Order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the matter of Bhisham Kinger Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 13/05/2025. The matter is related to deteriorating medical infrastructure in Punjab, especially Malerkotla district. An affidavit filed before the court showed that certain vacancies of doctors at Malerkotla have …
Manjit Kaur could hardly have believed it but she has been cured of a two-decade-old list of ailments. Her cure has come neither through a doctor nor a stack of pills, but instead from a community-based safe drinking water project commissioned in her native Muktsar district, Punjab, four months ago. …
Varinder Singh Tribune News Service Patiala, July 24 Prolonged power cuts have made life of urban and rural people miserable and the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has been blaming shutting down of three National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plants for bad power position in the state. The PSEB has …
Ludhiana, Illegal bird trade is going on in the city in the garb of exotic bird trade. The business not only violates the Wildlife Protection Act but also poses a threat of bird flu as birds which are often transported from West Bengal, may carry the virus from there and …
Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab): The Bharatiya Janata Party may be opposing the confidence motion moved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha over the nuclear deal, but its Punjab unit is very much in favour of setting up an atomic power plant in the State. Speaking to media persons …
Vikas Sharma / Ludhiana July 21, 2008, 0:24 IST The lab will provide a push to textile units in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir as they will not have to depend on faraway facilties for reports. The in-principle nod by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises …
Gunjan Pradhan Sinha & Vikas Bhardwaj NEW DELHI INFRASTRUCTURE Leasing and Finance Services (IL&FS;) Development Corporation is laying down the blueprint for multi-level bus terminals with taxi stands, private food chain outlets and shopping complexes in Gujarat, Punjab, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The infrastructure consulting and …
Chandigarh: A minister said the state Cabinet today cleared purchase of Innova vehicles for MLAs. The PSEB has been facing problem of funds to buy power and imposing cuts ranging from 6 to 8 hours. Sources said the Cabinet also approved buying of eight more vehicles for the Chief Minister's …
Govt fails to pay subsidy to PSEB The Punjab government has failed to comply with the directive of the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) to pay subsidy on account of free power to agricultural pump sets in instalments in advance at the beginning of each quarter. The commission in …
Moga, July 16 General secretary of the PPCC and former minister Malti Thapar has appealed to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to extend his party's support to the Manmohan Singh government on the nuclear deal. In a letter written to Badal today, she said, "No doubt that your association with …
Despite recent verbal duels over politics of vendetta, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh wants Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron Parkash Singh Badal to show statesmanship on the July 22 motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha as he and his party did in passing the rivers waters agreements annulment Act …
Flowing with ample rainwater a month and a half ago, the seasonal Ghaggar now has little water to offer. Unscheduled long power cuts offering little time to farmers to irrigate land, an abysmally low water table and erratic flow of water in the Ghaggar are giving sleepless nights to tillers. …
The excessive commercialisation of agriculture in Punjab is well known but just how much rent-seeking is going on and with what implications, is not so well known. The recent scheme of the PSEB called the
Monsoon in Punjab has generally been good and covered most of parts of the state. This year monsoon arrived nearly 15 days early, but it was well distributed in June. This rain has been beneficial for the transplantation of paddy, and also for sugarcane and horticultural crops. For cotton and …
Even as the district health authorities are yet to identify the mystery disease that spread about nine days ago, the disease continues to threaten lives in this nomad-dominated village. Two more persons lost their lives while several others fell critically ill over the last two days. One of the two …
Chairman of the PSEB Y.S. Ratra has said the Board has decided to ban transfers of all categories of officers and employees from July 15 to October 31 to ensure minimum disturbance in the offices during the on-going paddy season. Ratra has warned the delinquents of severe departmental action for …
dead fish floated down two parallel canals, carrying water from the Sutlej river in western Punjab southwards to Rajasthan, for two-three days in mid-June. For a stretch of about 50 km, from Harike in Ferozepur to Faridkot, the water had turned dark and stank of sewage. The water sanitation department …
Call it a quirk of fate. When B.S. Yeddyurappa took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka's first BJP government on May 30, 2008, he did so in the name of the farmer. He knew he owed his present position to him. The first decision of his Cabinet was also …
Funds crunch limits options Starved of funds to purchase adequate power to meet the demand in the state, the PSEB authorities have started imposing heavy power cuts, varying from 6 to 8 hours daily. Sources said the demand for power yesterday was in the range of 1,750 lakh units against …
Barnala: At least 40 students of a government school in Roore Ke village in Barnala district were taken ill after eating fruit of jatropha (ratanjot) grown on the school premises. Sources said all the students were admitted to Barnala Civil Hospital, where they were said to be out of danger. …
Taking a serious note of irregularities in distribution of food to anganwari children, under the mid-day meal scheme in Barara sub-division, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Ashwini Mengi, has ordered an inquiry into the matter, which will be conducted by the Child Development Project Officer. Sources informed that the meals were being …
