Responding to Punjab's request, the Uttar Pradesh Government gave its share of 500 MW power from the Central pool to Punjab, providing a relief, especially to the agriculture sector, whose supply was

Industries Minister Seep Chand Bandhu's attributing the delay in relocating polluting industries to the economic slowdown has come as a shot in the arm for industrialists. Buoyed by the minister's

The Punjab Government has sought Rs 300 crore aid from Japan to set up a new nurseries and strengthen the existing ones for growing enough plants to bring considerable chunk of waste and other lands

Despite as many as 10 Prevention Pollution Acts under implementation in Punjab, the scene is dismal and alarming. All the Acts framed between 1974 and 2001 have failed to stop people from indulging

The ministerial task force on disaster management, headed by Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani directed the Committee of Secretaries to assess and take a decision on the foodgrain demand of the

The International Financial Consortium (IFC) comprising leading banks and foundations has agreed to provide $ 1 billion to boost Punjab's rural development programme during the visit of the Chief

The Punjab Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Mrs. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, who has visited various drought affected districts, said that she would ask the State Cooperation Department to stop

Manas drain, on the outskirts of the Kaithal town, Haryana meant to carry floodwaters, has been converted into a dumping ground due to the negligence on the part of the Public Health Department and

Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia stressed the need for preventing lifestyle disease among people by increasing awareness about them. Inaugurating 'The Apollo Clinic' established by the Apollo Health

Three more diarrhoea patients from Saran village in the Yamunanagar district were admitted to a hospital. Residents of the village are scared to drink even the tap water because a large number of