Health workers from different districts of Punjab were among the ones who got the first vaccine dose Saturday. The Indian Express profiles a few among them who got the first shot against Covid-19. Dr Ranjit Singh Rai, Age: 50Designation: ENT specialist, Covid-19 Nodal Officer Covid-19District: Mansa Dr Ranjit Singh Rai […]
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On day one of the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Punjab, a total of 1,327 beneficiaries, including doctors and other frontline healthcare workers turned up for taking the vaccine shot, as against the target of 5,853 in 22 districts of Punjab. With this, the state achieved merely 22.67 per cent of […]
THE BHARATIYA Janata Party (BJP) on Friday suffered a jolt in the Malwa region, with 10 senior officer-bearers leaving the saffron party and joining the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the presence of its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, in Bathinda district. Among those who joined the SAD were Balwinder Singh […]
The Punjab government Tuesday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 650-crore project to clean the polluted Buddha Nullah, which dumps domestic and industrial waste of Ludhiana city into river Sutlej, within two years. The foundation was laid by Finance Minister Manpreet Badal after Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, who […]
Punjab Education Minister Vijayinder Singla on Monday defended the state government’s sudden decision to open schools Class 5 onwards for physical classes saying that if people are attending weddings, jagrans and other functions, so sending children to schools should also become normal. Meanwhile, government teachers categorically stated that syllabus for […]
Expressing solidarity with protesting farmers of India, a ‘Kisan rally’ was organised in Vancouver Saturday afternoon for the fifth time in a month near Indian consulate downtown. Noted Punjab Singers Manmohan Waris and Kamal Heer were the main speakers. The duo had been seen in previous rallies as well. In […]
Farmers will plan January 26 tractor parade after their January 15th meeting with the Union Government. This was decided at a meeting of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) at Singhu border Sunday evening. Joginder Singh Ugrahan, president of BKU Ugrahan, said, “The issue of tractor parade on R-Day was kept pending […]
A groom and his baraat, on way to the wedding venue, made a quick stop at a toll plaza in Barnala district in Punjab to lend their support to the protest against the new farm laws. On the 101th day of the protest at Mehal Kalan toll plaza, a cavalcade […]
Police arrested a man for allegedly tearing the pages of holy text Gutka Sahib and dumping them outside his home in Marr Colony of Ludhiana Saturday. Police said that the man, identified as Balwinder Singh (36), was a ‘drug addict’ and used to ‘quarrel with family often’. The torn pages […]
Ludhiana-based BJP leader Dr Kamaljit Singh Soi (46), who recently facilitated a meeting between Centre and Sikh religious leader Lakha Singh, said that he arranged the meeting to get the issue resolved at the earlier in interest of farmers. Soi, who is a road safety expert also has farm land […]