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“ Bio-Diversity is an excellent tool to fight against pandemics like COVID-19”

      Science City Celebrated Bio-Diversity Day through a webinar By SK.Vyas:  Kapurthala-Jalandhar May 22, 2020: To mark International Biodiversity Day, PushpaGujaral Science City today organized a Webinar to create public awareness on the significance of biological diversity and nature, especially during the present COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The Webinar was …

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Vet Varsity organizes National On-Line Poster Competition

    By Harpreet Singh: Ludhiana:To brush up young minds of undergraduate students to understand effects of ongoing COVID  Lockdown on fisheries sector, an on-line national poster making competition entitled “Impact of COVID-19 on Fisheries” was conducted by College of Fisheries of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. …

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Penal discussion on”Prision In India”

Anupreet Singh: A Webinar On “Prison Reforms In India: Socio-Legal Perspective” was organized by Dr. Anju Choudhary, Faculty and Teacher In-charge of the Criminal Justice Practicum Cell (CJPC) of University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof. (Dr.) Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor was the Chief Patron of this event …

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Lockdown 4.0: A Lot of Relaxations

Lipakshi Seedhar -Staff Reporter: With the number of COVID-19 cases reaching 1,01,261 with a total of 3,164 deaths and 39,233 people getting cured, lockdown 4.0 was necessary. But this time the centre gave some relaxations. Also, it gave more power to the state governments to make rules according to the …

Chandigarh, Delhi, Exclusive

MoHUA announces Star Ratings of cities

Y.S. RANA  : Chandigarh :  Chandigarh and Karnal (Haryana) made it to the list of 3-Star cities. Notably, no city from Himachal Pradesh and Punjab could make it either to 5-Star or 3-Star status. Mr Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs announced the ratings of …

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Government panel begins work on moving up India’s Press freedom Index

Anupreet Singh:  NEW DELHI: A panel of senior officials from the ministries of Information and Broadcasting, external affairs and journalists whose names have been approved by the government, will look at potential ways to improve India’s ranking at the World Press Freedom Index. Called the index monitoring cell, this group …

Chandigarh, Exclusive

India needs to go down to the last grain

Y.S. RANA : CHANDIGARH—Vegetable prices are on fire and household budgets are in a tizzy and it has become rituals. It leads to spiralling of cost of living along with cost of food. Policy wonks will turn around and tell you that agricultural production is hitting the high notes year …