Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Organic farming and Poly House Farms are becoming the ‘in thing’ with many progressive farmers in Haryana who subscribe to the mantra of enhancing their agricultural income by adopting non-traditional methods. Deepak Sura, Sarpanch of village Bugana in Hisar, for instance has been influenced by Israeli agricultural practices and techniques. …
Hisar: The importance of switching over to nuclear power was underlined at a workshop organised here today to remove misgivings in the minds of people about the safety of such power plants. The workshop was organised by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Addressing mediapersons, Anuj Sinha, …
A prolonged dry spell in most parts of India is hurting the sowing schedule for paddy, a major kharif crop, raising the country’s anxiety about monsoon rains, as parched fields urgently need moisture to plant crops. The weather office has forecast normal rainfall in the June-September monsoon, but showers in …
The growth and plant water relations of Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm. and E. camaldulensis Dehnh. in relation to soil salinity were studied by transplanting one and half month old seedlings in the pots filled with eight levels of artificially created soil salinity levels.
The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months. Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today …
Three more cities are switching over to Bharat Stage (BS)-4 emission norms from Thursday. These cities are Ankaleshwar in Gujarat, Hisar in Haryana and Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Already 13 cities, including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Lucknow and Solapur are implementing the BS-4 …
Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap. The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems …
Fatehabad: The six-month-old standoff between farmers and the power utilities over the setting up of a 220-KV power substation at Samain village in Fatehabad ended today with both sides signing a “truce” document. After officials of the power utilities conceded some major demands, the farmers agreed to end their opposition …
The Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University has signed an agreement with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) for evaluation of germ plasm. The University's Research Director R. P. Narwal said on Wednesday that agricultural production had been severely affected due to inadequate irrigational resources and changing …
CHANDIGARH: Cold wave tightened its grip in Punjab and Haryana today as minimum temperatures plummeted in various parts of the two states, going down by as much as six degrees below normal. Narnaul in Haryana was the coldest place in the region where mercury dipped by three notches, recording a …
The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to Haryana, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and Ministry of Environment and Forest on a plea challenging the acquisition of land for setting up 2,800 MW Gorakhpur atomic power project. A division bench headed by …
Fatehabad: A farmer sitting on a dharna in front of the local mini-secretariat against the acquisition of his land for the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village was taken seriously ill due to the severe cold conditions last night. The farmer, Parkash Siwach (66), was sleeping under the tent …
New Delhi: In what has sent alarm bells ringing in the administration, 20% of the blood samples taken from pigs across the city have tested positive for Japanese encephalitis, indicating that the disease is likely to spread in Delhi. Japanese encephalitis, which is endemic to eastern UP and Bihar where …
The Haryana cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of the Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation to plan and operate mass transit and other urban transport. The proposal had been part of the budget speech delivered in the state Vidhan Sabha on March 10, 2010 by the then finance minister …
Gurgaon district administration enforced Section 144 of the CrPC on Monday to ban hookah bars in the city. As per orders, no hookah bar can operate within city premises and those already functional will be shut down. The move is part of larger plan to make Haryana a nicotine-free state, …
New Delhi: Two more people have been confirmed positive for Japanese Encephalitis in the city, taking the total number of patients suffering from the mosquito-borne disease to 14. According to Dr V K Monga, the MCD health committee chairman, they have not found the source of the infection yet. “The …
As part of a drive to make the state free of nicotine, Haryana Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials raided 28 hookah bars across seven districts and collected 77 samples this month. While seven hookah bars were raided and eight samples collected in Gurgaon, two raids were carried out and …
The Union Agriculture Ministry has approved Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, as a Centre of Excellence for bajra. Stating this in Hisar, the university's Director (Research) R. P. Narwal said Rs. 1 crore has been sanctioned to popularise bajra , known as the primary food of the poor. …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare that his government is not only committed to an effective Lokpal law but also working on a comprehensive agenda to eradicate corruption and improve governance. Responding to a letter from Mr. Hazare, the Prime Minister said creation of Lokpal was …
