In the absence of buyers, projects have either slowed down or have been delayed. Punjab Colonisers and Builders Association finance secretary HS Lamba said people in Ludhiana are bottom fishing and awaiting further correction in prices. "Though prices of construction material like steel and cement have come down, builders are unable to reduce the price owing to the high land costs," Lamba said.
Vikram Jaryal, who was working as a clerk in the store at AM-PM Gas Station in Yakima city, was behind the counter when two people in masks came in and robbed the store on Thursday.
The Punjab government has chalked out plans to promote contract farming of basmati and other long grain varieties of paddy, over 26,000 acres of land in 12 districts of the state.
Helpline numbers in Ahmedabad, Jalandhar and New Delhi.
Two Indian-Americans running a grocery store in the state of Indiana have been shot dead by masked men, sending shock waves among the Sikh community in the United States.
Kuldip Singh, a Tanda Ram Sahay village farmer, claimed Gurinder Singh is the son of his younger brother Mohinder Singh. He claimed that the boy's mother Dapinder Kaur, who is fighting a divorce case, was involved in "human trafficking" and took the boy with her to Malaysia in August 2007.
'Every bit of the parade is important. Everything that is being executed, you have to be completely in it,' says Captain Tania Shergill, the first woman adjutant at a Republic Day parade.
The prime accused in the murder of a Punjab non resident Indian has been arrested while two other co-accused gave themselves up, police said in Hoshiarpur Thursday.
With the increase in Indian Diaspora and consequently overseas marriages, the number of such failed marriage cases is on the rise.
As many as 91 more youths from Punjab returned to India on Tuesday from strife-torn Iraq on special flights.
SAD (B) had already released the first list of its 62 candidates on Saturday.
The incident took place when the driver, Pardip Saini, 40, was on his way to Pathankot after dropping a passenger in Amritsar via Gurdaspur bypass late on Saturday night.
Hospital employees Mintu and Bittu allegedly administered an intoxicant injection to the patient -- who was operated for appendicitis -- after she complained of pain.
Following are some of the terror-related incidents that have taken place in Punjab between 2001 and 2016.
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal announced the decision to snap ties with the NDA on Saturday night, amid stepped up agitation by farmers in Punjab over the three legislations which were recently passed by Parliament amid Opposition protests.
The state government issued the notice to the Phagwara-based LPU attitude as 'extremely callous and irresponsible' in handling the case of a 21-year-old, corona-positive woman hosteller and keeping itself open, and sought its explanation over the breach of lockdown orders.
It is the kind of stuff you see only in Bollywood movies. A toddler goes missing and is found by a man who raises him as his own son. After sixteen years, the boy is reunited with his biological parents.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case.
The police said the abductors came in a car without a number plate and forcibly lifted Abhi Verma, alias Harry, a student of class IX, near Shimla Pahari chowk.
Rajendra Nagar, a planned colony built after Independence, is the worst-affected area in the Bihar capital, seeing an unprecedented flooding which residents said has "exposed the under-preparedness of the corporation".
Maruti has committed Rs 5 crore towards the programme.
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the 59 seats spread across seven states and one Union territory going to polls in the last and final phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on May 19, 2019.
Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government authority.
The Congress chief had earlier tweeted his disapproval and the party had distanced himself from Pitroda's remarks.
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The families said their hopes of getting any clue about the men who went missing in Iraq's Mosul city were almost shattered after listening to the statement of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Parliament on Wednesday.
Family members of the other missing persons said that from the Iraqi minister's statement, it was clear that the Indian government does have any concrete information about the missing.
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu reported one case each, officials said.
Here's a list of the full first-time ministers in the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
The minister is expected to bring back the bodies by Monday.
Paramilitary forces were on Tuesday deployed in four districts of Punjab as a precautionary measure even as another incident of "sacrilege" of a holy book took place at a village in Bathinda.
This is one of the biggest casualties suffered by the elite COBRA unit that undertakes special jungle warfare ops.
The Pakistani election on July 25 has a strong Indian flavour and connection, says Vivek Shukla.
Narendra Modi's new team includes a former cabinet colleague from his days as Gujarat CM, an academic and a sadhvi.
