Dairy farmers learn vet skills
Chatamli (Ropar): The proverbial
Chatamli (Ropar): The proverbial
A three-day orientation programme on environmental education resource books for DEd, BEd and MEd level students, organised by the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in association with National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), got under way at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) in Mohali on Monday.
Chandigarh: Panjab University has been conferred with the Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE) award, for its performance in the field of research. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh handed over the letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor R C Sobti, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 13.
Panjab University has been awarded the Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE) award based on its performance in research. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, yesterday in the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, handed over the award letter to the vice-chancellor, Professor R.C Sobti. The award includes a grant of Rs 10 crore per annum for the next three years.
Bear power subsidy burden: State to Centre Tapovan (Dharamshala): WINTER ASSEMBLY SESSION Rs 235 cr sanctioned by Centre for taming
In order to evaluate and recommend reforms in the working conditions of labourers in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has set up an expert committee, headed by former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Justice S S Kang.
Mohali: Nocturnal animals at the Zoological Park in Chhatbir will soon have special houses for them to live in. Visitors will be able to watch the natural behaviour of these animals in
Chandigarh: Despite a ban, the use of diclofenac, a pain relief anti-inflammatory livestock treatment, has been something bothering environmentalists the world over. The Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre near here will soon make use of a sophisticated machine that has been designed to detect any traces of banned livestock drug diclofenac in cattle carcasses fed to vultures in captivity.
Centre rejects Punjab
Asks FCI to speed up movement of stocks The Punjab Food and Supplies Department has requested the Centre to allow border trade of wheat to Pakistan and Afghanistan through the Wagah land route to clear the huge wheat stocks lying in the state.
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today sealed eight gravel screening cum washing plants it had been unable to close down despite repeated notices since five years.
Chandigarh, November 20 : After receiving a wake-up call from the Punjab and Haryana High Court for not keeping a check on meat industries in Dera Bassi, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today submitted a draft policy introducing significant changes in its functioning.
The Manimajra Farmers Welfare and Environment Protection Society in an executive body meeting held on Thursday expressed resentment on the shifting stands of the UT Administration in implementation of the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy 2007 (NRRP).
Cured patients to generate awareness among masses Against a target of detecting 3,984 tuberculosis (TB) patients in the current year, given to Sangrur district in the light of annual risk of TB infection (ARTI) survey (257 patients per lakh per year), as many as 1,680 TB patients, including 591 highly infectious, have been detected.
The indictment of the Punjab Pollution Control Board by the Punjab and Haryana High Court could not have come a day too soon. Without mincing words, the court has held the board responsible for not taking action against the polluting industries in Dera Bassi.
The Central Ministry of Environment and Forest has proposed a Bill for the conservation and regulation of wetlands in India.
The town of Fazilka owes its very existence to the location of Badha Lake at the place where the town stands now. In 1844, Vans Pat Agnew, the first British officer stationed in the area, selected the place for installation of a surveillance station of East India Company and built himself a bungalow on the banks of the horse-shoe lake of Badha.
Komal Amit Gera / Chandigarh November 10, 2008, 0:16 IST Unaffected by the global meltdown, but still in a shambles. This is the plight of the small industries engaged in manufacturing polythene carry bags in Chandigarh.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Police University to come up in Ludhiana The Punjab Cabinet today gave its approval in principle for setting up a 1,200-MW thermal plant at Rajpura. Work on the project is likely to be inaugurated on December 8.
Minister of science technology and environment Bikram Singh Majithia today called on farm scientists of the world develop strains of crops resistant to global warming.