Despite Mosul massacre, Iraq still a draw for Punjab's jobless youthMany travel without valid papers, they said, calling for a strict enforcement of a licencing system to check the mushrooming of illegal tra...
Pol sops: Parties not looking beyond victory, say economistsThe economists also said that political outfits were playing "politics of polarisation" by offering freebies like sugar, ghee at low prices.
Punjab farmers unhappy with Union Budget"As far as crop diversification is concerned, this budget has not offered anything to the state," an economist RS Ghuman said.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal orders probe into eye camp tragedyBadal has also announced an interim relief of Rs 1 lakh to each of the affected families, whose members have lost eyesight in the tragedy.
- Beas river- turning into dumping site for hotels and others
River Beas, once considered sacred, has now turned into a source of dumping garbage and other waste material which has posed threat not onl...
Dumping of muck by hydro power projects near rivers poses big hazard in Himachal PradeshAnand Bodh Muck generated by hundreds of hydro power projects in Himachal Pradesh is being dumped along river beds, which has disturbed the...
- NREGA's non-existent impact on migrant labourers
Everyone agrees that the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS is causing a shortage of agricultural labour. Everyone , except the workers themselves.
- Chilli time for Punjab farmers
A well-known market for chillies before and even after partition Bhikhiwind and Kalra town in the newly formed district Tarn Taran has been...