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Covid Booster dose vaccination camp held at Aryans
Mohali : To combat the raging wave of the Covid pandemic and to ensure the safety of students & staff & a special drive camp for administering Covid vaccine booster, second & first dose was organised at Aryans Group of Colleges,…
Punjab procures 93 lakh tons wheat, 25% decline against 2021
Chandigarh : Punjab has procured over 93 lakh tons of wheat in the ongoing rabi marketing season, a decline of 25 per cent compared with 125 lakh tons in 2021, officials said on Tuesday. With a drastic decline in wheat arrivals, the…
Chandigarh’s last slum demolished
Chandigarh : The City Beautiful, as Chandigarh is popularly known as, was almost made slum-free with a demolition of the last oldest and biggest slum of approximately 2,500 structures at Colony number 4 in the Industrial Area, Phase 1, on…
Amid heatwave, Haryana’s power demand touches all-time high
Chandigarh : Amid a heatwave spell, the peak power demand in Haryana touched an all-time high with additional requirement of 3,000 MW electricity. The BJP government claims necessary arrangements are being made to overcome the shortage.…
Power outages in Punjab owing to coal shortage
Chandigarh : Punjab is facing acute power outage with its thermal plants heading to either facing deficiency of coal or hitting by a snag owing to increase in load capacity, state officials said on Saturday. Officials say since most of the…
PGTI Players Championship: In-form Yuvraj Singh Sandhu wins title on home turf
Chandigarh : Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Singh Sandhu continued his red-hot form with his third win in five months at the Rs. 50 lakh PGTI Players Championship 2022 at the Chandigarh Golf Club here on Friday.Sandhu (70-67-65-69), playing at his…
PGI-Chandigarh gets World Psychiatric Association centre
Chandigarh : With one out of every 10 people has a mental disorder and over 70 per cent of them are not being treated, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research’s (PGI) Department of Psychiatry will work in public mental…
Anti-Gangster Task Force to intensify action: Punjab DGP
Chandigarh : With newly constituted Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) swinging into action, Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab V.K. Bhawra on Monday gave a clarion call to the people of the state to join hands with the police against the…
Punjab to procure 132 lakh tonnes of wheat
Chandigarh : Punjab has fixed a target of procuring 132 lakh tonnes of wheat that will begin on April 1 and culminate on May 31, officials said on Tuesday.The Centre has fixed the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat at Rs 2,015 per…
Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Punjab Congress chief
Chandigarh : Days after facing humiliating defeat in Punjab from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday resigned from the post.In a one-line resignation to party President Sonia Gandhi, Sidhu wrote,…