Instead of using stairs to the temple, they chose to board the ropeway trolley installed by the temple management committee to transport goods to the temple..
Recognising the urgency of the situation, Red Cross Hoshiarpur, under the guidance of Hoshiarpur Deputy Commissioner Komal Mittal, has taken it upon itself to provide the much-needed assistance to the flood-hit.
A truck overloaded with stone crusher material entered the kitchen of a house after ramming into its wall at Khunda village on the Hajipur to Mansar road yesterday. A woman died in the mishap, while three other family members suffered injuries.
Meritorious schools in Punjab to open from Feb 9 with COVID protocols in place ANI | Updated: Feb 06, 2021 23:22 IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], February 6 (ANI): After reopening government schools in a phased manner, the Punjab Government on Saturday decided to make the residential meritorious schools situated at Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Mohali, Gurdaspur, Ferozepur, Sangrur and Talwara (Hoshiarpur) functional from February 9.
Punjab school education minister Vijay Inder Singla said that due to an unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the meritorious schools were converted into COVID-19 care centers and hundreds of COVID-19 positive patients were quarantined there.
The Punjab cabinet minister said that these residential schools were being run under the aegis of Society For Promotion Of Quality Education For Poor and Meritorious Students of Punjab to provide free education facilities along with boarding and lodgi