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Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead, day after Punjab govt withdrew security in Mansa village

CHADIGARH: Singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu aka Sidhu Moose Wala, who had contested the Punjab assembly elections earlier this year as a Congress candidate, was shot dead near Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday evening.

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Punjab: Kisan forum debates challenges facing farm & rural growth

BATHINDA: A meeting of the 'Kirti Kisan Forum' comprising former IAS, IPS, provincial services and Army officers was held on Wednesday to discuss the challenges facing agriculture and rural development in Punjab and to find possible solutions. The discussions centered round reasons for falling groundwater level, crop diversification, minimum support…

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Pawan Kumar Bansal, Punjab ex-CM Charanjit Singh Channi, now Vijay Singla: Nephew link to graft cases

BATHINDA: The arrest of recently sacked Punjab health minister Vijay Singla and his OSD Pardeep Kumar is the third instance in the last nine years wherein a nephew of the embattled politician has turned out to be a vital link to alleged corruption.

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Punjab: PSPCL team held hostage, 3 booked

BATHINDA: In a second such case in Barnala district within a few days, a PSPCL team was held hostage on Thursday and allegedly beaten up at Sehna village when it had gone to check power theft. The team head, junior engineer Vikrant Shah sustained injuries and has been admitted at…

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‘In 2 months of AAP govt, 27 indebted farmers killed self’

BATHINDA: Farmers’ political front Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) has stated that 27 indebted farmers committed suicide in Punjab in the last two months after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formed the government.

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3 close aides of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi nabbed from Punjab's Bathinda

CHANDIGARH: Three close-aides of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and Canada-based criminal Goldy Brar were arrested from Bathinda, the Punjab Police said on Sunday. The arrests were made by the anti-gangster task force (AGTF) of the Punjab Police.

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Power crisis: 16 farm organisations to protest on May 2

BATHINDA: 16 farm organisations of Punjab, part of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, have decided to hold protests at the offices of Executive Engineers of Punjab state power corporation and Water Resources on May 2.

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Punjab: 3 buses gutted in fire in Bathinda, leaving one dead

A bus conductor was burnt alive after three buses caught fire that broke out on Thursday night at a bus stand in Bathinda. Read details on Dynamite News:

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Wheat arrivals fall drastically in Punjab

BATHINDA: Even before the amount of wheat procured in Punjab could reach close to 100 lakh metric tonnes, the crop’s arrival has gone down drastically in the state’s mandis, signalling that wheat purchase targets would not be met this year.

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2 lab technicians booked in Bathinda for giving HIV-positive blood to patient

BATHINDA: Seventeen months after transfusion of HIV-positive blood to a patient, the police on Wednesday registered a case against two medical laboratory technologists (MLT) posted at the Bathinda civil hospital.

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Punjab: Agricultural bank issues arrest warrants for loan default, farm outfits oppose

BATHINDA/FEROZEPUR: With reports of Punjab state cooperative agricultural development bank (PADB) preparing to make recovery of unpaid crop loan amounts from farmers and even preparing to issue arrest warrants after obtaining these from courts, farmer groups have started coming to fore to oppose such moves.

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Punjab: Two debt-ridden farmers in Bathinda commit suicide

BATHINDA: Two indebted farmers from Bathinda district ended their lives on Tuesday night, prompting claims by BKU Ekta Ugrahan that both the suicides were linked to loss of yield in wheat.

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Punjab: 3 AAP functionaries face action for workers’ protest

BATHINDA: AAP workers who had been protesting outside the residence of Punjab minister Baljit Kaur in Malout since Sunday, finally ended their protest on Monday afternoon, after the latter promised them a meeting with the party’s high command within 10 days.

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SGPC member expelled from SAD for defending Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

BATHINDA: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Member Baldev Singh Chungha, who had stated that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann not seemed drunk when he paid obeisance at Takhat Damdamda Sahib on Baisakhi, has been expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

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Gurdwara committee asks Punjab CM Mann to apologise for violating 'maryada'

Sukhbir Badal alleged that Mann visited the Takht Damdama Sahib in Bathinda under the influence of liquor

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Farmers spy corporatisation bid behind Niti Aayog member’s agri reforms push

Bathinda: Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand assertions that repeal of farm laws was a setback to achieving higher prices by cultivators has irked the farmers in Punjab. The farm groups claim that Chand’s assertions clearly point towards the Centre’s behind the scene diplomacy and efforts to bring back laws in…

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Protesters end Bathinda-Amritsar national highway blockade after assurances of probe

BATHINDA: After assurances of time-bound investigations into Behbal Kalan killings and cases of sacrilege and seeking three days to apprise them in how much time the probe will be completed by the special investigation team (SIT), the protesters ended the blockade of Bathinda-Amritsar national highway on late Wednesday night.

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Punjab: Border school gets AC, auditorium

BATHINDA: A government school at Chananwala village barely 3 kilometres from the Pakistan border has witnessed a turnaround and become Punjab’s first air-conditioned campus with auditorium.

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Punjab education minister faces his 1st protest at Barnala home

BATHINDA: In less than three weeks of formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab, the first protest pertaining to the education sector took place on Sunday, outside the residence of education minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer in Barnala.

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Man ends life in lock-up, probe ordered

BATHINDA: Bathinda police have initiated department inquiry against cops of Nathana police station in a case of suicide by a theft accused. The inquiry has been marked against sub-inspector Sukhwinder Singh, SHO of the police station, ASI Gurdev Singh and head constable Nirmal Singh.

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In 55 years, no election of this kind in Punjab

BATHINDA: With the 2022 elections different from all other Punjab polls since 1966, the border state is ready for a new political script. After 55 years of bipolar contests where two sides played the government alternately (2012 being an exception when the Shiromani Akali Dal retained power), 2022 was the…

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BKU protest in Bathinda against Russia’s ‘attack on humanity’

BATHINDA: Farmer union BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) on Thursday held a protest here against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling it “an attack on humanity” and “responsible for deaths and displacement”. The union also accused the central government of failing to mount a timely rescue of Indian students stuck in Ukraine…

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BKU appeal makes little impact in rural seats in Malwa

BATHINDA: The high voter turnout in Punjab’s Malwa region has pepped up the morale of political parties, but has also revealed that people might not have paid much heed to farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan)’s appeal to stand against electoral politics.

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4 Amritsar & Ludhiana seats record less than 60% turnout, 11 in Malwa over 80%

BATHINDA: The four assembly segments recorded the polling percentage at less than 60% which is much lower than the overall percentage of 71.95% in Punjab in the February 20 assembly elections. Against this, the 11 assembly segments recorded polling percentage at or over 80% which is at least 8% more…

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Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi calls Bhagwant Mann 'drunkard and illiterate person'

BATHINDA: The political sphere in poll-bound Punjab heated up as Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi called Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann a "drunkard and illiterate person".

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