Punjab Government’s Contract Farming Act has a provision to send farmers behind the bars and fine of up to Rs 5 lakh whereas in the Government of India’s Act a farmer can exit a contract anytime, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. “Punjab Contract Farming Act provides for jail and fine up […]
Punjab Congress MPs wear black gown to mark protest against farm laws
Congress MPs from Punjab — Jasbir Singh Gill and Gurjeet Singh Aujla — wore a black gown to the Parliament on Monday, as a mark of their protest against the three farm laws which have led to farmers protesting at Delhi borders for over two months. This comes at a day when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is […]
Punjab Police arrest 2nd shooter in Comrade Balwinder Sandhu murder case
Punjab Police on Thursday arrested Inderjeet Singh, the second shooter involved in the killing of Comrade Balwinder Singh Sandhu last year. Inderjeet was arrested from Mumbai airport shortly before he was to board a flight to Dubai Punjab Police said today. Inderjeet, along with Gurjit Singh, had in October last year shot dead Comrade Balwinder Singh at his residence-cum-school […]
Pakistani intruder shot dead in Punjab’s Gurdaspur sector
The Border Security Force shot dead a Pakistan national infiltrating into Indian territory between the Kot Razada and Wadhai Cheema border outposts in Gurdaspur sector, BSF officials said on Friday. “The BSF personnel detected suspicious movement of an intruder from the Pakistan side near the barbed fence inside Indian territory […]
Punjab CM meets home minister Amit Shah over farmers’ stir
Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday arrived to meet Union home minister Amit Shah over the ongoing farmers’ protests on the outskirts of the national capital against the three contentious farm laws passed by the Centre in September. The meeting between Shah and Singh comes on a day […]
Punjab aims to lure big businesses out of China
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has said his government has written to various countries which want to shift their business out of China and assured them of all possible support for setting up facilities in the state. Singh said his government is moving aggressively to reach out to embassies of […]
Govt school curriculum in Punjab to be broadcast on Doordarshan
The Punjab government on Monday said it has decided to broadcast the curriculum of state-run schools on DD Punjabi channel. The decision has been taken to prevent students from loss of studies due to the lockdown, a government release here said. The timing of the telecast for students of class […]
Dense fog, dipping mercury in Punjab, Haryana
Dense fog with extreme cold continued to engulf many parts of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday, weather officials said. Road and railway traffic was affected due to low visibility, which reduced to less than 100 metres at some places. Traffic on highways was plying slow, the police said. The Amritsar-Ambala-Delhi […]
5 lessons from Punjab’s failed drive to curb stubble burning
Ahead of the paddy harvesting in September, the Punjab government chose to make Guru Nanak Dev’s verse ‘pavan guru, pani pita, mata dharat mahat’ (air is guru, water the father, earth the eminent mother) as the centrepiece of its message against stubble burning, one of the causes of the region’s […]
After a brief respite, stubble fires rage again in Punjab
After a brief lull, farm fires rage again in Punjab with 1,289 incidents being reported from different parts of the state on Tuesday, according to government data. The number of stubble burning cases had remained consistently low in the past four days with 521 incidents on November 18, 352 on […]
Dalit man beaten, ‘forced to drink urine’ in Punjab’s Sangrur; 4 booked
Four people have been booked for beating a 37-year-old Dalit man and allegedly forcing him to drink urine over an old dispute in Punjab’s Sangrur district, police officials have said. Moonak’s deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Buta Singh said Jagmail Singh of Changaliwala village near Lehra, 55km from Sangrur, was […]
These Punjab villages shun stubble burning
As smog from farm fires covers the national capital and other parts of northern India , leaving residents gasping for breath, it turns out that there are some villages in Punjab that haven’t reported a single case of post-harvest stubble burning. These villages are now being held up as examples […]