Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla urged the Centre to lend a helping hand to states for upgrading school infrastructure, thereby making them competitive and comparable with private sector.
Chief Principal Secretary to CM Suresh Kumar led the fourth edition of the Heritage walk organised by renowned NGO Patiala Foundation under its I Heritage project wherein it has joined hands with Go UNESCO with the aim of promoting culture and heritage among locals.
In a first incident of its kind, groups based in Pakistan reportedly used a drone to drop weapons near Khalra village in Tarn Taran district earlier this month. The arms were believed to be meant for terrorists in Punjab or Kashmir, Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta has said.
Punjab Police officers, family members and well-wishers on Sunday paid rich tributes to late DGP C.S.R. Reddy in a prayer meeting held at Punjab Police Officers Institute, Chandigarh.
The licences of 18 private de-addiction centres in the state have been suspended with immediate effect, informed an official spokesman of Drug Administration Wing. Giving details, the spokesman said the samples of Buprenorphine and Naloxone collected from these centres were not found to be of standard quality.