SAS Nagar, October 9: The Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, S. Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded the setting up of a Basmati Trading Corporation by the central government so that the farmers of the state did not face any problem in selling basmati besides getting a profitable rate for the product.Read More

CHANDIGARH, October 9: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today sought a probe into the negligence by the Punjab government in taking action on the advancing warning about whitefly attack on cotton by the Central Integrated Pest Management Centre (CIPC), Jalandhar to the state. He alsoRead More

Ludhiana, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today gave clean chit to Agriculture Minister Tota Singh. Sukhbir said demanding the minister’s resignation over the pesticide scam was not justified. He said the state government had already ordered a high-level probe in the matter and the guilty would not be spared.Read More

Moga, Amid heavy police deployment, hundreds of Sikh activists assembled at Rode, the ancestral village of late Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale, in the district today to protest Akal Takht’s decision to pardon Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a blasphemy row. When the police tried to disperse them,Read More

CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 09 : The Punjab Government has decided to install CCTV cameras and digital video recorders in the Pepsu Roadways Transport Corporation buses in order to safety of the women in the buses, According to an official spokesman these CCTV cameras would also be installed at bus stands soRead More

Chandigarh, October 8: On the occasion of World Sight Day, Health and Family Welfare Minister Punjab, Mr. Surjit Kumar Jyani rolled out a plan to Corneal Blindness free State. Addressing all the Civil Surgeons and senior officials he said that earlier a high-level round-table consultation was held to prepare aRead More

Chandigarh, October 8: Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today approved the architectural design of the statue of Baba Jiwan Singh (Bhai Jaita Ji) to be installed at his upcoming memorial in Sri Anandpur Sahib at a cost of Rs.25 crore. Presiding over a meeting to review the progress ofRead More

Amritsar, October 8- Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Punjab Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that Information Centre at Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar would soon be facelifted and equipped with latest audio-visual techniques and gadgets to display the heritage in an impressive way. He also informed that beautification work in theRead More

Chandigarh, October 8 : The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today lauded the Punjab government for the exemplary action taken against spurious pesticide manufacturers and sellers and said this action along with the Rs 643 crore compensation package for loss to the cotton crop could only have been taken by aRead More

Chandigarh, October 8- Coining the slogan of ‘One institution, one block’ for imparting skill training to youth across the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today underscored the need of cooperation between state government and private educational institutions to emerge the state as a pool of skilledRead More