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Rs.13,784 cr for agriculture sector, focus on crop diversification: FM

Chandigarh, March 6 -- Presenting the budget for the financial year 2024-25, Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday announced an allocation of Rs.13,784 crore for the agriculture and a... Read More


Mann's 'lock oppn in House during discussion' remark triggers uproar

Chandigarh, March 5 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann's "lock the Vidhan Sabha and don't let opposition stage a walkout" remark on the second day of the budget session triggered an uproar leading to unr... Read More


Crop residue mgmt plan bets big on subsidised machines

Chandigarh, March 1 -- The Punjab government has decided to provide farmers with 36,020 subsidised machines for in-situ and ex-situ management of the crop residue for the upcoming kharif season harves... Read More


New vanguards emerge as veterans take a backseat

Chandigarh, Feb. 26 -- The farmers' agitation in Punjab has witnessed a change of guard as leaders who were at the forefront of the 13-month protest at the Delhi borders between November 2020 and Dece... Read More


Farmers' protest 2.0: New vanguards emerge as veterans pushed to margins

India, Feb. 26 -- The farmers' agitation in Punjab has witnessed a change of guard as leaders who were at the forefront of the 13-month protest at the Delhi borders between November 2020 and December ... Read More


Dallewal seeks designated protest site in Delhi

Chandigarh, Feb. 21 -- Bharti Kisan Union (Sidhupur) convener Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Tuesday asked the Centre to provide a designated place in the national capital for the protest. This comes after ... Read More


Centre assures to study framework for MSP law

Chandigarh, Feb. 17 -- The three Union ministers who met farmer leaders in Chandigarh for the third round of talks on Thursday are learnt to have given an assurance to "study the framework" for provid... Read More


Deadlock prevails, fourth round of talks on Feb 18

Chandigarh, Feb. 16 -- A fresh round of negotiations between a panel of Union ministers and farmers from Punjab and Haryana ended in another impasse on Thursday, as protesting cultivators refused to b... Read More


BSP snaps ties with Akali Dal

Chandigarh, Feb. 14 -- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday snapped around three-year-old alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and announced to go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The ... Read More


Farmers' Delhi march on as talks end in deadlock

Chandigarh, Feb. 13 -- The meeting of two Union ministers with farmer leaders to dissuade them from their February 13 'Delhi Chalo' protest ended in a deadlock on Monday with the protesters announcing... Read More