According to government data, the Centre procured only 35,179 ventilators out of the 50,000 originally ordered.
To make the modified isolation ward, the middle berth was removed, the lower portion of the compartment plugged by plywood and a provision of partition provided from the aisle side for the isolation of the compartment, the railways said.
The Mayawati-led BSP will fight 20 of the 117 assembly seats in Punjab, while the rest will be contested by the SAD.
It was a riot of colour that designer duo Mayank Anand and Shraddha Nigam showcased on Day Three of the LFW.
The families said their hopes of getting any clue about the men who went missing in Iraq's Mosul city were almost shattered after listening to the statement of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Parliament on Wednesday.
Family members of the other missing persons said that from the Iraqi minister's statement, it was clear that the Indian government does have any concrete information about the missing.
The prototype, which may cost around Rs 30,000, is now awaiting Indian Council of Medical Research clearance to go into production, the Railways said.
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Railways has set a target of installing bio toilets designed by DRDO in 2,500 coaches in the current fiscal.
Paramilitary forces were on Tuesday deployed in four districts of Punjab as a precautionary measure even as another incident of "sacrilege" of a holy book took place at a village in Bathinda.
Amid reports that VIP facilities including an LCD TV were being provided to Bibi Jagir Kaur, lodged in Theh Kanjla Jail in Kapurthala in connection with the abduction case of her daughter, a top Punjab Prisons official on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into it.
Masih said they were killed in front of my eyes and I had been saying all these years, wondering why the government was not accepting what he had said earlier.
TIME also named freedom fighter Amrit Kaur as 'Women of the Year' for 1947
The Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala rolled out the country's first air conditioned double-decker coach for oscillation trials on the Delhi-Muradabad section.
ITC will also launch paneer shortly and is also working on cheese and Tetra Pak milk
First rake has a new type of centre-buffer coupler, which joins the two bogies, with special focus on reducing jerks.
Rising golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar began his new year with a bang, lifting the season-opening Asian Tour International with a sensational final round of eight-under 64 in Bangkok on Sunday.
Gaganjeet Bhullar's British Open experience stood him in good stead and his strong opening round of three-nuder 69 had the Kapurthala pro at tied 15th in the Indonesia President Invitational golf tournament in Jakarta on Thursday.
'Initiatives taken by the government and security forces had resulted in a drop in the number of local youths being radicalised and taking to insurgency over the last few months.'
Gaganjeet Bhullar dazzled with a solid four-under 68 in the final round to register a comprehensive five-stroke win at the DLF Masters golf tournament in Gurgaon on Sunday.
Canada has taken a serious note of NRIs from Canada duping Indian women after marrying them in India.
In the absence of buyers, projects have either slowed down or have been delayed. Punjab Colonisers and Builders Association finance secretary HS Lamba said people in Ludhiana are bottom fishing and awaiting further correction in prices. "Though prices of construction material like steel and cement have come down, builders are unable to reduce the price owing to the high land costs," Lamba said.
A flawless final round did the trick as Gaganjeet Bhullar became the latest Indian with an Asian Tour title under his belt when the 21-year-old Kapurthala golfer lifted the Indonesia President Invitational title in Jakarta, on Sunday. Bhullar's four-day total of 22-under was two shots clear of Australia's Adam Blyth, who shot a 68 for the lone second place at the Damai Indah Golf Bumi Serpong Damai course.
Robots are now being used increasingly in the integrated-shell assembly line and robotic bogie-fabrication line. The unit may soon see its phase-II expansion, which will increase its capacity to 2,000 coaches.
The Punjab government has chalked out plans to promote contract farming of basmati and other long grain varieties of paddy, over 26,000 acres of land in 12 districts of the state.
Kartaar Singh, a farmer of Mokha village in Punjab's Kapurthala district, used to travel about 50 km on his scooter to Jalandhar's new sabzi mandi, or wholesale vegetable market, to sell his vegetables every day.
Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
Although police initially gave permission for Rajpal Mehat's funeral yesterday to proceed, they later said they were probing to see if it violated the Cremation Act, which restricts burning of human remains to crematoriums.
Police recovered a mobile phone and a bag containing two pipe bombs and half a kilograms of explosive material.
Bibi Jagir Kaur is the first woman to occupy the post of SGPC chief, to which she has been elected for the second time.
Only traces of rainfall were recorded in a few areas of the national capital on Thursday which continued to experience sultry weather.
As many as 91 more youths from Punjab returned to India on Tuesday from strife-torn Iraq on special flights.
An eyewitness travelling in the train claimed some passengers suffered minor injuries.
Recalls his personal association with his predecessor, and his scholarly advice.
Malik, who was 81, was not keeping well for the past one year and died late on Friday night, the sources said.\n\n
Leading GSM service provider Hutch would roll out its services in West Bengal and Sikkim by the end of the current year, executive director of Hutchison Essar Sandip Das said in Kapurthala on Thursday.
These new coaches are being built at the Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala under a technology transfer agreement with Alstom-LHB of Germany.
As the longest serving woman chief minister who ruled the city state for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013, Dikshit ushered in an era of all-round development that transformed Delhi into a world class capital.
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