

Friday 12 September '08
For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...Friday 12 September '08
It has been in the elite club of revenue-surplus states for the past three years...Tuesday
9 September '08For cash-starved Punjab, it has been a good year so far. Robust value added tax collections in the first five months of this financial year have resulted in Punjab setting an ambitious target of raking in Rs 7,200 crore, a jump of Rs 1,500 crore from last year.Thursday
28 August '08His tall claims of an economic revival and resurgent Punjab had not long ago held out promise of a radical change.Friday
18 July '08While Punjab’s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...Monday
30 June '08With none other than the Prince of Wales eager to market the organic produce of some 30 villages here under his brand...Monday
16 June '08India’s flourishing honey industry, based primarily in Punjab, has pressed the panic button after over 90 per cent...Tuesday
10 June '08While the world is caught in a food crisis, Punjab has a problem of plenty. After a bumper wheat procurement in Punjab...Friday
30 May '08Failing to kick-start its ambitious Rs 1,850 crore Nanocity project -building a sustainable city with world-class infrastructure...Saturday
3 May '08This once sleepy village of Manak Tabra in Haryana has known no peace since 2006Friday
2 May '08Thanks to the sub-standard jute gunny bags being used for wheat procurement by Food Corporation of India...Friday
11 April '08As reports of hailstorm-induced crop destruction pour in from various parts of Punjab and district heads prepare to assess the damage...Tuesday
1 April '08Yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s famed juices and medicines have an unlikely beneficiary in cash-strapped...Thursday
6 March '08The hype around the country’s shortest-duration power plant has now become its nemesis.Wednesday
27 February '08Cash-rich Haryana has earmarked Rs 2,800 crore for power subsidy to farm sector for the year 2008-09, surpassing even Andhra Pradesh...Saturday
16 February '08While cash-strapped Punjab, where change of land use and license fee rates were hiked on the pattern of Haryana by the new Akali-BJP...Wednesday
13 February '08For all those opposed to “the import of foreign culture” as represented by McDonald’s, here is food for thought.Saturday
17 November '07They share our traits, like our fast food, are high on emotions yet their presence in our area disturbs us.Monday
29 October '07The carte blanche available to states to pick up land for developers is already gone. And with the new National Policy on Rehabilitation and Resettlement , bringing in the principle of rehabilitation before displacement...Thursday
20 September '07It has been a long wait for villagers from across 23 villages in Haryana. In January, hotmail man Sabeer Bhatia had come with a bus full of professors...Tuesday
11 September '07Call it feudal hangover but Haryana, a state on the path of economic prosperity is embroiled in caste wars over the gotra (lineage) issue.Friday
31 August '07Do you know the high you get from your cola or energy drink comes from Punjab?Saturday
25 August '07“Investors are like birds, they flock where they see some of their kind. A few big-ticket investments can work wonders for HaryanaFriday
8 June '07When Punjab extended the deadline for wheat procurement by 15 days this year, it was hoping for big gains. After all, the market had witnessed robust arrival of above 25,000...Friday
27 April '07With the Provident Fund rate for 2006-07 still in limbo, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is expected to crop up when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the Indian Labour Conference