Chandigarh: A total of 11 patients, including five children, suffering from diarrhoea were referred to hospitals in the city on Tuesday.

Ludhiana: Members of the Ludhiana Builders’ Association have complained to the government that the state’s building industry is in the grips of a very active mining mafia.

An eight-member central team comprising members from the Planning Commission, Central Water Board and drainage experts on Monday visited the water-logged villages in Muktsar, where a large swath of

Fazilka: Expressing disappointment at the decrease in forest cover in Punjab to around 7 per cent (as opposed to the 33 per cent set as the norm by the Government of India) due to deforestation, Ch

Jalandhar: A handful of agricultural scientists in Punjab may have found a solution to the problem of the state’s rapidly lowering groundwater level.

Chandigarh: Around 55 lakh cubic feet of silt, that has been removed from Sukhna Lake, is lying by the lake itself.

A survey of the Sukhna Lake catchment was conducted today to find ways of saving the lake from drying up.

Shimla: In a blow to the state government’s move to levy one per cent additional free power on all hydel projects under Local Area Development Fund (LADF), Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled tha

Shimla: Forest fires in Himachal Pradesh have destroyed more than 20,000 acres of forest land and caused a loss of more than Rs 2.6 cr of green property in three weeks.

Chandigarh: The Panchkula lake project initiated by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), which had been shelved previously, is being revived at a tentative cost of Rs 18 crore following an a