* Describes earthquake in napal and parts india as ‘Grave natural tragedy’ * Sukhbir badal asks the SGPC to makeall relife help available to victms New Delhi,  Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today received a group of nearly 35 pilgrims from Mansa and Amritsar districts, who returned fromRead More

* Transmission and distribution system in Punjab to be revamped with Rs 2514 crore * Work on 24 projects in full swing & 23 more to be launched by next month Chandigarh, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that after achieving power surplus status, Punjab is nowRead More

* Bajwa opposes reduction on freight subsidy on fertilizers Hoshiarpur, 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 highRead More

Chandigarh, Blasting the government for tardy procurement operations, People’s Party of Punjab Chief Manpreet Singh Badal today called for immediate steps to end the harassment of the farmers in the mandis and adequate compensation for the crop damage due to inclement weather. “Despite the good intentions of the state government,Read More

* Separate fresh Langars will also be started in Kathmandu to cater to 10,000 people Chandigarh,  Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC) and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to start air lifting of 25,000 food packets to KathmanduRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab government has geared up machinery to distribute subsidised seeds of Paddy, Moong and legume plants in hassle free manner to rain hit farmers for next crops. Disclosing this here today Punjab Agriculture Minister Jathedar Tota Singhsaid that the government has a stock of 3330 quintal of seed ofRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Government has given go ahead to set up a ultra modern dairy training centre at Sangrur . This centre would be equipped with class rooms, seminar halls, drill training labs to impart the modern training and techniques to the dairy farmers. Disclosing this Mr. Gulzar Singh Ranike,Read More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today condoled the death of Gurdaspur resident Gurpreet Kaur in the general hospital here who had committed self-immolation in December last in front of the residence of the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal. She was unemployed and had knocked atRead More

Chandigarh, Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Member Rajya Sabha, K.T.S. Tulsi has said that men are too unstable to be just and since the judges are also human, they are liable to err. Reading out his presidential address at the 5th. Annual convocation of Army Institute of Law, Tulsi addedRead More

Chandigarh, Amid deepening crisis in Indian agriculture, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has called for expansion of formal financing sector in rural and agrarian belts.Holding the “lack of formal finance” in the agriculture sector responsible for the current crisis, Rajan said the issue of agriculture credit needed to be studied in theRead More