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The union announces to shut up the branches of the bank in 10 districts on May 11. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot May 2,2026. Bank manager remains elusive for his version despite all possible communications by this reporter. The banks allegedly forced the farmers to hand them over blank cheques-Jagjeet Singh Dallewal. The farmers are sued for unhonoured cheques-Dallewal. DC,SSP expressed their inability to recover the blank cheques retained by the banks-Dallewal. When property worth Rs 50 lakh is pledged,why force farmers hand over the bank the blank cheques-Bohar Singh. Even after the NOCs, farmers are dragged into the court-alleged Bohar Singh. The stage protest led by the Bhartia Kisan Union Sidhupur-Ekta outside the Punjab Agriculture Development Bank F...

Raghbir Singh Brar Email:raghbirsinghbrar.gmail.com Faridkot April 30,2026 DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur has instructed the concerned officials to further speed up the lifting and personally supervise the work.She said that over 99 percent produce arrived in the grain markets of the district has been procured and most of it has been lifted.The rest of the produce would be lifted soon," she said. The slow lifting has badly hit the small commission agents in the district who alleged that they were being ousted from their small business due to the alleged corrupt system. The system they speak about the policial nexus between the the contractors and local leaderships of the ruling party,which allegedly accommodates the big commission agents and leaves the small ones suffer...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot April 28,2026 Scene 1 A few days ago,I hired a motorcycle rehri to bring some construction material at home,two cement sheets and some iron. The owner of the motorcycle rehri was very hyper and he did not even pay attention to my address,but just got my phone no. Despite my explaining the way to my house from Kotkapura town, he continued to call me and even then went the wrong way. When he reached me, he was sweating."Uncle,give me a glass of cold water," he said. "Do you take some drugs," I asked, seeing his movements and hyperactivity. "Yes,I take the jeeb wali goli(Buprenorphine,taken as sublingual,usually to treat the symptoms of de addiction)," he said. "I would go to work on a combine harvester outside the ...

Despite so called procurement commencement from April 1,the procurement is still in doldrums by April 17. Raghbir Singh Brar  Faridkot  Though the statement had announced the procurement of wheat from April 1,when the harvesting is usually nowhere in sight,yet by April 17,it is in doldrums.The farmers wonder whether the produce would be lifted without any valucut or they have incur losses. principally,the union government, with alledly any impartiality, must announce the relaxation to all the states,hit by the bad weather before the procurement season assessing the damage in the standing crop. The bad weather had led to the lackluster,shivelled grains and other damage to the quality of the wheat grains,but both state government and union,woken up late in Punja...

Raghbir Singh Brar  Faridkot April 17,2026 The district police on Thursday claimed to have recovered a stolen long haul commercial truck.stolen from a petrol station two days before.The police said that it has arrested one Joga singh alias Jagga,a resident of Preet Nagar,Shimlapuri,Ludhiana. The accused,according to the police,has already 10 criminal cases againt him.He was reportedly a truck driver.He is being produced in the court and more leads are expected during his interrogation in the police remand.

Raghbir Singh Brar The Federation of Ahartia Association Punjab led by Vijay Kalra has said that it has postponed its strike due to the loss of the farmers because of the hailstorms and untimely rains. "We always stand by the farmers.Our farmers have suffered a huge loss due to the bad weather, so we have called off the strike.The state government is making some arrangements with the union government to sort out our problems.So far the time being, we stand by with our farmers and support the state in distress.We are still hopeful of our demands met by the concerned," said Vijay Kalra,speaking to the Punjab express.com.