Punjab Newspaper

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Dr. Ashwini Kumar, Minister of State for Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, said that despite the turbulences in the global economy, our country remains a good story to tell “It is a song that every Indian must sing”. He was addressing the trade delegates at Pravasi Bharatiya divas in Chennai today. [...]

The Punjab Government has constituted a six-member High Powered Committee for the implementation of agriculture programme under the Chairmanship of Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal.  
Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Punjab Government said that the other members of the committee would be the Agriculture Minister Sucha Singh Langah, Animal Husbandry [...]

Giving a major relief to the Punjab farmers reeling under the burden of rural debt, the Government of India has approved a financial package of Rs.1044 crore thereby conceding the long pending demand of the state government.
Addressing the media persons, Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh at the outskirts of the Dhuri during [...]

The 11th meeting of the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Board held here under the Chairmanship of the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today has approved the finalization of the boundaries of Mullanpur local planning area.
Disclosing this here today, [...]

The Punjab Government in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed to float a loan of Rs. 243.36 crore of ten years tenure and auction of the loan would kept open on November 16, 2006.
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Storming into the stronghold of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the Malwa belt, with a battle cry to wipe out Akalis from this region, Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today took Mr.Parkash Singh Badal heads on with a sole massage of development, long lasting peace and communal harmony, on the 3rd day of the [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today announced to upgrade Nangal sub tehsil to sub division with immediate effect thereby conceding the long pending demand of the residents of the Nangal Assembly constituency and exempted VAT on the Langar (community kitchen) commodities/items supplied in Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, Takhat Sri Dam Dama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo [...]

The Punjab Govt. would provide financial aid to the World-War-II veterans also as other war veterans were also being provided financial aid to the tune of Rs. 50.00 lac every year by the Small Savings Department.
Disclosing this here today, Brig.J.S. Jaswal, Director Sainik Welfare Punjab said that [...]

Language Department has made history by becoming the first Government department in Panjab to get its manuscripts section digitized by formally initiating a digitization project in collaboration with SAS Nagar based NGO, The Nanakshahi Trust. The project commenced on 13 June, 2006 commemorating the 400th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Arjan Sahib whose life and [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh alongwith Punjab Pradesh Congress President Shamsher Singh Dullo and his party colleagues would start the “Punjab Vikas Yatra” from Nangal via Sri Anandpur Sahib to Talwandi Sabo on Guru Gobind Singh Marg from 8 th to 12th November, 2006.
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Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today announced that state Government would soon convene a massive rally of ex-servicemen to implement the remaining welfare measures for the well being of the ex-servicemen and serving defence personnel who had brought glory to the State through their unparalleled valour.
Addressing a gathering of ex-servicemen after honouring Hony Capt [...]

Shiromani Akali Dal today alleged that there was a deep rooted ‘eve of election’ conspiracy by the “unholy nexus between the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and ‘the maverick faction leader’ Simranjit Singh Mann to disturb the hard earned peace and amity in the state in order to divert [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today announced to extend the ‘Ashirwad Scheme’ for the daughters of the economically poor Muslims on the auspicious occasion of Id-ul-Fitr.
Addressing a religious congregation after joining the mass prayer offered by the Muslim brethren in the Eidgah, Capt. Singh expressed his warm greetings and prayed to Allha to shower [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today underscored the need to adopt a two pronged strategy to strengthen the industrial as well as the agriculture base of the state to commensurate with the national growth rate of 8% and hoped that Punjab was all set to achieve this through its unique initiatives to boost industrialization [...]

The Punjab Government has released an amount of Rs. 20.03 Crore for the payment of honorarium to 33397 Nambardars of the state for the current financial year. This honorarium would be paid from 1st April, 2006, @ 500 Rs. per month to the Nambardars.
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Shiromani Akali Dal General Secretary Captain Kanwaljit Singh today dismissed the Punjab Finance Minister Surinder Singla’s remarks about the wastage of precious public funds on political propaganda by the ruling party as “ridiculous and wildly irrelevant. Mr. Singla is neither the Chief Minister nor the minister in charge of the department issuing the controversial advertisements. [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today announced to waive off the market fee on the timber with immediate effect thereby conceding the long pending demand of the timber merchants in the state on the auspicious occasion of Vishwakarma Day.
Presiding a State level [...]

Shiromani Akali Dal President Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today demanded a CBI probe into the Rs. 350 crore purchase of coal by the Punjab State Electricity Board. Holding the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh squarely guilty of direct involvement in the scam, Mr. Badal said that such massive corruption was one of the main [...]

Air Slovakia has been bought over by a Punjabi NRI, Harjinder Singh Sidhu. The first flight would be landing in Amritsar tomorrow.
A totally Punjabi airline, the ground as well as air crafts would be speaking Punjabi. Immigration forms shall be in Punjabi and so would be the dress and food in the flight. The entire [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh here today unveiled the statue of Shaheed Hav.Joginder Singh Ashok Chakra of 2nd Sikh Battalion who laid down his life on 24th April 1956 during a mission to capture a post at Naga hills from Naga terrorists. While paying glorious tributes to the martyr at a simple but an [...]

The famous wadali brothers, singers of the Sufi tradition have been injured in a road accident. Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today expressed heart felt sympathies with ‘Wadali Brothers’ – famous Sufi Singers, Sh. Puran Chand Wadali and Sh. Piyare Lal Wadali who were injured along with other five musicians of their troop in [...]

Taking a serious view of the suspected dengue fever cases being reported in the region, the Punjab Government has chalked out an extensive strategy to tackle any situation arising out of dengue fever in the state.
Addressing a high level meeting of the officers of the Health Department here today, Mr. Surinder Singla, Health & [...]

Two-day seminar on the state of School Education in Rural Punjab began here on the premises of Institute of Sikh Studies in which papers on reasons for the collapse of school Education in rural Punjab and efforts to rejuvenate this important system were discussed and debated.
In the inaugural address presented by Dr Kharak Singh, [...]

Shiromani Akali Dal President Mr.Parkash Singh Badal today committed his party to the setting up of a separate department for the monitoring and removal unemployment from the state when the SAD-BJP alliance formed a government in the state.
Talking to media persons during his tour of the Mahilpur Vidhan Sabha Constituency this afternoon, Mr.Badal said that [...]

Reiterating its opposition to the setting up of the Punjab Vigilance Commission, The Shiromani Akali Dal today questioned the propriety of the appointment of the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh long-time person Justice Amar Dutt (Retd.) as the state Vigilance Commissioner. The party also declared that the vigilance commission would be abolished as soon [...]