AMRITSAR: Recognizing the services of regular blood donors of the Punjab Youth Forum (PYF) and their role in saving many precious lives, chief parliamentary secretary Inderbir Singh Bolaria on Monday awarded them certificates and trophies during an annual felicitation ceremony organized by the forum. Nearly 150 members of the forum were ...

AMRITSAR: Fortis Escorts Hospital is set to start the artificial heart implantation at its facility in Amritsar. Addressing mediapersons on Thursday, Dr Pankaj Goel, chief cardiac surgeon at Fortis Escorts Hospital, said: “We have the facility of artifical heart implantation and in this peration a small pump is attached to ...

AMRITSAR: Amritsar is the leading district in the state in terms of the number of units of bloods donated in various camps. Disclosing this on Wednesday, Amritsar deputy commissioner Rajat Aggarwal said at a meeting of the Amritsar District Blood Transfusion Council (ADBTC) that according to the ADBTC report, the Amritsar ...

AMRITSAR: The quality of eatables being served in some of the canteens at Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) and the hygiene in these eateries has not impressed the district health authorities at all. Health officials carried out an inspection of canteens and eating joints on the university campus on Tuesday and ...

PATHANKOT: The tussle between supporters of the Congress and SAD-BJP alliance to paste pictures of their respective leaders on it has taken toll on the 108 ambulance service, as the vehicle, these days, has been stationed at the Sujanpur police station. The ambulance service had been hit as some Youth Congress ...

AMRITSAR: Students of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Mall Road, organised an Aids awareness rally and took part in a seminar. During the rally, the students marched with banners and posters, highlighting the gravity of the problem. The rally started from school premises and covered many city areas. Speaking on ...

BATALA: After losing more than 100 lives in the last couple of years to drug abuse, Gandhi Camp, a slum area on the busy GT Road, is in for more serious trouble. The locality is in the grip of HIV/AIDS with more than 50 youth afflicted with the deadly virus. Sources ...

ROHTAK NEWS: Haryana state drug controller-cum-joint commissioner GL Singhal has said that about 30% milk samples and 12% samples of other foodstuffs, collected from across the state, had failed the quality tests. Singhal, speaking at a meeting with members of chemists' associations of Rohtak, Jhajjar and Bhiwani districts here on Monday, ...

AMRITSAR: A seminar on cancer awareness was organized for classes 8, 9 and 10 at Disciplined Disciples International School. Preeti, a social worker from Lucknow, spoke about the hazards of cancer and motivated students to eat right and consult doctor. A documentary on hazards of smoking and ill-effects of nicotine ...

CHANDIGARH: Dr Deepak Kumar Bhasin, professor, department of gastroenterology, PGI, has been honored with the Indian Council of Medical Research's Basanti Devi Amir Chand Award for 2007. He received the award from union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi on Tuesday. He is known for his work on ...

PATHANKOT: The Gurj Division of the Indian Army on Monday organised a mega medical camp in Bani village under the Sadhbhawna Mission, GoC major general G Sankarnaryanan inaugurated the camp, which was equipped with a team of five specialist doctors from the army and other paramedical staff from the Army ...

AMRITSAR: "About 83% of water is allocated to agriculture and is the major concern of insecurity in the country. About 60% of India's irrigation is ground water-based, while it is as high as 75% in Punjab." These views were expressed by Dr Jagir Singh Samara, chief executive officer, National Rainfall Area Authority, ...

 AMRITSAR: Even as the district health authorities claim to be concentrating on fogging of different areas of the city, the number of dengue cases has witnessed an increase in the past week. However, there have been no casualties so far. AB against 16 cases of dengue reported on last Friday, the ...