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AAP candidate lost to congress from zone Sandhwan,the native village of The speaker. We are not like the AAP party which come and win on a tide and then cheat the electors by false promises unkept so far.We are grounded so that is why we have defeated the AAP candidate from the speaker's bastin," Ajaypal Singh Sandhu, congress Halqa incharge of Kotkapura assembly segment. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbir singh brar@gmail com The results of the 10 seats of the zila parishad and 65 block samitis in the district are not as they may have been expected the APP,which rode on the emotions of the common man to give a change, abandoning the VIP culture, running the government from the villages, eliminating drugs,bringing the culprits of sacrilege behind the bars and changing...

The counting will start at 8 am on December 17 at three centers at designated places in the three subdivisions. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot “All the arrangements for the counting of votes for Zila Parishads and Block Samitis are complete and all the concerned officers have been deputed at the three counting stations, at Nehru Stadium Faridkot,Dr Hari Singh Sewak senior secondary school Kotkapura and University college Jaitu.The counting will start at 8 am at these respective counting centers established in the three subdivisions,” said Punamdeep Kaur,DC cum district election officer Faridkot. “Strict security arrangements have been made by cordoning off the counting centers and no unauthorized persons shall be allowed to enter the counting centers. We are committed to compl...

“The factory in question has been found to be injecting untreated effluent into deep aquifers,leading to an irreparable ecological loss,impact on human health and death of cattle-ED. The factory is allegedly being owned by a former Akali leader and liquor manufacturer. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Edmail:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com The Malbros international against which the Sanjha Morcha Zira has been protesting and fighting legal cases, faced more trouble as the Jalandhar Zone of enforcement directorate(ED) allegedly provisionally attached its property worth Rs 79.93 crore. The attached property worth Rs 79.93 crore includes plant,machinery,land and building allegedly owned by the Malbros international private limited located at village Mansoorwala of Ferozepur district. ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Faridkot district has even less than 50 per cent of the turnover of the voters, at about 48 percent according to the official release of the district press relation officer on Sunday. “But voting has  crossed over 52.47 percent. First of all,there was bad weather. The foggy day hit the arrival of the voters to the polling booths. Then,what are the functions of the Block Samiti members and the members of the Zila Parishad, the outgoing members have failed to tell the people what was there their duties and what have they done. Even MLAs and Sarpanches have failed to describe the role of the members of the block samitis and zila Parishads.Theis the tier two and three system connecting the village panchayats and uppermost bodies for the development...

The wife killed her husband with conspiring her lover, the duo had already been arrested while the third accused has been arrested Friday. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Faridkot police on Friday, six days after the murder of Gurwinder Singh,30,a private bank employee who was allegedly murdered by her wife and her lover, have claimed to have arrested the third accused Vishavjeet in the case. “We are under intense pressure of the media and society and are accountable to those for transparency. We want to tell you that we have tried our best to crack the case of the murder which was allegedly passed as a dacoity by the main accused, Rupinder Kaur, the wife of the deceased. We had on the first day arrested Rupinder Kaur and when she was confronted with the questions regarding...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Blinded by lust, instead of love, the woman cruelty got her husband killed with the help of his accomplice, law soon catches up and both the accused have been arrested by the police. The district police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the case of murder of Gurvinder Singh,30, a man from village Sukhan Wala of Faridkot. The murder had been reported on the intervening night of November 28/29. It was reported to the police that some robbery had taken place at the house of the victim and the robbers had allegedly killed Gurwinder Singh. The Sadar police had registered a case of murder in this regard on the complaint of Manvir Kaur,the sister of the victim. “The thorough investigation had been started in the case immediately after the incid...

 A PATH TO AWARENESS ON HIV/AIDS WORLD AIDS DAY 2025  A PATH TO AWARENESS ON HIV/AIDS Punjab Express Bureau Faridkot December 4,2025                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ms. Renu / Ms. Pushpa Rani Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco, had recommended the date of 1 December that believing it would maximize coverage of World AIDS Day by western news media, sufficiently long following the US elections but before the Christmas holidays. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a ...

“This is the duty of the procurement agency to procure the produce, farmers need to be educated-Bohar Singh Dhaliwal-District president of BKU Sidhupur Ekta,Faridkot. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The most disputed issue between the farmers and the procurement agencies is the moisture content. If it is within the limits of the purchase,ie,17 per cent in the paddy, it would be procured. But the big question mark pops up here, who would decide that the produce has not more than 17 per cent moisture? The simple question is that,practically, it would be allegedly the rice miller who would finally decide whether to buy this product or not. There are the three parties to check the moisture of the paddy brough to the market, first of all the market committee, which checks the moistur...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The much lower yield of the paddy crop outgoing season, mass migration of the youth to the foreign countries and online sale by business giants cast a shadow on the local ,particularly small business. “Earlier, we had customers visiting our shops from morning to the evening, but now its irregular.On some days, there a lot of rush of the customers and on others, there is not at all.Sometimes, we don't have any time to have food, but some days,someone may wonder how would he arrange for his food as there is no customer,”said a shopkeeper from Kotkapura to own of the district. “As I am in the business of cosmetics, it is more impacted.The youth,our main source of income has left for other countries and middle aged or elders are back here.They have n...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot There was Rs 70 per quintal increase in the MSP of paddy for the procurement season of 2025 and by this way,if a farmer harvests about 30 quintal paddy from an acre on an average,he could expect a profit of about Rs 2100 from an acre of his crop. But what he has got now,is loss ranging between Rs 25000 and Rs 10000 per acre depending upon the quality of soil,irrigation,control of diseases and pests,time of transplantation apart from the varieties,long and medium duration. “I had never expected my paddy less than 30 quintals it it is always around it,but this year,I got only 20 quintals of paddy yield from my fields.It led to to a loss of about Rs 24000 per acre,” claimed a farmer Jaswinder Singh from a Faridkot village. “From my about 30 acres...