Patiala, Feb. 27 -- The Punjab health department will employ rehabilitated drug addicts as counsellors at government-run Outpatient Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centres across the state. The depa... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 27 -- A month after a doctor was arrested for alleged misappropriation of drugs at his private de-addiction centres, Punjab health department has formed an eight-member state-level commi... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 25 -- The Punjab health department on Monday directed the civil surgeons to ensure that the patients visiting the government healthcare centres receive all the medicines prescribed by th... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 23 -- The recent promotion orders of six doctors to the post of senior medical officers (SMOs) by the Punjab health department have sparked a row. The promotion orders dated February 10... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 14 -- A 28-member delegation of farmers will participate in a meeting to be held on February 14 with the Centre to resolve the agitating farmers' issues, including legal guarantee of min... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 13 -- Fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Wednesday said he would participate in a meeting of the Central government panel, to be held in Chandigarh on Friday on farmers' dema... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 11 -- After much deliberation, the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) announced on Monday that it would participate in the February 12 unity meeting in Chandigarh. In a letter to the Samyukta K... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 10 -- The unity talks called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) in Chandigarh on February 12 have run into choppy waters with the protesting unions, SKM (non-political) and Kisan Mukti M... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 9 -- For the first time, Amritsar district has started a project to deliver cooked high-protein meals to tuberculosis (TB) patients under the national TB elimination programme to as many... Read More
Patiala, Feb. 2 -- Farm unions in the state have slammed the budget presented by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. In the absence of special budget allocation for legalising minimum support p... Read More