Stating that Khelo India Youth Games has emerged as a big platform for youths,

the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur on Tuesday said that just

as Haryana has prepared modern sports infrastructure to promote sports, similarly other states

should also follow the same pattern and set up sports infrastructure so that both Center and

States can jointly realize the mission of promoting sports. The Union Minister reached

Panchkula on Tuesday to watch the final match of girls Kabaddi between the states of Haryana

and Maharashtra during the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games-2021.  He interacted with the

players of both teams and encouraged them to perform well in the games.

Himachal CM flags off new fleet of buses

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday flagged off 16 buses as

part of the state government's purchase of a new fleet of buses, which will replace the old ones. 

The chief minister said as per his budget announcement last year, 205 new buses were to be

purchased by the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) of which 87 buses have

already arrived and the remaining will follow suit.  He also told the media that an additional 360

buses will be added to the HRTC's fleet and these will be procured at the earliest.

Cong Ludhiana MP Bittu receives ‘death threats from abroad’

Ludhiana:  Over a week after Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala was killed

in broad daylight on May 29, party MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu on Tuesday filed a

police complaint with Ludhiana Police alleging that he received threat calls from UK on

WhatsApp for “speaking against Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Khalistanis”. The caller, calling

from an unknown “international number” on Bittu’s PA Harjinder Singh’s mobile number, has

threatened Bittu to “meet the same fate as Moosewala”. Currently, Bittu is abroad with his

family. Bittu is the grandson of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Beant Singh who was

assassinated on August 31, 1995, by terrorists in a dreaded bomb blast outside the Punjab Civil

Secretariat. In MP’s absence, his office staff in Ludhiana has informed the matter to the police.

Punjab VB arrests Cong former Minister Dharamsot, his aides in an organized

corruption case