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More screen time leads to speech delays in toddlers: PGI study

Chandigarh, April 28 -- Toddlers exposed to more than an hour of daily screen time are more likely to show poor communication skills and speech delays, a study by the Post Graduate Institute of Medica... Read More


Chandigarh: PGI's mother-child centre gets going on April 30

Chandigarh, April 25 -- The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) would officially open two 300-bed state-of-the-art facilities - Advanced Neuroscience Centre and Mother an... Read More


Chandigarh: EWS candidates subjected to second class treatment in small Group Home

Chandigarh, April 23 -- Despite having the same illness, the UT administration is giving second class treatment to its mentally ill and intellectually disabled persons belonging to economically weaker... Read More


Upside-down icon: How a mistake defined PU's Student Centre

Chandigarh, April 15 -- Imagine a cake flipped by accident, only for the decorator to realise it looks better upside down. Well, that's quite the origin story of Panjab University's iconic Student Cen... Read More


PGI trial for rRs.r5,000 liver cancer treatment begins in April

Chandigarh, March 26 -- A three-year clinical trial of an indigenously developed radioactive therapy for liver cancer - costing just Rs.5,000, far lower than the internationally established Yttrium-90... Read More


ChandigarhL Tewari flags non-functional ventilators at GMCH in Lok Sabha

Chandigarh, March 24 -- The Union health and family welfare ministry acknowledged in the Lok Sabha that only 35 out of 99 ventilators supplied to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector ... Read More


The Punjab Plan: Policy and Governance Summit | Economists call for investment in health, education

Chandigarh, March 12 -- Eminent economists have stressed the need for transparency in economic policy and greater public investment in education and healthcare to ensure long-term growth in Punjab. T... Read More


PM RAHAT: Road mishap victims in Chandigarh to get up to rRs.r1.5L free treatment for 1st 7 days

Chandigarh, March 4 -- To ensure road accident victims don't lose out on the crucial "golden hour" treatment due to financial hurdles, all government and private hospitals in Chandigarh will now be pr... Read More


Chandigarh to feel early heat in March as mercury inches towards 30degC

Chandigarh, March 2 -- After recording its driest and warmest February since 2023, Chandigarh is heading into a hotter-than-normal March, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting abo... Read More


Chandigarh: Staff-strapped PGI cardiac centre feeling the strain of emergency launch

Chandigarh, Feb. 23 -- In a week's time, the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research plans to start the long-awaited dedicated emergency facility at its Advanced Cardiac Centre (ACC)... Read More