CHANDIGARH: Punjab's agriculture department in collaboration with Petroleum Conservation Research Association today flagged off two vans to educate farmers about the ill-effects of crop residue bur

The viral disease H1N1 (swine flu) has claimed 48 lives in the last two months in the state. Health Minister Brahm Mohindra has called it “a serious situation”.

Fourteen new cases of dengue were reported from different parts of the city today, taking the count of patients to 300.

If you encounter wrecked roads, unmanned directionless traffic, vehicles parked along roads, you are rightly traveling through the vicinity of royal city.

Gets six more weeks to mediate between Punjab, Haryana to resolve canal water issue

PATIALA: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded that the National Electricity Policy be reviewed to maintain a balance between renewable energy and thermal energy and has urg

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Capt. Mall Singh & Ors. Vs. State of Punjab & Ors. dated 06/09/2017 regarding waste to energy plant in Bathinda, Punjab. Counsel appearing for the State of Punjab has submitted before the Tribunal that the solid waste management plant is functioning satisfactorily. He also pointed out that the Project Proponent is not starting the waste to energy plant in accordance with the terms of contract and that the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) which generated is not being accepted by the end user.

As many as 39 persons have tested positive for dengue in the district this year. Most of the cases have been reported from the city.

At a time when the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is buying power at high rates from thermal plants, its hydel plants produced 33 per cent more electricity from April to August than

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vikrant Kumar Tongad Vs. Environment Pollution (Prevention Control) Authority & Others dated 01/09/2017 regarding crop residue burning. The states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana assured the Tribunal that within three weeks they would bring at least 10 cases of preferably marginal farmers to provide due incentive, help and means to them, so that they do not follow traditional methodology of crop residue burning in the field itself.

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