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Attari (India-Pakistan border), Oct 14 (IANS) Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 10: The Punjab Cabinet today approved the Optimum Utilisation of Vacant Government Land (OUVGL) through commercial exploitation by the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB). More...

Punjab is getting tough with builders and developers. The state government has issued instructions that ''no housing project would get government approval unless the colonizer gives clear proof of acquiring at least 50% of the land mentioned in the project''. The new instructions, issued last...

Chandigarh, Sep 20 : The Punjab Government has notified the new external development charges (EDC), conversion changes of land and license fee which is now 25 to 75 per cent less than the previous rates. More...

Chandigarh, Sep 20 : The Punjab Government has notified the new external development charges (EDC), conversion changes of land and license fee which is now 25 to 75 per cent less than the previous rates. More...

Chandigarh, Aug 16: Vacant land of various jails in Punjab will be commercially exploited and will be offered for setting up multiplexes and shopping malls. More...

Vacant land of various jails in Punjab will be commercially exploited and will be offered for setting up multiplexes and shopping malls. This was decided at a meeting of the Punjab cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here Thursday evening. More...

Chandigarh, Aug 16 (IANS) Vacant land of various jails in Punjab will be commercially exploited and will be offered for setting up multiplexes and shopping malls. More...

With no sign of they being given the possession of land allotted to them at Mohali for their projects, IT majors Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) and Azim Premji-owned Wipro have finally told the Punjab government to hand over the land to them or else they will shift their projects to other...

To hush up the matter of grabbing about 370 acre land in Kansal village, allegedly by top bureaucrats, politicians and some influential people, the Punjab Police not only ignored criminal cases registered in the past regarding the alleged land grab, but also blatantly overruled reports by the...

Punjab is all set to reap the benefits of a booming aviation industry. More...

New Delhi, July 4: The Supreme Court has quashed the acquisition of about 9,354 acres of land in 29 villages of district Ropar of Punjab by the state government for setting up a new township of Anandgarh. More...

Chandigarh, July 2: For the planned development of urban areas of Punjab, the state Government today decided in principle to implement Land Pooling Technique in the state on Gujrat Pattern. More...

Thousands of farmers in Punjab Monday protested against the acquisition of their land at nominal prices for setting up industrial units. More...

Chandigarh, June 25 (IANS) Thousands of farmers in Punjab Monday protested against the acquisition of their land at nominal prices for setting up industrial units. More...

Chandigarh, June 21: The Punjab Government will acquire additional land for the further upgradation of the Raja Sansi (Amritsar) International airport which is presently handling 84 international and 16 domestic flights in a week. More...

::Panjaab's Water Dispute:: Drought The Energy Research Institute, a New Delhi think tank, says that already in an agriculture-based state such as Panjaab in the north, 98 percent of ground water has been exploited. The Forum for Bio-Technology and Food Security adds that if the trend...

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Land Of Five Rivers In Water Crisis And Water Chaos Wednesday 11th of October 2006 Courtesy - Umendra Dutt, Countercurrents.org Last month Punjab has been declared as the over all best state in the country...

AN ARTICLE I CAME ACROSS TODAY... shocking state of the Motherland..are we regressing back to Mahabharat days of the Kaurvas and Pandvas... Jarnail Singh; _______________________________________________________ Modern-day 'Pandavas' share common wife in rural Punjab From Ravi S. Jha (Our...