Damaged soil, ill-effects from pesticides, and falling water tables are the legacy of practices that were once thought great for the state. Ramesh Menon reports.

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Thousands of migrant labourers on way to their home state Uttar Pradesh from Ludhiana in Punjab on Friday reached here on foot. But, halting their march, the district administration sent most of them back to Punjab, while the rest were accommodated in shelter homes of Ambala.

Following allegations of alleged torture and illegal confinement of two dalit youths at Sandaur police station in Sangrur district, Punjab Police on Friday suspended two cops, including an assistant sub-inspector and a home guard, and transferred three other policemen.

Despite a slow start, the stubble burning cases were drastically increased in the last two days. This harvesting season is started with one fourth of the burning cases than the previous season, according to the data released by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre(PRSC) on Friday.

The maximum number of entries came from Ludhiana district with 16,084 students sending in their videos, followed by Amritsar, Sangrur and Patiala districts.

Noor, who is seen in the avatar of a young Sikh boy in the video, had earlier teamed up with the Moga police to spread the message of social distancing.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh set up the task force to find ways for the state to gradually get out of the unprecedented lockdown that is still in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sought the Bharata Ratna to be awarded to Indian hockey legend Balbir Singh Senior.

Punjab Police and Punjab National Bank players got into an ugly on-field fight during the Nehru Hockey Tournament final.

Hockey India had banned Punjab Armed Police, Jalandhar and J&K Police Hockey teams for three months for indiscipline and unruly behaviour.

The pilot ejected out the aircraft successfully and was admitted to a hospital in Hoshiarpur for check-up.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the students of Class X will be promoted on the basis of pre-board results.

The police said that the duo is suspected to have smuggled heroin in and other drugs from Pakistan by camouflaging as many as six rock salt consignments through the Indo-Pak border at Attari in Amritsar between 2018 and 2019.

Farmers had raised concerns about labour shortage resulting from migrant labourers returning to their homes in view of the Covid-19 crisis.

Our eyes are open to what Pakistan is doing, Singh said, hours after the NIA arrested a "notorious narco-terrorist" who acted as a conduit for Pakistan-based terror groups.

On Saturday, the state government had constituted the group of experts, headed by noted economist and former deputy chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia to revive the state's economy.

The Chief Minister noted that Punjab was successfully moving in the service of the nation towards meeting its target of wheat procurement, notwithstanding the challenges imposed by the lockdown.

The state government had allowed the home delivery of liquor during the third phase of the coronavirus lockdown from Thursday.

Kushal Punjabi, who would have turned 43 year old today, was found dead in his Bandra apartment in December last year.

The time table for the Punjab Senior Secondary Board Examinations (PSSBE) has been published for the class 12 students. The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has made an announcement about the board exams schedule that are set to begin on February

Cash along with drugs was recovered from both the accused who were arrested from Gurudas.

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A prayer meet was held over the weekend, and all his friends and colleagues from the television fraternity made sure to attend.

Punjab Agriculture Secretary Kahan Singh Pannu said that 50% subsidy would be provided to women, scheduled castes and 40% to other farmers. The secretary further said that farmers had been asked to submit their applications to avail the benefit of subsidy on machinery required for paddy and maize cultivation till 10 May.

The Punjab chief minister said he had written to Manmohan Singh 'to guide us, along with the group of experts'

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