Order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the matter of Bhisham Kinger Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 13/05/2025. The matter is related to deteriorating medical infrastructure in Punjab, especially Malerkotla district. An affidavit filed before the court showed that certain vacancies of doctors at Malerkotla have …
The burden of diabetes is increasing rapidly in India but a systematic understanding of its distribution and time trends is not available for every state of India. We present a comprehensive analysis of the time trends and heterogeneity in the distribution of diabetes burden across all states of India between …
Farmer unions are now saying that stubble burning is not causing widespread pollution. Despite given a subsidy on buying machines to stop stubble burning, seven farmer unions will organise a convention on this issue at Barnala on September 23. Though in a fully funded central government scheme, Rs 395 crore …
Found in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ category during first six months this year For poor air quality in the state, farmers usually take the blame for causing it by resorting to stubble-burning. However, a perusal of the data based on the monthly Air Quality Index, collected from six air monitoring …
Nature lovers, environmentalists concerned over growing urbanisation, rising population in the industrial city Ludhiana is developing at a very fast pace, but unfortunately at the cost of environment. It is known as the industrial hub of the state, but sadly industrialists are more interested in making profit and don't care …
Cotton is a major cash crop of global significance. It has a peculiar and inherent growth pattern with coinciding physiological growth stages. This study is based upon modelling and simulation for Hisar region. Stage-wise water stress has been quantified for three Bt-cotton cultivars with three sowing dates under both irrigated …
14K ordered, makers blame it on late payment | Punjab heads for choked winter Punjab, which saw 43,800 stubble-burning cases post paddy harvesting last year, may be headed for a choked winter ahead. It has at its disposal barely 500 machines to take care of the leftover straw as against …
Four children who were suffering from severe malaria were admitted to the paediatrics unit of the Women and Children Hospital in the past one month. Apart from this, around 10 confirmed cases of malaria were reported by the paediatrics OPD. Doctors at the paediatrics unit said the number of children …
As many as 10 cases of diarrhoea were reported from Deep Nagar, Mullanpur, on Wednesday. Residents of the area have been getting contaminated drinking water supply from the past couple of days after the construction of roads started in the area. The area was dug too deep and the polluted …
The youth outreach initiative of the Dilbir Foundation (DF), engaged with school and college students, has asked them to make radical change towards healthy food habits as well as take command of the highly-degraded environment. An exhibition on organic food items and sustainable products was organised at DAV College for …
The Punjab Government may have put on hold the release of new tubewell connections, but the dramatic rate of fall in the ground water level is likely to continue unabated as the existing tubewells annually draw one and a half times the amount of recharge. As much as 77 per …
Committee noted that subsidy schemes have not helped much to address the issue. New Delhi: Despite a series of measures, including a statutory ban, taken by the neighbouring states of Delhi to curb crop burning, the air pollution in Delhi-NCR hasn’t improved much and, in fact, has been deteriorating further, …
District Bar Association (DBA), under the supervision of its president Parupkar Singh Ghumman, organised a tree plantation drive at the open parking space area of the District Courts Complex here on Monday. District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh, accompanied by Additional Sessions Judges Arunvir Vashisht, Munish Singal, Varinder Aggarwal, KK …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Stench Grips Mansa’s Sacred Ghaggar River (Suo-Motu Case) Vs Yogender Kumar dated 07/08/2018 regarding pollution of river Ghaggar on account of discharge of effluents - industrial as well as municipal. NGT expresses its disappointment at the "failure of the Authorities …
Chandigarh: Dr Ram Kumar, convener, Society for Promotion of Ethical & Affordable Healthcare on Saturday said the budgetary allocation to health sector is not only less, but it is also not steered towards preventive health measures and primary healthcare. Kumar was delivering a special lecture on ‘minimum medicines, maximum health’ …
The office-bearers and activists of various units associated with the Rotary District 3090 will launch a coordinated movement against the degradation of environment due to irrational use of plastics. The movement will start from various localities of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on August 26, which will be observed as ‘Kick-out …
PATIALA: Having remained in the line of fire of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over its failure to check air quality and then being in a peculiar situation following the Gurdaspur sugar mill molasses spill into the Beas waters, the Punjab government has worked out a Rs 1,700-crore investment target …
Anti-larvae teams of the Health Department and the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation detected 15 dengue larvae cases on Thursday during its ongoing drive against vector-borne diseases. Out of 15 cases, 11 were found in desert coolers. Four teams, led by Raj Kumar, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Kumar and Gurpal Singh carried out …
Though efforts are being made to catch adulteration in food, many experts, especially traders feel that there is a need for a food testing laboratory in the holy city to ensure food safety. Many feel that in absence of a proper food testing lab, the food processing unit persons have …
In its drive to check noise pollution in the district under the “Tandarust Punjab Mission”, a joint team of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and traffic police, Jalandhar, on Wednesday issued challan to one vehicle for using multi- tone horns and cracker sound emitting silencer. The team, comprising of Junior …
A new study on lung cancer has thrown up disturbing trends on the emergence of the disease among non-smokers, younger people and females. The trends are stark considering lung cancer is typically a disease of the smokers, elderly and one with male preponderance. But the scenario seems to be changing …
