CHANDIGARH: In another farmer-friendly initiative that will protect farmers from unscrupulous traders selling fake or low-quality seeds, Punjab has decided to deploy advanced certification technology, including barcodes and QR codes, to ensure that farmers get genuine seeds of various crops, including wheat and rice.

CHANDIGARH: Taking serious cognizance of the matter, Punjab Chief Minister on Sarurday ordered shifting of the Sardulgarh BDPO to Headquarters, and immediate withdrawal of the letter issued by him regarding some farm protests which he incorrectly claimed to have been organized by the Punjab Government.

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, at the instance of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, has issued a Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs ) on 8th September 2020 to ensure resumption of training activities post Covid-19 lockdown in skill and entrepreneurship training institutes including Industrial Technical Institutes (ITIs) and Short Term Training Centres under National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) or State Skill Development Missions or other Central or State Ministries /Departments, National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) and their training partners.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab is extremely hopeful that Bathinda would emerge as a venue of one of the three Pharmaceutical Parks in India, which will go a long way in rooting out the stranglehold of Chinese medicine manufacturing sector, averred Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal while addressing the media at Bathinda.

CHANDIGARH: To further woo investment in the food processing sector in the state, the Punjab Government today issued a notification to constitute an advisory committee.

Disclosing this here, Spokesperson of Punjab Government said that as per the notification Punjab Food Processing Minister will be the Chairman of this committee, Chairman Punjab Agro Industries Corporation, Chairman Milkfed Punjab and Chairman Markfed are the Non-Official members of this committee. 

CHANDIGARH: Accusing the NDA Government of violating the federal structure of Constitution by passing bills on items reserved on the State List, Punjab Finance Minister Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal on Friday said that Punjab alone would suffer a loss of Rs.4000 crore every year that will lead to the mass destruction of rural livelihoods, increasing farmer distress and pauperization.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has set a target to provide a loan of Rs. 1127.75 lakh during the year 2020-2021 to uplift the economic standard of the backward class youth of the state.

Punjab Minister for Social Justice, Empowerment and Minorities Sadhu Singh Dharmsot said that Punjab Backward Classes Land Development and Finance Corporation (Backfinco) has set the target to disburse the loan of Rs. 1127.75 lac to 751 beneficiaries during the year of 2020-21. 

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday slammed the farm legislations being forced on to the nation by the central government as part of the `Destroy Farmers, Destroy Punjab’ (Kisan maaru, Punjab maaru) conspiracy of the BJP-led NDA, of which the Akalis continue shamelessly to be a part at the cost of their own state and its people.

TORANTO: As the Corona pandemic takes increasing toll in India, the Canadian branch of the Indian charity, AIM for SEVA - which builds and runs educational hostels in rural areas - raised more than $550,000 this week through individual donations to rush the money to India.

NEW DELHI: Indian footballer Anirudh Thapa has revealed that former Indian cricket team captain MS Dhoni's aggression has had a very positive influence on his game.

NEW DELHI:Ahead of the Bihar polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kosi Rail mega bridge in Bihar, through video conferencing on Friday.

CHANDIGARH: A day after the Lok Sabha passed two contentious agriculture Bills, despite the opposition by BJP's oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal terming it as an "anti-farmer" move, a protesting farmer in Punjab on Friday tried to commit suicide by consuming poisonous substance.

SAN FRANCISCO: In an effort to help researchers find useful health data to fight new coronavirus, Google has added its Search Trends symptoms dataset, which aggregates anonymised search trends for over 400 symptoms, to its Covid-19 Open Data repository.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s decision to quit the Union Cabinet was another in the long chain of theatrics being enacted by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which has still not quit the ruling coalition despite the slap on their face by the central government over the Farm Bills.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab will bid for setting up a Bulk Drug Park in Bathinda as part of the newly launched central government scheme for establishment of three such parks in the country.

In-principle approval to this effect was given by the Punjab Council of Ministers at its meeting chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Food Processing Minister O.P. Soni today released ‘One District One Product’ (ODOP) report here at his official residence, which will help the state farmers and small industrialists to start their venture related with the potential products of their respective district to further boost their income and widening the reach of specific products worldwide in general.

NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department carried out a search and seizure operation on a prominent Hotelier, owning a chain of Hotels at Srinagar, Gulmarg, Sonamarg and Pahalgam with another hotel under construction at Leh.

Various incriminating documents and materials evidencing unexplained investments in immovable properties, construction of hotels and residences aggregating to Rs. 25 crore in the last six financial years have been seized during the search, though he has not paid any tax since A.Y. 2014-15. Almost all these investments are in cash and outside the known sources of income.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Cabinet on Thursday approved the formation of an Empowered Cabinet Sub Committee on Disinvestment to finalise the modalities for strategic disinvestment of 33.49% equity shareholding of Punjab Alkalies & Chemicals Limited (PACL), held by Punjab Government through Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC).

CHANDIGARH: To aggressively promote higher education in the state, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday decided to reduce the requirement of constructed area from 50,000 sq. mt. to 30,000 sq. mt. for multi-domain University, and from 20,000 sq. mt. to 15,000 sq. mt. for single-domain University.

CHANDIGARH: To ensure universal coverage of rural households with piped water connections, the Punjab government has decided to accord first priority to providing Functional House Tap Connections (FHTCs) in the remaining 17.59 lac households from the tied grants for water under 15th Finance Commission to meet its 2022 target of 100% piped water connectivity.

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday thanked Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari for accepting state government’s proposal to approve substitution of 72 km stretch of Beas-Mehta-Batala-Dera Baba Nanak under ‘Bharatmala Pariyojana’ Phase-I as a part of year-long commemoration of 400th Prakash Purb of Ninth Sikh Guru Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved waiver of fee for Change of Land Use (CLU) and several other charges for Satsang Bhawans established, or to be established in future, by Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) across the state.

NEW DELHI:Nine stolen laptops, three Apple Tabs, Nine mobile phones, dozens of laptop bags and other electronic articles was the recovery made by the Delhi Police from four members of 'Gulel gang' arrested while tracking a case of car theft.

MUMBAI: Actor Aditya Seal recently got a chance to work with director Priyadarshan, and says that it was his wish to work with the veteran filmmaker for a long time.

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Wednesday clarified that there is no ban on referral of Covid patients to Bhubaneswar and Cuttack from other districts.

"Government is not banning movement of patients to Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. It's regulating to ensure that they travel safe and with proper medical advice and logistics," said Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has declared a public holiday on the occasion of 350th birth anniversary of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur ji on October 16, 2020.

A spokesperson of the Punjab government said that all the offices of Punjab government, boards, corporations and educational institutions would remain closed on the occasion.

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to weed out child labour, child trafficking, domestic and sexual abuse from the society, the Community Affairs Division of the Punjab Police in collaboration with NGO Bachpan Bachaho Andolan, on Wednesday organized an online training program on Child Rights and Child Protection for the officials of the Punjab Police investigating cases under POCSO Act and responsible for implementation of provisions of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.

CHANDIGARH: Accusing Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal to pursuing double standards over Union Government agriculture ordinances, Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that if you are genuinely sympathetic towards the interests of the farmers and Punjab then immediately break party's ties with the Modi government at the Center which was on the verge of destroying the farmers. He said that if SAD would not break its alliance with BJP and come out of the Union government then it could not run away from its responsibility to endorse this anti-farmer law.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Cabinet Ministers, MPs and MLAs have thanked the Union Road Transport Minister Mr. Nitin Gadkari for approving the National Highways Authority to make Rayya-Batala-Dera Baba Nanak road four lane in view of the strong demand of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

CHANDIGARH: Warning that the enactment of the farm ordinances would lead to resentment and unrest in the border state, which was already at the receiving end of Pakistan’s concerted efforts to foment trouble, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday led a Congress delegation to submit a memorandum to Governor VP Singh Badnore, seeking his intervention for non-pursuance of the Agriculture Bills by the Centre in Parliament.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced that the case of attack and murder involving cricketer Suresh Raina’s kin has been solved with the arrest of three members of an inter-state gang of robber-criminals.

Eleven other accused are yet to be arrested, DGP Dinkar Gupta said, giving details of the arrests in the case which took place on the night of 19th August in Village Tharyal of PS Shahpurkandi, District Pathankot.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday appealed to farmers not to stop traffic or violate Section 144 in the state over the Agriculture Bills, but made it clear that no cases would be registered against them for violation of Section 144 as they were fighting for their lives.