Even as the district has remained prone to floods for the last several years, the authorities have failed to take any concrete steps to protect the lives and properties of the local residents.

A new renewable energy technology that can dissuade farmers from burning stubble in the open was launched in the fields of Khwaspura village by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, here

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

Ropar, March 3: The fish production in the district is likely to get a boost in the near future.

In a door-to-door survey under the cancer-detection campaign started by the Health Department, 490 confirmed cases of cancer have come forward in the district so far.

After digging deep into the mining activity in Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today gave the go-ahead to the auction of mines in five districts — Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ropar, Mohali and

A team of Punjab Pollution Control Board officials collected samples of water mixed with ash and draining out from Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant, Ropar towards Sutlej river here today.

Notices have been issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the state of Punjab and other parties based on a writ petition to explain its allowing of illegal mining being carried out at Ropar.

Moderate to heavy rain during the past 24 hours in almost all parts of this region has brought smiles back on the faces of the disappointed farmers of Punjab and Haryana.

The needles shed by pine trees had since ages been a cause for worry for hundreds of villages in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh.

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