Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged the Chairman and Managing Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL), Dr SK Jain, to fast track pre-project activities and completing 4x700 MW nuclear power project in a shorter time frame.

Faridabad: Hundreds of villagers from Anangpur, Mewla Maharajpur and Ankhir joined residents of Kant Enclave residential colony in Surajkund and demonstrated in front of the office of deputy commissioner in Sector-12. They were protesting against the Haryana forest department that has reserved land in their area and prohibited any construction on it, saying it is forest land.

Nishu Mahajan | Chandigarh

Deliberating upon the need to apprise people about the environment hazards caused by burning of agriculture residue or wastes in the fields, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) is organising awareness programmes at the block levels in all 21 districts of the State under a special action plan prepared by the Board to deal with the issue.

The green building code, termed energy conservation building code (ECBC), is likely to be mandatory for commercial buildings coming up in eight fast growing states in the next two years.

She is possibly the most expensive baby in the country today and certainly among the most pampered.

Garima, the cloned buffalo calf born as part of a Rs 7 crore National Agricultural Innovation Project funded by World Bank, is growing handsomely at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal.

Born a healthy 43 kg on June 6, the calf is now five-and-a-half months old.

As a further step towards the setting up of a nuclear power plant in Haryana, a team of officers of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), led by its chairman-cum-managing director SK Jain, will arrive here tomorrow on a two-day visit to initiate pre-project activities.

In a letter to Municipal Commissioner Dr Roshan Sunkaria, Mayor Kamlesh has sought his comments on the report prepared by councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma on the Dadumajra garbage processing plant.

CHANDIGRH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday that his Government proposed to double agriculture production by 2020.

State Congress president Phool Chand Mullana, while addressing delegates on the second day of the UGC- sponsored conference on "Efficacy of Special Economic Zones (SEZS) in India" at the Guru Nanak Khalsa College here today, said under the new industrial policy the state government will not acquire any fertile tract of land for SEZs.