Currently facing farmers’ firewall over land acquisition for the 1320-MW Mansa plant of Indiabulls, the Punjab government seems to be flouting the very policy it formed to allow power projects thro
At least two dozen farmers were injured when the police resorted to a baton charge in the early hours of Thursday to break up their agitation against land acquisition in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office at Gobindpura of Punjab's Mansa district.
The Punjab Congress will launch a morcha on September 2 by courting arrest in batches to force the government to scrap land acquisition for Indiabull’s Gobindpura thermal project in Mansa district.
Several Congress leaders were detained by Mansa police on Friday and forced into a police vehicle amid unruly scenes after they tried to march towards the controversial site of the upcoming Gobindp
Even and acquisition row over Gobindpura power plant seems to be spiralling into a poll issue and farm unions vowing to intensify the struggle against “forced” acquisition, the Mansa administration
While the move by Haryana to build a concrete wall to divert the Ghaggar waters towards Punjab has triggered an inter-state dispute, the two earthen dams on the course of water bodies at Chandpura near Mansa and Dabwali on the periphery of Bathinda district have also become a bone of contention between the two states.
Diversion of the water bodies at these places by Haryana has exposed more tha
Ludhiana: Presence of high levels of uranium in drinking water at Faridkot has raised an alarm amongst the residents with the NGO Baba Farid Center for Special Children which brought this issue to light some two years back demanding that the drinking water in this once princely state should be declared unfit for human consumption.
The recently sown cotton crop on around 37,000 hectares in Ferozepur and Muktsar districts has been destroyed following a freak hailstorm and rain two days earlier.
Reports received here by the Agriculture Department indicate the newly sown cotton crop has been partially damaged in Bathinda and Mansa districts.
