Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
They’re back to growing maize due to drop in groundwater level Basmati farmers in Karnal district in Haryana are going back to what their forefathers did before the Green Revolution — growing maize. While it is the new varieties and not the old hardy ones, maize offers an option in …
Constituency watch: Assandh Scores of villages in this segment and the city face a huge scarcity of drinking water since its quality is unfit for humans. It is one of the major issues in every election. People of the assembly segment allege that all the political parties always assure them …
Rajbir Deswal, Inspector General of Police, Karnal range, has set a deadline of August 20 for the police officials of the district to put a blanket ban on illegal mining. “I am getting reports that illegal mining is going on at a few places in the district. Police officials must …
The Haryana Police Sangathan and Constables and Head Constables’ Association have alleged large-scale irregularities in the functioning of the state police department during a central executive meeting here today. The organisation maintained that illegal mining was being carried out in Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panchkula, Panipat, Sonepat, Mewat, Faridabad, Narnaul, Rewari, Gurgaon …
Two persons died due to heat wave in the district today. Several people have been reportedly shifted to city hospitals due to heat stroke. Dr Rajiv Gupta of Amritdhara Hospital said 50-year-old Lakha Singh of Munak village, who had a heat stroke, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday. He …
About 45 per cent of water samples from five districts — Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar — collected by the Haryana Health Department failed the purity test in the past five months. In all, 449 samples of drinking water out of 1,001 in these five districts were found unsafe …
The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports of severe malnutrition among children in Haryana’s Karnal, Yamuna Nagar, Panchkula and Ambala districts. It issued notices to the authorities in the State, observing that it constituted a violation of the children’s human rights. ‘Alarming situation’ …
Four districts of the state, including Karnal, Yamunanagar, Panchcula and Ambala, have an alarming situation on malnutrition. On an average, 37.4 per cent children are underweight, 42.8 per cent children have stunting growth (less height according to age) and 17.5 per cent children are suffering from wasting (less weight according …
The National Capital Region (NCR) witnessed another expansion on Monday with the inclusion of two Haryana districts, Jind and Karnal. Based on requests from the Haryana government, the National Capital Region Planning Board approved the inclusion of adjoining districts of Jind and Karnal in the NCR zone, Urban Development Minister …
As many as 25 acres of land was affected from yellow rust in the Yamuna belt, mainly Yamunanagar and Karnal, making it the most affected area in this regard. Currently, three villages of Karnal and six villages of Yamunanagar are affected from the crop disease. Indu Sharma, Project Director, Directorate …
The Punjab Government today directed the District Chief Agriculture Officers to step up monitoring of the wheat crop affected by yellow rust in the state. The move came following more reports of yellow rust attack on wheat crop, especially in the Kandi belt and Banur area, near Rajpura. The District …
Haryana, UP Industries Release Untreated Waste; City Water Plants Not Fully Equipped New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board had to reduce production in two major water treatment plants by half after ammonia levels in raw water spiked on Monday. This is not the first time DJB has been forced to …
After Yamunanagar, the fungal disease yellow rust has now reached Hansu Majra, a village in Karnal. A scientist from the Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR), Karnal, and the Agriculture Department had visited a farm in the village recently and collected samples. The Agriculture Department today constituted a state, district and …
As many as 1,240 samples of drinking water in five districts-- Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar-- have failed purity tests in the last one year. They were not found safe as per the parameters. As per the report of the Intermediate Reference Laboratory (IRL), out of the 2,772 samples …
Development at the cost of life seems to be the mantra of the government. As many as 19,348 trees will be cut for the four-laning of state highways 6 and 7 (Karnal-Ladwa-Yamunanagar road). The Public Works Department (Buildings and Roads) has been granted permission to cut trees, but there is …
Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight. This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing …
The Haryana Government has expanded the scope of health services for the children in Haryana by implementing the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK). Initially, the programme was launched in July in three districts — Ambala, Karnal and Panchkula. Now, the programme has been extended to the entire state. Health Minister …
Rejects popular belief that biggest threat to the species is from mobile tower radiations Contrary to the popular notion that radiations from mobile towers are the biggest enemy of house sparrows, the species is rather being pushed towards extinction by large-scale use of pesticides. These results have been established by …
Mining is all set to resume in Haryana following the Supreme Court's clarification that the environmental clearance for mining projects would have to be obtained by the project proponent. Sources in the government said following the clarification, Haryana was all set to issue a notice for auction of its mines. …
Allege their land was snatched during consolidation In a last-ditch effort to save their land, women residents of five villages in Gharonda have left their kitchens, children are not attending schools, farmers have left their fields and camping at Liluwala dera near Lalupur village in the open to foil any …
