Shilpa Rana

Punjab Government on 31 August 2013 declared Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala as Smoke-Free districts in the state. The declaration was made based on the study conducted by PGIMER, which revealed the absence of active smoking in more than 96.4 percent of public places in Kapurthala and 91.3 percent in Hoshiarpur districts. The PGIMER was entrusted with…[Read more]

In view of heavy rains which have lashed many parts of Punjab over the past few days, authorities at the Ranjit Sagar Dam have sounded an alert for villagers residing near the banks of River Ravi.
The water level of the dam today touched 523.90 metres as against the storage capacity of 527.91 metres, the highest this season, according to the control room.

From tenses to spellings, every thing they wrote was wrong, resulting in a rap on their knuckles from Education Minister Dalit Singh Cheema. They may now find themselves back in schools to unlearn the wrong.
Sample these: “Leak of interest”, “Staff of our school was vacant” and “Our school has situated remote area”.
These are some of the shocking…[Read more]

Renowned artist and sculptor Shiv Singh, who had been ailing for the past few days, died at a Panchkula hospital this morning. He was 77. Singh, who suffered a heart failure, was battling cancer. A painter and designer, Shiv Singh was born in 1938 at Hoshiarpur and studied at the Punjab College of Arts, first in Shimla and then in Chandigarh.

Gurdeep Singh Khera, convicted in two separate cases under TADA in 1996 and 2001, was brought to Punjab from Karnataka tonight. He was brought in a train that stopped at the Ludhiana station for a few minutes en route to Amritsar.
Khera waived at his supporters who were holding placards demanding his release from the jail. Khera said he was happy…[Read more]

Expressing concern over poor language skills of English teachers of government schools, Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Thursday constituted a core group of experts to work out a long-term strategy to improve their English. The core group consisting of heads of 17 District Institute of Education Training (DIET), heads of 12…[Read more]

Which is the smallest District in Punjab?
(A) Moga
(B) Mansa
(C) Fatehgarh Sahib
(D) Bhatinda

Journalists performed yoga asanas here to mark the International Yoga Day in Chandigarh. Over 25 journalists and their families participated in a special camp held at the Chandigarh Press Club premises.

Faridkot district police today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of seven members and recovered a 2-day-old infant who was allegedly being sold to Panchkula based couple for Rs 2.80 lakh. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested the buyer when he allegedly reached the bus top to take the infant here yesterday. The gang of seven members,…[Read more]

A notorious criminal was arrested and arms seized from him by Faridkot police. Jaswinder Singh Rocky was arrested yesterday and one .9 mm pistol and .38 bore revolver were seized from him in Faridkot. Rocky was facing at least 17 criminal cases including those for attempt to murder, kidnapping, extortion and some cases under the Arms Act. These…[Read more]

At least 14 passengers died on Friday and 20 others were seriously injured, when the private bus in which they were travelling slid off the road and dashed against a tree near village Behram. The bus was on its way from Nawanshahr to Jalandhar at the time of the accident. The bus was passing through a deep curve when it slid off the road and…[Read more]

Creator of Chandigarh’s famed Rock Garden Nek Chand died here around midnight, Thursday-Friday. He suffered a cardiac arrest. He had celebrated his 90th birthday on December 15 last year. His son Anuj Saini, who helped him in maintaining Rock Garden, was by his side when he died. The date and time of the cremation will be decided later on F…[Read more]

Which district of Punjab is least populous?
A) Amritsar
B) Barnala
C) Bathinda
D) Jalandhar

Unidentified persons allegedly uprooted an automated teller machine (ATM) of a nationalised bank located at Mahatma Gandhi memorial in Faridkot. The incident occurred in the wee hours Sunday when some unidentified persons entered premises of the ATM and decamped with the machine containing Rs 2.80 lakh. The culprits also sprayed black paint over…[Read more]