PATHANKOT: The shortage of doctors at the local civil hospital is forcing patients from the town and surrounding areas to go for costlier private treatment. The 50-bedded hospital in this newly-formed district do not have many specialists. Several doctors have left their jobs or got transferred. Patients suffering from bone-related problems ...

GURDASPUR: Goht Pokhar village sarpanch Harjinder Singh was severely injured after he was attacked by a group of ten men. Harijnder, along with 13 of his supporters, was canvassing in favour of the Congress nominee Raman Bahl on Monday, when they were attacked by a group of ten men, suspected to ...

AMBALA: While poor visibility due to fog was a factor in the school van-truck collision that claimed 12 lives on Monday, the fact that the van was over crowded almost certainly aggravated the tragedy, villagers living near Arjun Public Senior Secondary School said. The school is affiliated to the Haryana School Education Board. The ...

JALANDHAR: A food court employee, Raju Das, a native of Guwahati in Assam, was allegedly murdered in the basement of the premises. SHO police station Division Number 8 said that the owner of the Quality Food Court Satwinder Singh found Raju, 38, in a critical condition on Sunday morning. "I saw ...

SIRSA: Owing to inclement weather conditions and poor visibility on roads, at least 15 persons received injuries in separate road accidents in the district on Wednesday. The injured were admitted to the civil hospital. As per information, 13 children received minor injuries after a private school bus collided with a tractor-trolley on ...

DABWALI: Two unidentified motor­ cycle-borne youths robbed a local trader of Rs 11.60 lakh in broad daylight after hitting him with an iron rod on Railway road here on Monday. The victim was rushed to civil hospital, from where he was referred to a hospital in Ludhiana. The victim is identified as ...

GURGAON: A girl claimed that she was attacked in a hospital here on Sunday with a blade when she was on her way to the washroom. She produced her wrist with a cut as proof. The girl, Preeti from Farrukhnagar village, was admitted in the civil hospital on Saturday after she got ...

BATALA: An unidentified partially burnt body of a youth was recovered from a dry drain near Kotla Banja village under Ranger Nangal police station. According to the information available, former village sarpanch Kartar Singh said that while when he was going to his fields on Sunday. He noticed the body ...

ROHTAK: Three persons, including a couple, were killed and two others injured in a road accident on national highway  near the flyover at Murthal in Sonepat district on Tuesday. Rajinder, his wife Manju Bala and car driver Sonu, residents of Dev Nagar locality of Jalandhar inPunjab, died on the spot when their ...

AMRITSAR: Following the detection of three dengues cases ­ one from Amritsar district arid two from Gurdaspur - the health authorities have deployed teams at the Attari border to screen people coming from Pakistan. A red alert has already been sounded in Lahore following a dengue outbreak there. Kamal, 23, a ...

SANGRUR: A small-time farmer Balbir Singh of Mubarakpur Tungan village under the Sandaurh police station reportedly committed suicide on Monday. The victim shot himself with his licensed .12-bore double barrel gun. Balbir is survived by wife, daughter and a son. Police are yet to find out why did he take the ...

AMBALA: A doctor was booked for carrying out the prenatal sex determination test and illegally terminating the pregnancy here on Sunday. On the complaint of civil surgeon Dr Satish Aggarwal, the Baldev Nagar Police booked Dr Rachna Sharma of Vikas Vihar for carrying out the prenatal sex determination test and illegally ...

ROHTAK: A total of 20 school children were injured when their bus overturned after being hit by a speeding truck at Delhi road crossing on the bypass at Kharkhouda in Sonepat district on Friday. Students of Kalpana Chawla Vidyapeeth, Kharkhouda, were on their way back home from the school in the ...