Amritsar, Gobind Singh Longowal was on Tuesday re-appointed President of the cash-rich Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).

The decision was taken at the annual meeting of the SGPC general house held inside the Golden Temple complex here.

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The Cooperation Department, Punjab, would observe the ‘Cooperative Week’ from 14th-20th November. The inauguration would be done on 14th November at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. On the occasion, the Cooperation Minister, Punjab, S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and his counterpart from Maharashtra Mr. Subhash G. Deshmukh would be the chief guests. This was disclosed here today in a press communiqué by the Chairman Markfed Mr. Amarjit Singh Samra and MD Markfed Mr. Varun Roojam.

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The Cooperation Minister, Punjab, S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa while chairing a meeting today of all the Regional Officers of the department at Markfed headoffice instructed the Deputy Registrars of all the districts to channelize all their energies on the financial resuscitation of the cooperative societies. On the occasion, Additional Chief Secretary, Cooperation, Mr. Viswajeet Khanna who also holds the charge of Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, said that Markfed and IFFCO jointly supply the 50 percent fertilizers through the cooperation 

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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday inaugurated the 100 -bedded ultra-modern Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital in Sangrur, to take forward his government’s mission to provide affordable cancer care to the people of Punjab.

Amritsar, People in Punjab are sharing fake news stories with nationalistic messages for "nation building" purposes, with consolidation of national identity taking precedence over the need to fact-check a story, new BBC research has found.

The research, done as part of the BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) 'Beyond Fake News' project, which is a new international anti-disinformation initiative, which was launched here on Monday, was done based on access granted to the research team by ordinary people to their mobile phones.

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A day long interactive session 'Career Vision-2018' was organized at Khalsa College for Women where learned professionals from different departments streams and arenas disseminated and assimilated their knowledge to orientate students towards the world of work.

The seminar commenced with the felicitation of the Chief Guest Khalsa College Governing Council honourary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina who in his inaugural address highlighted that informed career choices help students make smart and correct decisions that lead to success in life. He advised the students to be very attentive and to ask questions related to their career plans & make the best use of the seminar. He added that programs like these promote sharing of multiple views of knowledge creation and are the critical means whereby the quality of academic learning, discovery and engagement can be enhanced, broadened and enlivened.

Chandigarh Core Committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal today decided “with a heavy heart” to expel for six years Mr. Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, his son Mr. Ravinder Pal Singh Brahmpura, Dr. Rattan Sigh Ajnala and his son Mr Amarpal Singh Boni from the primary membership of the party for “indulging in anti-party activities.”

Giving this information, party spokesperson Harcharan Bains told newspersons that the party regretted that Mr Ranjit Sigh Brahampura and Dr Rattan Singh Ajnala and their sons who are also members of the party have recently been acting in a manner which showed utter insensitivity and disregard for the immense respect and the liberal and magnanimous treatment extended to them by the party leaders, Sardar Parkash Singh Badal and the party president Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Chandigarh, Punjab has procured over 130 lakh tonne of paddy this kharif season, food and supplies officials said on Friday.

"Government agencies and private millers have procured 130.34 lakh tonne of paddy in Punjab till November 8 while payment worth Rs. 18,515.46 crore has been transferred to the accounts of arthiya and farmers by the government," a Punjab government spokesman said.

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Giving a further impetus to ease of doing business in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday launched the government’s unique `Business First Portal’, thus paving the way for further boosting industrial development, which has witnessed a massive leap since the new government took over in March 2018.

Pointing out that the portal, as a single-window clearance resource, would provide an independent interface to investors for their industrial grievance redressal, feedback and suggestions, Captain Amarinder said the state-of-the-art online facility would help bring fiscal incentives to investors in a time-bound manner under the Industrial and Development Policy-2017.

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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday lambasted the Akalis led by Sukhbir Singh Badal for unnecessarily creating a law and order problem over the issue of school history books even after the government had categorically clarified that the new course books would not be introduced until the Expert Group set up to review them completes its task.