Probe Rs 17k cr excess crop loans: Punjab

Probe Rs 17k cr excess crop loans: Punjab

Chandigarh : The Punjab Government has asked the Union Ministry of Finance to probe how private banks advanced excess agricultural loans (crop loans) worth Rs 17,600 crore to state farmers. This loan amount is more than the actual value of crops sold each year. While 30 per cent of marginal farmers (1.46 lakh of 5.71 […]

Power cuts haunt Malwa region as summer peaks

Power cuts haunt Malwa region as summer peaks

Bathinda/Faridkot : Despite being proclaimed a power-surplus state, unscheduled power cuts are reportedly being imposed in a majority of the districts, mainly in Malwa region. The power corporation, however, denies the claim. “No power cuts are being imposed either on the domestic sector or the farm sector. We are providing electricity to the farm sector […]

Modi-Trump meet showed ties will be ‘substantially closer’: US

Modi-Trump meet showed ties will be ‘substantially closer’: US

Washington, June 28 : President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden meeting at the White House sent a clear message around the world that the Indo-US ties are going to be “substantially closer”, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has said. “There was a picture yesterday that I happened to see, that I thought was […]

Meira Kumar files nomination papers for Presidential Election

Meira Kumar files nomination papers for Presidential Election

New Delhi, June 28 : Meira Kumar, the Opposition nominee for the Presidential Election 2017, filed her nomination papers on Wednesday morning at the Parliament House in New Delhi in the presence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Ajay Maken and Opposition leaders. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury and TMC’s Derek O’Brien were […]