FEROZEPUR: High on the coming in of new teachers and infrastructure, Punjab is close to the pinnacle of top rank in education, MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said. On Monday, the Member of Parliament from Bathinda inaugurated the Government College for Girls in the Jalalabad subdivision of Fazilka district. The structure ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: Punjab Energy Development Agency on Thursday launched a programme to provide electricity to educational institutions through rooftop solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems in the state. In the first phase, such systems will be installed at Central University in Bathinda, Guru Gobind Singh Educational Trust, Gian Sagar Medical College, Shivalik Public ...

CHANDIGARH: Revision of the retirement age for state university lecturers from 60 to 65 cannot happen till the state concerned decides to do so as per a scheme prepared by the union government in 2008. The division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court comprising justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and ...

JALANDHAR: Accusing the state government and the Punjab Technical University (PTU) of 'politicising' higher education, the Punjab Congress on Friday questioned the policy decision to set up two research centres - one each in textile and food technology - in the Malwa region at a cost of Rs 130 crore, ...

ROHTAK: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has categorically stated that the interests of Haryana in the inter-state issues would not be compromised at any cost. Interacting with lawyers at the District Bar Association here on Monday, Hooda said the issues of Haryana's capital, separate High Court and distribution of canal water ...

BATHINDA/MANSA: An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) team, which is on a visit to Punjab to study the prevalence of cancer cases, barely spent two hours discussing the problem with the authorities in the worst affected districts of Bathinda and Mansa on Friday, reducing the exercise into a mere ...

GHUDDA (BATHINDA): Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said there were "certain disruptive forces" supported by "anti-Punjab people" trying to revive terrorism by triggering communal clashes in the state. Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for a degree college at the Central University site here, Badal urged the ...