Chandigarh The Punjab government on Tuesday sanctioned an additional Rs 200 crore for completing all ongoing planned road and bridge projects on priority in the current and next fiscal. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh also issued directions for expeditious time-bound completion of critical public and building work projects while chairing aRead More

Chandigarh Fifty-six more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Punjab, pushing the virus count to 2,719 in the state, officials said on Tuesday. Among fresh cases, 20 were reported in Amritsar, which is leading the coronavirus tally in the state. Fifteen new cases reported in Ludhiana; five each inRead More

Chandigarh Security agencies were put on alert in Punjab and vigil increased in and around the holy city of Amritsar, around 250 km from state capital Chandigarh, ahead of the 36th anniversary of Operation Blue Star on Saturday. Operation Blue Star was carried out by the Indian Army at theRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday reiterated his intention to contest the next Assembly elections in the state, but said the decision on leading the party rested with the Congress president. He said Navjot Sidhu was very much a part of the Congress. At a video press conference,Read More

Chandigarh Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday accepted the state government’s demand for including Amritsar in an expressway project that will connect Delhi and Katra, putting an end to the speculation over the status of the holy city in the project. Earlier, some reports surfacedRead More

Jalandhar Punjab reported one death and 34 new coronavirus cases, taking the state’s COVID-19 toll 47 from 2,376 infections. A coronavirus-positive person from Jalandhar died at DMCH, Ludhiana on Wednesday. This is the ninth death from coronavirus in Jalandhar, where cases have seen a steady rise in cases in theRead More

Chandigarh Acceding to the Punjab Government’s proposal to convert the Punjab stretch of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway to a greenfield project, the Centre, on Tuesday, agreed by providing a direct spur from Nakodar, onward to the five historic towns of Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib and Tarn Taran, leading upRead More

Chandigarh With 41 new cases reported on Tuesday, the total tally in Punjab now stands at 2,342. A total of 96,326 samples were taken, of which, 2,342 came out positive. With 2017 patients recovered, the state now has 279 active cases. Jalandhar reported 11 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday—eight contactsRead More

Chandigarh Liquor will now cost more in Punjab as the state government, on Monday, imposed a COVID cess on all categories of liquor, including imported foreign liquor and imported beer. The state hopes to mop an additional Rs 145 crore through the imposition of additional excise duty. As a resultRead More

Chandigarh Punjab reported 38 new cases of coronavirus within a span of 24 hours, taking the state’s COVID-19 infection tally to 2,301. Punjab also revised its COVID-19 death toll down to 44, removing one duplicate death, the state’s evening COVID-19 bulletin showed. Amritsar (9), Hoshiarpur (8), Fatehgarh Sahib (5), LudhianaRead More