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CBI to enquire Polytechnic 2nd Shift Scam

Senior BJP Leader and Punjab BJP Investor Cell Chief, Advocate Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal today unfolded a major racket by Private Polytechnic Colleges in Punjab in association with officials of Punjab StateTechnical Education and Industrial Training Board and All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

 
Farmers not looking at "Sarkari Alms"
Punjab contributes maximum production of Wheat and Paddy across India despite acute power and labour shortage across state and adverse climatic conditions. Despite being the highest producer of Wheat and Paddy per hectare, the profits of the hard working Punjab farmer are getting diminutive. Reason, increased input costs, farmer today is bearing an additional daily brunt of Diesel to pump water from its  Tubewells which is equivalent to Monthly Power subsidy given by the Punjab Government.
 
Scary State of Drug Addiction in India PDF Print E-mail
June 26 is celebrated as International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking every year. It is an exercise undertaken by the world community to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular, to the menace of drugs. The picture is grim if the world statistics on the drugs scenario is taken into account. With a turnover of around $500 billions, it is the third largest business in the world, next to petroleum and arms trade. About 190 million people all over the world consume one drug or the other. Drug addiction causes immense human distress and the illegal production and distribution of drugs have spawned crime and violence worldwide. Today, there is no part of the world that is free from the curse of drug trafficking and drug addiction. Millions of drug addicts, all over the world, are leading miserable lives, between life and death.


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Being an NRI PDF Print E-mail
Punjabis are ethnically, linguistically and culturally related to the other Indo-Aryan peoples of South Asia. There are an estimated 120 million Punjabis around the world. The Punjabi people have emigrated in large numbers to many parts of the world.The United Kingdom has a significant number of Punjabis from both India and Pakistan as does Canada and the United States. The Middle East has a large immigrant community of Punjabis, in places such as the UAE and Kuwait. Indians in the USA are one of the largest among the groups of Indian diaspora, numbering about 1.7 million, and probably the most well off - their median income is 1.5 times that of the host country.


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Farmer Suicides? PDF Print E-mail
In 1997 India experienced its first bout of farmers suicides and since then over 25,000 farmers have taken their own lives. The crisis has stemmed from a number of hardships which have led to the irreversible indebtedness of small and marginal farmers from even the most historically productive regions of the country. India’s agriculture has turned into a negative economy due largely to three main factors: rising costs of cultivation, plummeting prices of farm commodities, and lack of credit availability for small farmers. Most of these factors can be attributed to corporate globalisation and unjust free trade policies implemented by the World Trade Organisation.


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