ABOHAR (FAZILKA): Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda may be campaigning in some parts of Punjab but he is evading this constituency even though his daughter is married here. In this Hindi-speaking belt of Punjab bordering Haryana, the SAD-BJP candidate, Vijay Laxmi Bhadoo, is "samdhan" of Hooda as his daughter Anjali ...

ABOHAR: Leaders cutting across party lines on Tuesday led a procession to the city police station here to demand action against an alleged gangster for having threatened two shop­ keepers to vacate their business premises, on Tuesday. The two shopkeepers, Rajinder Kumar and Devraj, who have rented premises in the Sadar ...

ABOHAR: The production of kinnow looks set to go down by half this season in Abohar subdivision, which producers half the total kinnow output of the state. The hotter-than –usual summer an scarcity of water at the canal tail-end villages, including Daulatpura, Gumjal, Panjawa, Tota, Kalerkhera and Usmankhera, have led ...

ABOHAR/FAZILKA: White fly and leaf curl ("pat-maror") have adversely affected the Bt cotton crop in Abohar and Fazilka subdivisions of Ferozepur. The development comes as a shock for growers of the disease-resistant variety as farmers who opted for the traditional cotton varieties are enjoying a healthier crop this year. In the past ...

ABOHAR: The heavy loss of water upstream of the Rarike head­ works in Ferozepur has become a major cause of concern for farmers in the Malwa region, especial! ho e in villages at the tail end of the canals sup­ plying the area. More than 8,000 cusec of water is released ...

ABOHAR: Expressing shock at a proposal to stop the supply of water in canals in the Abohar area from March 17 for maintenance, local farmers have demanded the plan be put off by a fortnight. The irrigation authority’s nave announced that supply in the Malukpura distributor and the Daulatpura and Ramsara ...

ABOHAR: In a third incident in a month in Abohar, a female black buck was found dead under mysterious circumstances at Rampura village on the Abohar­ Sangria road near the Rajasthan border on Saturday night. Even as the protected animal was apparently hit by a gunshot, wildlife officials did not confirm ...