Locked inside the Sports Authority of India centre in Bengaluru due to the coronavirus forced restrictions, Indian Hockey players are utilising their free time to hone their English language skills, reading books and watching their favourite movies. The Indian men and women hockey teams are practicing at SAI centre Bengaluru where no unauthorised person can enter the campus.
Asserting the situation in the state was under control, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said on Monday that the violence sparked by the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Austria was confined only to a few pockets in Jalandhar and neighbouring areas.
People have developed a fatalistic attitude where they believe that anything can happen. They think, 'there's no medicine, no beds in the hospitals, what are we alive for?' And when you get that kind of an attitude, you stop taking precautions
Rather than worry about what picture of India is being painted in the foreign media, the focus must be on marshalling all our energies to provide relief and solace to our deeply wounded and dispirited citizens, says former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
COVID-19 cases in the country jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days, while it had taken 59 days for the cases to cross the 10 lakh-mark.
'What prevents infection are masks, physical distancing and good ventilation.'
The nuns -- Alphy, Anupama, Josephine and Ancitta -- were served notice by the superior general of the congregation, Regina Kadamthottu, urging them to take up their assigned responsibilities as befitting members of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation.
A youth, claiming to be a Bharatiya Janata Party activist, was on Tuesday booked in Jalandhar for allegedly posting an objectionable picture of Congress President Sonia Gandhi on a social networking website.
The two, one a celebrity singer-actor from Punjab and the other a Bollywood star known for her combative comments, began bickering on the social media platform on Wednesday evening and continued till well into Thursday.
It was not clear why the Indian was not executed while four other convicts were put to death by the firing squad.
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Teams of National Disaster Response Force were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris, officials said.
MUrgency is slated to launch services in Amritsar and Jalandhar in the last week of May and cover the entire state by June end.
The move comes after a few hospitals closed down following the detection of the disease among its medical workers.
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In its complaint, the family alleged 16 army men boarded their compartment of Swaraj Express at Delhi. The dispute started over the issue of sharing of seats and the army men allegedly started abusing and manhandling them.
The ministry, however, said it could not be sufficiently established yet if these variants were behind the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in some states.
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.
Jagran before Ginni and Kapil's wedding.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal exhorted the people to exercise restraint and observe the 32nd anniversary of Operation Bluestar peacefully.
Helpline numbers in Ahmedabad, Jalandhar and New Delhi.
The study showed that 50 per cent of households have reduced the number of meals ever since the lockdown was imposed
According to the ministry's website, more than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities.
As government-issued guidelines in many places banned large congregations and setting up of fairs or food stalls, the torching of effigies was restricted to very few venues than usual. The Ramleela Maidan at the iconic Red Fort where every year the Dussehra festivities are attended by dignitaries including the prime minister and the President apart from hundreds of common people, was deserted this time as the annual celebrations were cancelled.
Culling of chickens and ducks began on Tuesday in parts of Kerala to contain the H5N8 strain of bird flu, while Jammu and Kashmir sounded an alert and started collecting samples from migratory species after Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh reported cases of the avian influenza.
The WWE says that India is its biggest market globally in terms of television viewership -- around 350 million unique viewers annually -- social media engagement and YouTube consumption, even claiming that it is the second-most watched sport in the country behind cricket.
The chief minister has also directed Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta to look into the possible action that could be initiated against one of the film's producers, K V Dhillon, who had reportedly promised in writing, back in 2019, that he would shelve the movie, originally titled 'Sukha Khalwan'.
A BSF official said a night patrol party of the force spotted the three entering Indian territory and asked them to surrender.
The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometres, measuring 4.4 on Richter scale.
Singh had completed his act on stage and was in the event to collect a shield of appreciation when the tragedy hit him.
The second and third positions in the category were grabbed by Surat and Navi Mumbai respectively.
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Actress Geeta Basra, who is all set to marry Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, will wear royal and timeless jewellery on her wedding in Jalandhar on October 29.
The trailer has quite a few funny moments that make you laugh but you also know that it will not end up like Amitabh Bachchan's Bhootnath, thanks to its romance angle.
Amarinder said predictions by health experts about the spread of the pandemic are 'horrendous and frightening'.
With relaxations in the COVID-19 lockdown, temples across the country are all set to reopen from Monday in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by Union home ministry to prevent coronavirus spread.
The families say Swaraj was a constant source of support and helped them bring back the mortal remains of their loved ones which finally gave them closure.
Defending champions Hyderabad Sultans survived some anxious moments before beating Sher-e-Jalandhar 5-3 via tie-breaker in the Premier Hockey League.
The Congress leader tweeted his request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Pakistan PM Imran Khan's announcement that the IAF pilot would be released on March 1.
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