Following the media reports of five deaths because of jaundice and alarmingly increasing number of those suffering from jaundice and typhoid in various localities of the Amritsar city, the Health

While four persons have died, about 1,000 are suffering from Jaundice in the areas of ward numbers 19, 20, 23 and 24 of the Amritsar city. While people of the area and their representatives claim

The management of the Jumbo Circus has sought more time to shift two of its animals, a hippopotamus and a chimpanzee, to the Chhatbir Zoo. District Magistrate Tejveer Singh had written to the circus

The Indian National Lok Dal has expressed resentment over the 'meagre' financial assistance provided by the Central Government to compensate the drought hit people of Punjab. It has asked the Central

The municipal solid waste management project in Haryana has got a fillip with the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) sanctioning a loan of Rs 90.85 crore for implementation in 23 more

Alarmed over the soaring numbers of AIDS cases, the Haryana Government plans to extend the facility of voluntary counselling and testing centres to all districts. Presently, these are in operation at

The widespread illegal stone quarrying along river Pabbar has increased to such an extent that even the meagre forest patches along the river bed are not being spared. The Mining Department had

With the National Institute of Communicable Diseases(NICD) report failing to reach any concrete findings on 'mysterious fever' which had claimed at least seven lives, the mystery has further

In a blatant violation of Forest Conservation Act, more than 300 trees have been felled illegally in the land locked tribal Dodrakwar sub-division in Shimla district. The trees have been felled with

In an initiative to get rid of gutka, a popular chewing intoxicant, use of which has reached alarming proportions in the Himachal Pradesh state, at least 30 gram panchayats in Himachal Pradesh have