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Alberta | Alberta’s new Oil Sands Mine Water Steering Committee will look at options to speed up oil sands mine water management and tailings ponds reclamation. Alberta is launching the new Oil Sands Mine Water Steering Committee to speed up the reclamation of oil sands tailings ponds. The expert committee will study potential policies and measures for and suggest options that would best allow for reclamation to occur as quickly and safely as possible. Alberta’s government will use the committee’s work to create an accelerated plan to reclaim the water in oil sands tailing ponds and eventually return the land…

Alberta | Alberta’s new French Policy Action Plan charts a course to improve services and resources for French-speaking Albertans, helping support and celebrate Alberta’s Francophonie. French is an important part of Alberta’s culture, which has helped shape the Albertan identity. The French-speaking community has grown to more than 261,000 people, making it the largest language community in the province after English. Over the past year, Alberta’s government has collaborated with more than 30 francophone community leaders to develop the 2024-28 French Policy Action Plan. This is a new, comprehensive strategy to better support French-speaking Albertans by enhancing and expanding French-language…

Alberta | Alberta Ombudsman finds inadequate Regulation impacts benefit access for people with developmental disabilities.The Alberta Ombudsman has released a public report on his investigation into the Persons with Developmental Disabilities program which found systemic issues in how the program assesses  intellectual capacity. The investigation, initiated by a complaint from a mother advocating for her son, sheds light on legislative flaws in the program's eligibility criteria and decision-making process. The complainant’s son was deemed ineligible for the program’s support and was denied access to the PDD program due to his IQ score. The complainant brought this matter forward for appeal…

Rohtak | The Congress got a major shot in the arm in Haryana on Tuesday as three independent MLAs have announced their support for the Congress,  just before voting for the Lok Sabha elections. Charkhi Dadri MLA Somveer Sangwan, Pundri MLA Randhir Golan and Nilokheri MLA Dharampal Gondar have withdrawn their support from BJP and supported Congress. The trio announced this while addressing a press conference in the presence of former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Haryana Congress President Chaudhary Udaibhan. The three MLAs have already sent letters withdrawing their support from the government to…

Chandigarh | Haryana Chief Secretary, T.V.S.N. Prasad said that Haryana is ready to implement new criminal laws: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 .To facilitate this, the Haryana Police has initiated comprehensive training programs to familiarize police personnel with these new laws. Presiding over the 27th State Apex Committee meeting for CCTNS and ICJS here today, Mr. Prasad stated that a significant number of field officers have already undergone training on applying these new criminal laws at various Police training centers across the state. By the end of June 2024, approximately 30,000 field officials…

New Delhi |  Anandana, The Coca-Cola India Foundation, announces its first ever partnership with Hockey India, for the National Women's Hockey League 2024. The 1st Phase of the tournament commenced on 30thApril, and it will conclude on 9thMay 2024, in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The domestic league promises an exhilarating showcase of talent and skill. The National Women's Hockey League features teams that secured top-eight positions in Pune's recently concluded 14th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2024. The participating athletes represent various states, including Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Mizoram, Manipur, and Odisha. In line with Coca-Cola India's commitment to…

Ferozepur | Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann campaigned in the Ferozepur Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday. He addressed a huge public rally and appealed to the people to make AAP candidate Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar win with a huge majority. Addressing the people, Mann said that your love and respect never lets me get tired. He said that I am also one of you. I have lived in the village and am still connected to my village. I understand your pain and suffering. What will those living in palaces know about the people of the village. Mann attacked Sukhbir Badal and said that he is a…

Chandigarh | On the first day of filing of nominations for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, 15 nominations have been filed by 13 candidates for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab. Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C said no candidate had filed nomination papers for the Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib, and Bathinda Lok Sabha seats on May 7. One nomination each has been filed from Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Hoshiarpur, Anandpur Sahib, Faridkot, and Sangrur. The highest number of five nominations have been filed from Ferozepur as 2 candidates have filled out two forms each. Three nominations have been filed from Patiala.The…

Ludhiana | Ravneet Bittu, BJP candidate from Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat today said that huge recoveries of drugs, drones, and arms by Border Security Force at the international border with Pakistan in the recent past has raised the eyebrows and indicated that drug abuse is on the rise in border state of Punjab. Only the BJP Govt under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah can plug this cross-border terrorism saving the sensitive state of Punjab and thus our future generations. Bittu in a statement said that notwithstanding the claims by the Bhagwant Mann government that the drug menace…

Mumbai | The National Stock Exchange announced today on May 7 that the market will remain open even on 18th May 2024 i.e. a holiday on Saturday. There will be two special live trading sessions during this period. This is being done to test the disaster recovery site. This special live trading session will be conducted with intra-day switch from the primary site to the disaster recovery site in the equity and equity derivatives segments, the stock exchange said. There will be testing to handle the failure of the primary site. By doing this, the preparedness to handle major disruption…