Parteek Singh Mahal

BDS admissions: Pvt varsity invites applications, BFUHS calls it illegal

30% BDS seats go abegging in Punjab

MBBS, BDS admissions: Sports quota counselling postponed after aspirants move HC

1,437 MBBS, BDS seats vacant, 2nd round of counselling from today

MBBS, BDS admissions: SC upholds HC order on micro-quota in Punjab’s private medical colleges

The apex court held that the micro-reservation of 1% in MBBS and BDS courses for children/grandchildren of persons affected by terror and anti-Sikh riots will be applicable to the state quota as well as management quota in all private unaided non-minority medical/dental institutions, as was ruled by HC on July 26.

MBBS, BDS admissions: State to miss MCI deadline as apex court adjourns hearing

Panchayat grant scam: Declared PO 18 months ago, ex-Moga BDPO arrested

SC stays HC order to give micro quota at private medical colleges in Punjab

Legal tangle delays counselling for MBBS, BDS admissions

Even 13 days after the Punjab and Haryana high court directed the department to issue a fresh notification providing 1% micro reservation quota in MBBS and BDS cour­ses in all private medical and dental colleges in the state, it is yet to issue the notification.

Only 5 apply for NRI quota seats in 2nd round of counselling for MBBS, BDS seats in Punjab

Last year too, 287 NRI quota MBBS and BDS seats in the state had remained vacant of 309 that were on offer. They were merged into the general category.

Punjab’s Moga villagers, NRI, staff jointly spent ₹40 lakh to turn govt school into smart school

Reciprocating to the state government’s drive to convert government schools into smart schools, the school staff, villagers and non-resident Indians (NRIs) jointly spent around ₹40 lakh to modernise the Bilaspur village school, which is around 40km from Moga.

MCI redistributes EWS seats, Faridkot medical college gets 25 more seats

Guru Gobind Singh Medical College (GGSMC), Faridkot, and Government Medical College, Patiala, have been allotted 25 MBBS seats each while the Government Medical College in Amritsar was given 50 more seats. The MBBS seats in government medical college at Patiala have been decreased to 225.

Nabha jail murder: Standoff ends, Dera man cremated as government forms SIT

The last rites of Mohinder Pal Bittu, a state committee member of the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda, were performed after hectic parleys ended the stalemate between the sect followers and the district authorities over the killing in the prison

‘Drop sacrilege cases’: Dera Sacha Sauda men refuse to cremate murdered sect member

The Dera management demanded an in-depth judicial probe into Bittu’s murder that took place inside high-security Nabha prison, near Patiala, on Saturday evening.

Crisis looms as Moga water table going down a metre every year

The water recharging process in all five blocks in Punjab’s Moga district is moving at a very slow pace and, according to official records, the water table is depleting at a rate of one metre every year.

A tale of friendship, deceit and ‘suicides’

A CIA inspector shot himself hours after allegedly disposing of body of a 22-year-old youth, who is said to have committed suicide in police custody on May 19.

Faridkot custodial death: Protesters seek justice for Jaspal, hold sit-in near MLA’s residence

Jaspal Singh was rounded up by the police on May 18. A day later, Faridkot crime investigation agency (CIA) staff inspector Narinder Singh ‘illegally’ disposed of his body and committed suicide.

Faridkot inspector killed self after disposing of youth’s body

In a sensational twist to the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) inspector Narinder Singh’s alleged suicide, the Faridkot police on Tuesday said that he took his life after “illegally” disposing of body of a 24-year-old man who allegedly committed suicide in police custody.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: AAP pins hope on Arvind Kejriwal’s back-to-back road shows in Punjab

AAP convenor Arving Kejriwal will hold road shows in Sangrur on May 13 and 14, Bathinda on May 15, Faridkot on May 16 and Patiala on May 17. Punjab votes on May 19 in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections.

Badals can’t escape, IG to be back in SIT: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh

The Special Invesitagion Team is probing police firing at Kotakpura and Behbal Kalan wherein two protesters were killed.

Lok Sabha election: Bhagwant launches AAP campaign in Faridkot with low-key event

Mann inaugurated the party office at Jaiton, an assembly segment of Faridkot constituency from where the party has again fielded Sadhu Singh, who is the sitting MP.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019; SAD, Congress undecided over Faridkot candidate

The Faridkot Lok Sabha constituency is reserved for SC candidates. In the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections, while the SAD was completely wiped out from the nine assembly seats here, the Congress won six and the AAP bagged three.

Lok Sabha elections: Defying poll code, PRTC buses plying with Capt Amarinder’s posters

Punjab chief electoral officer Karuna Raju has already issued directions to all heads of the departments and deputy commissioners to ensure the strict implementation of the model code of conduct.

Swine flu claims 20 lives in 24 days in Punjab; highest number of positive cases from Patiala, Ludhiana

The highest number of positive cases for the respiratory disease has been reported from Patiala and Ludhiana with 20 from each district. 

No sale of crackers in Patiala this Diwali

A shopkeeper said that the ban is unjustified and it is bizarre that people are allowed to purchase crackers from outside the city and burst them.