Last week, on a visit to the cold desert of Ladakh, I learnt something important. It made me see the ongoing agricultural negotiations at the World Trade Organization s meet in Cancun, Mexico in a

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the economic loss has already mounted to more than Rs 60 crore. Even as the authorities final diagnosis is long overd

Devotees at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the major shrine for followers of the Sikh religion, will now be able to bathe in purified water. Authorities in Amritsar have appointed an American

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son s serious illness

Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo channels and put them to good use

Punjab starts an ecofriendly state level programme to clean ponds by using duckweeds

In a last-ditch bid to save their dying crops, farmers of drought affected Namunda village in Haryana breached the Delhi-Rewari canal recently. They resorted to this extreme step to

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain
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Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Put into effect in earnest, the law on wastewater recycling can provide lasting relief to a parched Delhi. samreen farooqui delves into the issue

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