The four-month shutdown of educational institutions in Manipur was called off Friday following a meeting between Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and the protesting groups.
Schools and colleges would resume classes from Saturday.
All educational institutions in Manipur have been closed since Sep 9 with the Apunba Lup, an apex civil society group representing more than [...]
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure the safety of youths from the state studying or working in Australia, following the killing of a youth in Melbourne Saturday.
‘Badal has urged the prime minister to ensure the safety and security of Punjabi youths who had gone to Australia to [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 23 (IANS) In a bid to provide medicines at subsidized rates to poor people, Chandigarh administration would open stores where drugs would be available at cheap rates, an official said here Wednesday.
‘The facility of Jan Aushadhi will be provided at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Government multi-specialty hospital, Sector 16 and [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here Thursday night for the finale of the Dec 7-18 climate summit, an Indian government spokesperson said.
Due to the delayed take-off from Delhi, the prime minister was too late to attend the gala dinner for heads of state, where a political statement of intent from world [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 17 (IANS) After seeing an encouraging response during the auction of residential plots Wednesday, this union territory again saw a good rise in the prices of commercial land Thursday.
The estate office of the Chandigarh administration Thursday auctioned 12 commercial plots of various sizes, from 25 square yards to 432 square yards, located in [...]
Shimla, Nov 23 (IANS) Mobile value-added services (VAS) provider Spice Digital has signed an agreement with Zoom Developers for rolling out mobile governance services in Himachal Pradesh, the company said Monday.
‘Spice Digital has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Zoom Developers for starting mobile governance services from common service centres being run by Zoom [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Saturday postponed her proposed visit to Amritsar in Punjab scheduled for Monday, officials said.
‘This visit has been postponed on the request of member of parliament from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal following her illness and hospitalisation,’ said a state government spokesperson.
‘The visit was scheduled at the request of [...]
Aizawl, Nov 5 (IANS) The tripartite meeting between representatives of the central and Mizoram governments and tribal refugees failed to resolve the 12-year deadlock to repatriate 35,000 Reang migrants from Tripura to Mizoram, officials said Thursday.
The meeting Wednesday saw representatives try and hammer out a solution to the repatriation issue that has been hanging [...]
Ahmedabad, Oct 29 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has tested positive for swine flu on Friday.
According to doctors at the government hospital here, Modi tested positive after undergoing an H1N1 virus test.
Modi will be kept in isolation for seven days, said a Gujarat Government spokesperson.
The Chief Minister recently returned from Russia. (ANI)
Panaji, Oct 29 (IANS) The Goa government is keeping a close watch on the activities of the Sanatan Sanstha in the state and may even ban the right-wing Hindu organisation if it continues with its ‘divisive agenda’, a state government spokesperson said Thursday.
Vishu Wagh, advisor to the state department of information and publicity (DIP), said [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 14 (IANS) The Chandigargh administration Wednesday announced that it will introduce e-stamping of the documents in the union territory.
‘Chandigarh will soon adopt this practice under India Stamp Act and send the draft notification to the union ministry of home affairs,’ a government spokesperson said.
‘This system will have round the clock availability, save cost [...]
Guwahati, Oct 7 (IANS) The toll in the weekend massacre by tribal separatists in an Assam village rose to 13 with a woman succumbing to her injuries at a hospital here Wednesday, government officials said.
A government spokesperson said a 23-year-old woman with bullet wounds in her stomach died early Wednesday.
N. Bhattacharyya, a doctor at [...]
Guwahati, Oct 5 (IANS) The army was called out in Assam’s violence-hit Sonitpur district Monday after tribal separatists attacked a village and gunned down 12 people, officials said.
Twelve locals were massacred and 13 wounded when heavily armed militants of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) late Sunday attacked village Bhimajuli in Sonitpur district, [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 30 (IANS) Punjab Wednesday asked the central government to announce minimum support price for cotton immediately as the marketing season of the produce will start shortly.
Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has sent a letter in this regard to union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, a state government spokesperson said here.
‘In the letter Badal has [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 24 (IANS) The Punjab government has exempted Adarsh (model) schools, coming up under the public-private partnership (PPP) model in the state, from various taxes.
‘This decision was taken at a meeting headed by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal,’ a government spokesperson said here Thursday.
The draft agreement and the lease deed between the government and [...]
