An infant girl has died in civil hospital here after the medical staff allegedly took her off life support as the girl's father was unable to pay Rs 200 for the same, family sources said on Thursday.

Worried over the declining academic standards of government schools in Punjab, the state government has banned the use of mobile phones by students as well teachers within the government run schools o

A 23-year-old student from the east African country of Burundi is lying in coma in a private hospital in Punjab since April after nearly beaten to death by local youths in Jalandhar.

Yannick Nihangaz

The Punjab Assembly on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Government of India to again take up the matter of the release of Indian convict Sarabjit Singh, who was on death row, with th

A youth was shot dead as stray violence on Sunday marred the Municipal Corporation elections in Punjab, which witnessed a high voter turnout of nearly 75 per cent.

The polls, the first trial of stren

Losing out its young generation to the menace of drugs, the Punjab government has decided to tackle the problem at the grassroots level by introducing the issue of drug de-addiction at schools.

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Pakistan's Punjab province's southern belt, reeling under ‘extreme poverty and ignorance’, is a breeding ground for militants, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's government has said in its first such adm

With an aim to build confidence and promote the art of self defence among girls, government schools in Punjab have started imparting karate training to students of upper primary classes.

Under the f

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday accepted the resignation of state Agriculture Minister Tota Singh, who was convicted for misusing an official car and forging the log book.

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A total of 175 people have succumbed to the dreaded AIDS in Punjab during the year 2011-2012.

These facts were revealed in the data supplied by the SMO Civil hospital.

The disease is spreading at a