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Punjab's fading prosperity is fueling unemployment and worker unrest

Punjab has an unemployment rate at 16.8% in 2015-16-higher than national average of 11.6%

Save Punjab from drug menace: BJP leader to Rajnath Singh

Laxmi Kanta Chawla said youths are completely trapped in the drug menace and they need to be saved

Unearth Badals' blackmoney in 2 months, else we will: Kejriwal to PM Modi

Kejriwal also criticises both SAD-BJP and Congress for not doing enough to improve the health infrastructure of the state

Punjab Congress demands setting up new tribunal to access state water

Congress leaders and workers will burn effigies of CM Parkash Singh Badal in all 117 Assembly segments of the state on Saturday

Robust strategy to prevent use of money, drugs in Punjab: CEC Nasim Zaidi

He also said that various parties have sought 'overhauling' of the police and civil administration in the State

AAP industry manifesto lacks understanding, says Amarinder

Bereft of any real understanding of issues facing the state's industry, Arvind Kejriwal has simply picked some of the promises made by the Punjab Congress

Media should develop self-regulatory mechanism: V P Singh Bandore

Citing incidents of 'paid news', Badnore, said that media should take firm steps to check this menace

Battling for Punjab's crown

It's difficult to read the mood this time, with established incumbents and opposition jostling vigorously, and more than one active newcomer

Peace, development to be SAD-BJP's main poll agenda: Parkash Singh Badal

Badal claimed that besides strengthening the bond of brotherhood and amity in the state, alliance has ensured all-round development of Punjab

Akalis resorting to desperate measures for publicity: Congress

State Congress leaders accused the Badal govt of continued misuse of the official machinery for its vested political interests

Parkash Singh Badal slams Kejriwal

Kejriwal is issuing baseless and irrational statements just for vested political interests, says Badal

Congress to launch mass contact campaign in Punjab from October 12

Door to door programme will be held in the campaign, said Amarinder Singh

Punjab border area schools to reopen on Wednesday

All schools had been closed due to security reasons

Punjab seeks more paramilitary forces amid heightened vigil Chandigarh

Development comes at a time when Punjab has heightened vigil following Indian Army's surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK

Supreme Court dismisses DoT plea for stay on TDSAT order on Punjab circle

Bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices C Nagappan and A M Khanwilkar said, we don't find any merit in the plea

Punjab to provide free education to displaced students

Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema said the students who have been shifted to relief camps would get the education in nearby schools

Centre, state govt spreading panic in Punjab: AAP

Till now, more than 950 villages have been vacated by the administration

Punjab has doubled its power generation, says Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh

The average demand of Punjab is between 9000 MW to 11,500 MW, but it generates 37.69 per cent surplus, he claimed

It's not war yet, but Punjab border villages face war-like situation

Over 400,000 people in Punjab's border belt have been evacuated

Even 'shadow' of Cong, AAP is bad for Punjab: Parkash Singh Badal

He alleged that these parties don't have any sympathy for the people of Punjab and were hostile to the interests of the state