Anju is a Jalandhar (Punjab)-based Assistant Editor with The Indian Express. Coming from this predominantly agrarian state from where the Green Revolution ushered, agriculture is close to her heart. She writes extensively on this topic, with special focus on related issues that the state is facing such as farmer suicides, stubble burning, rapid depletion of water table because of water-guzzling, MSP-supported paddy, etc. Her write-ups are based on extensive research, field visits and interactions with stake-holders. Apart from this she also covers several other issues of the Punjab state. She tweets @Anjuagnihotri1
April 24, 2013 04:24 IST
People were promised jobs with reputed companies involved in reconstruction work in Iraq.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013April 22, 2013 03:18 IST
Out of the 80,000 students who had applied for Joint Entrance Test (JET) this year,only around 64,000 appeared for the examination on Sunday,sources in the Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training said.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 21, 2013 02:28 IST
Tall claims of Punjab government of making huge efforts to bring more and more area under organic farming falls flat as it has not sanctioned even a single penny for the Organic Farming Council of Punjab
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 21, 2013 00:23 IST
It was set up as a helpline by Punjab Cong to help partymen against political vendetta. Most calls have little to do with it
Sun, Apr 21, 2013April 19, 2013 00:37 IST
Punjab introduces two summer varieties of mushrooms,traditionally seen as a winter crop
Fri, Apr 19, 2013April 17, 2013 04:36 IST
On day two of PPPs Chintan Ijlas,which concluded in Jalandhar on Tuesday,party chief Manpreet Singh Badal claimed Punjab was the most corrupt state in the country and it was being plundered by the top state leadership.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 17, 2013 04:30 IST
Riding on an expected bumper crop,the wheat procurement in Punjab has gained momentum with government and private agencies already procuring more than 3.65 lakh tonnes during the ongoing Rabi marketing season.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 15, 2013 04:22 IST
Exactly a year after the collapse of Shital Fibres owned by industrialist Shital Vij led to the death of 23 labourer and left over 60 injured,a new two-storey building has come up at the same spot.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 14, 2013 05:10 IST
Though Indias sugar production this year (till March end) fell by two percent compared to last year,Punjab has recorded a 9 percent increase in sugar production this year as compared to 2011-2012.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 14, 2013 05:01 IST
Less than an year after it launched an ambitious scheme to utilise computers in state schools to train general masses,the Punjab government has shut it down owing to poor response.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 14, 2013 04:56 IST
A Bangla delegation had visited RCF to check the infra.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 12, 2013 05:00 IST
For a state,which had taken huge steps towards crop diversification by opting for banana plantation,the interest of the farmers in the cash crop seems to be waning.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 12, 2013 04:42 IST
Factionalism in the Congress came out in the open on Thursday with Nawanshahr MLA Guriqbal Kaur Babli objecting to the presence of party district president at her residence,from where state Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa was addressing mediapersons.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 11, 2013 04:46 IST
Of the two prime accused still on the run in the ASI killing case,one of them,Rajinder Singh Mintu of Fatehgarh Sahib,has a broken leg.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 10, 2013 04:35 IST
Farmers along the Indo-Pak border in Punjab are slowly being lured into drug smuggling,data with the Border Security Force (BSF) has revealed.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 05, 2013 05:14 IST
The Delhi High Court has recently asked Punjab Technical University to file a reply before May 1 in connection with admissions made by it in its distance education programmes.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 05, 2013 05:13 IST
The Jalandhar commissionerate of police has already forwarded most of the arrested peddlers to the Kapurthala jail.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 04, 2013 03:55 IST
He returned from the UK to help his harassed girlfriend before getting caught up in a web of crime,that began with an attempt to murder case and culminated in his arrest for alleged involvement in the ASIs killing
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 03, 2013 03:54 IST
The Enforcement Directorate (ED),Jalandhar,Tuesday registered a money laundering case against NRI drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon in connection with narcotics recovered from his Zirakpur house last month.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 03, 2013 01:15 IST
The Enforcement Directorate,Jalandhar,on Tuesday registered a money laundering case against NRI drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon in connection with narcotics recovered from his house
Wed, Apr 03, 2013April 02, 2013 03:07 IST
An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Punjab Police,Gurdev Singh,52,was shot dead by unidentified persons on the Jalandhar-Phagwara NH 1,opposite the Haveli restaurant on Sunday night at around 1.30 am
Tue, Apr 02, 2013March 29, 2013 03:03 IST
Senior police officers had to intervene to restore normalcy,SP Jagmohan Singh said.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014March 27, 2013 04:38 IST
Though Punjab is expecting to harvest over 21 lakh metric tonnes of potato this year,it and the Northern states might yet have to depend on other states to provide them with potatoes fit for human consumption.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014March 24, 2013 04:13 IST
Slamming the Opposition for not organising a function to mark Shaheed Bhagat Singhs martyrdom day,Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday accused the Congress and the Peoples Party Punjab (PPP) of being apathetic to the martyrs contributions to the freedom struggle.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014March 22, 2013 02:38 IST
Hoshirapurs Hash Biotech Farm has been set up by a private limited company,also called Hash Biotech.
Fri, Mar 22, 2013