CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to immediately announce Rs.1500 per quintal as MSP of wheat for the marketing season 2008-09 and an additional bonus of Rs.250 over and above the MSP for paddy for the current procurement season. 

CHANDIGARH: Sucha Singh Langah, Agriculture Minister Punjab has ordered immediate suspension of two officials of the department who were found guilty of negligence and dereliction of duties.

CHANDIGARH: Taking a dig at the BJP for adopting double standards on the issue of "terrorism", the Dal Khalsa said the arrest of certain terrorists- owing allegiance to Hindutva ideology, suspected in the Malegaon bomb blast case has opened the Pandora box.

CHANDIGARH: Decks have been cleared for an enactment of Punjab Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act with in principle approval from the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal by formulating a comprehensive SEZ policy to promote mega and super mega industrial projects in consonance with SEZ rules under the Act of GoI.