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 …
Mohali: Nocturnal animals at the Zoological Park in Chhatbir will soon have special houses for them to live in. Visitors will be able to watch the natural behaviour of these animals in
Chandigarh: Despite a ban, the use of diclofenac, a pain relief anti-inflammatory livestock treatment, has been something bothering environmentalists the world over. The Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre near here will soon make use of a sophisticated machine that has been designed to detect any traces of banned livestock drug …
Asks FCI to speed up movement of stocks The Punjab Food and Supplies Department has requested the Centre to allow border trade of wheat to Pakistan and Afghanistan through the Wagah land route to clear the huge wheat stocks lying in the state. The state has also claimed that slow …
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today sealed eight gravel screening cum washing plants it had been unable to close down despite repeated notices since five years. According to sources here, a PPCB team today visited all eight plants on the Zirakpur- Panchkula road and sealed their generating sets as …
Chandigarh, November 20 : After receiving a wake-up call from the Punjab and Haryana High Court for not keeping a check on meat industries in Dera Bassi, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today submitted a draft policy introducing significant changes in its functioning. Instead of a year, now the …
The Manimajra Farmers Welfare and Environment Protection Society in an executive body meeting held on Thursday expressed resentment on the shifting stands of the UT Administration in implementation of the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy 2007 (NRRP). They stated that the Chandigarh Administration is grabbing farmland of small and marginal …
Cured patients to generate awareness among masses Against a target of detecting 3,984 tuberculosis (TB) patients in the current year, given to Sangrur district in the light of annual risk of TB infection (ARTI) survey (257 patients per lakh per year), as many as 1,680 TB patients, including 591 highly …
The indictment of the Punjab Pollution Control Board by the Punjab and Haryana High Court could not have come a day too soon. Without mincing words, the court has held the board responsible for not taking action against the polluting industries in Dera Bassi. It also rapped the board on …
The Central Ministry of Environment and Forest has proposed a Bill for the conservation and regulation of wetlands in India. Tentatively called the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2008, the draft, which is still in the suggestion- incorporation stage, says, "Many wetlands are seriously threatened by reclamation through drainage and …
The town of Fazilka owes its very existence to the location of Badha Lake at the place where the town stands now. In 1844, Vans Pat Agnew, the first British officer stationed in the area, selected the place for installation of a surveillance station of East India Company and built …
Komal Amit Gera / Chandigarh November 10, 2008, 0:16 IST Unaffected by the global meltdown, but still in a shambles. This is the plight of the small industries engaged in manufacturing polythene carry bags in Chandigarh. The administration vide notification dated July 30, 2008 by the department of Environment under …
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Police University to come up in Ludhiana The Punjab Cabinet today gave its approval in principle for setting up a 1,200-MW thermal plant at Rajpura. Work on the project is likely to be inaugurated on December 8. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting …
Minister of science technology and environment Bikram Singh Majithia today called on farm scientists of the world develop strains of crops resistant to global warming. Inaugurating a conference on climate change, biodiversity and food security in the South Asian regions organised by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology …
Adoption of the Bollgard-II version of the genetically modified (GM) cotton has increased four-fold since its commercial launch in 2006. Improved yield and better control of pests have resulted in the cotton area under the variety rising to 45 lakh acres. Of the total 172 lakh acres under Bt cotton …
The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has introduced Energy Conservation Awards to encourage energy efficiency in large and small-scale industry, government and commercial buildings, educational institutions, agriculture sector, poultry farms and domestic sector. Bikram Singh Majithia, science and technology minister, yesterday disclosed that these awards had been instituted to encourage …
The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has introduced energy conservation awards to encourage energy efficiency in large and small-scale industry, Government and commercial buildings, educational institutions, agriculture sector, poultry farms and domestic sector. Bikram Singh Majithia, Science and Technology and Non-Conventional Energy Minister, today said these awards have been instituted …
The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi, will now look into the alleged non-functioning of the effluent treatment plant (ETP) of the Punjab Meats Limited (PML) Industries, Dera Bassi. The PML is owned by Dr A S Bindra, father of ace shooter Abhinav Bindra. The chairman …
There is some good news for Punjab. For the first time in the past decade, the sub-soil water level has shown an upward trend. In testing done by a Central agency, results have shown that with excessive monsoon this year, coupled with late and regulated sowing of paddy, water levels …
