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Bansal for 4 pc agri-growth rate
Ludhiana, March 2
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The aim of the government to achieve 10 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be achieved if the agriculture sector is given a boost. The agricultural growth rate should be increased from 2.6 per cent to at least 4 per cent. These views were expressed by union minister of state for finance Pawan Kumar Bansal while inaugurating a seminar on “Agriculture - Opportunities and Challenges,” organised at
PAU here today.
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Union minister of state for finance Pawan Kumar Bansal addresses dignitaries at a seminar at
PAU, Ludhiana, on Sunday. — Photo by Inderjit Verma
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Budget Blues
Farm loan waiver incomplete: CM
Centre offered inadequate solution to problem, says Badal
Maluka (Bathinda), March 2
Decrying the union Budget, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said agricultural loan waiver was ‘an incomplete solution to the problem’.
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal at the Bhog ceremony held at Maluka in Bathinda
district on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera
Cong accuses govt of double standards
Chandigarh, March 2
The Punjab Congress has decried the double standards being exhibited by the ruling
SAD-BJP combine. On the one hand Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has been thanking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA government for different projects and liberal financial support under various schemes, and on the other hand SAD president Sukhbir Badal was holding a rally against the Central government’s so-called step-motherly treatment in New Delhi.
Medical students for peace march reach holy city
Amritsar, March 2
More than 71 medical students from across the world who will participate in the peace march organised by the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development
(IDPD) arrived here from the Attari joint checkpost today.
Medical students from 10 countries for a peace march from Attari/Wagah join checkpost to New Delhi pay tributes at Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on Sunday.
— Photo by Vishal Kumar
Near God, yet far from His blessings
Sangrur, March 2
At least seven members of two Rajasthani families remain busy in making or selling not only toys of plaster of Paris (POP), but also those of gods and goddesses on a roadside near the Police Lines here. Still they are hardly able to make both ends meet.
Toys and idols on display on a roadside near the Police Lines in
Sangrur. — Photo by writer
Now, home delivery of jobs
Ropar, March 2
Believe it or not, jobs are being delivered at home these days. Recently representatives of a
Mohali-based company went door-to-door to distribute jobs in various parts of the district. Representatives targeted the matriculate unemployed youth.
It’s Badal XI vs Bhattal XI
Chandigarh, March 2
Politicians are known to play games at the cost of the people. But for a change, this time Punjab politicians have decided to play a time-bound game and will pay for it too. Come March 13 and the PCA stadium will witness a match between Badal XI and Bhattal XI.
Jahangir to meet SGPC on turban
Amritsar, March 2
United Nations special rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Pakistan’s human rights activist Asma Jilani Jahangir today entered India from the Attari border to hold meetings with senior SGPC office-bearers and Sikh organisations on turban issue in France.
No sangat darshan during Budget session
Chandigarh, March 2
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has decioded not to sangat darshan at his residence till March 25 as the Budget session of Punjab Assembly will be in progress. Disclosing this here today, advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the next date for the Sangat Darshan would be announced after the Budget session.
FCI union meeting
Amritsar, March 2
The Congress high command should reconsider its decision of having an alliance with the Janata Dal (United), led by Lalu Prasad
Yadav. These views were expressed by H.P. Singh, vice-chief of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee, here today. He was here to make arrangements for a meeting of the Food Corporation of India Handling-Workers Union and Food and Allied Loading Unloading Mazdoor Union scheduled for March 8.
— TNS
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