Chandigarh, January 8
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the chairman of the Haryana Pollution Control Board to remain present, with his team of technical experts, on January 9.

The directions follow a public interest litigation filed by Sonepat resident Anil Kumar against the State of Haryana and other respondents.

Hisar: A national seminar on

Gurgaon, famous for its plush buildings and luxury apartments, stares at a serious problem: water scarcity. Excessive drawing of groundwater has led to the water table receding almost six metres in the last two years, according to a study carried out by the Gurgaon administration.

Chandigarh: To check the spread of AIDS, the Haryana AIDS Control Society will establish two blood component separation units at Hisar and Faridabad during the current financial year.

A spokesman of the society said the blood bank at PGIMS, Rohtak, would be upgraded as a model blood bank, besides establishing two blood banks at Jhajjar and Fatehabad.

Scheme called Shikshadeep, it will be given free of cost to girl students who top the exam

Harried girl students in rural Haryana will soon get special solar-powered table lamps to beat the increasingly commonplace power outages. The Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency has initiated a new year scheme to help girl students in villages study using the Shikshadeep

Tightening its noose around the scrap dealers operating clandestinely in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial area from the neighbouring the Haryana State Pollution Control Board has stepped up its drive to check their anti-environmental activities.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Sunday that a sum of Rs.10,000 per acre yearly would be given to those panchayats whose land would be acquired under the Mahatma Gandhi Grameen Basti Yojna for carving out 100-100 square yard plots to be given to the members belonging to Schedule Castes, Backward Class-A category and families living below the poverty line in the State.

Expressing concern over the high level of ammonia in the Yamuna that has made the Delhi Jal Board shut down the Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants leading to an acute scarcity of water, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra has asked Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to immediately hold a meeting with her counterparts in neighbouring Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Ut