BATHINDA: Cotton prices have shot up to Rs 4,700 a quintal as procurement for export picks up across Malwa. The prices that hovered around Rs 3, 00 a quintal less than a week ago have seen the steep rise as the destructive rains have meant less supply this eason. And ...

BATHINDA: The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has not started procurement of cotton at any of its district centres, but one, for not completing paper work. The CCI has 22 purchase centers in Bathinda. But for the one at Maur Mandi, none has procured the necessary certificate from the fire brigade ...

BATHINDA: Dengue fever has started spreading in the Bathinda district. Three local policemen on Wednesday tested positive for it. On Tue day, Additional Sessions Judge R.R. Rai was confirmed to be first patient of dengue fever in the district. Two out of the three policemen tested positive on Wednesday. Policeman Lakhwinder Lakha ...

BATHINDA: Veterinary services in the state were affected on Monday because all doctors were in Bathinda to hold protest. Veterinary doctors hired by the Government of Punjab have threatened to go on mass leave for a month because they still await the non-practicing allowance (NPA). In the state-level protest rally at Bathinda, ...

BATHINDA: Fallen short is the effort in Bathinda to spot people living with a killer virus. Many people at high risk of contracting acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were turned back from the Bathinda Civil Hospital when they reported for tests to screen the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). "Shortage of analysis kits" ...

BATHINDA: In a cheerful development for cotton growers ahead of the festive season, the rates of cotton in mandis of the Malwa region have jumped with the increase in the arrival of crop. An analysis of rates of cotton in markets of Bathinda district shows that 1 quintal of cotton, which ...

BATHINDA: The Ayodhya verdict has affected the procurement of paddy in Punjab. The process of acquiring grain began on Friday but the fear of communal violence kept thousands of migrant labourers away from the markets, and agents didn't have anyone else to clean paddy. In the Bathinda grain market on Day One, ...

BATHINDA: Even as paddy procurement for 2010-11 officially started on Friday, rice millers of Bathinda district went on strike and decided to boycott storage of the new crop in protest against the non-lifting of PAU-201 variety by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the past one year. Even as the ...

BATHINDA: High drama was witnessed at Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology (GZSCET) here on Thursday after the college staff and students gheraoed a vigilance team, which laid a trap to nab a senior professor college for allegedly seeking bribe. According to information, a team led by Vigilance Bureau ...

BHAGTABHAI (BATHINDA): The police have booked a doctor of a private hospital here for alleged negligence after the death of an eight-year-old child, Sukhwinder Singh, on Tuesday. The death caused widespread resentment among the area residents, who blocked traffic on the main chowk on Bajakhana-Barnala road. They put the boy’s body ...

BATHINDA: Baba Farid College of Education, Deon, marked the day with students taking oath against use of intoxications and evils such as dowry and foeticide. They also pledged their eyes, body and promised to work towards saving the environment. Speeches, songs, poems and other contests such as essay writing and ...

BATHINDA: A youth from Guniana town, 15 km from here, reportedly consumed a poisonous substance on finding his name in the suicide note by his brother, who had ended his life a day ago. According to information, Ravi Kumar was at the funeral of his brother when he consumed celphos ...

BATHINDA: Even as water level went down in Lasara drain on Sunday, there were reports of a Saturday night clash between residents of Kutti Kishanpura village and the district administration over the construction of a makeshift bundh on the drain. Several men, including a cop, were injured. On Saturday, the administration ...