Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The Punjab government on Wednesday issued directions to Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) not to conduct further field trials of genetically modified (GM) mustard crop, following the concerns expressed by a civil society group. “I have asked Financial Commissioner (Development), Punjab, to direct PAU not to go ahead with further field …
Many Dealers Held For Selling Fake Pesticide “It was like the Ja panese air strike in the film Pearl Harbour,“ said Naresh Kumar Lehri, a seed and pesti cide dealer at Singho village in Bathinda district. “They ap peared out of nowhere and lef a trail of destruction.“ Lehri was …
Aedes Aegypti's sting is deadlier this time and even though dengue season would be here for around three more weeks, Ludhiana has long left behind last year's mark of 184 cases and reached 570 already. Ludhiana follows Bathinda, which has recorded around 1,076 cases so far. Although the city health …
Civil Surgeon, Bathinda, conducted a meeting with health officials and doctors over dengue and maintained that confirmation report of yjr MAC Eliza and NS1 Eliza tests from the Civil Hospital would only be rendered as authentic. On Tuesday, about 16 new patients were confirmed for dengue thus taking the total …
The district health authorities seem to have failed to control the dengue menace in Bathinda where the number of patients has crossed 60 whereas the Goniana town of Bathinda appear to have become a hub of dengue larva where as many as 47 patients have been tested positive for dengue. …
Dengue has started spreading its tentacles in the state. At least 37 dengue cases have so far been reported from the state with Bathinda topping the chart with 27 cases. Since the disease usually spreads in the months of September and October, the rising number of cases has set the …
The state government had planned to get installed solar power plants in three different phases while it had approved and got commissioned 64MW in Mansa district and 42 MW in Bathinda district whereas about 34 MW is under commissioning in Mansa district under the first phase of the Solar project. …
Bathinda, May 20: With the disbursement of Rs 186 crore for land acquisition for the National Highway-15 in the district, the work on the four-laning project is set to start soon. Land at seven villages has been acquired in the district for the project. Out of Rs 186 crore disbursed …
The state government has received offers of more than 2,000 acres of land, mainly in Bathinda and Mansa districts, from farmers for leasing it out to the Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA) for setting up renewable energy projects. This was disclosed by Renewable Energy Minister Bikram Singh Majithia after inaugurating …
Farmers from villages who are being forced to part with their land for broadening of the National Highway 15, today, threatened an indefinite agitation over lacking transparency in land acquisition on the 42 km tract on the Bathinda-Amritsar section. The Adarsh Nagar Sangarsh Committee and the Goniana Sanhgarsh Committee today …
The groundwater route taken by the authorities to answer the ever-rising water crisis in the city is not going down well with many city residents. Though the department officials explains that the underground water would be used only during exigency but some residents who came to know about the groundwater, …
The Supreme Court today slammed the Centre for the delay in the payment of compensation to farmers in Bathinda and Sirsa after acquiring their land for the defence forces. A Bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu disposed of a batch petitions filed by the Defence Secretary in 2010, challenging …
Clean drinking water and adequate water supply to the fields located at the tail-end of canals are the two main issues that will determine the outcome of the Talwandi Sabo byelection on August 21. The seat fell fallen vacant after sitting MLA Jeet Mohinder Sidhu left the Congress and joined …
Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, a unit located at Kanakwal village of Bathinda district of Punjab, is proving a nightmare for residents of nearly 12 villages of Dabwali Assembly segment falling under Kalanwali sub division of Sirsa as the heavy smoke coming out of it is causing grave health problems for …
The state of Punjab, earlier regarded as an agriculturally developed region of India, has been passing through a severe economic crisis. The capital-intensive mode of production, propagated by the green revolution in the mid-1960s, is turning out to be non-viable for the small peasantry and hence, they are being involuntarily …
The Supreme Court has ruled that the government was not liable to pay interest on solatium to landowners whose land had been acquired. A Bench comprising Justices SS Nijjar and AK Sikri made the clarification in a case involving acquisition of 6,522 acres of land by the Defence Ministry in …
The SAD-BJP leaders kept blaming the Centre while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections for not giving the state enough funds for development and welfare works. In contrast, the state has failed to use funds sanctioned by the Centre under various schemes. One such programme is the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya …
Drinking water samples of the Civil Hospital at Rampura and several public water works have failed the purity test. Of the 143 samples collected by the Health Department so far, 28 have failed the purity test and the result of 16 is awaited. The department has sealed five water sources …
Call it a mere coincidence or alleged preferential treatment to “Badal Bahu” Harsimrat Kaur’s constituency, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has not conducted any checks on the industry in Bathinda over the last more than two months. Ferozepur, the home town of BJP state president Kamal Sharma, too falls …
Small and marginal farmers in this district are going back to the old days of environment-friendly manual harvesting of wheat to reap the benefits: dry fodder for cattle and assorting the best grains to make seed for the next cropping season. The soaring prices of wheat straw, commonly used as …
