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 …
Patiala is all set to have a state of the art multi-storeyed bus stand. Project worth Rs 500 crore is being executed in public-private participation, for which a private firm has been awarded the contract. Managing director of the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation Manvesh Singh Sidhu told The Tribune here …
At Mohali and Patiala, these vehicles have not even moved from the spot where they were parked for the past several months. In Barnala, Bathinda and Faridkot, where more than one MMU has been provided, only one is functional as there is not enough staff to man other vehicles. Chandigarh, …
The Punjab government has decided to ban the use of polythene bags in the state. The government has proposed that Punjab would be made a plastic free state to protect the environment. The government has enacted the Punjab Plastic Carry Bag (Manufacture, Usage and Disposal ), Act, 2005, which was …
Patiala: The Bhakra Mail Line is falling apart. Deprived of repairs since 1992, its banks have begun eroding and in some stretches, have been washed away. A breach is imminent if embankments are not mended urgently. A major disaster was averted early this May in Bheora village of Ropar district, …
In its bid to conserve and replenish water resources in the state, the Punjab government has made it mandatory to make prior arrangements for setting-up water recharging systems at time of building of any house, factory or any complex. Also, the state government has planned to divide Amritsar city into …
Patiala: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has confirmed that oil spillage in the Ghanauli drain, which connects to the Satluj, occurred not because of negligence but was an accidental breakdown of metallic pipeline of furnace oil. Sources in the PSEB said the staff of Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal …
KALOMAJRA( PATIALA): For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village. While he is successfully cultivating wheat and paddy, he also has plans to grow vegetables and flowers in a similar …
Patiala: Directly sown paddy, sans the troublesome puddling exercise, could prove to be a boon for farmers and lead to saving of as much as upto Rs 7,000 per acre for farmers of Punjab. Not only this, the method, currently being excercised in Patiala and Amritsar districts of Punjab, could …
Punjab has lifted as much as 12.45 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of wheat from all over the state, after a record 15.17 lakh MT arrival of wheat due to early crop this year. This was stated by D S Guru, principal secretary to chief minister, while inspecting the various mandis …
Govt agencies assessing loss Fatehgarh Sahib/Rajpura/ Khanna/Patiala: Widespread rains and squall damaged ready-to-harvest and harvested wheat crop in various villages of Fatehgarh Sahib, Rajpura, Khanna and Patiala. Agriculture department officials say the damage to this extent was reported around 10 years ago. Most places experienced high to moderate rain before …
Light to moderate rain accompanied by hailstorm at some places in Punjab has devastated wheat and other crops in about 50-60 villages. Hailstorm has almost wiped out wheat and other crops in about 23 villages, 17 villages of Fatehgarh Sahib and six of Patiala district. Wheat crop has been devastated …
Patiala: Global warming is worsening the situation by way of fomenting the spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases, said Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dam, USA, Karamjit Singh Rai, while presiding on the concluding day of the three-day international conference on Entomology at Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, on …
Tribune News Service Chandigarh, February 2 Leader of the opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has sought from the government adequate compensation to farmers of Sangrur, Patiala and Mansa distructs, especially Lehra constituency , whose land had been acquired under the Ghaggar project. Bhattal today led a delegation of affected farmers to …
Planting a million trees at the Lake Reserve, the acquired area behind it, the Botanical Garden and working on three man-made lakes at Patiala ki Rao, the work on the Greening Action Plan-2008 by the Chandigarh Administration is on in full swing.
Patiala: The Punjab State Electricity board today asked the Punjab Government to renegotiate the price for its Rajpura thermal power plant with the lone bidder, Lanco Infratech. At a crucial meeting of its Board of Directors held in Chandigarh today to discuss the modalities for setting up the ambitious 1,320-MW …
The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has introduced energy conservation awards to encourage energy efficiency in large and small-scale industry, Government and commercial buildings, educational institutions, agriculture sector, poultry farms and domestic sector. Bikram Singh Majithia, Science and Technology and Non-Conventional Energy Minister, today said these awards have been instituted …
Bardwal (Dhuri): To ensure speedy development in all parts of the state, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today announced a grant of Rs 2 crore each for all 117 Assembly constituencies, in addition to the already announced grant of Rs 2 crore. Badal made this announcement after laying the foundation …
Patiala, October 03 Government officials have reportedly usurped and later tried to auction Forest Department land measuring 52 kanal in Jhill village. Since 20002, senior officials of the district administration, Patiala Municipal Corporation (MC) and District Revenue Office (DRO) have been under the scanner following inclusion and subsequent attempt to …
