Chandigarh Three more members of the Tablighi Jamaat, who were at the congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz in March, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus in Punjab, taking their total cases to five. They were reported in Mansa district where they returned from Delhi on March 19. Six people testedRead More

Mohali Moved by the incident that took place on Thursday in which cremation of the body of renowned ‘Ragi’ and Padam Shri Nirmal Singh was opposed owing to his demise from COVID-19, Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu made an appeal to the public not to panic as cremation ofRead More

Chandigarh Taking the COVID threat head-on, the Punjab government has said all residents of Punjab, coming back from other states will be screened, even if they do not have any foreign travel history in past 14 days. The orders have been issued under The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. All deputyRead More

Chandigarh, March 31 The Sikh community of Sydney has spent over $4,000 Australian dollars on a food donation program for elderly folks stuck in self-isolation. The group—“Turbans of Australia”—have so far donated more than 1.5 tons of food. The food will be delivered to residents, who are unable to purchaseRead More

Patiala The 21-year-old youth from a village in Patiala — who tested positive for the COVID-19 — had come in contact with hundreds of people before he was admitted to the isolation ward of Civil Hospital, Ambala. The carrier of coronavirus, in fact, returned from Nepal to New Delhi inRead More

Chandigarh With another patient succumbing to coronavirus (COVID-19) at Patiala on Monday, the total number of deaths due to the deadly virus has reached to three in Punjab. Apart from that with three new cases — one each from Ludhiana, Patiala and SAS Nagar, the total number of positive casesRead More

Chandigarh Punjab reported second fatality due to coronavirus on Sunday with the death of Harbhajan Singh, a contact of Baldev Singh who was the first patient to succumb to the infection. Amritsar DC Shivdular Singh Dhillon confirmed the death of Harbhajan Singh. Meanwhile, no new confirmed case of COVID-19 wasRead More

Chandigarh Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said bodies of three Sikhs killed in the Kabul gurdwara attack, whose families were based in India, would be brought back to the country on Monday. She also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to facilitate theRead More

Chandigarh The Punjab government has asked non-resident Indians (NRIs) who visited the state after January 30 to call 112 and register themselves. The development comes in the back of rising coronavirus cases in both the state and the country. Punjab’s positive cases current stand at 38 from 898 people whoRead More

Amritsar The test reports of state’s first reported coronavirus patient, a male resident of Italy from Hoshiarpur district, came out to be negative on Thursday. The patient who had tested positive for the disease earlier this month was admitted at Government Medical college here. The authorities confirmed that latest testRead More