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After Bharti, ITC and Reliance, Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) group is all set to enter the agricultural sector in Punjab. The group is ready to start its potato seed production through its company, Mahindra Shubhlabh, for which Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Nawanshahr districts have been picked up...

The Punjab BJP is up in arms against state in-charge and party vice-president Sahib Singh Verma for cutting what they call a private deal with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and ensuring that two Delhi-based bureaucrats close to him were appointed non-official members of the Punjab State...

The Supreme Court today dismissed the special leave petitions filed by the Punjab Government challenging the anticipatory bails granted to former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and others by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the alleged Rs 3000-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam. The...

The Bathinda police today quietly moved a local court to seek arrest warrants of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh a day before the Sant Samaj leaders threatened to court arrest to protest against the Punjab Government's failure to take him into custody for parodying Guru Gobind...

IN a bid to fight hazardous affects of chemical pesticides, Punjab has taken up an ambitious project to produce and sell neem-based pesticide to farmers. The Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) has begun the pilot project, in which more than 70 tonnes of neem fruit will be...

In a bid to counter hazardous effects of chemical pesticides, Punjab has taken up an ambitious project to produce and sell neem-based pesticide to farmers. The Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) has begun the pilot project, in which more than 70 tonnes of neem fruit will be...

The Amateur Athletic Association Chandigarh has finalised the annual calendar of the various athletic events to be organised during the session 2007-2008 in its executive body meeting held a few days ago at the Chandigarh Golf Club. Flying Sikh Milkha Singh, the president, AAAC disclosed in the...

Lauding the efforts of the Punjab Rifle Shooting Association, R P S Pawar, principal secretary, Sports, Punjab said the government is poised for the upliftment of the game that has seen Punjab emerging as a leading state in Rifle shooting in the country. Accompanied by Pargat Singh, Director...

Sets ablaze kiosks of dera followers It remained a highly volatile day in Cheema Mandi village, few kms from Sunam, as a mob of Sikhs went on a rampageafter a scuffle between two dera followers and a Sikh, who was injured. Heavy police force and a platoon of BSF had to be deployed in the...

It seems relations between Arun Jaitley's successor and in charge of Punjab BJP Sahib Singh Verma and party president Rajinder Bhandari are getting sour. The state unit of the party is struggling to get to terms with Verma's style of functioning, BJP sources say. On more than one occasion in the...

The great Indian retail revolution seems to be catching on. First it was corporate houses and now it's the enterprising Punjab farmer. Baljeet Singh Dosanjh, a farmer based in Doaba, has joined hands with other growers to launch Veggie Wonders, a retail chain of fresh food items. The maiden...

The great Indian retail revolution seems to be catching on. First it was corporate houses and now it's the enterprising Punjab farmer. More...

Punjab's Jails, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister Hira Singh Gabria has stated that the Punjab government is committed to improving the quality of education in the state and asked the private educational organisations to come forward to open branches of their already established public...

After their cars collided with each other at the Fountain Chowk, president of Sikh Student Federation (Mehta), Gurdeep Singh allegedly assaulted Gajinder Pal Singh, a resident of Kichlu Nagar, today evening. The two sides kept on fighting until the police intervened. Later, the parties agreed to...

Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, wants to produce students with well-rounded personalities, who can compete in every field. Started in 1973 by the Sikh Educational Society, it also happens to be the only girls college which offers a course in Masters in Information Technology...

Manoranjan Kalia, local self-government and industries minister of Punjab, was deeply impressed by all round progress made by Gujarat and said that Punjab has to learn a lesson or two from Gujarat, said an official release here on Sunday. Kalia was leading a delegation here. During a...

Barely a month after CITCO managing director Jasbir Singh Bir elicited widespread publicity from various quarters for opening India's first condom bar in the city, the Punjab government has sent a panel of three IAS officers asking for Bir's repatriation. Though the officers on deputation...

This piece of news will rock the state government out of its deep slumber and push it to implement by-laws for making buildings quake-resistant. More than half of Punjab comes under highly-earthquake-prone Zone IV category. And if a quake rocks Himachal Pradesh, soft alluvial soil-rich Punjab...

AN army recruitment rally for soldiers (Sikh, Sikh Mazbi and Ramdasia), clerk/SKT and technical entry is being organised at Rayya-Beas, Amritsar, from July 3 to July 14. As per Director Recruitment Ludhiana CS Azimuddin, this will be an open rally for candidates hailing from various districts of...

The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) is holding meetings with industry representatives throughout the state to make them comply with pollution control norms. "We are encouraging industries towards self-compliance. The board is willing to lie low for three months and give them relief period...