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  • EIL told to speed up interceptor sewer system

    Banking heavily on the implementation of the interceptor sewer-system along three major drains to "clean' Yamuna, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday asked Engineers India Limited (EIL), which is engaged in laying the interceptor lines, to complete work by 2010 end.

  • Just a lament

    Just a lament

    Biking along the Yamuna from Delhi to Agra, ravleen kaur hears constant calls for saving the river, but witnesses little action. Photographs by vaibhav raghunandan The roaring of motorcycles shattered the early morning calm on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi. On World Environment Day on June 5, a group of professionals, farmers, activists and journalists gathered for a bike rally along the

  • Haryana to get elephant rehab. centre

    Sujay Mehdudia State Govt. provided a 50-acre plot to develop the elephant rescue and rehab. centre Union Government to invest an initial sum of Rs.90 lakh for setting up the centre NEW DELHI: The Haryana Government has entered into an agreement with Wildlife SOS, a non-government organisation engaged in protection of wildlife, to establish and maintain a first-of-its-kind Elephant Rehabilitation and Research Centre at Ban Santour in Yamunanagar district of Haryana.

  • Kundli-Palwal expressway on schedule

    CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Thursday that the 135.65-km-long Kundli-Manesar Palwal Expressway (KMP Expressway) would be completed on schedule by the middle of 2009 at a cost of Rs.1,915 crore. The total project cost of the country's longest expressway does not include the cost of land, Rs.630 crore. Aerial survey

  • Multi-crore plan for Mewat development

    Bhupinder Singh Hooda CHANDIGARH: The Mewat Development Agency has prepared a Rs.76.90-crore district development plan for Mewat district in accordance with the Prime Minister's new 15-point programme for the welfare of minorities, Haryana Governor A.R. Kidwai and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Wednesday after a meeting of the Mewat Development Board here.

  • Rs. 944 crore for road network in Haryana

    CHANDIGARH: While speeding up activity to further strengthen and improve the network of roads in Haryana, the State Public Works (Building and Roads) Department has allotted 12 more works involving an investment of Rs.944.23 crore, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday. Other projects He further disclosed that 15 other projects involving an investment of Rs.82.05 crore had either been completed or were nearing completion.

  • Rs 100 bonus on paddy

    Sirsa: The state government has announced Rs 100 bonus on select varieties of paddy brought to the market from September 26, 2007, to December 31. V. Umashankar said here today that all commission agents had been directed to pay Rs 100 against a quintal on "leviable' and grade A paddy, which were procured at Rs 645 and Rs 675 per quintal, respectively.

  • Tiger skeleton case registered

    NEW DELHI: After a tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday following a combined raid by the local police and officials of the Delhi-based Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, the Haryana police have registered a case and are now looking for the accused identified as Bhima Bavaria.

  • Tiger skeleton recovered from Gurgaon

    GURGAON/NEW DELHI: A complete tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday afternoon following a combined raid by the Gurgaon police and officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. A senior official of the Bureau said: "The raid was carried out following a tip-off from a non-government organisation working in the field of wildlife conservation. We raided the residence and found a complete tiger skeleton and traps used by poachers to capture wild animals in the forest. The skeleton weighs over 10 kg.'

  • 20 kg tiger bones found in Haryana

    July 7: In a joint operation between Haryana police and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, about 20 kg of suspected tiger bones have been seized in Suratnagar village near Pataudi in Haryana. Sources in the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau said the chances of these bones being of tigers is 99 per cent and they are fresh, which were preserved in salt. Officials also seized iron traps which are used to catch tigers by the poachers.

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