The Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR) organised “Rabi Kisan Mela” here today.

Constituency watch: Assandh

Enraged over the non-implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report, the members of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) protested against the Centre on Independence Day here.

About 45 per cent of water samples from five districts — Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar — collected by the Haryana Health Department failed the purity test in the past five m

Sunday night’s showers and the prevailing overcast sky has left Surinder Doda of Nigdhu village worried, much like other farmers of the state.

Four districts of the state, including Karnal, Yamunanagar, Panchcula and Ambala, have an alarming situation on malnutrition.

The water table in several districts of Punjab and Haryana has been showing a continuous declining trend in the last four decades.

The six-laning work on the National Highway-1 commenced in 2009 for which lakhs of trees were felled, but the Forest Department failed to ensure compensatory plantation on the stretch extending fro

As many as 25 acres of land was affected from yellow rust in the Yamuna belt, mainly Yamunanagar and Karnal, making it the most affected area in this regard.

Development at the cost of life seems to be the mantra of the government. As many as 19,348 trees will be cut for the four-laning of state highways 6 and 7 (Karnal-Ladwa-Yamunanagar road).

The Public Works Department (Buildings and Roads) has been granted permission to cut trees, but there is no mention of how the cutting of trees will be compensated.