Ludhiana: Once known as green lungs of the city, the Old Sessions Court would be changed within a few days, as a private company has started constructing a multiplex over the land.
The work has started and the project would come up soon disappointing residents of the area, who were hoping for a green park to be developed in the area.
Ludhiana: Punjab Agricultural University has decided to take back PAU 201 paddy seed and replace it with PR-120 or PR-111, the other varities recommended by university experts.
Taking the initiative in favour of the farming community, PAU officials today called upon the interested farmers to get a replacement of paddy seed PAU-201 at the earliest.
Chandigarh: The adverse impact of air pollution on health are well known but the fact that about 200 people die prematurely every year in a city like Ludhiana - Punjab
THE untreated sewerage water of the cities is a big problem in Punjab with its stink making life a hell for the urbanites. With no treatment facilities at most of the places, water flows through open nullahs and pollute the water bodies, including rivulets, water streams and even the rivers.
Ludhiana: Manpreet Singh Ayali, chairman of Zila Parishad, today said the Punjab Government had launched the Water Supply Project for providing safe and quality drinking water to villages of the state with the financial assistance of Rs1,280 crore from the World Bank and under the National Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme of the Government of India.
5 tippers worth Rs 78 lakh bought for lifting garbage
Cleaning of Budda Nullah seems to be topping the priority list of the local municipal corporation. To clean huge dumps of garbage on both sides of the nullah, authorities have purchased five new tippers and a JCB loader, which will lift more than 50,000 cubic foot of garbage near the nullah in coming days.
Ludhiana: Nanotechnology can boost farm research. This was stated by Dr MS Swaminathan, laureate, World Food Prize, and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), during his interaction with scientists at the electron microscopy and nanoscience laboratory, PAU.
