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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot, 07 March 2026    Under the leadership of Dr. Pragya Jain, IPS, SSP Faridkot, Faridkot Police has achieved an important success in its ongoing campaign against anti-social elements by arresting a person who was misleading people by posing as a fake police officer. This information was shared by Sh. Jogeshwar Singh Goraya, SP (Investigation), Faridkot.    Faridkot Police achieved this success under the direct supervision of Sh. Avtar Singh, DSP (Investigation), Faridkot, in which the teams of CIA Staff Faridkot and Police Station Sadar Faridkot played an important role.    The arrested accused has been identified as Gurmangat Singh son of Baldev Singh, a resident of Village Rattakhera, District Fatehabad, Haryana...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot February 23,2026 The three images published courtesy,Shagan Kataria. Dharnas are a conflict between the corporators and common man-Jagjeet Singh Dallewal. They want to grab the natural resources,including land,and locals don't want to part with those-Dallewal. Not only the farmers,no voice of dissent is tolerated-Jawant Jass. The stage protests, mostly by the farmers outfits, are no longer allegedly allowed by the state. It may have two aims, to divide the different sections of the society on the one hand, to construct a narrative that the farmers' protests only disturb the public and they stage protests without any reason. There is allegedly a considerable population which has differences with the farmers on the issue,this inclu...

Locals thank Punjab chief  minister Bhagwant Mann for the project. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The long standing demand of the residents of Kotkapaura area people may get over soon as the state government has sanctioned Rs 15 crore pipe line project to solve the problem. Earlier, the disposed sewerage waste water was being carried through an old Nalla, which was in very bad shape and developed cracks and openings during the rainy season. Often choked by the weeds, it would get overflown and waste spilled over in the adjoining fields. Now, as per the press note by the district public relation office, the work of laying STP pipes is going to start on it soon. The STP pipes are estimated to cover over 5 KMS of its stretch, origination from sewerage treatment plant ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com District administration must ensure that all the groups/societies of the farmers must display that they are running CHC and these agricultural appliances are available with them for hiring. The state government has been providing subsidies for in –situ(a Latin word, meaning in the original place)  purchasing agricultural appliances/tools for crop residue management(CRM) for years now. The government provides a 50 per cent subsidy to the individuals who purchase such machinery as Paddy-balers,Super seeders,smart seeders, mulchers and many others. Going further, the state government provides upto 80 per cent subsidy to the cooperative societies and groups of the farmers who come forwards to buy such machinery...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot 50 years old Gogi,a resident of Kotkapura has been waiting for the Ex gratia life cover for her husband for about 5 years now. Her husband,  Panna Ram worked as a Masson and died accidentally when he fell from a roof installing a water tank on September 29,2020. An entry into the  DDR(daily diary report ) was made at the local police station and Gogi had submitted her claim with the Punjab Building and other construction workers’ welfare board, department of labour,government of Punjab. But till date, her long wait for Rs 4 lakh claim,according to her, has not ended. In the meantime, she said that one of her two sons also died of illness, which further pushed her into debt. “Gogi is my mother in law. After the death of her husb...

Earlier the drain was supposed to be reconstructed with a budget of Rs 7 crore which has not jumped over three fold,upto Rs 22 crore. The drain carries all waste water of Kotkapura town, with a population of over 1 lakh. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The 40 years old link drain which carries the sewerage water of Kotkapura town to a link drain, falling into Langhewala drain needs reconstruction. The drain runs about 5 kilometres along the Devi Wala to Kotkapura link road and has all the agriculture area on its left side. The drain not only damages the crops when it gets broken in the rainy season, but its leaking to the road also breaks the link road. Though some length of the drain has been cleaned, but yet is not all cleaned. The way of cleaning the small drain ...

More families would join soon-Bhai Sidhu. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Allegedly in a big jolt to the Akali Dal and AAP, more than 100 families from village Sikha Wala from Muktsar district have joined BJP. Sikhwala falls under the Lambi assembly constituency, earlier being represented by Parkash Singh Badal and now by Gurmeet Singh Khudian,who is cabinet minister in the Bhagwant Mann led AAP government. The village population is around 4500. This information was shared by senior BJP leader Bhai Rahul Singh Sidhu, who had been member Punjab Public Service Commission and Halqa In charge of Kotkapura assembly constituency from 2017 to 2022. “This is a set back to both the SAD which has been representing this constituency for decades...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur has said that Rs 719.40 crore online payment for the procured wheat has been made so far and there is no problem to any of the stakeholders,farmers,commission agents and labour in the sale of wheat. By Tuesday, 429999 LMT arrival of wheat had been recorded in the grain markets of the district and most of the wheat, about 423826 MLT, had been procured by the procurement agencies," the DC said. "I have instructed all the concerned procurement agencies and contractors to speed up the lifting of the filled up gunny bags from the grain markets of the district and soon, all the procured produce would be lifted.No laxity from any part would be tolerated," the DC said. It is pe...