CHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 28: The Punjab Government has issued the instructions to the private hospitals and all medical colleges to notify the patients suffering from TB to the health department to ensure the real time monitoring of the patient data. Disclosing this here today, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mr.Read More

Chandigarh, February 28: The Education Minister, Punjab, Mrs. Aruna Chaudhary has extended her best wishes to the students for the exams of Class XII which begin throughout the state on 28th February. The minister has exhorted the students to undertake the exams with utmost sincerety thus upholding the righteous principlesRead More

Chandigarh, Feb 28 : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday flayed attempts to politicise the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) case with unsubstantiated charges against his son-in-law. Amarinder said that his son-in-law, Gurpal Singh, “is a minority shareholder with a mere 12.5 per cent share in Simbhaoli Sugars, andRead More

Batala, February 28 The police have arrested ASI Surinderjit Singh for stealing weapons from the ‘malkhana’ (room for keeping seized arms and ammunition) and selling these in the open market. Surinder Pal Singh Parmar, IG (Border), said a case under Section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, punishableRead More

Patiala, February 28 Ramanjit Singh alias Romi (29), the Nabha jailbreak accused who was recently arrested in Hong Kong in connection with a robbery there, was reportedly close to striking a deal with the Punjab Police to give information about then most-wanted gangsters Vicky Gounder and Prema Lahoria. “The dealRead More

Ludhiana, February 28 The Congress today swept Punjab’s cash-rich Ludhiana Municipal Corporation polls with an absolute majority by winning 62 out of 95 wards. The Shiromani Akali Dal won 11 seats, BJP 10, Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) of Bains brothers seven, Independent candidates four, while AAP, the main Opposition partyRead More

Chandigarh, Feb 26 Punjab’s opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday demanded a high-level impartial inquiry by either the CBI or a High Court Judge into the extortion racket going on at the Bathinda oil refinery. The government led by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh remains unmoved despite reports about theRead More

Chandigarh, February 26: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has called Congress MLAs for pre-budget discussions on March 1 to take their inputs in budget formulation. The meeting, ahead of the budget session, is aimed at further strengthening the coordination between the Congress government and the party’s elected representatives, whichRead More

Chandigarh, February 26 – A joint Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation today urged Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore to direct the State government to scrap the Ludhiana municipal corporation poll process and hold fresh elections. A joint SAD-BJP delegation led by senior SAD leadersRead More

Chandigarh, February 26: Acting on the directives of the Punjab government, led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the state police has decided to crack down on illegal mining in a big way, with the DGP issuing strict instructions to top officials in all districts to put an immediate stopRead More