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Analysis of US jobs data, the investment case for Mondi and Cilo Cybin on their IPO.

Tardy paddy procurement across mandis in the district has left farmers in a quandary. With clouds hovering in the sky and heaps of grains lying at village-level procurement centres, farmers are quite disturbed. Even bardanas (gunny bags) have not even been supplied to many mandis till now.

Learning no lessons from the Amritsar train tragedy that claimed 61 lives four years ago, towering effigies of Ravana and others were mounted barely 50 metres away from the main railway station here during the Dasehra celebrations on Wednesday.

Showing scant regard to the directions of the government, farmers and traders today reopened the cattle market at Rampura Phul in the district.

The Agriculture Department has not provided rodenticides to the farmers in the past two years. As a result, the paddy planted through the DSR method, wheat and sugarcane crop has suffered substantial damage to due to the rodents (rats).

NAROWAL: The three-day event of the 483rd death anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak started in Kartarpur on Tuesday....

The Abohar-Jodhpur Express, infamously dubbed as the “cancer train”, may soon shed its tag because the number of cancer patients travelling from Malwa to Bikaner, Rajasthan, for treatment has nosedived over the past few years.

After the hand, foot and mouth disease, now some suspected cases of tomato flu have started surfacing in Bathinda.

The district administration has made tall claims about elaborate arrangements to dispose of animal carcasses properly. As per the authorities, dedicated teams have been deployed to bury animal carcasses on a daily basis. But the reality is that carcasses are being thrown in the open areas. More than

Started a month before the Vidhan Sabha elections this year, the project to metal a 5.5-km road stretch that connects six villages in the Goniana block, has come to a halt for “want of funds” now.