Thanks to little campaigns by kids in schools, dissuading public from bursting crackers during Diwali, Punjabis kept their promise not to paint the green Diwali black this year.

The government on Wednesday approved the widening of highways in Maharashtra and Punjab, which entails investments of over R3,000 crore.

Once a lifeline for villages situated along its course, the Ghaggar has in recent years turned into a perennial source of pollution in the district.

Dengue is spreading its tentacles in Punjab. More than 500 cases of dengue have been confirmed by the state health department after the monsoon receded in mid-September.

To ascertain the exact count of farmer suicides in the state, the government has finally decided to conduct the second round of survey, which would reveal the number of farm suicides from 2010 up t

The Punjab Government seems to be in a rush to lay the stone for a Rs 40-crore sewage treatment plant (STP) in Neelpur village tomorrow, though the district administration is yet to complete formal

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases have shown a worrying increase in the state and their number has shown almost 100% rise in eight southern districts of Punjab in the past one year.

After a second review of the functioning of the Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh Scheme, at least two more hospitals are to be removed from the list of approved hospitals because of deficient services.

To promote organic farming, the Agriculture Department has decided to open Kisan Huts under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) project in all districts.