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  • AAP’s Media Crackdown: Zee News Channel Faces Blackout In Mann Ruled Punjab |

    The Bhagwan led Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab has stopped the telecast of Zee News channel in the state. The black out of the media group comes without any formal notice by the Punjab government. Zee News’ viewers in Punjab have confirmed that they are unable to access the channel. Our viewers termed Mann government’s decision as ‘dictatorial’ and likened it to ban on the press during emergency.

    ZEE NEWS has always done journalism based on facts. As the oldest channel in the country, we understand our responsibility towards the people. The Mann government’s action comes amidst our coverage of the Punjab Lok Sabha elections where we raised the issues of the people and highlighted the shortcomings of the government.

    The same thing happened during the Emergency. Then the government collapsed. Whenever there has been an attempt to suppress the fourth pillar of democracy… the result has not been good.

    No matter how hard Arvind Kejriwal or Bhagwant Mann try, Zee News will continue to show the truth. The reality of people like Kejriwal, who cannot face the truth, will continue to reach the people. The people of Punjab are with Zee News.

  • Big Setback For States Providing Free Electricity? Power Minister Warns Of Debt Trap | Economy News

    New Delhi: Power Minister RK Singh has warned of a debt trap for states like Punjab using borrowed money to provide free electricity, saying such populist schemes are fine only if a state has finances. Electricity, like any other commodity, involves the cost of generating it, and if a state is to provide it for free to a section of consumers, it also needs to have finances to pay the generating utility.

    If the generating utility isn’t paid, electricity will not be produced in the first place. In an interview with PTI, Singh said he has been telling states that electricity is not free. (Also Read: Zomato Bag, Swiggy Shirt, Zypp Helmet: Can You Guess From Which Company The Delivery Man Is?)

    “If any state wants to give free power to any category of people, they can go ahead and do so, but you have to pay for it”. (Also Read: 7th Pay Commission: Central Govt Revises Employees’ Allowances — Read In Detail)

    However, states with already high debt are resorting to such populist measures, forcing them to borrow more to pay generating utilities, resulting in a debt trap.

    “You should not be bringing your state to a situation where it falls into a debt trap. Many of the states are close to debt traps because of freebies,” the minister said.

    Asked to name states that do so, the bureaucrat-turned-politician said, “For example Punjab”. Since coming to power in Punjab in 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has taken several populist measures, including free power up to 300 units per household.

    Punjab borrowed as much as Rs 47,000 crore in the first two years of the AAP government, adding to the already high debt of the state. This has strained finances where a good part of the tax revenues earned went into paying interest and principal of the previous borrowing.

    “Many of these states are close to debt trap,” Singh said. He explained further that states are borrowing to give freebies so that they can stay in power, and the burden is being shifted onto the succeeding generations.

    For future generations, there will be no money for roads, building hospitals, and schools because whatever revenues will come will go into repayment of loans, he added.

  • Lok Sabha Polls: In 8th Candidate List, BJP Bets On Turncoats In Odisha, Punjab; Fields Ex-Ambassador From Amritsar |

    The Bharatiya Janata Party has so far announced the names of 118 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The party released its eighth list of 11 candidates yesterday which had names of several turncoats and even a surprising name of a foreign ambassador. The list had names from three states – Punjab, Odisha and West Bengal. The list puts BJP way ahead of the Congress as the grand old party is yet to announce names on the majority of seats. The Congress has so far released names of 218 candidates. 

    BJP’s Odisha List

    The BJP nominated Bhartruhari Mahtab from the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat. A sitting MP from the seat on the BJD ticket, Mahtab recently joined the BJP. Mahtab, a six-time MP, had on March 22 resigned from the BJD. Other names in the list include Rabindra Narayan Behera, a former director of the National Informatics Centre, from Jajpur and Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi from Kandhamal. The BJP had earlier announced candidates for 18 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha.

    BJP’s Punjab List

    The saffron party surprised everyone by fielding former Indian ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu from the Amritsar seat in Punjab. Hans Raj Hans, who lost their party ticket from North West Delhi, has now been fielded from the Amritsar seat. Former AAP MP Sushil Kumar Rinku, who recently joined the BJP, got a ticket from the Jalandhar seat while former Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu got a ticket from Ludhiana. Dinesh Singh Babbu has replaced star Sunny Deol from the Gurdaspur seat. The party also fielded Preneet Kaur, wife of Capain Amarinder Singh, from Patiala.

    Why Sandhu From Amritsar?

    The BJP has been actively working to expand its support base among Sikhs, who constitute a majority in Punjab, with hopes of making significant gains in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party is particularly focused on reclaiming the Amritsar seat, which it hasn’t held since Navjot Singh Sidhu’s victory in 2009. However, Sidhu, now with the Congress party, currently holds the seat, represented by Gurjeet Singh Aujla. Both Arun Jaitley and Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP candidates and current Union ministers, faced defeat in the 2014 and 2019 elections respectively.

    BJP, Congress Candidate List So Far

    On March 2, released a list of 195 candidates. On March 13, it announced the names of 72 candidates. On March 21, the BJP released a list of 9 candidates for Tamil Nadu. On March 22, the party released another name of 15 candidates. On March 24, the party announced the names of 111 candidates and on March 26, the party announced three more candidates – two from Rajasthan and one from Manipur. The party released its seventh list on March 27 which had two names. On March 30, the party released the eighth list of 11 candidates. With this, the party has so far announced the names of 118 candidates. 

    Congress released its first list of 39 candidates on March 8. This was followed by 43 candidates in the second list on March 12, 57 candidates on March 21, 3 candidates on March 24, 46 candidates on March 46, 5 candidates on March 25, 5 candidates on March 26, 14 candidates on March 27 and 5 candidates on March 29. The party additionally announced the name of KV Gowtham from Karnataka’s Kolar on March 30. With this, the party has announced names of a total of  218 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.

  • Farmer Leader’s Big Allegation, Says Paramilitary Forces Abducted Six People By Crossing Into Punjab |

    After the farmer unions halted their ‘Dilli Chalo’ march yesterday for two days after violent clashes at the Khanauri border, they held a media briefing today at the Shambhu Border making serious allegations against the paramilitary forces and Haryana police. The farmer leader claimed that the security forces crossed the border and attacked tents set up inside Punjab. They also claimed that their six people had been taken away by the forces.

    “We condemn the move of paramilitary forces crossing into Punjab and attacking the tents of the farmers. Punjab government should answer this how it allowed Haryana police and paramilitary forces to cross the border,” he said.

    The leader added that six people were missing in action. “Our six people whom the security forces took away are missing in action. Even during a war, paramedics and doctors are not attacked as per humanity. But in Khannauri, they attacked medical camps and doctors treating the injured and looted the people. This government has crossed the limits of barbarism,” the farmer leader alleged.

    VIDEO | “Paramilitary forces and Haryana Police forces crossed the (state) border and attacked the farmers’ camp in Punjab. Our six people are missing after the action. Punjab government should give the answers,” says a farmer leader while addressing a press conference at Shambhu… pic.twitter.com/DF6f5HohLX


    — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) February 22, 2024

    Farmers and security forces clashed at the Shambhu and Khannauri border of Haryana and Punjab as the agitators were not allowed to enter Delhi. After rejecting the governenment proposal for purchasing certain crops on MSP for five years, the farmers resumed their ‘Dilli Chalo’ protest call yesterday but due to clashes, they had to halt the march for 48 hours. 

    On the other hand, the government has invited farmers for further talks. The farm leaders and the Union minister held four round of talks which remained unsuccessful. General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor, Sarwan Singh Pandher, reiterated the demand for a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) and assured a ‘peaceful’ approach going ahead. The protesting farmers have been camping at the Shambhu border near Ambala since the start of the march on Tuesday, February 13. 

  • Punjab Governor warns CM Mann President’s rule would be imposed in state

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday threatened that he would write to President Droupadi Murmu and impose President’s rule within the state if Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann fails to reply to his letters. Purohit additionally warned that he would begin felony complaints for the failure of constitutional mechanism within the state.

    Amid the continued chilly struggle between the Governor and the AAP chief and Leader Minister, Purohit demanded Mann to reply to his letters in terms of the alleged breaking down of legislation and order scenario in Punjab. The Governor additionally requested for an action-taken file at the rampant drug business within the state.

    “I’m as soon as once more constrained to write down to you in reference to my correspondence dated  August 1, 2023. Despite those letters, you have got nonetheless now not given the ideas sought via me. Apparently that you’re intentionally refusing to offer the ideas requested for via me. I Feel sorry about to notice right here that regardless of the transparent provisions of Article 167 of the Charter of India which makes it obligatory for the Leader Minister to furnish all such knowledge in terms of the management of affairs of the State because the Governor might name for, you have got failed to offer the ideas sought via me,’’ Purohit’s letter reads.

    “Now not furnishing the ideas which used to be sought via the Governor can be it seems that in dereliction of the constitutional accountability which is imposed at the Leader Minister with regards to Article 167(b),’’ Purohit mentioned.

    “I’ve won reviews from more than a few businesses relating to rampant availability and abuse of the medicine in Punjab. It is not uncommon wisdom that they’re to be had in chemist retail outlets, a brand new development is noticed that they’re being offered within the government-controlled liquor vends, the Governor mentioned.

    He referred to the new motion via the Narcotics Regulate Bureau (NCB) and Chandigarh Police who’ve sealed 66 liquor vends in Ludhiana which might be promoting medication. The new file of the Parliamentary Status Committee has uncovered that one in 5 other folks in Punjab are hooked on medication. 

    Those details level to the breaking down of the legislation and order gadget in Punjab, the Governor mentioned.

    “Please ship a file in regards to the motion taken via you within the subject of those medication to my place of job right away,’’ Purohit mentioned.

    The letter warns, “Earlier than I’m going to take ultimate choice relating to sending a report back to the President of India underneath Article 356 in regards to the failure of the constitutional mechanism and take a call about beginning felony complaints underneath segment 124 of the IPC, I ask you to ship me the considered necessary knowledge sought for only my letters referred to above, as additionally within the subject of the stairs taken via you relating to the issue of substances within the state, failing which I might haven’t any selection however to do so consistent with legislation and the charter.’’

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday threatened that he would write to President Droupadi Murmu and impose President’s rule within the state if Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann fails to reply to his letters. Purohit additionally warned that he would begin felony complaints for the failure of constitutional mechanism within the state.

    Amid the continued chilly struggle between the Governor and the AAP chief and Leader Minister, Purohit demanded Mann to reply to his letters in terms of the alleged breaking down of legislation and order scenario in Punjab. The Governor additionally requested for an action-taken file at the rampant drug business within the state.

    “I’m as soon as once more constrained to write down to you in reference to my correspondence dated  August 1, 2023. Despite those letters, you have got nonetheless now not given the ideas sought via me. Apparently that you’re intentionally refusing to offer the ideas requested for via me. I Feel sorry about to notice right here that regardless of the transparent provisions of Article 167 of the Charter of India which makes it obligatory for the Leader Minister to furnish all such knowledge in terms of the management of affairs of the State because the Governor might name for, you have got failed to offer the ideas sought via me,’’ Purohit’s letter reads.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “Now not furnishing the ideas which used to be sought via the Governor can be it seems that in dereliction of the constitutional accountability which is imposed at the Leader Minister with regards to Article 167(b),’’ Purohit mentioned.

    “I’ve won reviews from more than a few businesses relating to rampant availability and abuse of the medicine in Punjab. It is not uncommon wisdom that they’re to be had in chemist retail outlets, a brand new development is noticed that they’re being offered within the government-controlled liquor vends, the Governor mentioned.

    He referred to the new motion via the Narcotics Regulate Bureau (NCB) and Chandigarh Police who’ve sealed 66 liquor vends in Ludhiana which might be promoting medication. The new file of the Parliamentary Status Committee has uncovered that one in 5 other folks in Punjab are hooked on medication. 

    Those details level to the breaking down of the legislation and order gadget in Punjab, the Governor mentioned.

    “Please ship a file in regards to the motion taken via you within the subject of those medication to my place of job right away,’’ Purohit mentioned.

    The letter warns, “Earlier than I’m going to take ultimate choice relating to sending a report back to the President of India underneath Article 356 in regards to the failure of the constitutional mechanism and take a call about beginning felony complaints underneath segment 124 of the IPC, I ask you to ship me the considered necessary knowledge sought for only my letters referred to above, as additionally within the subject of the stairs taken via you relating to the issue of substances within the state, failing which I might haven’t any selection however to do so consistent with legislation and the charter.’’

  • Punjab: One lifeless as farmers conflict with police over ‘detention’ of farm leaders forward of deliberate protest 

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH/SANGRUR: A person died after being run over by means of a tractor-trolley and no less than 5 policemen have been injured as farmers clashed with them in Sangrur district Monday over the “detention” of a few farm leaders.

    The sufferer was once a farmer it appears participating within the protest within the district’s Longowal house, the place police have been seeking to prevent protesters from blocking off a countrywide freeway and a toll plaza, officers mentioned.

    The farmers have been protesting an afternoon forward of a deliberate demonstration in Chandigarh by means of 16 farm our bodies, together with the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Bharti Kisan Union (Karanti kari), BKU (Ekta Azaad), Aazaad Kisan Committee, Doaba, BKU (Behramke) and the Bhoomi Bachao Mohim, to hunt repayment for losses brought about by means of floods.

    Police brutality towards farmers and blameless folks of Punjab below the @AAPPunjab regime these days reached a brand new degree. A farmer Pritam Singh (55) misplaced his existence after the police resorted to the lathi price on farmers at Longowal.
    The farmers have been on their method to Chandigarh to… percent.twitter.com/TUv48x1Yu3

    — Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) August 21, 2023

    Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra Lamba mentioned the participants of the farmer union sought after to dam the Sangrur-Barnala nationwide freeway and likewise the Badbar toll plaza however police refused to allow them to.

    The farmers, then again, pressured their approach thru barricades the usage of tractor-trolleys and buses, he mentioned, including some folks drove their tractors into the barricades.

    An inspector escaped being beaten below a tractor-trolley however was once critically injured, police mentioned, including that some other policeman sustained accidents to his face and 3 extra have been harm as neatly.

    The officers mentioned a farmer known as Pritam Singh got here below a tractor-trolley belonging to one of the crucial protesters and sustained serious accidents. He later died all through remedy, they added.

    A video purportedly appearing the aged farmer coming below the rear tyres of the trolley surfaced on social media. Some farmers might be observed asking the automobile’s motive force to forestall however he didn’t.

    Police mentioned the incident happened on account of the irresponsible behaviour of a couple of tractor and bus drivers all through the protest.

    The SSP mentioned some protesters hit policemen with their sticks because the protest grew to become violent.

    He added that mentioned the placement was once now non violent and police used the best possible degree of restraint.

    Early within the day, farmers claimed that a number of in their leaders, together with Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) president Sarwan Singh Pandher, Satkar Singh Kotli of the KMSC, Bohr Singh of the BKU (Behramke), have been “detained” by means of the Punjab Police.

    A farmer chief in Tarn Taran district mentioned police allegedly performed raids on the flats of farm leaders and detained them.

    Farmers had mentioned they sought after to carry a protest at the parade floor in Sector 17 of Chandigarh however the UT management sought after them to reveal at a delegated position in Sector 25.

    Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal slammed the AAP govt for the loss of life of the farmer in Sangrur.

    “Horrendous vast sunlight homicide of a beleaguered and peacefully protesting farmer Pritam Singh at Longowal (in CM’s house district Sangrur) has despatched surprise waves right through the state particularly a number of the farmers. A homicide case will have to be registered towards the Leader Minister @BhagwantMann because it was once finished on his orders. The senior law enforcement officials, who accomplished this, will have to even be booked,” Badal mentioned on ‘X’.

    Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa condemned the police motion towards farmer leaders in several portions of the state.

    “The @AAPPunjab government in Punjab has unleashed its draconian agendas. A number of farmers’ union leaders had been arrested and raids are nonetheless occurring to arrest another farmer chief,” he tweeted.

    In the meantime, farmer leaders from Haryana too claimed that some folks related to the Bharatiya Kisan Union had been detained by means of the police.

    The Haryana Police has detained BKU chief Amarjit Singh Mohari and a few others in Ambala, they claimed, including that Sandeep Singh has been detained in Kurukshetra.

    The Ambala Police deployed group of workers alongside the Haryana-Punjab border to handle legislation and order within the house.

    “The farmers are all set to protest in Chandigarh on August 22 searching for repayment for the flood-hit farmers. As an alternative of complying with the real calls for of the farmers, the so-called Badlav government has followed this harsh stance. The lies of the Punjab CM @BhagwantMann about offering reduction to the farmers had been uncovered,” Bajwa mentioned on ‘X’.

    CHANDIGARH/SANGRUR: A person died after being run over by means of a tractor-trolley and no less than 5 policemen have been injured as farmers clashed with them in Sangrur district Monday over the “detention” of a few farm leaders.

    The sufferer was once a farmer it appears participating within the protest within the district’s Longowal house, the place police have been seeking to prevent protesters from blocking off a countrywide freeway and a toll plaza, officers mentioned.

    The farmers have been protesting an afternoon forward of a deliberate demonstration in Chandigarh by means of 16 farm our bodies, together with the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Bharti Kisan Union (Karanti kari), BKU (Ekta Azaad), Aazaad Kisan Committee, Doaba, BKU (Behramke) and the Bhoomi Bachao Mohim, to hunt repayment for losses brought about by means of floods.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Police brutality towards farmers and blameless folks of Punjab below the @AAPPunjab regime these days reached a brand new degree. A farmer Pritam Singh (55) misplaced his existence after the police resorted to the lathi price on farmers at Longowal.
    The farmers have been on their method to Chandigarh to… percent.twitter.com/TUv48x1Yu3
    — Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) August 21, 2023
    Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra Lamba mentioned the participants of the farmer union sought after to dam the Sangrur-Barnala nationwide freeway and likewise the Badbar toll plaza however police refused to allow them to.

    The farmers, then again, pressured their approach thru barricades the usage of tractor-trolleys and buses, he mentioned, including some folks drove their tractors into the barricades.

    An inspector escaped being beaten below a tractor-trolley however was once critically injured, police mentioned, including that some other policeman sustained accidents to his face and 3 extra have been harm as neatly.

    The officers mentioned a farmer known as Pritam Singh got here below a tractor-trolley belonging to one of the crucial protesters and sustained serious accidents. He later died all through remedy, they added.

    A video purportedly appearing the aged farmer coming below the rear tyres of the trolley surfaced on social media. Some farmers might be observed asking the automobile’s motive force to forestall however he didn’t.

    Police mentioned the incident happened on account of the irresponsible behaviour of a couple of tractor and bus drivers all through the protest.

    The SSP mentioned some protesters hit policemen with their sticks because the protest grew to become violent.

    He added that mentioned the placement was once now non violent and police used the best possible degree of restraint.

    Early within the day, farmers claimed that a number of in their leaders, together with Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) president Sarwan Singh Pandher, Satkar Singh Kotli of the KMSC, Bohr Singh of the BKU (Behramke), have been “detained” by means of the Punjab Police.

    A farmer chief in Tarn Taran district mentioned police allegedly performed raids on the flats of farm leaders and detained them.

    Farmers had mentioned they sought after to carry a protest at the parade floor in Sector 17 of Chandigarh however the UT management sought after them to reveal at a delegated position in Sector 25.

    Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal slammed the AAP govt for the loss of life of the farmer in Sangrur.

    “Horrendous vast sunlight homicide of a beleaguered and peacefully protesting farmer Pritam Singh at Longowal (in CM’s house district Sangrur) has despatched surprise waves right through the state particularly a number of the farmers. A homicide case will have to be registered towards the Leader Minister @BhagwantMann because it was once finished on his orders. The senior law enforcement officials, who accomplished this, will have to even be booked,” Badal mentioned on ‘X’.

    Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa condemned the police motion towards farmer leaders in several portions of the state.

    “The @AAPPunjab government in Punjab has unleashed its draconian agendas. A number of farmers’ union leaders had been arrested and raids are nonetheless occurring to arrest another farmer chief,” he tweeted.

    In the meantime, farmer leaders from Haryana too claimed that some folks related to the Bharatiya Kisan Union had been detained by means of the police.

    The Haryana Police has detained BKU chief Amarjit Singh Mohari and a few others in Ambala, they claimed, including that Sandeep Singh has been detained in Kurukshetra.

    The Ambala Police deployed group of workers alongside the Haryana-Punjab border to handle legislation and order within the house.

    “The farmers are all set to protest in Chandigarh on August 22 searching for repayment for the flood-hit farmers. As an alternative of complying with the real calls for of the farmers, the so-called Badlav government has followed this harsh stance. The lies of the Punjab CM @BhagwantMann about offering reduction to the farmers had been uncovered,” Bajwa mentioned on ‘X’.

  • Flood fury in Punjab: Two youngster boys drown in swollen river, 150 villages marooned

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    CHANDIGARH: The flood scenario in Punjab worsened on Thursday following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra-Nangal and Pong dams into the swollen Beas and Sutlej rivers.

    Two teenage boys unintentionally fell right into a swollen rivulet within the Gurdaspur district, the place they’d long gone to observe the emerging water stage. Their our bodies had been recovered later. Someone else went lacking in Kapurthala district. 

    The flood waters have inundated no less than 150 villages in six districts of Punjab, disrupting customary lifestyles.

    The government had issued truthful caution and just about 9,700 other folks had been rescued, officers stated.

    Consistent with respectable assets, 70 villages in Gurdaspur are affected and round 5,000 other folks had been evacuated from the district. 

    In neighbouring Hoshiarpur district, 18 villages are beneath water, officers stated. The collection of affected villages in Taran Taran district is estimated at 39.

    In Ropar district, some 15 villages are affected whilst in Amritsar district, one village is hit. 

    Pong and Bhakhra free up water. It’s stated that the gates will likely be open for subsequent 10 days. The visuals on my long ago close to Beas as of late had been heartbreaking. Punjab floods another time!#Punjab#Floods percent.twitter.com/rj1pTCG2EV

    — Harmeen Soch (@HarmeenSoch) August 17, 2023

    Himanshu Agarwal, deputy commissioner of Gurdaspur, stated that more than one groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Pressure, Military and Border Safety Pressure had been pressed into provider to rescue marooned villagers. 

    Officers worry the flood scenario might escalate additional as heavy rain is anticipated in upstream Himachal Pradesh, the place the catchment spaces of the Pong and Bhakra dams lie.

    The Punjab executive has already sounded a pink alert for the downstream districts of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, and Tarn Taran.

    Flooding can have broken 90% of paddy crop
    Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday visited Hoshiarpur district to take inventory of the location. He stated the state executive has ordered a survey to determine the loss incurred to other folks because of floods.

    Consistent with initial estimates, 90% of the paddy crop has been adversely affected.

    CHANDIGARH: The flood scenario in Punjab worsened on Thursday following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra-Nangal and Pong dams into the swollen Beas and Sutlej rivers.

    Two teenage boys unintentionally fell right into a swollen rivulet within the Gurdaspur district, the place they’d long gone to observe the emerging water stage. Their our bodies had been recovered later. Someone else went lacking in Kapurthala district. 

    The flood waters have inundated no less than 150 villages in six districts of Punjab, disrupting customary lifestyles.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The government had issued truthful caution and just about 9,700 other folks had been rescued, officers stated.

    Consistent with respectable assets, 70 villages in Gurdaspur are affected and round 5,000 other folks had been evacuated from the district. 

    In neighbouring Hoshiarpur district, 18 villages are beneath water, officers stated. The collection of affected villages in Taran Taran district is estimated at 39.

    In Ropar district, some 15 villages are affected whilst in Amritsar district, one village is hit. 

    Pong and Bhakhra free up water. It’s stated that the gates will likely be open for subsequent 10 days. The visuals on my long ago close to Beas as of late had been heartbreaking. Punjab floods another time!#Punjab#Floods percent.twitter.com/rj1pTCG2EV
    — Harmeen Soch (@HarmeenSoch) August 17, 2023
    Himanshu Agarwal, deputy commissioner of Gurdaspur, stated that more than one groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Pressure, Military and Border Safety Pressure had been pressed into provider to rescue marooned villagers. 

    Officers worry the flood scenario might escalate additional as heavy rain is anticipated in upstream Himachal Pradesh, the place the catchment spaces of the Pong and Bhakra dams lie.

    The Punjab executive has already sounded a pink alert for the downstream districts of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, and Tarn Taran.

    Flooding can have broken 90% of paddy crop
    Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday visited Hoshiarpur district to take inventory of the location. He stated the state executive has ordered a survey to determine the loss incurred to other folks because of floods.

    Consistent with initial estimates, 90% of the paddy crop has been adversely affected.

  • A number of villages in Punjab inundated after water launched from Pong, Bhakra dam

    Via PTI

    HOSHIARPUR: A number of villages close to the Beas River in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district and the Sutlej River in Rupnagar district have been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Pong and the Bhakra dams, officers stated on Tuesday.

    Many villagers have been evacuated to protection and the government are maintaining a tally of the placement, they stated.

    In Gurdaspur, the district management has additionally requested other people residing in low-lying spaces and close to the banks of the Beas to transport to more secure puts.

    In an advisory on Monday, the Punjab authorities had requested citizens of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran districts to not mission close to the Beas after it was once determined that water from the Pong dam can be launched.

    The Bhakra dam at the Sutlej and the Pong dam at the Beas — each in Himachal Pradesh — are brimming after heavy rain of their respective catchment spaces.

    In Hoshiarpur, a number of farmlands within the Talwara, Hajipur, Dasuya, Tanda and Mukerian villages have been flooded because of water discharge from the Pong dam reservoir, stated the officers.

    Water entered the low-lying villages, fields and a few properties positioned close to the Beas river, they stated.

    The Beal Sariana village in Hajipur block is underneath two-three ft of water, forcing some villagers to shift to a village gurdwara in Purochak, stated the officers.

    Farmlands of Patti Naam Nagar, Handowal, Ulaha, Dhade Karwal and Patti Nve Ghar villages within the Hajipur space and Changarhwan, Chakmirpur and Sathwan in Talwara block are inundated, they stated.

    Water additionally entered the fields of Mehtabpur, Mauli and Naushehra villages within the Mukerian block, they added.

    Talwara SHO Hargurdev Singh stated 5 migrant labourers have been rescued once they were given trapped close to the Shah Nehar barrage in Talwara because of the discharge of water from the dam.

    Some other 15 labourers have been rescued close to Chakmirpur village, the police stated.

    9 participants of a circle of relatives in Changharwan village, positioned close to the river, have additionally been rescued.

    Hoshiarpur Deputy Commissioner Komal Mittal stated the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive (NDRF), State Crisis Reaction Drive and non-government organisations are being enlisted for aid operations.

    Mittal stated the evacuation paintings in about 15 villages remains to be underway and round 1,000 other people were despatched to aid camps.

    The comfort camps were arrange at Bhangala, Atalgarh, Sariana, Gera, Motka, Mehtabpur and Harse Mansar villages.

    The management has organized for excavators and tractor-trailers and deputed clinical groups within the flood-affected spaces.

    It has additionally arrange round the clock flood keep watch over rooms on the district and the tehsil ranges, Mittal stated.

    The location is being intently monitored, she stated and added that no lack of lifestyles has been reported from the flood-affected spaces thus far.

    The deputy commissioner stated the Mukerian-Gurdaspur Street has been closed for vehicular site visitors after you have submerged.

    Site visitors was once diverted to Gurdaspur by means of Pathankot.

    Arun Kumar Sidana, the executive engineer of the Beas dam in Talwara, stated the influx in Pong reservoir is 1.42 lakh cusecs and the water is being discharged in a managed means.

    The water stage within the Pong dam is recently at 1,399.65 ft. The extent within the Bhakra dam was once round 1,677 ft on Monday.

    In Rupnagar district, about part a dozen villages, together with Bela Dhyani, Bhanam, Palasi in Nangal space, have been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra dam.

    A number of other people have been trapped of their properties in Bhanam and Decrease Bela villages, positioned close to the Sutlej River, because of a robust present, villagers stated.

    Schooling Minister and Anandpur Sahib MLA Harjot Bains stated some villages were affected because of the discharge of water from the Bhakra dam.

    Bains stated the individuals are being evacuated to more secure puts and prompt towards any roughly panic.

    After heavy rain lashed Himachal Pradesh over the last two days, the surplus water needed to be launched from the Bhakra dam for its protection, Bains stated in a video message.

    “I’m at the floor. Because of the discharge (of water) from the Bhakra dam, some villages were critically affected in my constituency. Please do not panic or agree with rumours. We’re evacuating other people in peril zones. The district management and the NDRF are providing complete help,” Bains stated in a put up on X, previously referred to as Twitter.

    In Gurdaspur, the district management has directed the citizens of Chechia Chorian, Pakhowal, Kherha, Dalelpur, Padana, Chhina Wager, Nadala, Jagatpur Kalan, Kohlian and Khariaan villages to transport to protection amid a upward push within the Beas’ water stage.

    Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Mahajan requested other people to not panic and added that the management is able to care for any state of affairs. He stated other people too can use the helpline to hunt help.

    Punjab Leader Secretary Anurag Verma on Monday held a gathering with all deputy commissioners by means of videoconferencing to talk about the placement and requested them to be ready to care for any state of affairs and arrange aid camps, if vital.

    HOSHIARPUR: A number of villages close to the Beas River in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district and the Sutlej River in Rupnagar district have been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Pong and the Bhakra dams, officers stated on Tuesday.

    Many villagers have been evacuated to protection and the government are maintaining a tally of the placement, they stated.

    In Gurdaspur, the district management has additionally requested other people residing in low-lying spaces and close to the banks of the Beas to transport to more secure puts.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    In an advisory on Monday, the Punjab authorities had requested citizens of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran districts to not mission close to the Beas after it was once determined that water from the Pong dam can be launched.

    The Bhakra dam at the Sutlej and the Pong dam at the Beas — each in Himachal Pradesh — are brimming after heavy rain of their respective catchment spaces.

    In Hoshiarpur, a number of farmlands within the Talwara, Hajipur, Dasuya, Tanda and Mukerian villages have been flooded because of water discharge from the Pong dam reservoir, stated the officers.

    Water entered the low-lying villages, fields and a few properties positioned close to the Beas river, they stated.

    The Beal Sariana village in Hajipur block is underneath two-three ft of water, forcing some villagers to shift to a village gurdwara in Purochak, stated the officers.

    Farmlands of Patti Naam Nagar, Handowal, Ulaha, Dhade Karwal and Patti Nve Ghar villages within the Hajipur space and Changarhwan, Chakmirpur and Sathwan in Talwara block are inundated, they stated.

    Water additionally entered the fields of Mehtabpur, Mauli and Naushehra villages within the Mukerian block, they added.

    Talwara SHO Hargurdev Singh stated 5 migrant labourers have been rescued once they were given trapped close to the Shah Nehar barrage in Talwara because of the discharge of water from the dam.

    Some other 15 labourers have been rescued close to Chakmirpur village, the police stated.

    9 participants of a circle of relatives in Changharwan village, positioned close to the river, have additionally been rescued.

    Hoshiarpur Deputy Commissioner Komal Mittal stated the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive (NDRF), State Crisis Reaction Drive and non-government organisations are being enlisted for aid operations.

    Mittal stated the evacuation paintings in about 15 villages remains to be underway and round 1,000 other people were despatched to aid camps.

    The comfort camps were arrange at Bhangala, Atalgarh, Sariana, Gera, Motka, Mehtabpur and Harse Mansar villages.

    The management has organized for excavators and tractor-trailers and deputed clinical groups within the flood-affected spaces.

    It has additionally arrange round the clock flood keep watch over rooms on the district and the tehsil ranges, Mittal stated.

    The location is being intently monitored, she stated and added that no lack of lifestyles has been reported from the flood-affected spaces thus far.

    The deputy commissioner stated the Mukerian-Gurdaspur Street has been closed for vehicular site visitors after you have submerged.

    Site visitors was once diverted to Gurdaspur by means of Pathankot.

    Arun Kumar Sidana, the executive engineer of the Beas dam in Talwara, stated the influx in Pong reservoir is 1.42 lakh cusecs and the water is being discharged in a managed means.

    The water stage within the Pong dam is recently at 1,399.65 ft. The extent within the Bhakra dam was once round 1,677 ft on Monday.

    In Rupnagar district, about part a dozen villages, together with Bela Dhyani, Bhanam, Palasi in Nangal space, have been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra dam.

    A number of other people have been trapped of their properties in Bhanam and Decrease Bela villages, positioned close to the Sutlej River, because of a robust present, villagers stated.

    Schooling Minister and Anandpur Sahib MLA Harjot Bains stated some villages were affected because of the discharge of water from the Bhakra dam.

    Bains stated the individuals are being evacuated to more secure puts and prompt towards any roughly panic.

    After heavy rain lashed Himachal Pradesh over the last two days, the surplus water needed to be launched from the Bhakra dam for its protection, Bains stated in a video message.

    “I’m at the floor. Because of the discharge (of water) from the Bhakra dam, some villages were critically affected in my constituency. Please do not panic or agree with rumours. We’re evacuating other people in peril zones. The district management and the NDRF are providing complete help,” Bains stated in a put up on X, previously referred to as Twitter.

    In Gurdaspur, the district management has directed the citizens of Chechia Chorian, Pakhowal, Kherha, Dalelpur, Padana, Chhina Wager, Nadala, Jagatpur Kalan, Kohlian and Khariaan villages to transport to protection amid a upward push within the Beas’ water stage.

    Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Mahajan requested other people to not panic and added that the management is able to care for any state of affairs. He stated other people too can use the helpline to hunt help.

    Punjab Leader Secretary Anurag Verma on Monday held a gathering with all deputy commissioners by means of videoconferencing to talk about the placement and requested them to be ready to care for any state of affairs and arrange aid camps, if vital.

  • NIA raids 31 places in Punjab, Haryana over assault on Indian venture in London

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    The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Tuesday raided 31 places throughout Punjab and Haryana to resolve the total design of the conspiracy in the back of the March 19 assault at the Prime Fee of India in London in a bid to nab the ones concerned within the incident.
     
    “The NIA is leaving no stone unturned to pinpoint culpability within the London assault and arrest the perpetrators, their pals and their supporters, founded in India and in a foreign country,” stated a supply within the investigating company.

    The NIA has been wearing out intensive investigations into the incident to be able to making sure there’s no repeat of this kind of breach of safety, disrespect to the Indian flag or any risk to Indian pursuits in a foreign country.
     
    The raids resulted in the seizure of virtual information containing knowledge associated with the accused individuals concerned within the assault at the Prime Fee and different incriminating paperwork and proof.

    The districts the place the searches happened come with Moga, Barnala, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Tarn Taran, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, SBS Nagar, Amritsar, Mukhtsar, Sangrur, Patiala, Mohali in Punjab and Sirsa in Haryana, NIA resources stated.
     
    The Prime Fee of India in London was once attacked in March by way of a gaggle of about 50 folks, who dedicated legal trespass, brought about disrespect to the Indian flag, harm to public assets and accidents to officers of the venture.

    The assault was once allegedly organised by way of Gurcharan Singh, Dal Khalsa, UK; Avtar Singh Khanda of KLF, Jasvir Singh and plenty of in their pals, each Indian and international nationals, who’ve been known all through the continued NIA investigations.
     
    An NIA group had visited the United Kingdom in Would possibly 2023 to probe the assault. Therefore, the company known most of the attackers by way of amassing details about UK-based entities and folks concerned within the incident thru crowdsourcing.

    The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Tuesday raided 31 places throughout Punjab and Haryana to resolve the total design of the conspiracy in the back of the March 19 assault at the Prime Fee of India in London in a bid to nab the ones concerned within the incident.
     
    “The NIA is leaving no stone unturned to pinpoint culpability within the London assault and arrest the perpetrators, their pals and their supporters, founded in India and in a foreign country,” stated a supply within the investigating company.

    The NIA has been wearing out intensive investigations into the incident to be able to making sure there’s no repeat of this kind of breach of safety, disrespect to the Indian flag or any risk to Indian pursuits in a foreign country.
     
    The raids resulted in the seizure of virtual information containing knowledge associated with the accused individuals concerned within the assault at the Prime Fee and different incriminating paperwork and proof.

    The districts the place the searches happened come with Moga, Barnala, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Tarn Taran, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, SBS Nagar, Amritsar, Mukhtsar, Sangrur, Patiala, Mohali in Punjab and Sirsa in Haryana, NIA resources stated.
     
    The Prime Fee of India in London was once attacked in March by way of a gaggle of about 50 folks, who dedicated legal trespass, brought about disrespect to the Indian flag, harm to public assets and accidents to officers of the venture.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The assault was once allegedly organised by way of Gurcharan Singh, Dal Khalsa, UK; Avtar Singh Khanda of KLF, Jasvir Singh and plenty of in their pals, each Indian and international nationals, who’ve been known all through the continued NIA investigations.
     
    An NIA group had visited the United Kingdom in Would possibly 2023 to probe the assault. Therefore, the company known most of the attackers by way of amassing details about UK-based entities and folks concerned within the incident thru crowdsourcing.

  • 1,457 villages nonetheless suffering from floods in Punjab

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    CHANDIGARH: A complete of one,457 villages in Punjab are nonetheless suffering from floods led to through the new heavy downpour within the state, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    Recently, 19 districts “Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, Bathinda and Pathankot” are flood-affected, they mentioned.

    A complete of 27,221 other people had been evacuated from waterlogged spaces and brought to more secure puts within the state, the officers mentioned, including 170 aid camps are operational by which 4,909 flood-hit individuals are staying.

    In step with a file through the earnings division, 40 other people misplaced their lives because of the floods and 15 had been injured.

    A number of districts of Punjab and Haryana had been battered through the new heavy downpour that left standard lifestyles paralysed and flooded huge tracts of residential and agricultural land.

    Despite the fact that the floodwaters have receded in lots of spaces of Punjab and Haryana, paintings on plugging breaches in earthen embankments that experience arise alongside the rivers used to be happening.

    Punjab Water Sources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Thursday issued directions to hurry up the paintings on plugging breaches alongside rivers at other puts within the state.

    CHANDIGARH: A complete of one,457 villages in Punjab are nonetheless suffering from floods led to through the new heavy downpour within the state, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    Recently, 19 districts “Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, Bathinda and Pathankot” are flood-affected, they mentioned.

    A complete of 27,221 other people had been evacuated from waterlogged spaces and brought to more secure puts within the state, the officers mentioned, including 170 aid camps are operational by which 4,909 flood-hit individuals are staying.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In step with a file through the earnings division, 40 other people misplaced their lives because of the floods and 15 had been injured.

    A number of districts of Punjab and Haryana had been battered through the new heavy downpour that left standard lifestyles paralysed and flooded huge tracts of residential and agricultural land.

    Despite the fact that the floodwaters have receded in lots of spaces of Punjab and Haryana, paintings on plugging breaches in earthen embankments that experience arise alongside the rivers used to be happening.

    Punjab Water Sources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Thursday issued directions to hurry up the paintings on plugging breaches alongside rivers at other puts within the state.