Bathinda, Oct. 19 -- Bathinda is emerging as a food-testing hub with three laboratories at government-run institutions catering to the testing requirements of food businesses, agricultural firms and s... Read More
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
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, 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
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
Bathinda, Sept. 14 -- Taking a cue from carrot growers in the adjoining Sriganganagar district in Rajasthan, progressive horticulturists in the Abohar area are earning well from rabi crop diversificat... Read More
Bathinda, Aug. 24 -- A group of progressive farmers from Abohar in Fazilka district are elated over their maiden harvest of dates, raising hopes for the potential of cultivating the "desert fruit" in ... Read More
Bathinda, Aug. 19 -- Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, has suspended nearly 200 administrative wing employees after suspicions were raised over their appointments. According ... Read More
Bathinda, Aug. 11 -- Four months after hardliner Amritpal Singh Mehron was deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allegedly killing Ludhiana-based digital content creator Kanchan Kumari, pop... Read More
Bathinda, Aug. 10 -- Having suffered repeated losses from failed cotton crops over the past four years, a group of farmers in two agriculture blocks of Bathinda are now pinning their hopes on groundnu... Read More