CHANDIGARH: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is setting up its data centre at Manesar in Haryana and this captive “Green Data Centre” will be built as per global standards. Stating this here on Sunday, an official spokesman said that data centre would be one of the biggest in the ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Industries minister Anil Joshi on Wednesday asked for a high-level inquiry into the depleting fixed deposits of Punjab InfoTech, the state government’s Corporation to promote the information technology (IT) sector, besides discrepancies plots and their cancellation by the corporation. A spokesman said here joshi also requested finance minister Parminder ...

AMRITSAR: TO press for their demands, activists of various farmer organizations will hold a convention in Jalandhar on January 15 and stage a protest by blocking rail traffic on January 28. This was decided at a meeting of Kisan Sangharsh Committee here on Wednesday. Committee president Satnam Singh Pannu said the ...

AMRITSAR: Owing to its low cost and affordability, Android-based computer tablets Aakash and Aakash-2 have become a hit with Indian users, and the manufacturers claim that they are flooded with orders. Suneet Singh Tuli, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Datawind, the company which manufactures these tablets, said demand of 2.5 ...

Punjab farmers are richer by Rs 16,028 crore as the state has procured more than 133 lakh tones of paddy till Saturday, a spokesman said. Of the total procurement, government agencies have procured 127 lakh tones while private traders procured the rest. In Sangrur district, Rs 1,968.28 crore has deposited in farmers ...

AMRITSAR: The police seized three tractor-trolleys filled with sand on the Batala road late on Wednesday night. A police patrol party intercepted the tractor-trolleys while these were moving towards the city, apparently to sell sand, which is in high demand following a ban on sand mining. As soon as the ...

RUPNAGAR: The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is heaving a sigh of relief, thanks to the resumption of coal supply from Jharkhand’s Panem mines to thermal plants in the state. Six coal rakes were received on Monday and eight on Tuesday at Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant here and. ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa said on Sunday that they there would be no looking back on the economic reforms initiated by the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre. “There is no threat to our economy from FDI in the retail sector. On the contrary, it will improve the country’s ...

CHANDIGARH: Security week started at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) refinery and petrochemical complex in Panipat on Friday. The IOC general manger (in charge) Supriyo Dhar administered the safety pledge to all employees and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel to safeguard company’s assest and strengthen the security in the complex. A release said ...

PATHANKOT: Pathankot deputy commissioner Siben C said on Wednesday that as per a local body notification, the Pathankot municipal corporation would start collecting property tax from residents with retrospective effect from November 15. He warned that if defaulters did not deposit their pending water and sewerage bills, their connections would be ...

GURDASPUR: At a time when increasing the rice productivity is a major challenge due to water constraint, declining land area under agriculture and ever-increasing costs of cultivation, agricultural development officer Amrik Singh had advocated the system of rice intensification (SRI), developed in Madagascar, which had been validated in Gurdaspur district ...

CHANDIGARH: The United Nations Development Programme-supported disaster risk reduction (DRR) programme has been launched in three districts of Punjab-Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana under which digitization of the road network and canals would take place, and it would be used as input for preparation and analysis of a risk and vulnerability ...

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