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Death toll in Punjab spurious liquor tragedy rises to 104

11:21 pm August 2, 2020

Chandigarh: The death toll in the Punjab hooch tragedy rose to 104 on Sunday with 18 more people reported dead after drinking spurious liquor, an official said. Seventeen of the 18 deaths were reported from the worst-hit Tarn Taran and one from Gurdaspur’s Batala. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s Media Adviser Raveen Thukral tweeted that the death toll in […]

Pb govt signs MoU with IIT Ropar for skill development

11:12 pm July 21, 2020

Chandigarh: The Punjab government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, in the area of skill development. According to a government statement, the MoU provides for the IIT’s technical education department to become an academic mentor for the state’s engineering colleges at Gurdaspur and Ferozepur, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Skill Institute at Chamkaur Sahib, five government polytechnics and […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Missing JK woman traced in Punjab, reunited with family

8:59 pm March 2, 2020

Jammu: A woman, who went missing about a month ago from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, was traced in Punjab and reunited with her family on Monday, police said. Shuma Bibi, a resident of Taraf Manjali village in the district, had gone missing on February 4. She was traced in Gurdaspur, a police spokesman said. […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Slight dip in min temps in parts of north India

9:45 pm February 3, 2020

New Delhi: Minimum temperature in many parts of north India marked a slight dip on Monday, with the Kashmir Valley, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab recording 2 to 5 degrees below normal. Delhi recorded the minimum temperature at 5.4 degrees, three notches below the normal. The night temperature dipped to 4.7 and 4.9 degrees Celsius in […]

Cold weather conditions continue in Punjab, Haryana

3:32 pm January 25, 2020

Chandigarh: The cold weather conditions continued to prevail in most parts of Punjab and Haryana on Saturday. Karnal in Haryana was the coldest place in both states as it recorded a low of 2.5 degrees Celsius, four notches below the normal, an official of the meteorological department said on Saturday. Union Territory Chandigarh, the joint […]