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 paper deals with the technical and financial performance and the reforms process in the power utility of Punjab. Technical as well as financial performance of the utility has been found unsatisfactory, mainly due to the lack of commercial outlook and unaccountable and unnecessary political interference in the functioning of …
"WHY else do you think people who barely get enough to eat, who don't even earn Rs.50 a day, have borrowed money to come for this rally?" asked D.P. Vishe, a farmer from Shahpur in Thane district, Maharashtra. "Because this is the only hope we have left. To come together …
the Punjab Pollution Control Board (ppcb) has issued notices to about 500 industrial units in Ludhiana over groundwater pollution in the area. The units allegedly discharge their effluents into soaking pits, some of which are 70 feet (just over 20 metres) deep. The industries in question include manufacturing units for …
factoring in ocean colour data in the remote sensing technique used for fishery forecasts can vastly improve the reliability of prediction as well as the fish catch, claim Indian scientists. Satellite-based forecasts usually rely only on sea surface temperature data. The method's reliability is just 50 per cent, though it …
after satellite images being used in town planning, oceanography, military purposes and geographical information systems, the Agriculture Insurance Company (aic) has plans to use them to evaluate insurance claims against crop damage by farmers. aic will focus on wheat crop insurance, launching it in six districts of Haryana and Punjab. …
Many people believe that nonmotorized modes (walking, cycling, and their variations) have an inferior right to use public roads compared with motor vehicles. This reflects the belief that motor vehicles are more important to society than nonmotorized modes, and that roads are funded by motorists. Pedestrians and cyclists are sometimes …
Whatever the Bt cotton experience for farmers in other parts of India, it seems that it has given their counterparts in Punjab a new lease of life. After being plagued by continuously declining productivity and escalating input costs for years, farmers had been going off cotton in a big way. …
Malwa: This is Punjab's cotton country. Yields here were some of the highest in India till 1992-93, when the region reported its first major infestatin of the American bollworm. Punjab accounted for about 25 per cent of India's total cotton production in 1990 at 2.45 million bales (1 bale equals …
Pak industries checked: Punjab environment minister Makhdoom Ashfaq Ahmed announced recently that the Punjab environment protection department would hit hard on industries violating environmental norms. He said that the self-monitoring and reporting tools programme (to assess and report the volume of hazardous waste generated by industries) shall be implemented stringently. …
The study pertaining to the thorough study of water, in reference to the quality in terms of sensory, physico-chemical and microbiological parameters, was undertaken in a model city Patiala of state of Punjab. The results indicate that the water samples collected from the different localities and various water sources viz. …
last month's seizure of a meat consignment at Karachi port has been identified by the Sindh Wild Life Department (swld) as fresh water turtle, a banned export item. Since a Lahore-based company had booked the consignment for Vietnam, it is believed the turtles were caught in the Punjab province, where …
Punjab peasantry is in the clutches of severe indebtedness. To overcome the problem of debt trap, effective measures should be taken by the government, social organisations and farming community. The government should exercise a strong check on the activities on non-institutional credit agencies and provide institutional credit facilities to the …
cattle feed manufactured in Punjab under various brand names contain harmful quantities of limestone powder (lsp) and urea, the Punjab Dairy Development Department (pddd) warned recently. This adversely affects the quality of milk produced, as well as the health of the cattle. In its report based on tests of cattle …
Bhola Singh is dead... Bhola Singh was a farmer from village Balloh, district Bhatinda, Punjab. He is part of a story with a beginning and an end. But it has no middle. Thus what follows is a fragment. But it is not fiction. Punjab practices intensive agriculture that needs pesticides. …
theSupreme Court (sc), on May 10, 2005, stayed the Rajasthan High Court's (hc's) May 2, 2005 order, which directed the Punjab government to hand over the maintenance of three barrages (Ropar, Harike and Ferozepur) of the Bhakra and Beas projects to the Bhakra Beas Management Board (bbmb), a Union government …
the media has of late celebrated the news of Indian farmers gearing up for a Canadian citizenship. But it actually is a story of a severe resource-drain that affects agriculture, the Indian economy's backbone. An institution responsible for extending research and development gains to India's own agricultural sector is aiding …
function table() { var popurl="images/20050531/37.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=510,height=470,scrollbars=yes") } The Bhakra Nangal dam project is an icon. Policy-makers, media persons and even ordinary people very often credit it with bringing about the Green Revolution. The irrigation waters from the extensive canal network of the project situated on the river Sutlej in Himachal …
