Sushil Manav

The Haryana Government

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Tuesday decided to advance by five days the paddy transplantation season in the State because of the likelihood of an early monsoon. Now the season will start on June 10 instead of June 15, said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda after chairing a meeting of the State level Coordination Committee for Agricultural Production for Kharif 2009.

CHANDIGARH: As many as 666 people have been fined for smoking at public places in Haryana since the imposition of ban on smoking at public places on October 2 last and Rs. 45,170 had been recovered from them.

plus that are awaiting clearance. What the ministry did not announce was the uncertainty among its top bureaucrats over the policy framework that would come into play if the upa coalition does not come to power, or a modified version of the upa takes office.

Supreme Court

Already having a fragile ecology due to its fast depleting forest cover, Punjab is now going to pay a very heavy price

Facing water shortage, farmers led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) today held a protest demanding release of water in Western Yamuna canal from Hamida headworks. In view of the BKU threat to open the gates of the headworks, a heavy police force was deployed at the headworks since morning.