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 Rs.21,500 crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery near Bathinda town - the largest investment in Punjab since independence - will be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh April 28, Punjab officials said here Thursday. The refienry is located near Bathinda town in southwest Punjab, 250 km from here. A …
In a move to invite industry to the cash-strapped Punjab, the state government is ready to amend and even bring in a new industrial policy, Industries & Commerce Minister Anil Joshi said Wednesday. “We will review the industrial policy and if need be, make amendments or create a new one …
Bathinda: The cotton price here witnessed a forward leap of about Rs 230 per quintal today as the Centre yesterday lifted the ban on its export. Its arrival in the markets of the Malwa region, including Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana, picked up as farmers came out with their held back …
Human pesticide poisoning has become major public health issue these days. Throughout the world highest levels of pesticide exposure are found in the farm workers, applicators and people living adjacent to heavily treated agricultural land. Pesticides are linked to various chronic diseases like cancers, infertility, kidney failure, repr oductive problems …
Passengers on an unusual train journeying the through the thick of Punjab polls discuss their ailments afflicting an entire generation. Strangely, for the state's politics, which is as much blinded by materialism as the people there, these problems just don't exist.
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector company, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL), signed up an agreement with the consortium led by Bank of India to fund the 2,200-km-long …
Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda): Karnail Singh suffers from renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer. A resident of Jajjal village in Punjab’s Malwa region that has produced maximum number of CMs including SAD’s Parkash Singh Badal and Congress’ Amarinder Singh, Karnail would be expected to have access to considerable medical …
For the first time, ecology will become an issue in the state assembly elections with environmentalists floating a front that will vote for candidates committed to an agenda which supports sustainable livelihood, including health security. The environmentalists, led by the Kheti Virasat Mission, include the BKU (Rajewal), the BKU (Ekta) …
Upon taking over the reins of the state, the SAD-BJP government conceived establishing six new thermal plants in the state to generate 10,640 MW of power. Three plants at Rajpura, Goindwal Sahib and Talwandi Sabo are well on the way now after delays due to recession, and rebidding in the …
The delay in the widening of the water channel at Bhainibagha Rajbaha has left more than 15 villages in Bathinda and Mansa high and dry.These villages have not been getting water for irrigation and drinking purposes for the past more than one-and-a-half months. The 26-km-long water channel is being widened …
The high mercury content in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) notwithstanding, more awful for the residents in this part of Punjab is the increasing number of thermal plants. But in this “power surplus” dreamt state, the residents of south-west Malwa region will have to bear the high emission of mercury due …
Several Congress leaders were detained by Mansa police on Friday and forced into a police vehicle amid unruly scenes after they tried to march towards the controversial site of the upcoming Gobindpura power plant — facing a land acquistion row. Six MLAs — Harminder Singh Jassi, Ajit Inder Singh Mofar, …
Even and acquisition row over Gobindpura power plant seems to be spiralling into a poll issue and farm unions vowing to intensify the struggle against “forced” acquisition, the Mansa administration has threatened to deposit the compensation cheques of unwilling farmers in court, if they fail to claim the money. “Any …
Patiala: The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) conducted surprise checks at 108 hospitals and health-care facilities across the state yesterday evening to check violations of the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. During checking which continued till late in the evening, eight government hospitals and 12 private hospitals were …
Chandigarh The irrigation department in Punjab has announced the rotational programme for irrigation for the current khriff season through canal water from June 23-30. The channels of Sirhind Canal System would run on the priority basis from Abohar Branch, Patiala feeder, Sidhwan Branch, Bathinda Branch and Bist Doab Canal respectively. …
Rains brought down the mercury for the second consecutive day in North India, even as dust storms and lightning claimed 25 lives in four states. Twelve people died in Uttar Pradesh, nine in Punjab, two in Rajasthan and two in Haryana, officials in the respective state capitals said. In UP, …
Petrol, diesel exports to fuel-starved neighbour will open up new markets for RIL, Essar refineries The thaw in relations between India and Pakistan, which started with cricket diplomacy at Mohali last month, could soon see India exporting petroleum products to its neighbour. India, which has surplus refining capacity, has agreed …
Amritsar and Bathinda have taken the lead in village sanitation if the commendation of the Government of India for Nirmal Gram Purskar 2010-11 is any indication. The Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation) has selected 51 state villages for conferring upon this national award to be …
The commissioning of Bathinda's Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, whose letter of intent was issued nearly 15 years ago, is still five months away, but it is already embroiled in a controversy. While the ruling Akali-BJP Government is trumpeting the project as its greatest achievement that will trigger an "industrial revolution" …
