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*Sarpanches Serve Villages Day & Night, They Deserve Respect and Dignity: CM Bhagwant Singh Mann* *When Villages Progress, Punjab Progresses: CM Bhagwant Singh Mann* *Will Continue Taking People-Centric Decisions & Working for Public Welfare: CM Bhagwant Singh Mann* *No Shortage of Funds for Rural Development, Every Penny Must Be Spent Transparently: CM Bhagwant Singh Mann* *Development of Villages Is Key to Building a Prosperous & Rangla Punjab: CM Bhagwant Singh Mann* Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 24,2026 Reaffirming his government’s commitment to strengthening grassroots democracy and empowering village leadership, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday announced a five-fold increase in the honorarium of village Sarpanches, rais...

Admissions officially started from June 19 and continue till June 26. By June 24, the portal is showing temporary errors, no admission. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 24,2026 The Punjab admissions portal for undergraduate courses showing an error as a temporary technical problem and the students can not pay the fees to reserve their seats. It is pertinent to mention that the admission to the undergraduate courses has to be made through the state level portal. First, the applicants apply for the admission online on the portal and then the provisional merit list was displayed on June 15th. The final merit list was displayed on June 17th and then the applicants were offered seats. “First of all, the applicants apply online and opt about four colleges from the...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 21,2026 Pratham Sahai Gatka Akhara Ludhiana Wins Traditional CompetitionFaridkot, June 21, 2026: Under the aegis of the Gatka Association of Punjab, the Gatka Association District Faridkot celebrated the annual World Gatka Day by organising the "Virsa Sambhal Gatka Cup" at the old grain market here, in which the team of Pratham Sahai Gatka Akhara, Ludhiana, emerged victorious.Sharing this information, Talwinder Singh Ferozepur, General Secretary of the Gatka Association of Punjab, and Dr. Manjit Singh Dhillon, state Vice President and President of the Gatka Association District Faridkot, said that four boys' teams and one girls' team participated in the Gatka event. The competition was organised with the cooperation of Jathedar Baba Binod Singh G...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 17,2026 On Tuesday,the Punjab Chandigarh Journalist Union held a special meeting of its members at Kotkapura.  The meeting was held under the PCJU Kotkapura president Mohar Singh Gill and senior members Gurinder Singh Mehndiratta and Harpreet Singh. The union passed a resolution to accept the memership of new members to Kotkapura unit. "We have also decided to hold a seminar regarding the freedom of press soon.Some new members had applied for the membership and their requests have been accepted unanimously,"said Mohar Singh Gill. The new members were also handed over the ID cards of the union.  The union provides it own ID cards to the members which are provided by its head office Chandigarh.  A three member c...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 11,2026 Agriculture Department and was selling agricultural inputs from premises licensed only for pesticide business — a violation of Clauses 7 and 8 of the Fertiliser Control Order, 1985, and Section 3 and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian said that 140 quintals of illegal fertilisers could have devastated thousands of acres and harmed farmers financial interests. Chief Minister S. Bhagwant Singh Mann led Punjab Government will not allow any company or any person to compromise the quality of agricultural inputs in Punjab. Directing all Chief Agriculture Officers (CAOs) to intensify surprise inspections, S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian stated, “Violating the Fertiliser Control Order is a crime against our agrarian co...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 11,2026 The Government of India has selected Faridkot district for implementing fertilizer distribution through the Fertilizer Supply Application System (FSAS) as a pilot project. Under this initiative, farmers in Faridkot district will purchase fertilizers through an online portal.The Government of India is launching a portal called Framework for Fertilizer Sale (FFS), through which farmers will be able to purchase fertilizers. Training programs are being organized for both farmers and fertilizer dealers regarding the new system.As part of this initiative a workshop was conducted for fertilizer dealers from the Kotkapura and Jaito. Addressing the participants Dr. Gurpreet Singh, Block Agriculture Officer, Kotkapura explained that farmers will now...

The sub soil water is lowering each year,farmers are chasing it down and down. Raghbir Singh Brar Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Faridkot June 10,2026 Whatsoever the statics tell, but practically going by the version of the farmers, subsoil water in Punjab is alarmingly going down.The AAP led government's move to advance the paddy transplantation by 10 days or so, from June 5 onwards,instead of June 15 onwards earlier, is a hard blow to the precious source of sub soil water. The then Punjab government led by Captain Amarinder Singh had passed “The Punjab preservation of subsoil water act 2009” to save the depleting level of the ground water in 2009 and the farmers had allegedly accepted it too.Late transplantation of paddy yielded good results in changed weathe...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 9,2026 DC Faridkot Rahul Chaba said that International Yoga day is going to be observed at district level at Darbar Ganj at Faridkot on June 21. “The Punjab government has launched this programme to keep the people stay away from the drugs and keep physically fit.So, at the district level, the Yoga programmes are going to be held at three places in Jaitu,Kotkapura and Faridkot town.In Jaitu, it would be organised at Panchayati Gaushala at Jaitu,Lala Lajpat Rai Park at Kotkapura and at Darbar Ganj in Faridkot between 6 am to 7 am,” said Rahul Chaba, sharing this information with the media after taking stock about the preparation of International Yoga day. “The people would be trained in Yoga postures and they would be made to repeat these...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Navroj Singh, a student of the Dasmesh Public School Faridkot,who left for Canada after completing his senior secondary with medical stream, has topped the University of North British Columbia in his bachelor programme. Navroj Singh is the son of the senior journalist Nirmal Singh Sadnanwalia from Faridkot. He left India in 2021 and pursued a medical course.After the completion of the course,he got PR and then again joined bachelor degree course at the university of UNBC,where he topped the university. He is doing a job in mental health at a government hospital in Canada. “We are proud of him.He was very intelligent and always confined to his studies.When he left for abroad on study permit, he did not seek any consultants' help.He explored ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The farmers,backed by Bharti Kisan Union Sidhupur Ekta ,have been spearheading a campaign against the Punjab Land mortgage bank Faridkot allegedly due to some arbitrary actions of the bank. The stage protest began after two brothers from village Hari Naoun committed suicide by jumping against a train. “Our protest began on March 30 and till date,it has reached at about 70th day.We have received about 139 complaints from the farmers against the bank.Now we are going have a meeting at higher level tomorrow,’ said Bohar Singh Dhaliwal,district president of BKU Sidhupur Ekta. “The bank retains the cheques from the farmers who avail the loans from it.We want to get all pre signed cheques back. Next, some of the farmers had allegedly paid off t...