat of Women Empowerment with Top National and State Rankings by India Today Survey of Best Colleges 2020 (various categories) & Outlook Magazine celebrated Eco-Friendly Holi- the festival of colours in the college premises. Principal Prof. (Dr.) Atima Sharma Dwivedi along with …

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Think it through

Let’s not invite a second lockdown Susan Anand The first lockdown on March 22nd came at a tremendous cost to the society and economy of the country. We could come out of that fatal situation through the concerted efforts of authorities, frontline workers, health workers and above all, due to …

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LIFE IN A BOX by Saikrit Gulati

LIFE IN A BOX SAIKRIT GULATI 25th March will always be remembered as the day Lockdown 1.0 was imposed in India in 2020. The lockdown resulted in many households incurring huge financial losses. Many migrants also had to walk barefoot to their homes. This was the dark side of the …

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Webinar on Seed Production of Horticultural Crops held

Mohali: Department of Agriculture, Aryans Degree College Rajpura, Near Chandigarh organized a webinar on “Seed Production of Horticultural crops”. Dr. Allah Rang, HOD (Retd.) Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and presently Managing Director, Biocarve Seeds where he exporting large quantity of flower seeds to American and European countries since …

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Several dead, thousands of homes burn as fire sweeps Rohingya camp

DHAKA 22 March 2021 – A huge fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people, officials and witnesses said, in the worst blaze to hit the settlement in recent years. Video and photographs showed a blaze ripping through …