CHANDIGARH, MARCH 3: The Punjab School Education Department has issued instructions to constitute committees at school level to procure books for libraries recommended by the expert committee.

LONDON: An Indian-origin pharmacist in Britain has been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for selling hundreds of thousands of doses of addictive prescription drugs on the black market.

MUMBAI: The Income Tax department on Wednesday carried out searches at properties of filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl, Madhu Mantena and actor Taapsee Pannu.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab on Tuesday reported 730 new coronavirus cases, pushing the infection count to 1,83,538, according to a medical bulletin.

NEW DELHI: According to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday, India’s total tally of Covid-19 cases stood at 1,11,39,516 with 14,989 new infections being reported in a day, while the active cases were recorded above 1.7 lakh after a month.

GENEVA: The number of new global cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has risen over the past week after a long decline, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement.

MUMBAI: Singer Harshdeep Kaur and husband Mankeet Singh have welcomed a baby boy. She shared a picture of them together with the words ‘it’s a boy’ and ‘the adventure begins’ written on it.

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 2: The Punjab Government has launched a website to deal with matters related to family, property and other issues of Non-Resident Indians.  The website of the Punjab State NRI Commission www.nricommissionpunjab.com was today, launched by NRI Affairs, Sports and Youth Services Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi during a …

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 2: Accepting the long pending demand of Anganwadi Workers’ Unions, Punjab Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Aruna Chaudhary today ordered to fill vacant posts of Workers and Helpers as soon as possible. District Program Officers (DPOs) have already been instructed to fill the posts.

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 2: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) legislator Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded that a criminal case be registered against chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Pradesh Congress President Sunil Jakhar and Cooperatives minister Sukhjinder Randhawa for befooling and defrauding the father-son duo of Dasuya who committed suicide recently believing the …