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 …
Health authorities reduce dose of the drug to children falling sick A day after over 800 schoolchildren were taken ill due to intake of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets across the state, nearly 100 children fell ill in Sirsa and an equal number of children were taken ill in …
About a dozen villages in Dabwalitehsil of Sirsa district have threatened to launch an agitation against the pollution caused by Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, which is located in neighbouringKanakwal village of Bathinda district of Punjab. The oil refinery is run by HMEL (a joint venture of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation …
Three years after Sirsa witnessed one of the worst floods, the authorities here seem ill-prepared to deal with any eventuality, even as the monsoon has started creating havoc in several parts of North India. Several plans by the authorities to prevent floods seem to have gone astray, as a trip …
The local authorities have decided to get tough with industries responsible for spreading air and water pollution. Presiding over a meeting of the district-level clearance committee of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) here, Sirsa Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan asked all red and orange-category industries to keep their effluent …
At least 133 schoolchildren have taken ill in Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana after consuming iron and folic acid tablets. While 100 students were taken ill in different schools located in the area of the Community Health Centre, Baragura, in Sirsa yesterday, 25 children of Phulo village were hospitalised …
Govt doctor tests positive A government doctor has tested positive for swine flu in Sirsa while ten new suspected cases of the disease have come to the fore in Hisar in the past two days and two suspected cases have been witnessed in Fatehabad. In Hisar, the health authorities collected …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the proxy legal battles against the land acquisition proceedings will not be entertained. Rather, petitions purportedly filed in public interest before the high court against the land acquisition proceedings will invite imposition of fine. A Division Bench of the …
Another positive case of swine flu has come to light at Khatrawan village in Sirsa. Naseeb Kaur, 60-year-old woman of the village, has been found infected with the H1N1 virus. Her sample has been found positive, confirmed the Deputy Civil Surgeon, Dr Viresh Bhushan. The woman is getting treatment at …
With a view to giving a boost to fish farming in Haryana, the state government has set up a fish seed farm with an investment of Rs 36 lakh near Ottu Weir in Sirsa district. “The farm is not only fulfilling the demand of seeds for fish farmers of Sirsa, …
The ban orders issued by the Sirsa district authorities against the burning of paddy straw appear to have disappeared in smoke as farmers have been burning paddy straw in their fields with impunity. The Tribune team noticed harvested fields set on fire on the Sirsa-Fatehabad portion of National Highway 10 …
A prolonged dry spell in most parts of India is hurting the sowing schedule for paddy, a major kharif crop, raising the country’s anxiety about monsoon rains, as parched fields urgently need moisture to plant crops. The weather office has forecast normal rainfall in the June-September monsoon, but showers in …
With a view to improving the fertility of soil after ascertaining the minerals and micronutrients it lacks, the agriculture authorities have issued 16,000 soil health cards to farmers in Sirsa. Samples of soil taken from the fields of 16,000 more farmers have been collected and the authorities hope to issue …
Sirsa: While concern is being raised at the depressing figures of child malnutrition as shown in the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation study, HUNGaMA, released recently by the Prime Minister, surveys held in the past suggest that it was not only in BIMARU states that children were malnourished, but even in a …
Under the Professional Institutional Networking (PIN) of Ministry of Rural Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sanctioned the Impact Assessment study in three districts namely Sirsa in Haryana, Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh and Hoshiarpur in Punjab. NREGS was started in the first phase in these selected districts.
The Ghaggar is facing twin attack: the industrial waste from Himachal and Punjab and the sewage drained into it from Sirsa, causing irreparable damage to animals, plants and humans alike. Samples of water taken from Sirsa and on the upstream at Chandpura in Fatehabad show a grim picture. The biochemical …
Toxic subsoil water causes skin diseases, other ailments. Influx of hazardous chemicals and other effluents in the Ghaggar has reached alarming proportions causing great damage to flora and fauna in the areas irrigated by distributaries originating from Ottu Weir near Rania town of the district. The pollution of Ghaggar is …
This document presents the description of visit to Sirsa District of Haryana, where solar energy project commissioned on April 15th 2011 under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (Off-grid Solar Photo voltaic applications), Although the entire state of Haryana is connected to the grid, the state (especially rural areas) experiences frequent …
A sharp increase in number of dengue patients has been witnessed in the recent days, even as Health Minister Rao Narender Singh today claimed that the government had taken steps to control dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the state. He said the Dengue Diagnostic Test Kits were being provided …
Orders fresh investigation in five towns The authorities here have rejected the fresh survey conducted by the volunteers of the Zila Saksharta Samiti to remove discrepancies in the list of people living below the poverty line (BPL) in urban areas of the district. The Additional Deputy Commissioner, DK Bahera, has …
Two deaths in less than 15 days in Pakkashahidan village of this district due to fever have left the villagers jittery even as malaria and viral fever have spread in the entire district. Veer Pal (18), a school-going girl, caught fever five days back and was getting treatment from a …
