Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Monday, pitched for an extension in the lockdown, but with a carefully crafted strategy, backed by fiscal and economic empowerment of the states to save lives and secure livelihood. Clearly favouring continuation of a strict lockdown, in view of the escalating casesRead More

Chandigarh Punjab on Monday reported a coronavirus death and 54 new cases of the disease, taking the state’s death toll to 32 and case tally to 1,877. A 91-year-old Jalandhar man, who had recently tested positive for coronavirus, died at CMC hospital in Ludhiana. With the latest case, Jalandhar’s COVIDRead More

Chandigarh/Ropar/Jalandhar Punjab reported 61 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the state’s infection tally to 1,823. Ropar (35), Amritsar (8), Fatehgarh Sahib (8), SAS Nagar (7), Moga (1), Kapurthala and Patiala (1) reported new COVID-19 cases, Punjab’s COVID bulletin issued on Sunday evening said. Ropar registered a massive spike inRead More

Chandigarh Hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr, a triple Olympic gold medallist, whose condition continued to remain critical, on Sunday tested negative for coronavirus. “His COVID-19 report is negative,” the 96-year-old’s maternal grandson, Kabir told PTI. Balbir Sr was admitted to Fortis hospital at Mohali on Friday evening with complaint ofRead More

Patiala Patiala has put the maximum efforts in stemming the spread of COVOD-19 by quarantining 172 people so far for every single positive COVID-19 case, which is the highest in the state. With this, Patiala has already achieved the tag of the best contact-tracing district in the state. The districtRead More

Jalandhar An ASI and his associate were arrested after Kabaddi player Arvinderjit Singh was shot dead in Kapurthala on Thursday night. ASI Paramjit Singh and his associate Mangu have been arrested by the Kapurthala police. The ASI has been dismissed from service. The ASI had an altercation with six youngRead More

Chandigarh Reiterating his demand for revenue grants to the states for three months to meet the shortfall in revenues, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clearly define the way forward for the country’s economic revival and an exit strategy from lockdown 3.0. InRead More

Chandigarh/Dharamsala The Punjab Police on Wednesday evening booked former state DGP Sumedh Singh Saini and six other police officials at Mohali in a 29-year-old case of alleged kidnapping, torture, and “stage-managed elimination” of Balwant Singh Multani, son of IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani. The registration of the case coincides withRead More

Toronto Two Sikh doctor brothers in Canada have made an “extremely difficult decision” to shave off their beards, an article of faith in Sikhism, so as to wear the medical-grade protective masks necessary to treat patients suffering from the deadly coronavirus in the country, according to media reports.Montreal physician SanjeetRead More

Chandigarh, May 4 Punjab reported 75 new coronavirus cases and two fatalities in a span of 24 hours—-a development takes the state’s COVID-19 tally to 1,526 and death toll to 27.Moga (28), Tarn Taran (16), Amritsar (13), Patiala (2), Mansa (2), Barnala (1), Muktsar (1), Gurdaspur (1), Fatehgarh Sahib (3),Read More