A stillness pervades the 300-acre farm in Banpuri village. The farmer and his family have locked up and left to make a living elsewhere.

Chandigarh: A report on the community needs of nine villages in Fatehgarh Sahib was released here on Sunday.

SILCHAR: A mobile treatment plant has become functional with the invocation to Vishwakarma, God of architecture and engineering, under PHE division II near Silchar Medical College and Hospital at G

Rain-deficient Punjab and Haryana will perhaps have to work harder to attract Centre’s attention to monetary losses it suffered due to an errant monsoon this year.

The Centre has decided to release Rs 55 crore to Indi and Sindagi taluks in Bijapur district to augment drinking water supply under the National Rural Water Supply Scheme.

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh issued an order in this connection on Thursday after Bijapur Member of Parliament Ramesh Jigajinagi met him with a request.

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today declared open the drinking water project constructed for the Thanthirimale sacred area and the villages located around it.

Belying claims of the state government of providing clean drinking water in the state, particularly in the cancer-hit Malwa region, data from the Department of Public Health reveals that only about

The government on Thursday directed the Karnataka government to submit a revised report on the severe drought prevailing across the state and funds required from the Centre to take up additional relief works.

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who was here to assess the drought situation in Karnataka, said an amount of Rs 286 crore under the National Rural Drinking Water Supply and Rs 334 crore under Watershed Management Programme would be disbursed to the state as a measure to overcome the drought situation.