The much awaited heart transplant programme at the region’s tertiary care institute, PGIMER, has moved a step closer to reality with the head of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CTVS) departmen

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Irrigation Department to moot a proposal for amending the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act to check the growing malpractice of water theft in

Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jhakhar has welcomed the Punjab Government’s decision to lower the BT cottonseed prices.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has said there was an acute shortage of medical professionals in government medical colleges.

It is time the government stopped treating environment as a soft subject. The health of the people and future growth of the state depend on it.

In order to decide the dispute pertaining to the catchment area of Sukhna Lake, the Chandigarh Administration has sought the original copy of the map of catchment area defined and revalidated by th

Industrialists, traders and other residents of the city raised objections to the proposed hike in power tariff. Representatives of Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) were in the city, on Monday, for a public hearing on the issue at the Institute of Engineers, Sector 19.

UT Administration has proposed a hike of around 50 per cent in the electricity tariff. There had been an increase of around 25 per cent in the last financial year as well.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday appointed Advocate H C Arora as a local commissioner to submit a report relating to the existence and extent of area under Sukhna Choe.

The fact that ground water in Malwa, a southern area of Punjab, has traces of uranium in its ground water was established even in the past.

Experts on water resources, academicians and leaders of various political parties gathered at a seminar here on Sunday and expressed their strong concern over the central government’s latest initia