MOHALI: Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) is facing acute financial crises as it has no funds left to pay salaries and pensions of the employee. Salaries for the month of June have still not been transferred into the accounts of the employees. There are around1,100staff members and 1,600 pensioners withRead More

Mohali: Tension gripped Manauli village of Mohali district on Wednesday as several torn pages of Gutka Sahib, a Sikh holy book, were found in Saini Majra block of village. As per the information, a villager, who was going for morning walk, spotted the torn pages in the street, located atRead More

Chandigarh: In an attempt to boost the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Punjab, the state government plans to launch a special campaign to inoculate all students above 18 years of age and staffers, both administrative and academic, at colleges.   For this purpose, the government would set up special campsRead More

Chandigarh:  Giving a further boost to the ongoing Covid vaccination drive, the state government would soon launch a special campaign to inoculate all the students above 18 years of age and staffers, both administrative and academic, at the colleges in Punjab.   For this purpose, special camps would be heldRead More

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann and MLA Harpal Singh Cheema were detained by the police on Saturday for leading a protest outside the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at Siswan in Mohali against the power shortage in the state. Amid tight security at the chief minister’sRead More

Chandigarh, June 16 Punjab registered 688 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the tally to 5,89,828, while 46 more fatalities pushed the toll to 15,698, according to a medical bulletin. The number of active cases dropped to 10,046 from 10,802 on Tuesday. New fatalities linked to theRead More

Mohali, June 16 An umbrella group of teachers’ unions on Wednesday laid siege to the Punjab School Education Board building in Sector 62, Mohali, seeking job regularisation and salary enhancement. Hundreds of teachers reached the seventh floor of the building to lay siege to the office of the Education Secretary.Read More

Jhajjar, June 14 Farm organisations from Punjab have decided to raise the number of elderly people, including women, at the Tikri border to maintain adequate strength of protesters. The decision had to be taken following the dwindling number of protesters at the border in the past two weeks as manyRead More

Mohali, June 15 Police on Tuesday used water cannons to disperse Shiromani Akali Dal and BSP leaders and workers when they were forcing their way to ‘gherao’ the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh here. Protesters led by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal were shouting slogans against the Congress-ledRead More

Chandigarh, June 14 With 629 fresh Covid cases, the infection tally in Punjab reached 5,88,525 on Monday, while 33 more fatalities pushed the toll to 15,602, according to a medical bulletin. The number of active cases dropped to 11,913 from 12,981 on Sunday. Deaths were reported from several districts includingRead More