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Addict enrolment jumped from 2.8L to 6L after virus outbreak: Punjab minister

The coronavirus pandemic, which has redefined the new normal across the world, is serendipitously responsible for bolstering drug addicts’ enrolment at outpatient opioid assisted treatment (OOAT) clinics so much so that the Punjab government has formulated a policy to open more psychiatric nursing homes and de-addiction centres across the state to tackle the patient influx.

Power sector employees protest, block road in Mohali

Demands include reinstatement of dismissed employees and better compensation of workers killed on duty

Smart ration cards distributed in Mohali

Punjab cabinet minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Saturday distributed smart ration cards to families enrolled under the National Food Security Act here. He said over four lakh people from 1.1 lakh families in Mohali will benefit from the scheme. “The biometric authentication ensures food grain distribution to the actual beneficiary.

Six non-BJP states move SC seeking deferment of exams

Mohali gets two Covid-19 testing laboratories

Punjab cabinet ministers OP Soni and Balbir Sidhu jointly inaugurate both labs. Two others testing units also started operations in Jalandhar and Ludhiana