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 …
Ludhiana, in the state of Punjab, houses a prominent cluster of small and medium scale forging units engaged in production of auto and cycle parts, hand tools and other machinery components. There are approximately 200 forging units in and around Ludhiana. The entire process of forging is quite energy intensive …
Ludhiana: Woes of wheat growers refuse to end. First it was bad weather and now when the crop is on the threshold of harvest, heavy rains and the high velocity winds hit the state on Friday. Besides the inclement weather, the yellow rust has also crashed the state
The Punjab Farmers Commission, which was in controversy for some observations reported on organic farming, has asked Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, to find out whether alternative sources of nutrients like green manure ensure high crop yield. Commission chairman G.S. Kalkat has written to PAU Vice- Chancellor N S Kang to …
Ludhiana, March 5 The pace of development in sewerage and drainage system never matched the increasing population of the city which is approximately 40 lakh today. This is how Ludhiana has been surviving for the past many years despite the fact that both Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance have been …
Fighting Budda Nullah curse Clean water was made available to nearly 1,500 residents of this village yesterday after years of drinking polluted underground water courtesy the Budda Nullah. Help came from an NRI, who got reverse osmosis water purifying system installed in the village yesterday. Joginder Singh, NRI businessman in …
Ludhiana: In the last three years, more than 75 pc of BPL families have taken power connections on their own Delay by the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) in the implementation of the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikarn Yojana (RGGVY), has defeated the purpose for which the Rs 154.58-crore plan was …
Kanchan Vasdev and Jyotika Sood Tribune News Service Ludhiana, January 20 The state government has set yet another deadline for the local dyeing industry to ensure discharge of effluents into Budda Nullah as per the stipulated standards of the Punjab Pollution Control Board. The industry has been asked to start …
Kanchan Vasdev and Jyotika Sood Tribune News Service The stretch of nullah that was cleaned by Budda Nullah Development Committee led by senior officer P. Ram in Kum Kalan village. The stretch of nullah that was cleaned by Budda Nullah Development Committee led by senior officer P. Ram in Kum …
Tribune News Service Ludhiana, January 15 Dr Gurdev Singh Khush, noted rice breeder and recipient of the World Food Prize and professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, has said the state, which was providing food security to the country, would be in trouble in 10-15 years due to …
Ludhiana: Punjab once again seems to heading towards a potato glut. A 15-year low price and high production of this crop is fast becoming a bane for potato growers, who are now demanding Government intervention for salvaging the situation. The prevailing potato price in the state is Rs 1.50 per …
Water-man Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal and his followers have decided to approach various political parties and motivate them to include environment of Punjab as a part of their election manifesto in the forthcoming Lok Sabha (LS) elections. Sant Seechewal, who was here to preside over an NCC function of a …
In 2000, it took a military operation to halt the march of water hyacinth in Harike, one of the internationally protected wetlands in India, famous for a large number of birds, both local and migratory. The invasive hyacinth problem was squeezing the life out of its 41-square-metre area for some …
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Police University to come up in Ludhiana The Punjab Cabinet today gave its approval in principle for setting up a 1,200-MW thermal plant at Rajpura. Work on the project is likely to be inaugurated on December 8. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting …
Ludhiana, September 25 Each household in Rajianikalan village, near Jagraon, has contributed Rs 1,500 for a water supply project started under the World Bank-aided scheme. The scheme will cover 3,200 villages at a cost of Rs 1,280 crore. Work has also started in nearby villages of Marsianbhaike, Chaka and Ramgarh. …
For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country - it is no mean achievement that it is now growing its own bananas and that too king-size. What started as a small attempt in some of the …
