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 …
In order to save snakes, scorpions and other poisonous creatures which stray into human habitations and are killed, a villager, Bhanwar Lal Swami, alias Sooraj Kumar, has set up an organisation in this district. Named the Snakes Friends Organisation, members of this NGO reach the place on a phone call …
CHANDGARH: All the households in Kaluana village of Sirsa district have access to sanitation facilities as it has managed to get rid of the practice of open defecation. And thanks to the plantation drive, it now wears a green cap. The village school has clean and functional toilets and has …
Sirsa: Several functions and rallies marked National Energy Conservation Day here today. A three-day energy conservation fair organised by the authorities concluded here today. TK Dhingra, project direct director of the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, said energy conservation was a movement that needed participation of all.
Under the professional Institutional networking (PIN) of Ministry of Rural Development,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sanction Appraisal of impact assessment study, in the 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. Study has …
Chandigarh: Water woes in Haryana have further deepened. As if deficient rainfall was not enough, the water table has registered a substantial fall of half a metre since last year while it has dipped by nearly three metres in certain pockets of the state. Though the water table has shown …
Haryana, at the time of its creation from the womb of Punjab was partly a parched state. Large areas were dry treeless sand dunes. Even drinking water was a privilege. Its has taken long strides since then. The State is becoming a real green land. All the villages get potable …
Israel has pledged support to a project for growing olive at Sirsa ( Haryana). Technology transfer and funds to the tune of Rs 15 crore have been offered to two projects, one at Sirsa and the other at Karnal, for growing fruits and vegetables more economically, said Ambassador of Israel …
Sirsa and Fatehabad districts figure in the new scheme for crop diversification being implemented by the Agriculture Department by promoting the summer moong, maize and sunflower crops in 13 districts of Haryana. The agriculture authorities have decided to set up 5,000 demonstration plots (D-plots) of 1 acre dimension each of …
Ropar: A team of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) collected four samples from the Sirsa-Nangal river after a large number of fish were found floating in the water body near Avankot village. Environment engineer Karunesh Garg headed the team that collected water samples from the confluence downstream the river …
Ropar: A large number of fish were found dead in the Sirsa-Nangal River today evening. Villagers from nearby Avankot village raised hue and cry on seeing a large number of fish floating dead on the surface of the river near the Sutlej-Sirsa confluence. Water in this perennial river comes from …
Owing to the alleged indifferent attitude of the public health authorities, residents of almost all villages and major towns in the district are being forced to drink contaminated water. Of the 56 samples of water taken by the health authorities from various parts of the district in May, 38 were …
The scorching sun and the soaring mercury is not only making life difficult for human beings, even plants are finding the heatwave too much for their survival. Sprouts of cotton of many farmers in this district have withered away due to the heatwave prevailing in the area during the past …
Sirsa afforestation project gets CDM certification eight remote villages of Haryana have entered the global carbon market. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) registered an afforestation project on the degraded land of these villages as the world
Although the Union Finance Minister in his 1999 budget speech declared the 1999-2000 as the year of the Gram Sabha, adequate efforts were not made to enforce the declaration excepting in a few states like West Bengal and Kerala. The culture of not holding GS meetings got wide currency because …
Sirsa: With farmers still busy in harvesting their crops, candidates of different parties concentrated on campaigning in urban areas of the Sirsa (reserved) parliamentary constituency today. INLD candidate Sita Ram, who has been campaigning for the past two weeks now, concentrated on a door-to-door campaign in his native town Dabwali …
A two-day conference of the state unit of the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) concluded here yesterday. It was attended by over 200 delegates from various districts of the state. According to a release issued by the AIKS, 22 delegates took part in a discussion on the report of the past …
