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In Pb, rural docs threaten to boycott Covid duties

14 hours ago

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As Punjab battens down the hatches to contain the pandemic crisis, rural medical officers (RMOs) and the Punjab government are on a collision course with the former threatening to boycott all Covid duties...

At 6,277, Haryana's 1-day tally hits all-time high

16 hours ago

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Haryana recorded 6,277 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, the highest ever tally in the state in a day, which took its cumulative infection tally to 3,42,077. Twenty more fatalities due to the viral disease were reported in the state, pushing its overall death toll to 3,354, even as 2,858 people recovered during the day...

In Fazilka, 3-month-old girl buried alive by aunt

16 hours ago

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A woman allegedly killed a 3-month-old girl by burying her in the septic pond in order to settle a score with her cousin at Saidoka village under Jalalabad sub-division in Fazilka district...

Persuaded CM to accept my resignation, says Pb police IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap

16 hours ago

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Punjab police IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, who submitted his resignation seeking premature retirement on April 11, claimed on Friday that he had been able to persuade chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to accept his resignation after a few meetings in the last few days...

Minor gets pregnant after repeated sexual assault; 3 held

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Police have arrested three persons, including two women in a case of sexual assault and exploitation of a 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly assaulted by several persons at different times. She is now about five months pregnant...

Haryana plans to plant 3 crore saplings in villages

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Chandigarh goes under weekend lockdown

16 hours ago

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Farmers protesting on Delhi borders get help back at home for harvesting crop

16 hours ago

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Himachal reports 842 new positive cases

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No lockdown, Haryana revises Covid guidelines

yesterday

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To avoid spread of Covid-19 in public gatherings, the Haryana government on Thursday decided that not more than 200 people can gather in open spaces during public functions and not more than 50 in indoor functions. Similarly, not more than 20 people would be able to attend funerals...

Mohali records highest contact tracing across state

yesterday

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Mohali has Punjab's highest contact tracing ratio and lowest case fatality rate (CFR), deputy commissioner Girish Dayalan has claimed here on Thursday. He said contact tracing in Mohali was 22.5% and it had tested 2,03,305 of the 4,56,106 reported contacts of the patients...

Pb CS orders Covid test results in 24 hrs

2 days ago

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Punjab reports 4,333 Covid-19 cases

2 days ago

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Pb agro chairman complains against bureaucracy

2 days ago

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Miffed over not being invited to a virtual state-level function for commemorating the birth Anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, former Punjab minister and now Punjab Agro Industries Corporation chairman Joginder Singh Mann has complained against Phagwara administration to chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, asking asked him to reign in the bureaucracy by taking action against the responsible officials...

PM Care: More staff sanctioned to Chandigarh hospitals

2 days ago

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While the city's public hospitals are 75% full with Covid cases, the GMCH-32's only room for expansion is on the south campus extension...

Highest single-day surge of 5,398 cases in Haryana

2 days ago

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Haryana saw the highest number of single-day Covid cases since the pandemic in the state, with 5,398 new cases and 18 deaths on Wednesday...

Haryana CM pays homage to Ambedkar

3 days ago

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Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by revoking Article 370, had paid real tribute to Dr BR Ambedkar, who played a significant role in the framing of the Indian Constitution...

Punjab registers 53 Covid deaths, 3,003 new cases

3 days ago

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Chd gets 7k Covid cases in just 13-day wave cycle

3 days ago

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After 25 days, the city’s daily Covid cases doubled from 200-odd to 400-odd. The active cases per million are 2,940, third after Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. The national average is 929.8...

3,845 new cases, 16 deaths in Haryana

3 days ago

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Chandigarh declares 57 new containment zones

4 days ago

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To contain the spread of coronavirus, the deputy commissioner ordered the declaration of parts of Sectors 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 63, Manimajra and Khuda Lahora, as containment zones...

Mini containment zones soon: Himachal CM

4 days ago

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He said that keeping the Navratri in view, all devotees visiting temples and other religious places should avoid overcrowding and their effective regulation should also be ensured. He said that state government has allowed temples to remain opened, but at the same time organizing langars, bhandaras and kirtans have been banned...

Back to quarantine job, municipal corporation loses staff

4 days ago

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As the pressure of quarantine and related work has increased manifold due to the new surge in Covid-19 cases, the municipal corporation is all set to increase its quarantine teams from nine to 14 but this time with the help of MPWs (multipurpose workers), who will be hired on the outsourcing basis...

Ludhiana: DRI seizes Rs 1cr goods from container

4 days ago

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The directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), Ludhiana zonal unit, and its regional unit of Amritsar seized a 40-foot container that was declared to be containing mobile back covers worth Rs 15 lakh...

Glut: Haryana halts wheat procurement in 18 mandis

4 days ago

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Haryana’s BJP-JJP coalition government on Monday halted the wheat procurement process in 18 mandis of six districts of the state as these were full of procured wheat which was yet to be sent for storage, leading to a space crunch...

3,818 new cases, 14 deaths in Haryana

4 days ago

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Covid-19: Haryana imposes night curfew

5 days ago

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During the Curfew timings no person will leave his home or will move on foot or by vehicle or travel or stand or roam around on any road or public places...

RT-PCR must for visitors from Pb, 6 other states to HP

5 days ago

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The Himachal Pradesh government on Sunday made it mandatory for people coming from seven high load states — Punjab, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh — to show a Covid-19 negative test report on entering the state. Those visiting the state need to carry a negative RT-PCR report, not earlier than 72 hours, from April 16...

Punjab: Man rapes woman he met on Snapchat

5 days ago

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Police have booked a man for allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman in a flat in Zirakpur. ASI Charan Singh, the investigating officer, said the woman alleged she met the accused on Snapchat, a messaging application. She alleged the accused in February 2020 asked her to meet him as his parents have agreed to their marriage...

Carry Covid -ve report to enter Himachal from Apr 16

6 days ago

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Punjab: Hospitality industry seeks tax waiver

6 days ago

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Fearing more losses, retrenchment of employees and closure of outlets, the hospitality industry has sought support from the UT administration and urged it to allow them to operate in night hours as well...

Hisar scribe posts ‘riots soon’ on Facebook, in FIR(ing) line

6 days ago

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Hisar police have registered a case against a citybased freelance journalist for allegedly promoting enmity among different groups, imputation to nation integration and cyber terrorism after a post on social media predicting caste-based riots...

Wheat procurement kicks off in Punjab

7 days ago

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Chandigarh records 2nd-highest surge of 422 cases

7 days ago

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The rise in Covid-19 cases — the city reported this year’s highest and the pandemic’s second-highest surge of 422 new infections on Friday — has forced PGI to stop its physical OPD services from April 12 and restrict non-Covid elective surgeries...

HP closes schools, colleges till April 21

7 days ago

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Himachal Pradesh will keep educational institutions closed till April 21. A decision to this effect was taken in the cabinet meeting held in Shimla on Friday to review the situation in the wake of sudden spike in Covid-19 cases in the state...

Another girl in Pak abducted, converted

7 days ago

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The spate in incidents of alleged abduction of Hindu girls in Pakistan, their conversion and marriage, has led to the demand for a committee to decide whether the conversion took place by will or was forced...

2,994 cases, 11 deaths in Haryana

7 days ago

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'Wanted' activist heads for Singhu border

8 days ago

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About one-and-a-half months after addressing a rally at a village in Bathinda, social activist Lakhbir Singh again appeared in public on Friday and lead a caravan of vehicles to Singhu border in Delhi to protest the newly-enacted farm laws...

Ludhiana: 'Take action against hospitals'

8 days ago

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Presiding over a meeting of the district environment committee, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said that the last deadline for installing the ETP was March 31 and those hospitals which have not set up the facility will face action as per the laws...

Centre to Punjab: Implement DBT or no procurement

8 days ago

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The Centre on Thursday toughened its stance over the issue of direct benefit transfer (DBT) to farmers as Union food and consumer affairs minister Piyush Goyal firmly told a group of Punjab ministers that the state government will have to comply with direct e-payment or else there would be no procurement of food grains from the state...

Give flexibility to states on jab plan: Punjab CM to PM

8 days ago

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Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged the Centre to give flexibility to states to devise their local strategies for Covid vaccination, within the broad parameters of the Centre’s approach, while seeking a review of the strategy to allow all adults in highrisk areas to be immunized, along with patients with liver and kidney disease below the age of 45...

Punjab: Heroin worth Rs 20 cr seized; 2 held

9 days ago

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Khanna Police in Punjab's Ludhiana district on Wednesday arrested two drug peddlers and recovered four kilograms of heroin worth Rs 20 crore...

Chandigarh: Covishield stock may end in 10 days

9 days ago

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With over 3,500 vaccine takers daily in the city, the Covishield stock might not last more than 10 days...

Covid Vaccination: 'Heavy drinking slows down response'

9 days ago

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Those who suffer with some co-morbidities related to alcohol, should abstain from drinking during vaccination as it affects the immune response, tells Prof Ajay Duseja, PGI-based hepatologist and Prof Sunil Arora, immunologist at PGI, to TOI’s Shimona Kanwar...

45% women tested +ve in 49 days, 42% in 11 mnths

9 days ago

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The second wave of Covid-19 seems not to be sparing women. A Covid test analysis by the UT health department after February has reported that 45% females tested positive for the novel coronavirus in almost two months as compared to 42% females from the start of the pandemic in March-end 2020 till February 2021...

653 new Covid cases, 9 deaths in Himachal

10 days ago

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Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday reported 653 new coronavirus cases and nine deaths. As many as 226 patients have also recovered from the infection during the day...

Centre flags Covid spurt in Chandigarh

10 days ago

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Out of 11 states and UTs, Chandigarh is still counted as a state or UT of concern by the Union ministry of health and family welfare..

HP municipal polls 2021: Voting under way

10 days ago

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Voting for four municipal corporations of Dharamshala, Palampur, Mandi and Solan in Himachal Pradesh started at 8am on Wednesday...

Mansa Devi: Panchkula caps number of devotees

10 days ago

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Only 180 devotees would be allowed in a 15-minute slot to offer prayers at Mata Mansa Devi temple during the Chaitra Navaratra from April 13 to 21...

2,924 new Covid cases, 62 deaths in Punjab

11 days ago

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The active cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) rose to 25,913 and 2,350 patients recuperated, taking the number of recoveries to 2.24 lakh, according to a bulletin...

UP Police team leaves Pb with Mukhtar Ansari

11 days ago

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Days after the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of the BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab jail to UP jail within two weeks, a team of Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday left Punjab's Rupnagar jail...

Chandigarh slashes collector rates of commercial properties

11 days ago

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The UT administration has reduced the collector rates of commercial properties by 5 % to10%...

Panchkula MC to hold draw for vendor sites today

11 days ago

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The municipal corporation (MC) will hold a draw of lots to allot 374 sites to street vendors in six sectors at the Sector 12 community centre on Tuesday...

Panchkula cops resume mask fine drive

11 days ago

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Wear a mask while at a public place and wear it right, or pay a fine. Police have resumed the penalty campaign after earning Rs 1.08 crore from 21,666 challans of this sort...

Roof collapse: Magisterial probe ordered

12 days ago

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Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday ordered a magisterial probe into the roof collapse incident at a factory in Ludhiana district, which claimed four lives and left nine others injured...

Punjab min puts civil surgeons on toes

12 days ago

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To check the spread of Covid-19, Punjab health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Monday directed all the civil surgeons to ensure that district-wise weekly targets set for Covid-19 vaccination, sampling and testing are achieved...

Cops to take care of homeless, mentally challenged

12 days ago

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C'garh: 173 child labourers rescued since '15

12 days ago

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As many as 173 children have been rescued from child labour, begging and 96 have been reunited with their families under the operation Muskaan by the anti-human trafficking unit of the Chandigarh police since 2015 till March 31, 2021...

Chandigarh: 341 test +ve in this year’s highest single-day surge

12 days ago

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In the past four days since April 1, as many as 1,195 cases of Covid and three deaths were reported in the city...

Chd: Sky dining project on heritage panel’s table

12 days ago

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The sky dining project conceived by the Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism development Corporation (CITCO) has come to a halt, as UT administrator VP Singh Badnore has asked the matter be placed before the UT heritage committee for a discussion and subsequent approval...

Over 51,000 elderly jabbed in Panchkula so far

12 days ago

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The Panchkula health department has managed to vaccinate over 51,863 beneficiaries between the age group of 45 years and 60+...

Haryana reports 1,904 new Covid cases, 7 deaths

12 days ago

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Ludhiana: Social distancing during wheat procurement

12 days ago

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Live: Many feared trapped as factory roof collapses

12 days ago

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Rs 30cr plot grab case: CBI books lawyer, Chd man

13 days ago

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The CBI has booked taxation lawyer Kapil Khanna and Sector 11 resident Amardeep Singh Brar in connection with filing a “forged” writ petition before the Punjab and Haryana high court in an alleged attempt to grab Rs 30-crore plot in the city’s upscale Sector 5...

Sampling of Mohali teachers, children

13 days ago

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The Mohali administration will conduct extensive sampling of school teachers, supporting staff and children in the wake of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the district, said deputy commissioner Girish Dayalan...

'Himachal reported 200 Covid deaths in last 50 days'

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Kullu-Manali readies to welcome tourists amid Covid spurt

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Haryana reports 6,277 cases, 20 deaths

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Covid: Chandigarh imposes weekend lockdown

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Punjab, Haryana cancel Class X exams; put off Class XII finals

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Punjab and Haryana on Thursday announced their decision to cancel the final examination for Class X students. The two governments took the decision a day after the ongoing surge in cases across the country led the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to cancel the examination for Class X students and postpone finals for Class XII students...

Man kills daughter-in-law’s sister, father in Pb

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A local businessman shot his daughter-in-law’s sister and her father after they came to his house amid a dispute between his son and daughter-in-law. It is learnt that accused Suresh Gogna’s son Honey Gogna, executive engineer in Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, had strained relations with his wife Prabhjot Kaur...

Gurugram admin notifies isolation facilities

2 days ago

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Amid a spike in Covid cases, the Gurugram district magistrate (DM) on Thursday notified self and government-paid isolation facilities that can be used by people with mild and very mild Covid symptoms...

Man throws acid on wife in Patiala; booked

2 days ago

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Hundreds stranded as another avalanche hits Baralacha La Pass

2 days ago

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Hundreds of people were stranded along Manali-Leh highway in Himachal and Ladakh for last nine days and this is not going to end any time soon, as another avalanche at Baralacha pass has blocked the road on Wednesday morning...

Chandigarh: Pay Rs 50k fine if caught wasting water

2 days ago

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A total of 18 teams led by sub-divisional engineers (SDEs) of the municipal corporation (MC) will spread across the city to fine people if they are caught wasting water from Thursday...

Cook robs, poisons house owner; booked

3 days ago

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The Ambala police have booked a man who worked as domestic cook and some unidentified persons for allegedly robbing and poisoning a house owner and a domestic help...

‘Frustrated’ by granny’s illness, teen kills her

3 days ago

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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for killing his bedridden grandmother after getting frustrated with her condition. Police said taking a cue from TV serials, he first killed her and then set her bed on fire. He tried to cover up the crime saying that four persons had attacked him and the old woman at home...

Walk-in vaccinations at Mohali sports complex

3 days ago

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The local administration has set up a walk-in, open-air vaccination centre at the sports complex for achieving its daily target of 9,000 shots, at 3,000 for each of the three subdivisions...

Rock Garden closed, Sukhna Lake shut on weekends

3 days ago

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Rock Garden will remain closed until further orders and Sukhna Lake will be shut on all weekends. Night curfew timings will be from 10pm to 5am instead of 10.30pm to 5am...

5 dead as car falls into gorge in Himachal

3 days ago

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200 acre land approved for AIIMS in Haryana

4 days ago

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The Haryana government has approved the purchase of 200 acre of land for the AIIMS to be constructed in Rewari, as well as the purchase of land for seven other projects...

Covid-19: Night curfew imposed in Chandigarh

4 days ago

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Take vaccine, submit report: Government Medical College and Hospital

4 days ago

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Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32 has issued an order to all its health care workers and students to get vaccinated against Covid-19 despite the vaccine not being mandatory...

Haryana imposes 9pm-5am night curfew

4 days ago

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The Haryana government on Monday imposed a curfew between 9 pm and 5 am across the state, days after chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said he was not in favour of restrictions on movement at night. The order, issued on Monday evening, could not be implemented immediately as many commuters were unaware of it. Police said they will enforce the curbs fully from Tuesday...

Former HP CM Virbhadra Singh tests +ve for Covid

4 days ago

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Senior Congress leader and six-time Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh (86) has tested positive for Covid-19...

Criminal escapes cops, opens dhaba in Jharkhand; nabbed

4 days ago

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INLD workers protest against increasing prices

5 days ago

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In Punjab, control rooms to help farmers sell wheat

5 days ago

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A day after Rabi marketing season (RMS) started in Punjab, the state’s mandi board on Sunday announced contact numbers of state control rooms setup at board headquarters in Mohali for all 22 districts of the state...

Lakha Sidhana’s cousin picked up allegedly by Delhi cops

5 days ago

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Gangster-turnedactivist Lakhbir Singh alias Lakha Sidhana’s cousin Gurdeep Singh was allegedly picked up by Delhi cops from Patiala and thrashed, just because he is related to the former...

Will challenge order if Kotkapura SIT probe scrapped: CM

6 days ago

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Terming the probe into the Kotkapura firing case as “totally fair, impartial and unbiased”, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said his government would challenge in the Supreme Court any orders of the high court for quashing the investigation of the Punjab Police SIT or removing its chief...