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Raghbir Singh Brar  Faridkot  Under the instructions of DC Faridkot, Punamdeep kaur,the concerned officials of the food supply and market committee Kotkapura intercepted about four trollies loads of paddy being unloaded and stocked to two rice mills of the district, located in village Hari Naon. The sources said that the the one trolly load of paddy allegedly transpoted from Rajasthan was found being unloaded while three other trollies were waiting in queue. The DC Faridkot has ordered an inquiry into the matter and directed the police to register an FIR this regard. The district administration has further ordered the cancellation of thelicences  two rice mills accused of having been trying to indulge this malpractice.  ZIt is pertinent to mention that...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot  Faridkot SSP Dr Pragya Jain on Friday elaborated the achievements of Faridkot police where it has done alledly a remarkable work to eradicate the menace of drus by arresting about 820 accused under NDPS act by registering about 574 FIRs this regarding.  Pragya Jain,the SSP Faridkot presented it's report card counting all the achievements of district police since March to September this year during a demolition drive of an illegal construction by one Krishan Singh alias Kishi,under police station Sadak on Friday. The Faridkot police led by SSP Dr Pragya Jain along with other officials of police and civil administration demolished the allegedly illegal construction of the accused,who has,as per the police versions,9 cases registered againt him. ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot October 5,2025 Jal Jivan Bachao Morcha(JJBM) on Sunday expressed it serious concern on the finding of the sub soil drinking water reports of Faridkot in which Uranium and  Magnesium have been found much above the permissible limits in drinking water. The water supply and sanitation department Faridkot had allegedly taken five samples from the water from the equal number of hand pumps from the district in June. The testing report allegedly by the Regional Advance Water Testing laboratory SAS Nagar are stunning,particularly about the much higher contamination by Uranium. The permissible limit of Uranium in drinking water is only 30 microgram per litre while in Faridkot, it has been tested to be 31.92,112.25,69.17,38.92 respectively in the f...

*3773 metric tons of paddy has been procured till Wednesday evening-DC Farmers were also appealed not to burn stubble. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy Commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Thursday said that the government has fixed the moisture content of paddy for procurement at 17 percent and farmers should bring only dry paddy to the markets for simultaneous procurement of their produce. The Deputy Commissioner has instructed the officials to make the farmers as much aware as possible in this regard so that they do not face any problem while selling their crops in the markets. She said that till last evening, 4179 metric tonnes of paddy arrived in the district markets, out of which 3773 metric tonnes has been purchased. Of the paddy purchased by yesterday evenin...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab government has learnt to have released Rs 4 lakh to the family of Panna Lal,a mason who had died of an accident during his work about four years ago.He was registered with the labour departments Punjab and despite competing all the formalities, his widow was unable to get the amount she deserved.The wife of the deceased,Gogi had been running from pillar to post to get this ex gratia life cover for about four years.Thepunjabexpress.com has also carried a detailed story on it on September 11.Gagandeep,the son of law of Gogi said that the Rs 4 lakh has been credited to the account to the wife of the deceased on October 16.Kultar Singh Sandhwan speaker Punjab sabha visited our house today this regard,Gagandeep said.

Underlining that the paddy procurement is going on smoothly in the district, Deputy Commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur has said that most of the dry produce arrived in the grain markets of the district has been purchased by the government agencies."There was the total arrival of paddy about 282 MT out of which about 169 MT has been procured by the procurement agencies.Pungrain has been very much ahead of the other procurement agencies by purchasing 107 MT of paddy.The rest of the 56 MT of paddy has been purchased by other procurement agencies includinga marginal.puchase of 16 MT by private traders,"The DC has said in a press note issued to the media today.The DC appealed to all the farmers to bring only dry produce,within a limit of 17 percent moisture content so that the paddy procureme...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Bohar Singh Rupian Wala,district president of the BKU Sidhupur-Ekta on Saturday claimed that his union would make all arrangements of seeds,fertilisers and machinery to level the silt deposited fields and sowing the next wheat crop in flood hit areas of Punjab. “We are making all the arrangements to enable the flood hit farmers to sow the next wheat crop. Our union would provide all the best possible solutions to level the silt deposited fields and arrange for the wheat seeds and fertilizers,” said Bohar Singh Rupian Wala,district president of the BKU Sidhupur-Ekta coneining a special meeting of the union in Faridkot today. He further demanded Rs 1 lakh compensation for the damaged crops per acre by the floods and another Rs 1 lakh for preparing ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Umesh Garg,55,a commission agent,pesticides dealer and social worker has been elected the new president of Ahartia Association Kotkapura which has over 200 members.The election was held unanimously Friday and Garg was elected president of the association unopposedly . Each term of the president consists of two years.The election was held in the office of the Ahartia association Kotkapura in the presence of Birinder Singh Sandhwan,brother of Kotkapura MLA and speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha."The other office bearers would be elected later on and the newly elected president has assured all the commission agents to run their business very smoothly by coordinating with the district administration and the state government, "said Sanjay Mittal, former joint se...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Eemail:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com The three accused arrested in the case have multiple FIRs against them. There is a new normal in Punjab.The gangsters and police encounters. The story almost runs the same that the accused in police custody is taken to recover the weapon used in the crime ,he tried to avail of the opportunity and shot at the police, the bullet missed the target and in the retaliatory fire, the accused was shot in the leg. This perhaps happened in Faridkot second time. The first such incident occurred in village Bir Sikhan Wala and second happened on Friday, near village Sibian. The police said that it had arrested three accused including one Ramjot Singh of Moga in Rs 1 crore extortion case. They had been arrested for an...