Chandigarh, July 7, 2018: Announcing its women wing the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday appointed Prof. Baljinder Kaur, MLA as observer of state women wing while senior member of the party Raj Lalli Gill will be leading the wing in Punjab. Jeewanjot Kaur from Amritsar has been appointed as co-presidentRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Determined to end the misuse of the growth drug Oxytocin, Mission Director Tandarust Punjab, Kahan Singh Pannu has written to the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries as well as Local Government to ensure strict enforcement of the ban on the useRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Barely a day after the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh announced that he was ready to undergo a drug test, Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana K.P. Singh became the first celebrity to voluntarily undergo a dope test at the Mohali Civil Hospital in Phase 6. This wasRead More

Chandigarh, 6th July: The Aam Aadmi Party has demanded scrapping of the system of auctioning of cattle fairs (Pashu Melas) in the state to private contractors and demanded instead that these be organized by the Department of Panchayats & Rural Development on the pattern of Haryana State. Addressing a PressRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday called for a social movement to eradicate the drug menace, saying the police could only build pressure but it was the people who could really and truly help wipe out the problem. While making it clear that he didRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Acting on the directives of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab Police continued to crack its whip against erring cops alleging involved in drug trade, dismissing a Head Constable and cancelling its earlier orders of extensive in service for an Inspector. LR/Head Constable Jatinder Singh (No.Read More

Chandigarh, July 6: Taking cognizance of the onset of the monsoon season, the Local Government Minister, Punjab, Mr. Navjot Singh Sidhu has got into action and directed all the Commissioners of the Municipal Corporations and the Regional Deputy Directors of the department to pull up their socks and appoint nodalRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Punjab and Israel have agreed to explore technology transfer in the critical areas of water conservation and security, besides agreeing to cooperate in the fields of agriculture and social development. These, and some other vital issues of mutual interest, were discussed between Punjab Chief Minister Captain AmarinderRead More

CHANDIGARH, JULY 6: The Health and Family Welfare Department has issued strict instructions to all the Civil Surgeons to give priority to the cases of drug addiction and they have been made duty bound to admit the patient suffering from addiction and start the treatment as early as possible. InRead More

Chandigarh, July 6: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday urged Punjabi artistes, singers, dramatists, and filmmakers to play a proactive role in complementing the state government’s efforts to combat the drug menace. Interacting with noted Punjabi comedians Jaswinder Bhalla, Karamjit Anmol and Bal Mukund Sharma, the Chief MinisterRead More