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The city’s AQI levels from October 26 to 30, were 228, 310, 160, 185, and 185, respectively

Already struggling to get their paddy procured, thousands of farmers who cultivated PR 126 and hybrid varieties are in for another setback — the lower yield. IIT team to hold milling trials A team from IIT-Kharagpur will be conducting trials...

Lawrence has been tasked with ensuring protection of the animals as per the tenets of the Bishnoi community

Her husband is an advocate by profession

Delhi witnessed large-scale violence and killings of persons from the Sikh community following former PM Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her bodyguards in 1984 and the cases stemming from the incident have seen some major twists and turns forty years on....

India has dismissed Canada’s prior accusations as baseless, denying any involvement

Merely two days before Diwali, the state witnessed the season’s biggest spike in farm fire cases with 219 stubble-burning incidents on Tuesday. Total case count 2,356 The total farm fire count has reached 2,356, with 88% (2,095 cases) being reported...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asserted that the feasibility, viability and necessity of videography during the municipal poll was within the State Election Commission’s exclusive domain. The assertion came as a Division Bench of the high court directed...

The Centre today told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that a two-pronged strategy was being adopted to address the shortage of storage for paddy in Punjab. Additional movement of foodgrain from the state had been planned. Besides this, creation...

Members of several farm unions under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) today gheraoed Sangrur district administrative complex against tardy lifting of produce from mandis, shortage of DAP and registration of FIRs against farmers for burning paddy stubble....

A petition has been filed in public interest before the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking timely and adequate allocation of diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser to Punjab. The Bench has fixed November 11 for hearing the petition alleging “acute shortage”...

Activists of the BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) today protested outside the Ludhiana DC office against non-procurement of their produce on the minimum support price (MSP) and tardy lifting. Farmers burnt an effigy of the Centre and raised slogans against the state...

Punjab Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Anurag Verma has asked all Deputy Commissioners to form teams of executive magistrate and officers of Agriculture Department to conduct surprise checks on fertiliser dealers across the state, so as to stop the practice of...

Under the aegis of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), farmers today laid siege to the Faridkot Deputy Commissioner’s office and demanded that the pace of paddy procurement and lifting work be sped up. Farmers also expressed anger against the cuts...

“Election jitt gaye par taur ohdo banu jadon sarkaar sarpanchi de kagaz dau (I won the elections but the swag will be there when the government makes us sarpanch officially)”, said Bhupinder Singh elected from Jalalpur village . Hundreds of...

Akal Takht has directed the Sikh community to commemorate the ‘Bandi Chhor Divas’ in a subdued manner as the occasion coincides with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on November 1. Even fireworks’ display may be avoided at the Golden Temple complex...

The Canada police have arrested five Canadians of Punjab origin, including a woman and her two sons, for alleged arms and drug smuggling. 11 weapons seized The police seized 11 firearms, including assault rifles, handguns and a submachine gun, as...

AAP today expelled its Barnala district chief Gurdip Singh Batth for anti-party activities. On October 25, Batth filed his nomination papers as an Independent candidate against AAP’s candidate Harinder Singh Dhaliwal for the Barnala Assembly bypoll. Batth said he had...

A day after SAD candidate Harjinder Singh Dhami registered a splendid win to retain the coveted seat to head the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), “suspended” Akali leader Virsa Singh Valtoha today prayed at Akal Takht seeking justice. Standing below...

The Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in a joint operation with the Uttar Pradesh Police, has apprehended two notorious shooters backed by foreign handlers from Lucknow. They both were wanted in separate sensational murder cases in Ferozepur and Tarn...

Cops comb premises to rule out presence of narcotics, phones

To prevent the spread of dengue, the Health Department organised an awareness programme at the Civil Hospital here today. Civil Surgeon Chander Shekhar Kakkar silently entered the hospital and queued up at the medicine dispensing window. Then he visited different...

The police have arrested six members of a gang involved in stealing of mobile phone tower equipment. Cops have reportedly recovered two country-made pistols with six live cartridges, two vehicles, 24 remote radio units of a mobile phone company and...

Celebrate festivals with your families but keep tabs on villages entrusted to you for checking stubble burning. This is the advice seniors have given to the rank and file in the civil and police administration in Malerkotla and Ludhiana subdivisions....

The police today arrested a resident of Chuhriwala Dhanna village in Fazilka after recovering 10 packets containing 5,000 intoxicating pills from his possession at Sriganganagar. The suspect, Harish, was searched on suspicion when he alighted from a bus at Sriganganagar....