Chandigarh, April 26 -- The Punjab government on Thursday assured the Centre that it is making efforts to bring down stubble burning cases to zero this year. Every year, during the paddy harvest seas... Read More
Chandigarh, April 24 -- The ongoing 'rail roko' protest by the farm bodies at Shambhu in the Patiala district of Punjab has not only impacted the food grain and fertiliser movement but has also hit th... Read More
Chandigarh, April 16 -- Fifteen days after the start of wheat procurement in the current rabi season, crop arrivals are still negligible. Monday's 57,000 tonne produce took the total arrivals in the c... Read More
Chandigarh, April 14 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday announced its first list of seven Lok Sabha candidates for Punjab, fielding senior leaders Daljit Singh Cheema from Gurdaspur and Prem... Read More
Chandigarh, April 9 -- Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, has proposed sowing of paddy in Punjab from June 18 to 24. The university has sent the recommendations to the state's agriculture... Read More
Chandigarh, March 30 -- The food corporation of India (FCI) has allowed the Punjab food and civil supplies department to store wheat on the open plinths, known as covered area plinths (CAP), for the l... Read More
Chandigarh, March 23 -- Amid the buzz of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the meeting of its core committee, the top decision-making body of the Akal... Read More
Chandigarh, March 16 -- The two years of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regime in Punjab have been challenging as far as the agriculture sector is concerned. As farm organisations continue to press for the... Read More
Chandigarh, March 16 -- In two years since it came to power, the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has provided jobs to 42,924 persons in 40 state departments, a major chunk (27%) of ... Read More
Chandigarh, March 12 -- Agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Monday said that owing to the non-release of rural development fund (RDF) by the Centre, the repairs of rural roads have been dela... Read More