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Chandigarh| Various personalities will be honored with state awards on the International Divyang Day on December 5 at Chandigarh on the occasion of the state-level event being organized by the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann. This was expressed by the Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Dr. Baljit Kaur here today. Divulging in this regard Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister said that the International Divyang Week is being celebrated by the department from December 3 to December 10. She said that the state level function regarding the International Divyang Diwas will be held on…

MOHALI| Mohali's Deputy Commissioner, Aashika Jain, has taken strong action in response to the authorities' failure to control noise pollution in the district. On Saturday, she established a high-level committee comprising 13 members, as mandated by a July 2019 directive from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The committee, chaired by the ADC (General), includes senior officers such as the SSP, SP Rural, ADC (Development), municipal commissioner, GMADA chief administrator, civil surgeon, chief agriculture officer, district transport officer, PWD superintending engineer, and Punjab Pollution Control Board executive engineer. Additionally, the committee incorporates the Mohali sub-divisional magistrate, district development and panchayat…

Montreal,Canada| Members of the Concertation haïtienne pour les migrants gathered at the restaurant of Paul Toussaint, left, to try to get Premier François Legault to reconsider the decision to withdraw from a federal humanitarian program aimed at family reunification. (Valérie Gassien/La Maison d'Haïti) Paul Toussaint was hopeful that Canada's new humanitarian program aimed at reuniting Haitians, among others, with Canadian family members would mean his mother and two sisters would finally be able to join him in Montreal. That is, until he learned Quebec would not be taking part. `How [can] you work that much for society and that society…

Gandhinagar| The 11th convocation ceremony of Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) was graced by Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and ISRO Chairman S. Somanath on Saturday. A total of 1,714 students were bestowed with their degree certificates in the presence of Dr Hasmukh Adhia, the Vice Chairman of the PDEU Board of Governors, Prof (Dr) S. Sundar Manoharan, the Director General of PDEU, and Col (Dr) Rakesh Kumar Shrivastawa, the Registrar of PDEU. Somanath, who was the chief guest, shared his wisdom on embracing failures as stepping stones to success. Sharing his ISRO's experiences, he said: “Failures are important in…

Philippines| An explosion occurred inside a gym of Mindanao State University in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur province, in the southern Philippines, killing at least three and injuring seven, local media reported on Sunday. The blast occurred past 7 a.m. local time when students and teachers gathered for a Catholic mass inside the gym, according to local police, Xinhua news agency reported. Police were investigating the type of explosive device used in the blast. Marawi City is the capital and the largest city of Lanao del Sur on Mindanao island.

Bollywood star Ranveer Singh, who is set to essay the role of Hindi cinema’s iconic character of Don in his upcoming film ‘Don 3’, has spoken up on the criticism that he received even before he started working on the film. Ranveer, who was recently honoured at the Red Sea Film Festival, was subjected to online criticism for stepping into the role which was portrayed by Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan in Farhan Akhtar directed ‘Don’ franchise, a role which was originally portrayed by the veteran megastar Amitabh Bachchan in the 1978 film which was penned by Farhan’s father Javed…

Abu Dhabi| Riding on quick-fire knocks by Andre Fletcher, Nicholas Pooran and Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Deccan Gladiators trounced struggling Team Abu Dhabi by 63 runs in the 12th match of the Abu Dhabi T10 at the Zayed Cricket Stadium here on Saturday. Andre Fletcher top-scored with 41, Pooran 30 and Kohler-Cadmore 35 as Gladiators posted 141 for 6 in 10 overs. Team Abu Dhabi could muster only 78 for 5 in 10 overs and crashed to their fourth defeat in four matches. Leus du Plooy (25) and Colin Ingram (19) put on a 41-run partnership for the fourth wicket to give…

UP| A government teacher and his 24-year-old son died within a span of a week due to rabies infection, after they were bitten and scratched by their pet cat in Akbarpur town of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Dehat district, officials said. Officials added the cat had been bitten by a stray dog, which was infected by rabies, sometime in September. Kanpur Dehat District Magistrate Alok Singh said that a Health department team had been sent to the locality and all precautionary measures were being taken. Health officials said that Imtiazuddin, 58, a headmaster in a basic school, had a pet cat which…