March 18, 2005: Punjab Pollution Control Board (ppcb) says no residential colony can come up within 500m of the boundary of a designated industrial area

May 6, 2005: Distance reduced to 100m. No-objection certificates to allow residential complexes given to promoters

If Punjab da puttar Maima Singh from Rathiya village near Patiala can eat fish, anyone can. Punjabis, who love their butter chicken and their mutton

The Haryana government recently announced that it would be mandatory for all NGOs in the state to have their individual websites by June 30 if they have to qualify for further grants. They will

A new procedure for conducting environmental impact assessment (eia), introduced in September 2006, is suffering from teething trouble. The September 2006 notification putting the new procedure in

function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/43-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=575,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } It's been six months since the National Rural

Farmers in Haryana have been persuaded to give up growing a lucrative crop because of the harm it causes to the earth.

Indian agriculture is coming free of the traditional mandis, with the spread of credit to farmers, involvement of the corporate sector and futures commodity exchanges