Crisis Looms
India is once again staring at the prospect of a reduced wheat harvest as above-average temperatures threaten the winter-sown crop.
India is once again staring at the prospect of a reduced wheat harvest as above-average temperatures threaten the winter-sown crop.
Amidst the ongoing decisive action against drug traffickers and illegal encroachments, Jalandhar Rural Police, in coordination with local authorities, have demolished unauthorised structures built on the encroached panchayat land in Khanpur and Mandi villages of Phillaur.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann unequivocally said on Sunday that gangsters, smugglers, criminals, and other anti-social elements have no place on the sacred land of Punjab and that they would soon be wiped out from the state.
On the afternoon of 5 February 2025, a US military aircraft landed at Amritsar’s Shri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport, carrying 104 Indian immigrants who had entered the United States illegally.
Police said that gangster Maxi, a native of village Rodala in Rajasansi Amritsar, is an operative of foreign-based terrorist Goldy Brar and gangster Goldy Dhillon and was operating an extortion racket on their behalf.
In a meeting chaired by CAQM chairperson MM Kutty, the plan was discussed for paddy crop residue management in respect of the coming kharif harvesting season in Punjab.
The Chief Minister said that the sale of sand will happen only till sunset and a government official will always be present to regulate the extraction of sand at each public mining site.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday said it has recently carried out search operations in 10 different places in Punjab in connection with the recovery of arms and drugs cases.
A spokesperson of the PWRDA said the user will be entitled for water conservation credits for the water conserved by it.
CM said the sole aim of this step is to enable the students of the government schools to compete with their convent educated peers and excel in life.
