KAPURTHALA: Deputy Commissioner cum District Magistrate Deepti Uppal has issued a new timetable for opening shops in District Kapurthala in line with the restrictions imposed by the Punjab Government to curb covid.

KAPURTHALA:Pushpa Gujral Science City celebrated “World Telecom Day” by organizing a webinar on differentiating features of “5G” technology. Around 150 Engineering college students from all over Punjab participated through virtual mode. The theme for this year on World Telecom Day was “Accelerating Digital Transformation in challenging times”.

CHANDIGARH:An online “Bridge Course program” for hundred students of Dashmesh Publish
School, District Qadian, Gurdaspur has been initiated here Monday. The online program for one
month was organized by Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (RCED), Chandigarh in
collaboration with Satnam Sarvkalyan Trust (SST), Mohali.

CHANDIGARH: In a breath of fresh air in these testing times of pandemic, efforts of Punjab Government have borne fruit as regular Oxygen supply through air route from different parts of the country in being arranged in punjab.

PATIALA: To ensure the timely response to the CORONAVIRUS infected people in the rural areas under recently launched 'Rural Mission Fateh', monitoring committees at Sub Divisional level and Village level have been constituted, said deputy commissioner, Kumar Amit today, after holding the meeting of SDMs, Health Officials and other stakeholders of the committees.

CHANDIGARH: Trouble seems brewing for Punjab Technical Education Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who has been facing charges of sending "indecent" messages to an IAS officer on her mobile phone more than two years ago, with the state women panel issuing notice to the government on the issue.

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CHANDIGARH: Cabinet Minsters of Punjab Mr Balbir Singh Sidhu and Mr Sadhu Singh Dharmsot today advised SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal to peep into his conscience and see that not only his hands but soul was also drenched with blood of innocent people who were killed in Bargari incident.

CHANDIGARH: Acting swiftly on Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh's directions to launch a special campaign against Covid in the villages, the Chief Secretary, Ms Vini Mahajan, on Sunday, exhorted the rural population in Punjab to voluntarily come forward and get themselves tested and vaccinated against the deadly virus.

CHANDIGARH: In order to further intensify the ongoing Drive Against Drugs, Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta, during a high-level virtual meeting on Sunday, directed all the Police Chiefs to launch a crackdown against the drug smugglers/suppliers in their concerned areas

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Sunday launched the 'Zimmewaar Sangrur' campaign by setting up a 100-bed facility equipped with oxygen concentrators and vital measurement monitors in his hometown Sangrur.

KAPURTHALA: Under the 'Food Helpline' launched by the Punjab Police for the purpose of providing ration and pucca food to the weaker sections of the society during the curfew due to Covid cause, dry ration and pucca food has been provided to 1100 families in Kapurthala district. .

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on BJP national and state leaders parroting Adityanath Yogi’s provocative statement on Malerkotla, warning that their blatant attempts to drive a communal wedge among the peace-loving Punjabis will backfire on them.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Health Minister Punjab Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu dedicated 4 new Laboratories for free testing of Dengue to the people of the State on the occasion of National Dengue Day on 16th May. The new labs have been made functional at Sub-divisional Hospital Kharar, Rajpura, Abohar and Jagraon.

JAGRAON/TARN TARAN: Emotions ran high as the mortal remains of the two Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASIs), who were shot dead by car borne drug smuggler-criminals and perverts in New Grain Market in Jagraon were consigned to flames with full state honours at their native villages on Sunday. Both ASIs posted in the Crime Investigation Unit (CIA) Wing of Ludhiana Rural Police, following a tip-off regarding liquor smuggling when the incident took place on Saturday evening.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Sunil Jakhar said that the Modi government at the Center has completely failed in Covid management. Instead of making timely arrangements to battle the pandemic, the Central govt continued to send vaccines abroad. Now when people were telling the truth or serving humanity to give relief to affected people, they were being booked and arrested by registering FIRs.

CHANDIGARH: Amid continued shortage of Covid vaccine, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday directed the Chief Secretary to explore the possibility of procurement of Sputnik V for the immunization of 18-44 age group.

CHANDIGARH: Stressing the need to avoid the kind of situation that was prevailing in the villages of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday announced a unique Covid Fateh programme as part of a ‘Corona Mukt Pind Abhiyaan’ to tackle the worrying spread of Covid in the rural areas.

CHANDIGARH: With the state continuing to report high Covid positivity and CFR, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday ordered extension of all the existing restrictions up to May 31, with directions for strict enforcement of all the curbs.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday underscored the need to propagate the ideology of the 9th Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib, around the world, to promote the values of peace, harmony, secularism and co-existence, which Guru Sahib upheld through his supreme sacrifice.

KAPURTHALA: Pushpa Gujral Science City celebrated National Dengue Day by organizing webinar on “Strategies to prevent Dengue epidemic during Covid -19 pandemic ”. Around 200 students and teachers from all over Punjab participated through virtual mode. Dr. Kulbir Kaur, Director Principal, Punjab Institute of Medical Science, Jalandhar was key speaker at the occasion. She said that Dengue fever is caused by the dengue virus transmitted by the bite of female Aedes aegypti mosquito. It occurs during the month of July to October, as condition were most suitable for breeding of mosquitoes.

CHANDIGARH: Prominent Sikh farmer leader, National Delegate of All India Jatt Maha Sabha and State President Chandigarh, Rajinder Singh Badheri has strongly condemned the provocative tweet of Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath on the Punjab government declaring Malerkotla as a new district. Farmer leader Badheri termed the statement as a manifestation of the saffron party's narrow and communal policy and a very shameful thinking.

CHANDIGARH:In a yet another pro-farmers’ initiative besides promoting e-governance, Punjab became the first state in the country to launch a Digi-Locker facility for farmers. Now, the farmers have an option to take print or download digital copies of their J-Forms in the state, as the Punjab Mandi Board has made the electronic format of J-Forms available, from this Wheat Procurement-2021 season onwards.

CHANDIGARH: In order to bridge the gap between the rising demand and supply of the medical oxygen in the state, the Punjab Government would demand additional oxygen tankers from the Centre to speed up the supply chain of the life-saving gas in the state from far and near.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday urged the Prime Minister to make the Central Government the single agency for procurement and distribution of vaccine for 18-44 age group.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Sunil Jakhar has said that the BJP govt which had completely failed to protect people from the wrath of Corona, in this difficult time, was stooping so low in harassing the people who were sincerely engaged in public service. He accused the BJP Govt of trying hard to save the fake image of PM Modi rather than working to save lives of its citizens.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday slammed Yogi Adityanath over his inflammatory tweet on the declaration of Malerkotla as the 23rd district of Punjab, terming it an attempt to incite communal hatred in the peaceful state as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s divisive policies.

CHANDIGARH: On the suggestion of Mr. Avinash Rai Khanna, Vice Chairperson Indian Red Cross, Punjab State Red Cross has started a “Tele helpline” in Collaboration with Strategic Institute for Public Health Education and Research (SIPHER) to provide counseling and guidance to the COVID 19 patients in home isolation.

CHANDIGARH: With the rolling out of Punjab's first Oxygen Express towards Bokaro earlier this morning, the state will soon be in a position to lift its full 80 MT O2 quota, much needed to further boost up its stock of life-saving medical ingredient.

LAHORE: At least 11 people were killed after a passenger van plunged into a canal in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to media reports.
The accident took place on Friday evening in Khanqah Dogran area of Sheikhupura district, reports Xinhua news agency.

CHANDIGARH: A school set up in open street corner in Jallandhar provides regular education to children of daily wagers and labourers living in near by slum areas. Their families reside in small hamlets/shanties, cut off from the city’s towering infrastructure.

 CHANDIGARH: Worried as there was no access to food after nine members of a family tested COVID-19 positive and have been home isolated, Palwinderjit Kaur, 38, a resident from village Rajindergarh in Fatehgarh Sahib dialled ‘112’ with a request and the Police Party immediately reached their home with the required food.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday condoled the sad demise of Abhay Singh Sandhu, the Nephew of legendary martyr Shaheed-e- Azam Bhagat Singh, who passed away this evening due to Covid complications.

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CHANDIGARH: With rural areas, which were largely unaffected in the first wave, now showing a Covid spike, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday urged villagers to restrict movement into their villages to only those persons who are free of the virus.