With a number of thermal power plants being developed by private companies getting delayed due to non-availability of coal, the Punjab Government's captive coal mine at Pachwara (Jharkhand) is in the centre of confrontation between the warring parties.

Private companies are seeking a share in the coal produced from the mine. The under-construction thermal plants are running behind schedule due to a stand off between the state government/PSPCL and the companies on the supply of coal.

As many as 637 cancer cases have been detected in the first two weeks of the month-long door-to-door survey in Mansa district.

Notwithstanding deficient rainfall, Punjab has had a bumper paddy crop this year. Already, more than 126 lakh tonnes of paddy has arrived in various grain markets in the state.

In the lush fields of Punjab germinates a scary tale.

Belying claims of the state government of providing clean drinking water in the state, particularly in the cancer-hit Malwa region, data from the Department of Public Health reveals that only about

Punjab’s agricultural sector grew at 1.6 per cent during the 11th Plan against the national average of 3.41 per cent. The growth is tardy owing to near saturation in productivity.

Still not included under a national programme for prevention of the disease.

The controversy over the land acquisition in Gobindpura refuses to die down with the hearing on a writ petition filed by an NGO, alleging that the government grossly violated the SC/ST Act, set to