Jatinder Mahal

Despite collection of cow cess, Jalandhar has no cattle pound

The MC had approved Rs 50 lakh for constructing a cattle pound in Shahkot in 2019. However, the MC stopped work last year after spending Rs 34.51 lakh and is yet to resume work.

Punjab health dept asks PGIMER to audit Covid-19 tests being carried out by private hospital in Jalandhar

Special secretary, health, Isha Kalia says department survey found Patel Hospital reported 26% positivity rate of the 205 samples put through RT-PCR tests for Covid-19, much higher as compared to other government and private labs

With passengers scarce, transporters unwilling to ply buses

From the Jalandhar bus stand, over 1,600 time slots operated to Delhi, Jammu, Haryana, Amritsar and others; the figure has now come down to 160

Jalandhar: With spike in cases authorities finding it hard to shift patients

From 733 positive cases on July 1, the district now has 1,901 positive cases on July 24, with 65 cases reported on Friday

DC marks probe into Jalandhar pvt hospital overcharging for covid-19 test

Patel Hospital charged Rs 5,500 for the test from a local resident on July 21, even as the government-fixed maximum charges, including GST/taxes, are Rs 2,400.

Covid-19 fear: Passport appointments see 70% decline in Jalandhar

Only 250 appointments being made in a day now against the 790 before the Covid-19 outbreak.

Jalandhar pvt hospitals to treat covid patients from Aug; 211 beds to be added

The district administration has also asked the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences to start giving treatment to covid-19 patients from July 23

Applicants have to wait 2 months to get driving licence in Jalandhar

Farmers reduce area under paddy cultivation in Jalandhar, experts say it may help improve groundwater levels

Farmers say since migrant labour was unavailable in the wake of Covid-19 and local labour was expensive they decided to reduce area under cultivation

Body of Jalandhar student who drowned in Canada still not home due to pandemic

The 20-year-old drowned on June 16, two days before he was to receive his degree

Canadian govt seals borders; stranded Punjabi NRIs, students appeal govt to start special flights

The announcement has come as a disappointment for those waiting to return to Canada to continue their jobs, educational courses; conversely, those hoping to come to India are also stranded

Doaba farmers bring back migrant labourers for sowing, transplanting paddy

Many farmers pooled money to bring back expert migrant labour from UP, Bihar; others hired unemployed locals

Mobile recovered from gangster in Kapurthala jail, unabated recoveries expose lax security

Around 100 mobile phones and Sim cards have been recovered from Kapurthala Modern Jail this year

Covid-19: Spike in cases in Jalandhar’s rural belt after relaxation in curbs

The health department’s figures reveal that of a total of 127 positive cases of the disease in the rural areas of the district so far, 82 were reported in the past four weeks only

Jalandhar resident wants to marry Pak-based fiancée, appeals to PM Modi for visa

India-based Kalyan had applied for visas for his family and himself in March but Covid-19 threw a wrench in his plans, the couple was engaged in 2018

SHO, gunman among four to test positive in Punjab’s Phagwara

Around 25 police personnel in Jalandhar and Kapurthala have tested positive so far

Over 2,000 from Jalandhar dist registered online for job in a month

Under financial distress, auto driver ends life by jumping before train in Jalandhar

Family members say that the victim had been struggling to make ends meet for the past three months. Though the state government had allowed autos to ply from May 1, the victim was facing losses due to the two-passenger rule.

Health depts now worried to prevent vector-borne diseases

School teacher, driver die, principal critical after gas tanker falls on their car near Punjab’s Jalandhar town

All three were going from Jalandhar to DIPS School, Mehatpur, when tanker driver lost control of the vehicle as one of its tyres went into a pothole

Two die, one critical after gas tanker falls on car in Punjab’s Jalandhar

Teacher, driver of DIPS School, Mehatpur, killed in freak accident, while principal hospitalised in critical condition

Properties of 100 convicted gangsters to be attached in Kapurthala

In May, district police attached such ill-gotten property valued at Rs 14.2 crore belonging to 26 drug smugglers

Jalandhar MC lost Rs 5 cr revenue in two months of lockdown

Tax on advertisements and property are its two major sources; now, extends one-time settlement policy for property tax, sewerage till June 30

Shunted out for thrashing curfew violators, Kartarpur SHO brought back

DGP Dinkar Gupta had ordered the transfer after three videos of him and his team thrashing people, out to buy essentials, went viral on social media

As industries resume, most migrant workers refuse to board home-bound trains from Jalandhar

Around 2 lakh migrants had registered to return to their home states on the Jalandhar administration’s website, only 50% want to return

Punjab Police felicitate couple for forgoing a lavish wedding

Two officers stopped and blessed the couple at a checkpoint

Desperate to reach home, migrants throng government hospitals for screening

Around 4,000 migrants screened and given a fitness certification

Liquor vends in Jalandhar closed, owners seek tax rebate

Vend owners contend they incurred huge losses during the lockdown and are unlikely to profit in future, demand reducing the licence fee, slashing VAT

OOAT vans delivering de-addiction medicine at doorsteps in Kapurthala

The second van in the project was launched on Saturday; the project itself was launched on April 14 with one van deputed to deliver medicine and enrol new patients

Punjab: Vans delivering de-addiction drugs at doorstep to ensure social distancing at OOAT centres

The vehicles are equipped to conduct HIV tests on patients along with giving consultations by experts