Bathinda connectivity hit as Flybig exits, Air Alliance scales down

Bathinda, Oct. 8 -- The connectivity from the Bathinda airport has been hit as a service provider shut down its operations while another reduced its flight days. Located at Virk Kalan village, the Bat... Read More

Farmers worried as rain likely to delay paddy harvesting

Bathinda, Oct. 6 -- Harvesting of paddy is likely to be delayed for at least four to five days after light rains and winds lashed the entire Malwa region in the wee hours of Sunday. Worried farmers sa... Read More

Hopes of a high-yield bring cheer to cotton farmers in Malwa

Bathinda, Oct. 2 -- : Experts and farmers are elated over the average yield of 1.5 quintals per acre in the first picking of cotton bolls. Cotton is generally harvested in three phases from a plant, a... Read More

44-yr-old Mansa man living on his mother's pension

Bathinda, Oct. 1 -- With no work or funds left at hand after being deported from the US in February, Amandeep Singh, 44, is banking on the monthly family pension of Rs 22,000 received by his mother. A... Read More

CCI to start cotton procurementat MSP from Oct 1 at 14 centres

BATHINDA, Oct. 1 -- The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), a central agency, will start purchasing the produce on minimum support price (MSP) at 14 locations in five districts of the semi-arid region ... Read More

Burglary accused escapes from Bathinda jail

Bathinda, Sept. 30 -- A 28-year-old man accused of burglary escaped from the high-security Bathinda Central Jail on Sunday. The accused, Tilak Raj, alias Kaku, was found missing during the Sunday even... Read More

Centre's in-principle approval to construct 300-bed trauma centre

BATHINDA, Sept. 29 -- The Union health and family welfare ministry has accorded an in-principle approval to construct a 300-bed trauma centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ba... Read More

Trial to start in Bathinda sessions court on Oct 9

BATHINDA, Sept. 26 -- Six days after rejecting the bail application of two vigilantes in the murder case of social media influencer Kanchan Kumari, 30, popularly known as Kamal Kaur Bhabhi, in Bathind... Read More

Paddy yet to arrive in south Malwa mandis

Bathinda, Sept. 24 -- A week after the procurement of non-basmati varieties commenced, most of the districts from the southern Punjab are yet to see its arrival in the mandis.Information gathered from... Read More

Southwest Punjab: Surge in unregulated solar tubewells raises groundwater concerns

India, Sept. 22 -- In a growing trend across southwest Punjab, farmers are increasingly installing solar-powered tubewells without seeking approval from the state government - a move that is raising s... Read More

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