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Donning a blue cloth headgear, Gandhi, after paying obeisance, visited the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, and performed ‘sewa’ by cleaning tea bowls along with other devotees.He’s also likely to attend the ritual of ‘palki sewa’ on Tuesday morning.This is a private visit and not a political one, said Congress leaders.The Golden Temple has been witnessing hundreds of devotees lined up since morning to offer prayers owing to the holiday to mark Gandhi Jayanti.A day before Gandhi’s visit to Golden Temple, former party’s state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu batted for the INDIA bloc.His assertion comes at…

The office of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which oversees the country’s aviation industry, recently proposed an update to its bylaws regarding alcohol consumption, CNN reported.There is already reference to things other than alcoholic drinks that could cause a positive breath test, namely mouthwash, in the guidelines. However, a new section specifically mentions perfume, the report said.It reads: “No crew member shall consume any drug/formulation or use any substance such as mouthwash/tooth gel/perfume or any such product which has alcoholic content. This may result into positive breath analyser test.”The text continues: “Any crew member who is undergoing such…

Vishal is reprising his role as a judge on the new season of “Indian Idol”. Speaking to IANS, Vishal talked about his musical journey, and the slow decay that mainstream music is going through.Calling his musical journey ‘fun’, Vishal said: “I’ve had nothing but fun. I mean. We were just calculating. It’s been 23 or 24 years of just fun working with a very dear friend and, you know, with various very, very dear friends, whether they are directors or whether they are singers or whether they are lyricists.””All of us have worked in a spirit of collaboration and we…

A day after Avinash Sable romped to victory in the men’s event. Parul and Priti ran superb tactical races to finish behind Bahrain’s Olympic and World leader Winfred Mutile Yavi, who set an Asian Games Record of 9:18.28.Parul clocked 9:27.63 while Priti finished third in 9:43.32, also her personal best’.It is a great performance by Parul , who stayed on the heels of the Bahraini before opened up a big gap with three laps to go. She continued and went to break her personal best, for the third time in a month after doing it twice at the World Championships.Knowing…

The United States-headquartered global healthcare company has centres in Pittsburgh, Shanghai, and Hyderabad.Viatris has executed an agreement to divest its API business in India to Iquest Enterprises, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company owned by Nimmagadda Prasad, the founder of Matrix Laboratories. The transaction includes three manufacturing sites and a R&D lab in Hyderabad, three manufacturing sites in Vizag and third-party API sales. However, Viatris will retain some selective R&D capabilities in API.The women’s healthcare business, which primarily relates to oral and injectable contraceptives, has been sold to Insud Pharma, a leading Spanish multinational pharmaceutical company. The deal includes two manufacturing facilities…

Police arrested the parents, who were blamed for poisoning them and stuffing their bodies in the trunk, before going for their daily routine.The family of the migrant labourer had five children, police added.Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kartarpur, Balbir Singh, said the three sisters were found dead in a trunk in the house.”We got the information from Kanpur village about the disappearance of three sisters around 11 p.m. (on Sunday). The family is from Bihar and they are migrant labourers. Yesterday (Sunday), their parents went to work and when they returned home, their three children were missing. Police went to the…

Accusing Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of wasting crores of rupees to befool Punjabis that a special facility has been opened at the Mata Kaushalya Hospital, SAD legal cell head Arshdeep Singh Kler said “the truth is that the building has only been given a fresh coat of paint and machinery supplied by the Central government has been installed after a gap of two years”.Claiming that even now nothing concrete has been done. Kler said, “The AAP government posted nine doctors at the hospital for the one-day visit of AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal instead of posting them permanently at the hospital.”Asking…

Equipped with ultra-modern facilities, this hospital will cater to the population of around 20 lakh people in and around Patiala. The hospital has 300 beds and now another 66 beds are being added.The hospital has been strengthened at a cost of Rs 13.8 crore and is equipped with facilities of ICU, NICU and others.Chief Minister Mann announced that Punjab has heralded a new revolution in the field of healthcare sector.He announced that emergency services will be operational in all hospitals within a year. He said the government is going to start electronic intensive care unit (eICU) system to provide critical…

“We have witnessed a historic day on Mahatma Gandhi’s Jayanti. The Bihar government has released the caste-based survey despite various conspiracies and court cases,” Lalu Prasad Yadav said.“This data will be used to make policies for the marginalised sections of society. It will give representation to people as per their strength in the state’s resources and will set an example in the country,” he said.“The state government should ensure that it gives representation to people as per their numbers in the state. I firmly believe that people of every caste should get fair right in the state’s resources. When we…

Ravi Madasamy, 54, had repeatedly published election advertising material online during the cooling-off period of the election, the Elections Department (ELD) said on Monday.Following this, the Assistant Returning Officer lodged police reports against Madasamy for potential offences committed under Section 42C of the Presidential Elections Act, The Straits Times newspaper reported.In Singapore, it is illegal to put up paid or unpaid election advertising on the eve of polling day, or cooling-off period, for the presidential election.This year’s cooling-off period started on August 31 at 12 a.m., and ended with the close of polling day on September 1 at 8 p.m.…