The ITC Green Center that Hillary Clinton visited last month is an early adopter of sustainable construction.

CHANDIGARH: The Indian National Lok Dal on Wednesday demanded that Haryana be declared

Unsustainable water use in India is threatening agricultural production and raising the spectre of a major water crisis.

This latest study based on NASA satellite data says that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade and the loss is almost entirely due to human activity. Shows that more than 26 cubic miles of groundwater disappeared from aquifers in areas of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi, between 2002 and 2008.

Groundwater is a primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world. Some regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. Indirect evidence suggests that this is the case in northwest India, but there has been no regional assessment of the rate of groundwater depletion.

Haryana is all set to invoke the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, from tomorrow even as the number of H1N1 cases

Chandigarh: The Haryana government would provide land to the Haryana Housing Board for construction of 38,000 houses in the state for people belonging to economically weaker sections of society in both urban and rural areas. The land in urban areas would be provided on collector rates and in rural areas, it would be given on floor rates.

Shortage of Bajri, Sand

All major road and other construction projects, including the four-laning of the Zirakpur-Kalka highway, have come to a halt. Not for the shortage of funds, but for the unavailability of materials like stones and bajri.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has sought a special relief package of Rs.1,000 crore from the Centre in view of drought-like conditions in the State.

In a communication to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mr. Hooda said Haryana Power Utilities had to be compensated for costly purchase of additional power to facilitate sowing of kharif crops.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday hit out at political parties which had been making the Dadupur-Nalvi canal project their poll plank and even included it in their election manifestos but on coming to power forgot all about it. This was the reason why the project was not initiated for more than 30 years, he said.

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