Members of the Jalandhar unit of the Youth Congress burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in protest against the hike in petrol and diesel prices across the country on Sunday. The protest march started from Congress Bhawan and culminated at BMC Chowk, where an effigy of the PM was burnt. Continue Reading...

THOUSANDS OF farmers on Thursday hit the streets in various parts of Punjab in response to a call given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) to hold nationwide protests against rising fuel and cooking gas prices. Continue Reading...

The police had resorted to lathicharge water cannons and tear gas to stop protesting teachers from entering Chandigarh.As many as 10 unemployed teachers and four cops were injured as police used lathicharge water cannons and tear gas to stop protesting teachers from entering Chandigarh near YPS Chowk in Mohali on Tuesday. Continue Reading...

Comes as positivity rate falls to 2 per cent Punjab government allowed cinemas, gyms and dine-in services in restaurants to open, easing restrictions imposed since April to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Continue Reading...

Repeated requests by Punjab leaders to import life-saving gas from ‘enemy nation’ go unheeded by federal government. Amid an alarming shortage of medical oxygen, the Punjab government approached Prime Minister Narendra Modi to facilitate an “oxygen corridor” with Pakistan, India’s archrival neighbour which shares a 550km-long (342 miles) border with the northwestern state. There have been at least eight instances of requests made by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and other politicians from the state asking Modi to procure oxygen from Pakistan, whose city of Lahore is barely 50km (31 miles) away from Amritsar. Continue Reading...

Punjab has currently 22 big cryogenic tankers for transportation of liquid medical oxygen and around another five for local transportation of the gas from the state and adjoining facilities near the state. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has approved two tankers having a capacity of 20 metric tonnes each for Punjab in the mapping of 12 ISO containers/tankers (LNG) by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited to states on May 10. The two containers would arrive in Punjab on May 13. Continue Reading...