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 …
Punjab Water Council (PWC) has emphasised that down stream Kotri flows would only be possible, if new dams are constructed and water availability is increased. Any attempt to allocate water for any other purpose while availability is not increased will be useless. Hamid Malhi stated this while presiding over an …
Wheat worth crores goes waste Wheat worth thousands of crores that go waste every year could be put to productive use by a simple value addition. However, for the past three decades, the successive state governments have failed to act on proposals and recommendations of scientists and farmers to set …
Inclement weather, wet spell to continue Weather forecast that the wet spell might continue in the region for the next few days has both farmers and farm experts worried. As it is, moderate to heavy rain on Monday accompanied by hailstorms is said to have inflicted extensive damage to the …
Ludhiana: Hopes of bumper crop washed away Woes continue to pour on Punjab farmers. Rainfall accompanied by hailstorm lashed Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Muktsar, Faridkot, Gurdaspur and some others areas, spelling doom for the wheat crop, which is ready for harvesting, and washing away the hope of a bumper yield. Punjab, in …
Chandigarh: The curious finding of uranium in the hair and bodies of mentally and physically challenged children in Faridkot has impelled the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to send an investigative team to Faridkot. S K Malhotra, DAE spokesperson in Mumbai, told TOI,
Faridkot: High levels of radioactive element in special children: Experts collect water samples After finding high levels of uranium in the hair samples of differently-abled children, experts have now sent water samples for testing to find the source of this radioactive element. Experts and doctors working at Baba Farid Centre …
Ludhiana: Usually, environmental issues are at the bottom of the priority list of elected representatives, but Avinash Rai Khanna, BJP MP from Hoshairpur, claims to be different. At a recent visit to Ludhiana, he urged people to save one litre of water each. While the timing may reek of politics, …
Punjab government is pursuing a policy of sustainable development in the province through conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of environment. According to official sources here as industrial expansion and rapid increase in volume of vehicular traffic is cause of increase in levels of air and noise pollution, government is carrying out …
Light to moderate rain accompanied by hailstorm at some places in Punjab has devastated wheat and other crops in about 50-60 villages. Hailstorm has almost wiped out wheat and other crops in about 23 villages, 17 villages of Fatehgarh Sahib and six of Patiala district. Wheat crop has been devastated …
Ludhiana: After the installation of the reverse osmosis (RO) system at the common effluent treatment plant (CETP), the claims of the electroplating units of achieving zero discharge seems to go down the drain as the investigations by The Tribune revealed that there are many loopholes in their claims. The working …
High Court stays operation The Punjab and Haryana High Court today stayed all operations in mines under litigation in Punjab. The directions by Justice Ranjit Singh of the high court were issued keeping in view the large number of disputes pertaining to the mining rights in the state. The filing …
Sangrur: To detect tuberculosis (TB) at early stage, the Central TB Division, New Delhi, issued new directions yesterday according to which cough of two weeks
Chandigarh: Punjab government ordered a probe into the abnormalities among children in a pocket of Faridkot due to alarming levels of uranium on Thursday. The move comes after TOI
Chandigarh: Though Punjab has put elaborate arrangements in place for wheat procurement, it is weather which has been the random factor in both paddy and wheat seasons since the past one year. High moisture content in wheat led to slow procurement in mandis of Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala, Ludhiana, Sangrur and …
Lohian: The polluters of rivers, be it bureaucrats or politicians who turn a blind eye to the environmental violations, must be brought to book and asked to compensate those who have lost their loved ones to pollution-related diseases like cancer. The people should vote only for those candidates who promise …
Yet another deadline has meant nothing for the local dyeing units polluting the Buddha Nullah as they have failed to upgrade their effluent treatment plants (ETPs). Earlier, the Punjab Pollution Control Board had directed them to follow the orders in this regard till March 31. Trying to find another excuse …
