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SHO suspended for negligence, accused chemist's wife arrested

Bathinda, Oct. 16 -- Giving in to demands from protesters seeking justice for slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, the Mansa district administration on Thursday suspended City-2 station hou... Read More


Wife of accused pharmacist in Punjab anti-drug activist murder booked, SHO suspended

India, Oct. 15 -- Giving in to demands from protesters seeking justice for slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, the Mansa district administration on Thursday suspended city-2 station house ... Read More


Mansa anti-drug activist's murder: Accused pharmacist's wife booked, SHO suspended

India, Oct. 15 -- Giving in to demands from protesters seeking justice for slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, the Mansa district administration on Thursday suspended city-2 station house ... Read More


Accused arrested from Rajasthan; house bulldozed, shop torched

Bathinda, Oct. 15 -- Hours after anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh, alias Jhota, was shot dead in Mansa, the police on Wednesday arrested the accused, a pharmacy owner, from Rajasthan even as anger a... Read More


Aggressive anti-drug campaign made Jhota a polarising figure

BATHINDA, Oct. 15 -- Parvinder Singh, alias Jhota, the anti-drug activist from Mansa, who was gunned down in broad daylight, was no stranger to controversies. Known for conducting aggressive, self-sty... Read More


Anti-drug activist's murder: Mansa authorities raze chemist's house, mob torches shop

India, Oct. 14 -- Hours after pharmacy owner Ashwani Kumar was arrested for the murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh, alias Jhota, Mansa district authorities launched a demolition drive Wednes... Read More


Bee biz buzzes for Bathinda's rural women apiarists

BATHINDA, Oct. 5 -- A beekeeping initiative is enabling nearly 300 rural women in Bathinda district to strengthen their families' livelihoods after five years of harvesting honey. Started after their ... Read More


CCI begins cotton procurement at 13 sites in Malwa

Bathinda, Oct. 2 -- The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), a central agency, on Thursday started procuring the cash crop of cotton at the minimum support price (MSP) at 13 locations across four distri... Read More


Bathinda admn chalks out plan to manage 8.5-lakh tonne paddy straw

Bathinda, Oct. 1 -- Ahead of the paddy harvesting season, the Bathinda district authorities have chalked out a plan to manage the almost entire paddy biomass stock of 8.5 lakh tonnes to be produced th... Read More


Punjab set for two-fold jump in biomass pellet-making units

Bathinda, Sept. 28 -- Encouraged by an organised push by the Centre and the state government to contain the environmentally hazardous annual farm practice of burning paddy stubble, the number of units... Read More