At least one person was killed and one was injured when a blast took place in a Mandi Gobindgarh-based industrial unit last night. The victims were laborers.
Around fourteen laborers were working in the unit where scrap was being melted, when there was suddenly blast occurred in furnace and a piece of scrap hit Upinder [...]
The Punjab Government has on Friday declared summer vacations in Punjab Govt. schools from May 30th to July 7. An official of PSEB has said on Friday that this decision has been taken after due considerations of various suggestions submitted by the teachers union to the department.
He further said that the school education department [...]
Punjab government has on Wednesday issued notification to implement the recommendations of 5th pay Commission set up for government employees. The new pay scales would be implemented w.e.f January 1,.2006.
Revised pay scales will be the rate of increment in the revised pay structure will be three per cent of the sum of the pay [...]
Sabitha Indra Reddy is Andhra Pradesh’s first woman Home Minister. Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has announced the portfolios for the ministers in his cabinet. Ms. Sabita Reddy’s late husband Indra Reddy too was a Home Minister in the N.T. Rama Rao Cabinet in 1994-95.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s 35-minister cabinet took [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal elected as Nepal’s new Prime Minister. Madhav Kumar, a UML (Unified Marxist Leninist) nominee, was chosen as the new Prime Minister of Nepal in the Legislature-Parliamentary session of the Constituent Assembly (CA) on Saturday.
Madhav, 56 years old, received the support of around 360 legislators of 22 political parties, excluding 238 legislators from [...]
A twin-motor plane with 11 people on board has crashed just before landing near a northeastern Brazil resort area in which eight people and three crew members have been killed.
The crash happened in a forested area near the resort area of Porto Seguro and that rescue workers are on the scene. The cause of [...]