Ahead of Haryana session, CM, Speaker test +ve

Panchkula/new delhi, Aug 24 Two days ahead of the Assembly session, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta and three MLAs today tested positive for Covid-19. Khattar had attended a meeting with Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who...

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 12:40 PM Aug 25, 2020 IST

Panchkula/new delhi, Aug 24

Two days ahead of the Assembly session, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta and three MLAs today tested positive for Covid-19.

Khattar had attended a meeting with Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who was later found infected. Legislators Aseem Goyal, RK Kashyap and Lakshman Napa have tested positive too.

Meanwhile, India scaled a new peak in Covid testing with more than 26,000 tests per million people, exceeding the WHO advisory of at least 140 tests per million people per day.

“We have now tested 3.59 crore samples for Covid with 6,09,917 tests conducted in the past 24 hours,” said the Ministry of Health as daily infections rose by 61,408 to take the caseload to 31,06,348. — TNS

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees.

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the newspaper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

Designed and developed by : SORTD

Suggested Articles