Fatehabad: Boswal village with a population of over 1,700 persons has become the first village in the district to have adopted compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) for lighting their homes.

The village is inhabited by families displaced from Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh at the time of construction of Bhakra Dam.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Ashok Meena, whose efforts helped the village

Haryana has a vast potential to tap solar energy and organic energy from the waste of agricultural produce, according to scientific experts.

They were participating in a seminar on

Preeti Parashar

Chandigarh: The land acquisition process for Haryana

With more than 600 cases being reported from Bhatu Kalan, Ratia and Tohana areas of the district, malaria has gripped Fatehabad.

CHANDIGARH: The agitating farmers of Gorakhpur-Kumharia village of Haryana have decided to stage an indefinite dharna outside the mini secretariat at Fatehabad, over 300 km from here, to protest against the acquisition of over 1,400 acres by the government for a nuclear power plant there.

A relief of Rs 94.93 crore will be paid to farmers whose crops were damaged in the recent floods in Haryana.

This figure has been calculated as per the state norms on the basis of damage to crops assessed through a special girdawari.

This was revealed at a meeting of the state-level committee constituted to administer the Haryana Calamity Relief Fund, which was chaired by Chief Secretary Urv

Sushil Manav

Fatehabad, August 17
Farmers from Gorakhpur village in this district, where the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NIPCL) is to set up a power plant soon, are up in arms against the government move to acquire their land.

New Delhi: Four new nuclear power plants proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India have run into trouble with the environment and forests ministry rejecting their initial applications for statutory environmental clearances.