Khosa Pando (Moga) : Black hopper (kala tela) has attaked Moga, Ferozepur, Faridkot, Barnala, Muktsar, some parts of Ludhiana and many other districts of Malwa in Punjab — barely three weeks before the long-duration varieties of paddy crop are readying for harvest. The black hopper attack has been witnessed in patches on PUSA-44 and other […]
Chandigarh : The police believe that the fourth attack on the RSS in the past more than one-and-a-half years points to a pattern to single out the Hindu organisation. “It is too much of a coincidence, though the police are probing a personal angle to each attack,” a senior officer said. Ravinder Gosain was killed […]
Chandigarh : The Punjab Government today gave appointment letters to 254 junior engineers (JEs) of the Irrigation Department as a “Diwali gift”. Irrigation and Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh said here today that the approval to appoint these 254 JEs in the Irrigation Department was given today in a hurry on the instructions of Chief […]
Mohali, October 18 : A local hotelier shot dead his wife following an altercation at Phase X here on Wednesday morning. The couple was travelling in a car when following a heated exchange, 60-year-old Nirankar Singh Sarao fired at least six shots at his wife, Kulwant Kaur, 62, from point blank range, leaving her dead […]
Chandigarh : The Punjab Cabinet today approved two crucial amendments to the Punjab Rural Development Act, 1987, and the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act to enable the state government to extend the benefit of the crop loan waiver scheme to the distressed farmers. This has given the government an option to raise loan to […]