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 …
PATIALA: The Patiala Municipal Corporation (PMC) is finding hard to manage its garbage dump in the absence of any solid waste management plan. A number of plans chalked out to manage the garbage by running projects like the door-to-door collection and segregation of waste have not achieved any success yet. …
PATIALA: The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) had welcomed the decision taken by the five Sikh Priests at Akal Takht Sahib on June 14 in which the highest temporal authority of the Sikhs has directed all Gurdwara to keep the sound of the speakers within their premises. Chairman PPCB KS …
Despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned the use of polythene bags and the state government enforced the ban on April 1, shopkeepers continue to use these polythene bags in the city. Though the Municipal Corporation, Patiala, had banned the use of polythene bags in 2016, it seems that …
If you encounter wrecked roads, unmanned directionless traffic, vehicles parked along roads, you are rightly traveling through the vicinity of royal city. Further auto-rickshaws parked haphazardly near the bus stand and other parts of the city are adding to the traffic problem. However, notwithstanding the traffic rules, reckless driving and …
Even though the Health Department and Patiala Municipal Corporation are on their toes to control the outbreak of dengue and chikungunya, the number of dengue cases has gone up to 375 and chikungunya to 46. The Health Department has already deployed rapid response teams as a precautionary measure to prevent …
Despite efforts by the traffic police, a large number of auto-rickshaws plying on city roads has led to traffic snarls across the city. It was in December last year, following the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, banning the registration of diesel auto-rickshaws in Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar, …
samples collected from Patiala, Rajpura, Samana, Nabha and Patran have been found unfit for drinking. Of the 92 water samples supplied by the Patiala Municipal Corporation and the four municipal committees in the past year, 53 have failed the test. Of the 564 water samples collected from the district in …
PATIALA: As de-silting of historical Rajindera Lake in Patiala city has thrown up several surprises, including a rare species of soft shell turtle, ecology lovers and green activists have demanded that the process be immediately stopped, so as to preserve flora and fauna of the water body. Apart from a …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set August 30, 2015, as the deadline for the Punjab Government to finalise town planning schemes. It has also given eight months’ time to Patiala Municipal Corporation to finalise schemes for the city. The High Court also directed the corporation not permit “fresh …
Government Rajindra Hospital is once again under the scanner for not making enough arrangements for the proper disposal of the bio-medical waste. The issue came to light during the cleanliness drive of the Paryavaran Welfare Society, which has voluntarily taken up the cause of cleaning up the hospital. It found …
In a bid to improve the public transport system here, the Centre has sanctioned 50 buses for the city under its Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Scheme. The Patiala Municipal Corporation (MC) will launch the bus service and has identified 5 acre land near Ghalori Gate for setting …
Whenever a woman in Arnetu village conceives, she, instead of celebrating, goes into a depression with thoughts that the child may be born with a physical deformity. This is the general fear among residents of this village, situated near the Ghaggar in the Patran sub-division of Patiala. They opine that …
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 …
Ludhiana, September 18 Farmers queue up at 3 am to get seeds of PBW-550 at PAU counters The sale of a new wheat variety seed, PBW 550, today brought thousands of farmers to Punjab Agricultural University. Be it Patiala, Abohar, Mansa, Muktsar or as near as Jagraon, farmers from all …
Patiala : More than 13,000 farmers who had applied for power connections for tube wells in the general category till March 1990 may be given connections by the end of March next by the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB). The farmers had applied for connections and had also got test …
The study pertaining to the thorough study of water, in reference to the quality in terms of sensory, physico-chemical and microbiological parameters, was undertaken in a model city Patiala of state of Punjab. The results indicate that the water samples collected from the different localities and various water sources viz. …
