Land for NPCIL colony is blackbuck habitat: Report

In a setback to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to expedite the setting up of its 4x700MW nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, has recommended that the 187 acres acquired for developing its residential colony at Badopal should be notifed as “Conservation Reserve” for blackbucks and the NPCIL should look for an alternative site for its colony.

The loan will be used for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned a loan of Rs 238.65 crore for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana.
Stating this, NABARD (Haryana), Chief General Manager, D V Deshpande, said the loan was approved under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)scheme.

Despite ban on mining in riverbeds across India by the Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal, the activity is being carried out with impunity by the sand mafia in parts of Karnal district.

Cabinet gives nod to new policy. A 500 sq ft flat worth Rs 20 lakh on cards

Owning a flat may seem a far-fetched idea to the common man but Haryana’s ‘Affordable Policy 2013’ is set to change all that. With the Cabinet giving its nod to a policy for mass availability of dwelling units at rates that are easier on the common man’s pocket, a 500 sq ft flat will now cost Rs 20 lakh in the high potential towns of the state.

With more than 70 government school students reportedly falling ill after consuming iron tablets, the focus is back on these tablets that are being administered to children across the state.

The campaign slogans of the volunteer group raising its voice against noise pollution in Gurgaon are impatient and exclamatory - "Do not honk!" "For God's sake stop honking." It's almost as though

70% adolescents in state anaemic in the absence of iron supplementation

Undeterred by the resistance to administration of iron and folic acid tablets to students of government schools in Haryana, the Union Health Ministry, committed to pushing its anti-anaemia agenda, is all set to roll out a National Iron+ Initiative to cover women of all age groups.

Rewari, July 25: As many as 50 children of the Government Primary School of Mamadia Ahir village, about 22 km from Rewari, were taken ill, eight of them seriously, after they were administered iron

Health authorities reduce dose of the drug to children falling sick

A day after over 800 schoolchildren were taken ill due to intake of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets across the state, nearly 100 children fell ill in Sirsa and an equal number of children were taken ill in Fatehabad today.