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Jagjeet Singh Dallewal demands compensation for the wheat crop damaged by fires,hail storms and Karnal bunt

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Jagjeet Singh Dallewal,state president of the BKU Sidhupur Ekta on Tuesday demanded compensation for the wheat crop damaged by the fires,hailstorms and Karnal bunt disease in Muktsar and Fatehgarh districts. He said that farm fires have burned thousands of acres of standing wheat crop and at some places, untimely rains and hailstorms have also led to huge loss of the farmers. But the government has not initiated Girdawari to assess the damage so far,Dallewal said in a press note to the media today. He announced that SKM Non political would hold Dharnas at district headquarters in Punjab,Haryana and Rajasthan in this regard besides a thorough inquiry and compensation for the stolen agricultural ...

Main accused arrested with twenty-four hours in wife’s murder case-Jatinder Singh,DSP Kotkapura

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Kotkapura sub division police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested Jaspreet Singh alias Shaktiman, a resident of village Khara,under Sadar police station Kotkapura,who was the main accused in the murder case of his wife Gagandeep Kaur. The police had registered a case of murder and criminal conspiracy on the complaint of Baltej Singh, a resident of Kothe Bahman Wale on Monday against Jaspreet Singh, his brother Sukhwant Singh, father Mohinder Singh and mother Charanjeet Kaur under section 103(1),61 of BNS at Sadar police station Kotkapura. "We have arrested the main accused JAspreet Singh alias Shaktiman and shall nab others too soon. The police had taken swift action and registered a case and began investigation into the case soon after the murcer," ...

Rs 719.40 crore payments have been made to the farmers-Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur has said that Rs 719.40 crore online payment for the procured wheat has been made so far and there is no problem to any of the stakeholders,farmers,commission agents and labour in the sale of wheat. By Tuesday, 429999 LMT arrival of wheat had been recorded in the grain markets of the district and most of the wheat, about 423826 MLT, had been procured by the procurement agencies," the DC said. "I have instructed all the concerned procurement agencies and contractors to speed up the lifting of the filled up gunny bags from the grain markets of the district and soon, all the procured produce would be lifted.No laxity from any part would be tolerated," the DC said. It is pe...

Husband murders wife in village Khara of Faridkot district

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot In a self destruction move, Jaspreet Singh , a resident of village Khara, allegedly killed his wife Gagandeep Kaur,40 at about 8 AM on Monday. Jaspreet Singh alias Shaktiman, a Kabaddi player was married to Kaur about 17 years ago. "The accused wanted to sell earth from his land of which Gagandeep Kaur opposed. When they were both in the fields on Melka road, near Khara, a scuffle broke out between the two which led to the murder of the Gagandeep Kaur," said Jatinder Singh,DSP Kotkpura. The locals said that there was always a dispute between the families and when the husband wanted to sell earth which was higher, her wife opposed. The land in question was of the two brothers and their father. One of the brother of the accused lived in another ...

Monalisa(s),little black boys and the sad tale of the”Bahu-Betis” of an Eastern state in grain market Kotkapura

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My first hand account......... Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com While the grain market Kotkpaura is considered to be one of the largest markets in the state,like,maybe all, it also has a sad tale of poverty to tell. The herds of the small children,boys and girls,apart from the women, are seen roaming around in the market all day and night to lift some produce so that they can douse the fire of appetite burning their stomach. The intolerable,vulgar comments by the labourers,sometimes beatings by the farmers and abusive language of the Chaudhris of the ahartis is not strange to them. Their needs have made them strong enough to tolerate this all, as at least they have to survive.They always, in all season, give the farmers, Choudharis of th...

“War Against Drugs” district administration holds an awareness programme in Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot A district level awareness programme organised at Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot on Friday. “The war against drugs would continue until the drugs are eradicated from the state-Kultar Singh Sandhwan. “The awareness campaign would be more intensified against drugs-Gurdit Singh Sekhon. DC Faridkot Punamdeep kaur and SSP Pragya Jain attended the seminar. In a second step after registration of FIRs and arresting the drug pedlars,district administration on Friday organised an awareness programme at Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot, which was attended by Kultar Singh Sandhwan,Speaker Punjab VIdhan Sabha, Faridkot MLA Gurdit Singh Sekhon,DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur and SSP Faridkot Pragya Jain besides many others,including students and locals. Ac...

Alleged mismanagement by the government, undid 15 years efforts to save subsoil water in one step, leading to destruction of the natural resources, ie, subsoil water.

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab government has advanced the dates for paddy transplantation from June 10 last year to June1 by dividing the state into three zones for the upcoming paddy sowing season from June 2025. Now the farmers will be free to sow paddy from June 1 to June 9 in Punjab, at least ten days earlier. The government has taken this step to ensure that the procurement of the paddy now goes on smoothly and more window period be provided to sow wheat. The farmers often complained that if they start transplanting paddy from June 10 onwards, it matures in the second week of october. Those days are shorter,moist  and the weather is smoky because of which the produce does not lose its moisture content and remains unsold in the markets. But actua...

Farmers are buying seeds of long duration banned varieties from neighboring states, rice millers allegedly discouraging farmers not to plant PR-126,131 despite the assurance by state government.

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Farmers in the district allegedly buying the seeds of PUSA-44,Dogar Pusa and Peela Pusa from others states, which have been completely banned by the Punjab government. These varieties are of long duration, takes about 15 to 30 days more than the PR varieties recommended by the PAU Ludhiana, produce more stubble, need many sprays of insecticides and pesticides besides leading to the fast depletion of water table as they need more water. Though these varieties have been banned in Punjab, yet farmers are somehow buying those from neighboring states. “I am confused which variety should I choose. My commission agents from kotkapaura who has also a rice mill indirectly convey us a message that we should not choose PR ...

Farmers are the spine of Punjab’s economy, anndata can’t be left to fend on his own, Dr Baljit Kaur

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Minister Dr Baljit Kaur distributes Rs 6 lakh worth cheques as compensation to fire affected 20 farmer families, 480 kg wheat to each family, fodder for animals --Minister uses her two month's salary, cooperation from NRIs, villagers to help the farmers in need -Punjab govt to award compensation at Rs 18,500 per acre to farmers Extending a helping hand to the farmers of village Sotha and Duhewala, whose ripened wheat crop got charred few days ago, the Minister Dr Baljit Kaur today distributed cheque's worth Rs 6 lakhs to 20 farmer families. She made the onerous contribution using her salary of two months and with the help of villagers as well as the NRIs. Besides this, she also distrubuted 480 kg of wheat to each family along with fodder for a...

Yoga training classes in Faridkot daily, more and more people come to attend those-Punamdeep Kaur-DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Faridkot deputy commsioner Punamdeep Kaur has said that yoga training classes,under the flagship programme by chief minister Bhagwant Mann as “CM di Yogshala,are daily being held at vaious palces in the distict. These training classes are held free of cost. “Yoga classes in Faridkot are being held by trainer Chander Bhan at drug-deaddiction entre and at Kotkapura, the classes are being held in government school Surgapuri by trainer Kiran Rani,” said DC Faridkot. The classes are held from 4.30 to 5.30PM. Yoga coordinator in the district, Neha informed that 24 such Yoga traing classes are being held in the district at various places. “The yoga is very helpful for the patients of cervical, backpain, knee joint aches, diabetes, mental stress...