Operation Sudarshan

The Border Security Force (BSF) has launched a mega exercise code-named Operation Sudarshan to fortify the ‘anti-infiltration grid’ along the Pakistan border in regions of Punjab and Jammu. The region of Jammu shares about 485-km of the sensitive international border ..

Healthy States, Progressive India Report 2019

Healthy States, Progressive India is an annual report of Niti Aayog ranks states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other. The report has been ..

Healthy States Progressive India: NITI Aayog’s Health Index Report

The Healthy States, Progressive India report of the Niti Aayog takes a comprehensive look at health in terms of health outcomes in several health indicators, governance and impact of policy decisions. The second edition of the report focuses on measuring ..

Kharga Prahar Joint Exercise

Kharga Prahar joint exercise of the Indian Army and Indian Air Force (IAF) was held at Punjab. Kharga Prahar It incorporated aspects of joint training wherein para drops from Indian Air Force aircraft were carried out and simulated battlefield air ..

Punjab and Haryana High Court declares Animals as legal persons

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has recently ruled that all animals are legal persons entitled to legal rights like human beings in Haryana. The verdict comes nearly a year after Uttarakhand High Court passed a similar order to protect ..

Punjab bans Online Food Delivery without Hygiene Rating

The Punjab government has decided to make it mandatory for all online food aggregators to ensure that food supplied by them should compulsorily have hygiene rating as per Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) guidelines. Key Highlights Reason: ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2019

Hygiene Rating for Food Delivery Apps in Punjab

The government of Punjab has issued directions to all online food order and supply companies to display the hygiene rating of the food business operators registered with them. The hygiene ratings are as per the guidelines of the Food Safety ..

Prof. Kirpal Singh, renowned Sikh historian and chronicler, passes away

Prof. Kirpal Singh (95), the renowned Sikh historian and chronicler, has passed away in Chandigarh on May 7, 2019. He was the first chronicler of India’s partition. The historian had retired as professor and head of the department of Punjab ..