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Cabinet hikes fertiliser subsidy to keep costs down

New Delhi, April 9 -- The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared Rs.41,534 crore towards nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy for the summer-sowing season, raising it ... Read More


Arhtiyas call off strike after Mann assures talks with Centre

Chandigarh, April 9 -- Commission agents (arhtiyas) in Punjab on Wednesday called off their strike, citing solidarity with farmers whose wheat crop has been damaged by recent rainfall and hailstorms a... Read More


Arms smuggling ring busted in Amritsar, four held with 7 pistols

AMRITSAR, April 9 -- The commissionerate police, Amritsar, has busted a cross-border illegal arms smuggling module with the arrest of four persons, including a juvenile, and recovered seven sophistica... Read More


Rain, hail delay harvest, farmers stare at losses

Bathinda/Sangrur/Jalandhar/Ludhiana, April 9 -- With the harvest festival of Baisakhi just five days away, unseasonal rain, hailstorms and high-velocity winds have flattened the standing wheat crop, d... Read More


West Asia conflict chokes fertiliser supply, farming sector on the edge

Ludhiana, April 9 -- Even as tensions between Iran and the US in the Middle East have eased temporarily with a two-week pause in hostilities, agriculture experts have raised concerns over India's heav... Read More


Centre hikes fertiliser subsidy for kharif season to keep costs down

New Delhi, April 9 -- The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared Rs.41,534 crore towards nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy for the summer-sowing season, raising it ... Read More


State govt seeks Centre's help as rains hit wheat on 35L hectares

Chandigarh, April 9 -- Punjab agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Wednesday urged the Centre to immediately send a high-level team to assess the damage caused to wheat and other rabi crops b... Read More


Pargat calls govt's sacrilege law move 'misleading'

Chandigarh, April 9 -- Congress MLA from Jalandhar Cantt Pargat Singh has raised concerns over the Punjab government's intent to deliver justice in sacrilege cases, terming its proposed legislative mo... Read More


State to extend young entrepreneurs programme for students of class 9, 10

Chandigarh, April 9 -- The Punjab government, which introduced entrepreneurship as a graded subject for classes 11 and 12 students, is now expanding the programme to classes 9 and 10 in government sch... Read More


Will distribute wheat, fodder to affected farmers: Sukhbir

Chandigarh, April 9 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday directed party's halqa incharges and district presidents to help distressed farmers whose standing wheat cro... Read More