New Delhi: Earth Hour, an hour when world over people will voluntarily turn off all non-essential lights in a bid to pledge their bit to fight climate change, is just a week away. The event was formally launched in Delhi on Friday night with a concert by rock band Advaita and musician Sajid Akbar.

Chandigarh: Emphasising upon the need for soil and water conservation technologies to meet the threats of climate change, global warming and melting of glaciers, Dr J P Kaushik, special secretary and director, Agriculture, Haryana, said soil health has deteriorated to such an extent that it has become the most important limiting factor in crop production.

Chandigarh: An Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) study released today cited significant shift to cotton crop coupled with unavailability of water, erratic power supply, unpaid debt and unavailability of micro-credit from banks as the main reasons for farmers

Chandigarh: Seminar on

Solan: Peeved over the alleged indifference of the Haryana state Government and the Centre towards the bad condition of the Pinjore-Baddi stretch of National Highway 21A, the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries

Chandigarh: A three-day conference on

Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday.

Chandigarh: In a rally held at Khuda Alisher village today, the farmers of the region demanded that they be allowed to set up Special Economic Zones (SEZs) of non-polluting and IT-enabled industries in the villages. Various other resolutions were also passed during the rally.

Dasuya(Hoshiarpur): After pioneering Green Revolution in India, Punjab is ready with the state

Nodal agency must for monitoring: Experts

In order to avoid discrepancy in ground water-related data from different sources in a state, there should be one nodal agency to work in ground water sector.

Also, there should be one Central agency to oversee the state agency.