Following registration of FIR, postmortem was conducted on deceased Shubhkaran Singh’s body in Patiala. His family will be given Rs 1 cr compensation & his sister a job in Punjab Police.
While farmers are demanding MSP of 50% higher than cultivation cost as per Swaminathan panel's report, ThePrint analysis finds this is already the case in MP, Punjab & Haryana.
Modi said the committee will also take decisions on promoting zero budgeting-based agriculture, evolving crop patterns as per the changing needs of India.
Nihangs have a long history of staying away from any opposition against the ruling dispensation. It remains an enigma why they were at the farmers’ protests.
In a conversation with ThePrint, to be telecast on 20 October, Captain Amarinder Singh hinted at resolution to farmers’ stir and talked about Punjab’s worsening security situation.
Two hundred farmers will go to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border everyday for the peaceful demonstration against farm laws, said Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Mahasangh national president Shiv K Kakka.
Thanks to Trump’s sudden decision to target India rather than any other country with massive tariffs, many things that ought to have been done earlier are now falling into place.
As devastated farmers begin to come to terms with the fallout, 4 lakh hectares of land under paddy cultivation across state is flooded. Punjab is among the biggest contributors to PDS.
Of the 40 Tejas Mk-1 aircraft ordered—comprising 16 IOC single-seaters, 16 FOC single-seaters & 8 twin-seat trainers—IAF has received 38 with two trainers yet to be delivered.
In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
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