Karnal: The role of poor quality soils and water resources in enhancing the food production was highlighted in a three-day seminar,

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will provide parking facilities at all the five metro stations in the Gurgaon area, which will include the second largest parking lot of the Metro network.

The Parking spaces will be available at HUDA City Centre, IFFCO Chowk, MG Road, Sikanderpur and Guru Dronacharya Metro Station.

But the grain production is unlikely to be affected.

Wheat production may scale new peak.

Last year, wheat coverage in Punjab was 34.59 lakh hectares (lh). This year, it has declined to 33.91 lh. Similarly, the acreage in Haryana has dropped to 24.01 lh (24.50 lh) and Rajasthan to 16.92 lh (17.39 lh).

Back in 2006 Newsweek ranked Ghaziabad as one of the world’s “ten most dynamic” cities, waxing eloquent about its potential to emerge on the world map among counterparts such as Las Vegas and Toulo

New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is starting trial runs on the Gurgaon stretch of the Central Secretariat to HUDA City Centre line from January 29. The trial train will be flagged off by Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Urban development minister Jaipal Reddy.

An assessment of the implementation of the much-celebrated National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) of the Centre for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has found that the scheme has had the least impact on Punjab followed by Haryana. However, the scheme has met with substantial success in Himachal Pradesh.

An awareness rally was flagged off at the Ministry of Environment and Forests here Tuesday, marking the start of Animal Welfare Fortnight 2010.

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) is organising the rally, which will move through Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh.

Smriti Kak Ramachandran

NEW DELHI: The longstanding tussle over water-sharing between Haryana and Delhi is far from over. Haryana

The cold wave in north India claimed 29 more lives, tak ng the toll to 258 this win er, as icy winds swept across the region and dense og affected movement of air, rail and road traffic on Sunday.

India has made rapid progress in food grain production during second half of the 20th century in which Punjab has played a leading role. However, the growth rate in the state has slowed down over the years and now there is practically a plateauing of the productivity of wheat and rice, the two most important food grain crops.

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