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Punjab: SIT to probe undertrial's escape from Bathinda jail

Bathinda, Oct. 6 -- A four-member special investigation team (SIT) has been constituted to analyse the lapses after an undertrial escaped from the high-security Bathinda Central Jail on September 27. ... Read More


Farmers worried as rain likely to delay paddy harvesting in Malwa

Bathinda, Oct. 5 -- 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


Punjab: Gurpreet lone wolf, had no handler, say investigators

Bathinda, Oct. 3 -- The 19-year-old law student from Bathinda's Jeeda village, Gurpreet Singh, who is in jail for assembling explosives in his grandmother's room on September 10, had no handler and th... Read More


High-yield hopes bring cheer to Malwa cotton farmers

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, an... Read More


Burglary accused escapes from high-security 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 eve... Read More


Punjab: 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 fr... Read More


Bathinda twin blasts: Bomb disposal teams struggle with explosive residue cleanup

Bathinda, Sept. 15 -- Four days after twin blasts rocked a house at Bathinda's Jeeda village, leaving a father-son duo severely injured, the bomb disposal squad is facing an uphill task in removing re... Read More


Bathinda blasts result of mishandling explosives by radicalised man: Police

Bathinda, Sept. 13 -- The two blasts, which took place in a farmer's house in Bathinda's Jeeda village on Wednesday, were the result of the farmer's 19-year-old "radicalised" son mishandling come chem... Read More


Small hive beetle's attack stings Punjab's beekeeping sector

Bathinda, Sept. 8 -- The small hive beetle, an invasive honey bee predator species native to sub-Saharan Africa, has been detected in several parts of the state in the last two weeks, ringing alarm be... Read More


Punjab's shrimp farmers caught in the US tariff hike net

Bathinda, Aug. 30 -- With the harvest season round the corner, shrimp farmers in Punjab, already struggling to make the crop economically viable, now find themselves in troubled waters after the US go... Read More