With around 2,500 confirmed dengue cases reported already, the state is in the severe grip of the vector-borne disease.

From 9.2 per cent in 2005-06, the figure has touched 15.6 per cent in a latest surveya

Punjab’s Local Bodies Department had been using the wrong insecticide to tackle dengue, depending on deltamethrin for fogging (hot vapours used to carry the spray and keep it airborne; done outdoor

Punjab lost almost two lakh trees every year to development works in the past five years (2011-12 to 2015-16).

Acted on two petitions alleging indiscriminate felling of trees in Punjab for widening roads and those standing along the canal banks, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today ordered that not a sin

The state witnesses a severe shortage of government doctors, with one doctor to serve a population of more than 9,000, a recent survey found.