A prolonged dry spell in most parts of India is hurting the sowing schedule for paddy, a major kharif crop, raising the country’s anxiety about monsoon rains, as parched fields urgently need moistu

The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus.

Three more cities are switching over to Bharat Stage (BS)-4 emission norms from Thursday. These cities are Ankaleshwar in Gujarat, Hisar in Haryana and Bharatpur in Rajasthan.

Already 13 cities, including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Lucknow and Solapur are implementing the BS-4 emission norms from 2010 when the national auto fuel policy was announced.

Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap.

The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems and were part of a series of nuclear reactors gearing up across the country to produce 20,000 MWe by 2020, S.C. Chetal, director, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, said.

Fatehabad: The six-month-old standoff between farmers and the power utilities over the setting up of a 220-KV power substation at Samain village in Fatehabad ended today with both sides signing a “

The Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University has signed an agreement with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) for evaluation of germ plasm.

CHANDIGARH: Cold wave tightened its grip in Punjab and Haryana today as minimum temperatures plummeted in various parts of the two states, going down by as much as six degrees below normal.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to Haryana, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and Ministry of Environment and Forest on a plea cha

Fatehabad: A farmer sitting on a dharna in front of the local mini-secretariat against the acquisition of his land for the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village was taken seriously ill