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The Excise and Taxation dept will start issuing license fee for permission to serve liquor from September 1.

The fact that the suspects were running chemist shops on the permit allotted to someone else puts a question mark on the functioning of the UT health department and the police has decided to take up the matter with them.

Sarpreet Singh Gill will also be Special Secretary Health, Nodal Officer COVID, Special Secretary Finance, Special Secretary Vigilance, Special Secretary House Allotment Committee, Director Planning and Stastic, Director Local Audit Department and others.

Sources said the promotion orders were issued from the office of Rakesh Kumar Singh, Under Secretary to Government of India. Before coming to Chandigarh, Sanjay Baniwal was serving as Special Commissioner in Delhi, which is equivalent to the rank of ADGP.

When contacted, Arun Kumar Gupta, Principal Secretary Home who is also Health Secretary, said, "After discharge, they are to contact helpline only if they develop any symptom or need some medical advice. Frankly, most patients do not need this help after discharge."

While 157 tested positive by RT-PCR, 47 positive cases by Rapid-Antigen tests were also reported, with the total number of patients tested being 31,268.

The morning shift was from 9 am to 12 noon. The evening shift was between 3 pm and 6 pm. Computers along with seats of every aspirant were placed at a distance of at least 4 feet from each other.

The young recipient, a student of Class VIII of S D Public School, Sector 18, was greeted with flowers and best wishes and a painting on organ donation.

As many as 170 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported on August 30, taking the tally of cases in Chandigarh to 4,155, with 1,805 active cases and 52 deaths reported till now.

As the modalities regarding the bank are worked out, Prof (Dr) Rati Ram Head of Transfusion Medicine Department, PGIMER, has been deeply involved in filling in the gaps that the pandemic has caused in the regular voluntary contribution to the blood bank at the hospital.

The Indian Express speaks to Dr Jagat Ram, director, PGIMER, Chandigarh, who said that the city has reached its peak and extreme precautions should be taken now.

Over the last fortnight, Haryana has changed its decisions on reimposing lockdown restrictions. First, the state refused to acknowledge Chandigarh Administration's request of reimposing weekend lockdown in Panchkula to curtail the increasing cases of coronavirus infections.

The Indian Express spoke to the students and officials of Panjab University, Punjabi University and Guru Nanak Dev University regarding the Supreme Court's decision.

The Covid-19 cess was imposed on the liquor vends across Chandigarh on May 21. The city has about 124 liquor vends. Besides the Covid-19 cess, a cow cess of Rs 5 per bottle is also collected.

The Principal Investigator for the trial at PGIMER, Dr Madhu Gupta said trials will most likely begin in the first week of September. The project staff has already been finalised by the internal committee of the institute, with all the facilities in place.