FEROZEPUR: Following reports that tones of hazardous chemicals, being of discharged into a  Sutlej channel by tanneries in Pakistan were polluting  irrigation and drinking  water in border villages in the Hussainiwala area, the Health Department has taken water samples from these villages to examine their heavy metal content. There are about ...

CHANDIGARH: Holding that the fee charged for change of land use (CLU) by the Amritsar Municipal Corporation from a company coming up with a multiplex and a hotel was untenable, Justice K. Kanan of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the MC to refund the entire CLU fee ...