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 …
Jalandhar, March 31 Government agencies will enter various grain markets tomorrow to start the procurement of wheat. The state government has set up more than 1,600 purchase centres in the urban and rural areas to facilitate the procurement process. Arrangements have been made to procure 110 lakh tonnes of wheat.
In a major crackdown, teams of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) conducted surprise raids at 15 industrial units of Majha and Doaba region of the state. During the raids, some of the industrial units were found violating the pollution norms with respect to air and water. A team headed by …
Avian influenza that hit poultry all over the globe in recent years has left the Indian shuttlecock manufacturing industry crippled. The disease that forced various countries to cull lakhs of birds in an effort to restrain spreading the flu is still haunting the traders. The flu scare has virtually forced …
Hundreds to be constructed near Milkfed booths along highways and in Ludhiana, Patiala, Amritsar, Jalandhar and Bathinda cities To address the need for clean toilets along the state
Influenza A (H1N1) has hit the city again. A PGI staff nurse has tested positive of the virus. This is the first positive case of swine flu in the city.The 30-year-old resident of Sector 35 was admitted to Fortis hospital in Mohali where the authorities sent her blood samples to …
The health authorities today diagnosed a fresh case of swine flu in the state. This is the first such case reported in the past five months, as the last case of the disease in the state was diagnosed in February, this year. Talking to The Tribune, Dr Deepak Bhatia, state …
Jalandhar: Acknowledging the expertise of Punjabi farmers in making the state the “food bowl of the country”, Ethiopia now wants them to replicate this success in their country. Only 43 per cent of the total land mass of the country was currently under cultivation and the African country has invited …
In 1833, German engineer John Etzler had dreamt of generating power from high-altitude wind. The dream may come true, almost two centuries later. Hermann Plauson, an Estonian engineer, had thought about producing power from
Chandigarh: As a part of river conservation project, the union ministry of environment and forests on Thursday cleared a proposal for laying sewage disposal pipes, and provision of sewage treatment plants in eight more towns of Punjab. These are Hoshiarpur, Phagwara South, Rajpura, Patran, Lehraghaga, Derabassi, Khanuri and Jalandhar. The …
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 …
Jalandhar: With the approval of the new fertiliser policy, which replaces product-based subsidy with nutrition- based subsidy, by the Union Government there will be an immediate burden of Rs 170 crore on Punjab
The Kheti Virasat Mission today said that the consultation process started by the Minister for Forests and Environment Jairam Ramesh on the proposed commercial release of genetically modified brinjal (Bt brinjal) was not scientific and inappropriate to the task. While seven such consultations were to be held across the nation, …
The state government will promote vegetable and banana farming in a big way to help small and marginal farmers to augment their income. This was stated by chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission GS Kalkat, who was in the city to attend a function. He said after a research, …
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the state was all set to produce 400 MW of power from 28 mini plants with an installed capacity of 10 to 15 MW each. The plants would be commissioned by 2010. He also said that besides the completion of three …
Shocked over the decision to import 2 million tonnes of rice, farmers said while the Centre was ready to give high price for the rice to be imported from abroad, it was not ready to give drought relief and adequate bonus to Punjab farmers, who would contribute more than 85 …
Jalandhar: The Associate Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Dr JV Yakhmi, has said that there should be no worry in any quarter as far as the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is concerned. He was speaking at a seminar on nanotechnology. He said new NPP technology was …
Has Punjab lost its case for the nuclear power plant? It appears to be so. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has reportedly approved the setting up of a nuclear power plant (NPP) of 1400 MW ( 2X700) at Kumharia village in Haryana
