Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, here on Sunday, commended 14-year-old Amandeep Kaur for rescuing four children from the burning school van at Longowal town in the Sangrur district. Four minors died in the accident on Saturday. “I salute the extraordinary bravery & valour of Amandeep Kaur who risked herRead More

Sangrur A ramshackle ‘condemned’ mini school van carrying 12 students of local Simran Public School, Longowal, caught fire on the town’s outskirts this afternoon, killing four children and injuring eight. Reportedly purchased from a junk dealer, it was on road for the first time today. Senior officers said a mechanicalRead More

Islamabad UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Sunday it was important for India and Pakistan to de-escalate “militarily and verbally” and exercise “maximum restraint” as he began his four-day visit to the country, amidst tense relationship between the two nuclear armed neighbours. Addressing a press conference after his meeting withRead More

Chandigarh About 100 unauthorised settlements in 33 urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state would be legalised under the Punjab Slum Dwellers (Proprietary Rights) Act that is likely to be tabled in the Budget session of the Vidhan Sabha, beginning February 20. According to the draft of the proposed legislationRead More

Amritsar Former SAD MLA Amarpal Singh Boney Ajnala ‘officially’ returned to the SAD fold today. He was welcomed by SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal at a party rally in Rajasansi. Suspense persists whether or not his father Dr Rattan Singh Ajnala, who skipped the rally, plans “ghar wapsi” like hisRead More

Chandigarh Overexploitation of groun-dwater in the region is the highest in the country, with Punjab topping the list of states extracting a lot more water than it should. While the national average of extracting groundwater is 63 per cent of the annual extractable resources, it is as high as 166Read More

Chandigarh Punjab’s Governance Reforms Department has created a state-level IT Cadre, with 354 posts of IT Officers to execute various projects such as Digital India under the national e-governance program. Notably, the applications are being invited from aspiring technocrats to avail the opportunity and to be part of state ITRead More

Chandigarh The Punjab Transport Department undertook a five-day special drive against the glorification of drug and gun culture in songs across the state, an official statement said here on Tuesday. On the directions of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the special drive was launched from February 7-11 during which all regionalRead More

Patiala The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) backed by the state government recommended to the Centre to “extend the deadline” for installing pollution control devices in all thermal power plants in the state and save them from closure even as the principal agency — the Punjab State Power Corporation LimitedRead More

Jalandhar In May 2017, as many as 35 patients undergoing treatment for thalassemia at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital tested positive for Hepatitis C after blood transfusion. Thirty of them were below the age of 18. A probe gave a clean chit to the hospital blood bank. The window period forRead More