Chandigarh : The Punjab State Farmers’ and Farm Workers’ Commission wants free electricity to big farmers to go and power subsidy rationalised to reduce the unsustainable use of groundwater. “Power subsidy will be strictly restricted to non-income tax payee farmers,” it has suggested in its draft ‘Punjab State Farmers’ Policy’. It says that to begin […]
Chandigarh : With protesting farmers continuing to disrupt milk and vegetables supplies to the cities, at certain areas reportedly using force, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh accused the Centre of being indifferent to their demands. The Chief Minister was reacting to Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh calling the farmers’ protests a mere publicity stunt. […]
Khanauri (Sangrur) : The release of industrial waste into the Ghaggar has made lives of lakhs of residents miserable in the past decade. In Gurdaspur, the authorities acted promptly after the spill of molasses into the Beas, but toxins flowing into the Ghaggar have been making residents prone to cancer, hepatitis, skin problems, kidney failures and […]
Chandigarh :Concerned about reports of security threats to Sikhs in Shillong, the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab has decided to rush a four-member team headed by Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa to the Meghalayan capital, an official said here on Sunday. The team will make a ground assessment of the situation in the troubled areas and […]
Chandigarh : In a throwback to the underworld’s almost unchecked run-in with Bollywood in the 1990s, it is the Punjabi entertainment industry that is facing the music now — leaving it shocked and shaken. The extortion call of Rs 10 lakh made to popular singer-actor Gippy Grewal by gangster Dilpreet Dahan on Friday makes him […]