Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Acting on a petition filed in public interest blaming Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of indulging in favouritism in setting up water purifiers mostly in areas falling under his own constituency, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the state of Punjab. No scientific basis …
New Delhi: Punjab may soon be the trendsetter for maintenance of highways across the country. The state has fixed stiff deadlines for road contractors to repair any damage that is spotted. As per a new model contract prepared at the behest of World Bank, a contractor has to repair potholes …
Arbout 26 per cent of the water samples collected by the Bathinda health authorities in eight months (between January and August) have failed the bacteriological test during first testing, conducted to check the presence of E-coli bacteria at the Public Health Lab, Chandigarh. The health authorities collected 393 water samples …
Many rail bridges in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are facing threat of being damaged due to illegal quarrying of stone and other building materials from the riverbeds by the mining mafia. Illegal mining has increased in these areas due to steep rise in price of building material. …
Bathinda: With engineers of Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) mounting pressure on the Punjab Government, it might not be an easy task for Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal to meet his commitment of dismantling the ash-spewing thermal plant here that is currently being modernised with an investment of Rs …
Bathinda: The announcement by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on the shutting down of the ash-spilling 440 MW thermal power station of Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) in the heart of the town here has come as music to the ears of local residents who were suffering because …
The Central University of Punjab has set up a state-of-the-art DNA sequencer on its city campus here for advanced research in the field of cancer. Besides other things, the device would help detect single nucleotide polymorphisms through screening and thereby discover whether or not a person had hereditary risk to …
Factory effluents, sewage find their way into cultivated fields SP Sharma Tribune News Service The Lasara drain carrying toxic water to Bathinda The Lasara drain carrying toxic water to Bathinda. Tribune photos: Pawan Sharma Bathinda, May 26 Lasara is one among about a dozen drains constructed several years ago in …
The recently sown cotton crop on around 37,000 hectares in Ferozepur and Muktsar districts has been destroyed following a freak hailstorm and rain two days earlier. Reports received here by the Agriculture Department indicate the newly sown cotton crop has been partially damaged in Bathinda and Mansa districts. Around 7,000 …
Patiala: The Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd has bagged an award for energy conservation for the performance of its Bhatinda Thermal power plant. CMD of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) K D Chaudhri received the award at a function in New Delhi from Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde …
New Delhi: The Yamuna continued to rise steadily in the city, touching 206.48m by 9pm on Tuesday. The Central Water Commission (CWC) now expects the water to reach its highest point on Wednesday morning by when it should rise another metre to about 207.30m. CWC had to revise its earlier …
Officials say de-silting of the canal could not be carried out due to lack of funds With the Samrala major canal not being de-silted before the onset of monsoons, a breach in its distributory near Dhande village has flooded nearly 20 acres of farmland in the area. The incident occurred …
Jangveer Singh Punjab is set to introduce LED (light emitting diode) lighting in all five cities in the state, beginning from Ludhiana, even as the process of replacement of conventional lighting with CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) will start in a few months with Powercom, the state electricity utility, registering with …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have decided to jointly study the presence of high levels of uranium in ground water in the state, reported the cause of abnormally high incidence of cancer. The study would begin within three months. BS Bajwa, Professor of …
A major fire that broke out at the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) late last night here has reportedly caused a loss of more than Rs 125 lakh to the plant. The fire broke out after a blast around 10 p.m. in the oil-filled unit transformer. As a result, …
Though this town has emerged as a major destination for health services, it lacks infrastructure for scientific disposal of the bio-medical waste generated by the mushrooming hospitals and clinics. The hazardous waste is transported to Ludhiana for being destroyed. A cluster of government hospitals within the complex of the Civil …
Beetal is the only recognised goat breed in Punjab. Due to indiscriminate slaughter, breeding and movement to other states, this breed was on the verge of extinction from its home tract. The population of Beetal goat in Punjab had declined drastically to less than 10,000. A limited number of breed …
