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Pregabalin above 75 mg banned,no to songs promoting drugs or alcohol and objectionable posters in the district-Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur, exercising her rights under section 163 of BNS Sanhita, has imposed a ban on the sale of Pregabalin salt above 75 mg in any form of tablets or capsules. The painkiller, which is used to relieve the patients of spinal cord etc related pain, is being consumed as a drug by the drug addicts, it has been leant. "No chemist would sell any medicine which contains Pregabalin above 75 mg without the prescription of the registered medical practitioner. The chemist would also ensure that the prescribed drug is not purchased multiple times by the buyer. All the related information would be maintained by the chemist. What is Pregabalin (by Mayo Clinic) Pregabalin is used with other medicines to help control partial-onset seizures...

” Nasha Mukti Yatra”(drug free Punjab campaign) from May 7, no of beds in de -addiction centers increased from 50 to 200-Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot "Nasha Mukti Yatra"(drug free Punjab campaign) is going to be stared from May 7 in the district.During this campaign, three villages of the each assembly segment would be covered daily and concerned officers have been instructed to complete this task," said Punamdeep  Kaur,DC Faridkot,in a press release today. The campaign  has been launched by the Punjab government to educate the masses about the destructive effects of drugs and the families,victims and all related to the victim. "In each programme under this campaign, the village level people will be actively involved where the experts would deliver them the lectures about the bad effects of the drugs, apart from handling the victims, how to bring them out of the drug addic...

“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...

Illegal speed breakers come up recently on the connecting road between Kotkapura and Faridkot, may lead to road accidents, hundreds of commuters suffer daily

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Locals want to remove the speed brakers. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The allegedly illegal speed breakers which have come up about two months ago, near Kothe Mour outside a an Ashram, when the 15 KMS stretch of road , constructed under PM Gram Sadak Yojna,was being carpeted is leading to the suffering of the hundreds of commuters on the road daily. The road connects Kotkapura town to Faridkot district headquarters via Bir Sikhan Wala, Nathewala, and Chahal.. About hundreds of vehicles ply on this road daily. In the harvesting season, the number of vehicles increases considerably. Apart from it, on a particular date, each month, there is a mela at the place of Baba Kaka Mehar where thousands of devotees come to pay obeisance. “The people are suffering a lot due to these i...

Devi Wala village puts a united face to fully compensate the farmers whose crops gutted into the fire, help from NRIs pours in as well

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 Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Devi Wala village of Faridkot district has taken a unique initiative to compensate the farmers whose about 7 acres of standing wheat crop gutted into the fire on Friday night. “I had Saturday requested  Baba Kaka Singh to make an announcement to get together in the village Gurdwara Sahib so that some solution to compensate the affected farmers be found out. So We have taken this initiative so that our farmers could be compensated and be saved from the harsh conditions,” said Chamkaur Singh Sekhon, a retired lecturer from village Bir Sikhan wala. “As we all know that farmers Bohar Singh,Kuldeep Singh and one farmer Meet Singh from village Panjgrain Kalan suffered huge loss because their standing wheat crop gutted into the fire on Friday night du...

Ashwani Kapur, DIG Faridkot range holds a press conference along with the SSPs, GOs and others officers of 3 districts of the range on “War Against Drugs” Friday at Faridkot

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Shri Ashwani Kapur, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Faridkot Range, Faridkot, along with Shri Akhil Chaudhary, IPS, SSP, Sri Muktsar Sahib, Dr. Pragya Jain, IPS, SSP, Faridkot, and Shri Ajay Gandhi, IPS, SSP, Moga, at Ashoka Hall, Faridkot Raghbir Singh Brar Email:[email protected] Faridkot In compliance of the directions of Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Punjab, and Sh. Gaurav Yadav, IPS, Director General of Police, Punjab, Chandigarh, a campaign "War Against Drugs" has been initiated across the state of Punjab against those who consuming and smuggling drugs. Therefore, for reviewing and introducing the performance of "Faridkot Range Faridkot" in this campaign, a press conference was held today, April 11, 2025, by Shri Ashwani Kapur, IPS,...

Accused arrested for shooting a cow dead of roaming Gujjar family,revolver recovered-SSP Faridkot

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The Gujjar was allegedly had a cow herd of about 200 animals and when some animals allegedly entered into the fields of the farmer, he objected and it led to a heated exchange between the cow herd grazer and farmer. The enraged farmer allegedly fired a bullet which left a cow dead. Raghbir Singh Brar Taking a swift action on the complaint of one Sikander Khan son of Sharif Khan, resident of village Janta Wali of district Ganganagar, the Faridkot police have claimed to have arrested a farmer Jagdish Singh son of Tehal Singh, resident of Guru Nanak Colony Faridkot. The complainant had stated to the police that he would graze his cow herd of about two hundreds animals at vacant places roaming from place to place. He stated that when he was moving with his cow herd from village J...

3 arrested,four booked including the kingpin of cow smuggling gang, 18 cows rescued-SSP Faridkot Pragya Jain

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“The two among the arrested are truck drivers and the son of the kingpin of the cow smuggling gang who allegedly caught cows from nearby places,” Jasmeet Singh,SP investigation Faridkot. The kingpin of the cow smuggling gang has about 8 such cases registered against him besides one cheating in Bathinda and Faridkot-Faridkot police. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:[email protected] The Faridkot police have claimed to have arrested 3 accused in an attempted cow smuggling case, booked three unidentified persons besides the kingpin of the cow smuggling gang. The police have also seized a truck in which about 18 cows had been loaded to transport them allegedly for slaughtering. “The Faridkot police was informed by Mahant Gharib Das of Kotkapura, who is the gener...
Punjab Govt goes extra mile ; historic decision to check illegal mining

Punjab Govt goes extra mile ; historic decision to check illegal mining

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Chandigarh, March 26: Taking a historic decision to check the illegal mining in state, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday nod for the enactment of the Punjab Regulation of Crusher Units Act 2025. A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of the Council of Ministers held here under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister here at his official residence. The Cabinet have approved to bring this act in the ongoing session of the state assembly. This will strengthen the Department in regulating the activities of Crusher Units and Screening Plants which are engaged in processing of sand and gravel. This will in turn help in checking illegal mining operations in the state by promoting legal mining in the state. Gives consent to amend the Indi...