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12 children hospitalised after eating poisonous seeds
Gurgaon: Nearly 12 kids were taken to various hospitals of the city after they consumed seeds of Jetropa plant here today. Children of Basai Enclave colony were playing in the garden of their colony and swallowed the seeds by mistake. They are between seven and 10 years of age. The …
Nano: 150 forms sold on day 1
People of the millennium city seem to be excited about the dream car Nano, which reached showrooms on Wednesday. The car has turned out to be the most awaited car, as a large number of people turned up at the only showroom where the small wonder was on display.
Now, free bus service to help people cross busy Expressway
Gurgaon: To discourage pedestrians from crossing the busy Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, the concessionaire DSC Limited started a free bus ferry service between Shankar Chowk and IFFCO Chowk on Wednesday. The move comes after the NHAI recently put median fencing on the Expressway on which several have died and over 50 injured …
CNG to cost Rs 3.50 less in Gurgaon
People of the millennium city have a reason to rejoice. They will now get CNG without standing in long queues. Like Delhi, the city will also get the gas directly by the pipeline from today. Keeping up its promise, Haryana Gas Distribution Company has also reduced the price of the …
Nailing The Aravalli Lie
SAVE THE Aravallis: a slogan that like so many others stirs little response until the cost of ignoring it hits home: no electricity, no water, no construction material and, worst of all, no rain and the daytime temperature perpetually above 50 degrees Celsius. The Aravallis are the oldest mountain range …
Court not to examine legality of mining ban
Faridabad mining: NGO complains to SC panel against govt
Flying squads to protect Aravalis
New Delhi: Haryana government has finally decided to constitute flying squads to check non-forest activities like construction of farmhouses and residential colonies on forest land in Aravalis. The decision comes in the wake of Gurgaon forest conservator RP Balwan reporting largescale violation of forest area. The teams to be headed …
In the pipeline: Armed flying squad to protect Aravallis from encroachments
Gurgaon: The Department of Environment and Forest, Haryana, has issued a letter to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) to take serious note of all non-forest and illegal mining activities taking place in the Aravallis. In the letter, the Environment and Forest Minister Kiran Chaudhary has directed S K …
Mock drill at Hero Honda plant
Preparedness for chemical disaster The
Despite ban, illegal mining still on
Gurgaon: Even after the Supreme Court has imposed a ban on mining in the Aravallis in the districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad and Mehwat in Haryana, the Conservator of Forests, R P Balwan found hundreds of trucks carrying stones from illegal mines in Mehwat on Thursday. The team tried to stop …