LUDHIANA: The court of District Session Judge Ludhiana Justice Gurnam Singh today granted bail to Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains, both MLAs arrested by police on April 17 for launching Satyagrah against sand mafia. Punjab and Haryana High Court had yesterday directed the Ludhiana court to accept bail bonds of Bains brothers.Karamjeet Singh […]
Khanna April 28: Rahul Gandhi is visiting Khanna and Gobindgarh in Punjab on Tuesday and will take stock of the situation in the state’s grain markets where farmers are finding it difficult to sell their produce after the recent unseasonal rains. The visit comes at a time when farmers in the region have accused the […]
CHANDIGARH: Rail traffic in Punjab remained disrupted for the second consecutive day today as members of factions of Bharti Kisan Union (BKU) continued their protest at Mansa, Barnala and Amritsar by squatting on tracks protesting “tardy” wheat procurement and value cut imposed by the Centre.
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, while strongly opposing the move of the Narendra Modi government at the centre to end freight subsidy on potash and phosphorus fertilizers, said it would adversely hit the farmers in the high fertilizer consuming states like Punjab and Haryana.While visiting Hoshiarpur and Tanda Dana Mandis today […]
CHANDIGARH: Expressing solidarity with people of Nepal, Bihar and West Bengal who were suffering serious hardships due to major earthquake in the region, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that the state government would send the relief material including food items for the victims of one of the worst natural calamities […]