Punjab Mandis

A newly-wed couple in Punjab was in for a pleasant surprise when Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi stopped his vehicle to greet them. He spotted the couple in Mandi Kalan village during his visit to Bathinda.

Twelve workers sustained burns when molten iron fell on them after a sudden boil in a furnace of an industrial unit in Mandi Gobindgarh in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib, police said on Friday.

Social activist Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday said if ''mandis'' are closed due to the Centre's new agri laws the farmers of Punjab and Haryana will be ruined as the government would no longer procure their crops.

Over 160 lakh tonnes of paddy has arrived in Punjab mandis till Tuesday in the kharif season, which is 26 per cent higher over arrival in the corresponding period of last procurement season.

The procurement of paddy has begun in Punjab with over two thousand new ''mandis'' created to ensure COVID-19 protocols are maintained, said Food and Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Sunday.

Two major food grain producing states have started buying wheat and pulses from farmers amid the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, but the volume and pace of procurement is slow. In Punjab, farmers are yet to harvest 70 per cent of wheat crop. The grain markets or mandis in the state have been mostly empty for the last two days, though the gover...

The CBI also registered cases against four directors of Agro Tech Company in Gurdaspur Mandi and a private firm in Pathankot.

Just over a year after a powerful blast in a car in Maur Mandi town left seven persons dead, Punjab Police was said to be close to cracking the case and hinted at a connection with controversial Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Eight people, most of them teenagers, were killed today after being run over by a truck on the highway at Bhucho Mandi area in Bathinda, police said.

The death toll in the Maur Mandi blast rose to six today with three children succumbing to injuries, even as police suspected the use of IED and sought NSG support in probe into the explosion which has triggered a political blame game just days ahead of Assembly polls, scheduled for February 4.

Days before voting in the Punjab assembly elections, at least three persons were killed in a powerful blast in a car close to a rally of a Congress candidate near Bathinda on Tuesday evening, police said.

Some unidentified persons looted Rs nine lakh from an ATM of the Punjab National Bank near Sundernagar in Mandi and later set the machine on fire.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh yesterday stormed into Sangat Mandi police station and warned officials against registering "fake" cases against Congress workers allegedly at the behest of the ruling Akalis.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took a train to Punjab today to visit the state's mandis or grain markets, where farmers are struggling to sell their produce after the recent unseasonal rains.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the officials of the state government to make all-out efforts towards smooth, timely and hassle-free procurement of grains from farmers during the ongoing procurement season.

A newly-wed couple in Punjab was in for a pleasant surprise when Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi stopped his vehicle to greet them. He spotted the couple in Mandi Kalan village during his visit to Bathinda.

Twelve workers sustained burns when molten iron fell on them after a sudden boil in a furnace of an industrial unit in Mandi Gobindgarh in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib, police said on Friday.

Social activist Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday said if ''mandis'' are closed due to the Centre's new agri laws the farmers of Punjab and Haryana will be ruined as the government would no longer procure their crops.

Over 160 lakh tonnes of paddy has arrived in Punjab mandis till Tuesday in the kharif season, which is 26 per cent higher over arrival in the corresponding period of last procurement season.

The procurement of paddy has begun in Punjab with over two thousand new ''mandis'' created to ensure COVID-19 protocols are maintained, said Food and Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Sunday.

Two major food grain producing states have started buying wheat and pulses from farmers amid the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, but the volume and pace of procurement is slow. In Punjab, farmers are yet to harvest 70 per cent of wheat crop. The grain markets or mandis in the state have been mostly empty for the last two days, though the gover...

The CBI also registered cases against four directors of Agro Tech Company in Gurdaspur Mandi and a private firm in Pathankot.

Just over a year after a powerful blast in a car in Maur Mandi town left seven persons dead, Punjab Police was said to be close to cracking the case and hinted at a connection with controversial Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Eight people, most of them teenagers, were killed today after being run over by a truck on the highway at Bhucho Mandi area in Bathinda, police said.

The death toll in the Maur Mandi blast rose to six today with three children succumbing to injuries, even as police suspected the use of IED and sought NSG support in probe into the explosion which has triggered a political blame game just days ahead of Assembly polls, scheduled for February 4.

Days before voting in the Punjab assembly elections, at least three persons were killed in a powerful blast in a car close to a rally of a Congress candidate near Bathinda on Tuesday evening, police said.

Some unidentified persons looted Rs nine lakh from an ATM of the Punjab National Bank near Sundernagar in Mandi and later set the machine on fire.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh yesterday stormed into Sangat Mandi police station and warned officials against registering "fake" cases against Congress workers allegedly at the behest of the ruling Akalis.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took a train to Punjab today to visit the state's mandis or grain markets, where farmers are struggling to sell their produce after the recent unseasonal rains.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the officials of the state government to make all-out efforts towards smooth, timely and hassle-free procurement of grains from farmers during the ongoing procurement season.