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 …
Julah Majra in Nawanshahr district is one of the few villages in Punjab where one gets to savour an unusual sight. As the final bell rings at the government school here, hundreds of girls, clearly outnumbering the boys, tramp out of the classrooms.
Jalandhar: Doaba farmers today demonstrated at Jaffarpur village, near Shahkot, 40 km from here, to protest against a potato seed company-Technico limited. Farmers accused the company of providing defective seed to them. Sukhjit Singh Bhatti, president of the Confederation of Potato Seed Farmers, said he had suffered loss of Rs …
Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has given approval of 18 agricultural projects worth Rs 359.8 million to carry out research in wheat, rice, vegetables and cotton crops. The approval was accorded at the 18th meeting of the PARB board of directors held here on Tuesday with the Punjab Agriculture Minister, …
Is pursuing floriculture in green house a commercial activity? The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) would lead us to believe so. However, the national horticulture mission thinks otherwise. Now, the future prospects of all these 50-odd farmers, as well as the horticulture mission project in Punjab, has come under a …
Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford. Keeping in view this difficulty, the Government has tried to …
The Municipal Corporation has banned watering of lawns and washing of courtyards and vehicles in the morning with effect from April 15. While a notice will be served on the first-time violators, a fine of Rs 500 will be imposed if anybody is caught committing the offence for the second …
Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (Punjab-EPA) has served notices on the owners of 10 brick kilns located in the environs of New Islamabad International Airport, Fateh Jang, and 15 stone crush machines installed on the periphery of Khanpur Dam for causing serious environmental pollution. The provincial environmental watchdog has directed the …
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday morning between the Punjab Forest Department and Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited (EPCL) at Changa Manga Forest. This MoU would help in implementing a plantation project with the financial support of Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited. The MoU stated that the …
The Punjab Planning and Development Department (PDD) is spending 82 percent of its development budget for public welfare oriented sectors while Rs 50 billion is spending for the provision of education, health and clean drinking water facilities in the province. A spokesman said that one third of development budget is …
Bathinda: The Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, today said testing the environment samples it took to detect uranium, was a time-consuming process and denied the statement on a report of samples in 10 days. The department said the samples taken by the DAE team from Faridkot were of soil, water …
Jalandhar: Detection of high level of uranium in water in the Malwa belt of Punjab, especially in Bathinda, Faridkot, Mansa, Sangrur, Muktsar and Moga districts, have virtually halted the installation of reverse osmosis (RO) plants, set up by the state government, for safe water to villagers. Like other heavy metals, …
Supply-requirement gap shoots up to 10 MGD in peak summer Though a few more days are left for the onset of peak summers, water problems have slowly begun to haunt Mohali, which will continue to reel under water woes until gap between the demand and supply is bridged. Mohali is …
Punjab has lifted as much as 12.45 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of wheat from all over the state, after a record 15.17 lakh MT arrival of wheat due to early crop this year. This was stated by D S Guru, principal secretary to chief minister, while inspecting the various mandis …
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has directed officials to ensure immediate disbursal of relief to farmers whose crop have been damaged due to inclement weather in the state. Badal also asked deputy commissioners to prepare and submit a detailed report on the extent of damage caused during the recent …
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH The startling discovery of Uranium in the hair of children suffering from cerebral palsy in southwestern Punjab has prompted a broad-based scientific investigation involving Amritsar
Guru Nanak Dev University has claimed that high uranium content have been found in water samples collected from Bathinda and its suburbs and it is the main reason of a high incidence of cancer among local people. Sources from university
The present government and the ones before it have neglected the health sector, as the National Family Health Surveys show. WHAT is the state of the nation
Govt agencies assessing loss Fatehgarh Sahib/Rajpura/ Khanna/Patiala: Widespread rains and squall damaged ready-to-harvest and harvested wheat crop in various villages of Fatehgarh Sahib, Rajpura, Khanna and Patiala. Agriculture department officials say the damage to this extent was reported around 10 years ago. Most places experienced high to moderate rain before …
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples …
This sleepy town of Malwa has emerged as a centre of pilgrimage for farmers from across the country. The tractor-mounted reapers used for harvesting wheat, paddy, mustard, soyabean, Jawar, millet and maize, etc, manufactured by local innovative skilled workers, have been a hit in almost all states. Many farmers from …
