India has 18% of the global population and an increasing burden of chronic respiratory diseases. However, a systematic understanding of the distribution of chronic respiratory diseases and their trends over time is not readily available for all of the states of India. Our aim was to report the trends in the burden of chronic respiratory diseases and the heterogeneity in their distribution in all states of India between 1990 and 2016.

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Nature lovers, environmentalists concerned over growing urbanisation, rising population in the industrial city

Found in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ category during first six months this year

Farmer unions are now saying that stubble burning is not causing widespread pollution.

Cotton is a major cash crop of global significance. It has a peculiar and inherent growth pattern with coinciding physiological growth stages. This study is based upon modelling and simulation for Hisar region. Stage-wise water stress has been quantified for three Bt-cotton cultivars with three sowing dates under both irrigated and non-irrigated (rainfed) conditions to assess the most sensitive stage.

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14K ordered, makers blame it on late payment | Punjab heads for choked winter

As many as 10 cases of diarrhoea were reported from Deep Nagar, Mullanpur, on Wednesday.

Four children who were suffering from severe malaria were admitted to the paediatrics unit of the Women and Children Hospital in the past one month.

The Punjab Government may have put on hold the release of new tubewell connections, but the dramatic rate of fall in the ground water level is likely to continue unabated as the existing tubewells

The youth outreach initiative of the Dilbir Foundation (DF), engaged with school and college students, has asked them to make radical change towards healthy food habits as well as take command of t

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