Punjab reports 3 deaths and 120 COVID-19 fresh cases; state toll climbs to 152

Chandigarh, June 30 Senior journalist and anchor Davinder Pal Singh died due to COVID-19 on Tuesday. The PTC anchor contracted the deadly disease in Delhi about a month ago. He was moved to a private hospital in Chandigarh, where he was kept on the ventilator for several days. From ShiromaniRead More

Chandigarh Punjab reported 150 new coronavirus cases and six more deaths within 24 hours, taking the state count to 5,568. Amritsar reported three of five deaths on Tuesday. Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Patiala each reported one death, the state’s COVID bulletin showed. At 45, Ludhiana also reported the highest number ofRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, here on Saturday, announced Rs 50-lakh ex gratia along with a government job to a family member of Lance Naik Saleem Khan, who laid down his life in the line of duty in Ladakh. Extending sympathies to the kin of the 24-year-old Patiala youth,Read More

Chandigarh Punjab reported seven deaths from coronavirus and nearly 100 new cases in a span of 24 hours, the state’s medical bulletin showed on Saturday—developments that take the state’s COVID-19 tally to past 5,000. There appeared to be a slight dip in the number of reported coronavirus infections on Monday—PunjabRead More

Faridkot Probing the police firing of Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan in which two protesters were killed and many others injured on October 14, 2015, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police on Thursday arrested Gurdeep Singh Pander, the then Kotkapura SHO. The police firing incident had taken place inRead More

Bathinda/Chandigarh, June 25 Punjab reported seven deaths and 142 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the state’s death toll to 120. Along with the fresh cases, the state’s tally stands at 4,769. Out of the seven deaths, a 70-year-old man died of COVID-19 on Wednesday night. The deceased, who wasRead More

Chandigarh, June 24 Punjab reported eight deaths and 230 COVID-19 positive cases on Wednesday, taking the state’s death toll to 113. Out of 230 infections, 64 infections were recorded in Sangrur. With the fresh cases, the total count has reached 4,627. While Jalandhar reported 47 COVID-19 positive cases, Muktsar hasRead More

Patiala To pay tributes to martyrs, who were killed in a clash with Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh earlier this week, the Education Department has decided to rename government schools in their native villages. In Patiala’s Seel village, Government Primary School has been namedRead More

Chandigarh Punjab reported 122 positive coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the state’s tally to 4,074. With 54 infections, Ludhiana recorded the highest number of infections in the state. However, Pathankot reported 16 COVID-19 positive patients. While six cases surfaced in Jalandhar. Amritsar and SAS Nagar reported four cases each.