CHANDIGARH: The UT health department has started gearing up for any rise in Covid numbers especially in view of cases of new variant JN 1 getting reported in the country. The health department will get genome sequencing of the patients done, so that the variants of the virus can be detected in time and preventive … Read more
The Centre Thursday released the balance Rs 44,000 crore to states under the back-to-back loan facility in-lieu of GST compensation, taking the total to Rs 1.59 lakh crore, the full amount that the government had planned to pay to states for FY 22 for compensation shortfall. The government had released Rs 75,000 crore in July … Read more
CHANDIGARH: The city has been unable to reach its target of 50% coverage of the digital health cards under the national digital health mission. Sources in the health department said it was initially planned that at least 50% of the city’s population should be covered at the beginning of this year. Later, due to the … Read more
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday said many states especially in the northeast have special laws relating to land ownership whereby people from other parts of the country cannot buy land there, and questioned why Jammu and Kashmir could not have similar laws. “There are many states like Himachal Pardesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland … Read more