CHANDIGARH: The Haryana forest department has decided to carry out plantation on farmlands along highways in the shape of shelterbelts to minimise pollution on highways in the state, setting a target to cover an area of 19,881 hectares. Strip plantations are proposed to be carried out along national highways number 1, ...

CHANDIGARH: A total of 200 buses for Ludhiana and 150 buses for Amritsar will be introduced under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) before the end of the current financial year. This was submitted in the High Court by the Special Secretary, Local Government, Punjab, in the form ...

LUDHIANA: Stressing that environment protection was a national need, Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) would act directly anywhere in the country if it found the state government had failed to check pollution. "Don't smell any politics in this. The protection ...

YAMUNANAGAR: The receding water level due to the heat wave and lack of maintenance left more than two quintals offish dead in a pond at the local O.P. Jindal Park. Officials of the fisheries department reached the site but a part of the dead fish had already been disposed in the ...

JALANDHAR: Environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal on Friday warned to block the inflow of waste material into Kala Sanghian drain on February 22, criticizing the state government for not taking any measures to stop the drain from being polluted. Seechewal, who inaugurated "Incognito 2010", a tech fest, at DAV Institute and ...

NANGAL: In yet another incident of fish mortality, a large number of fish were found floating dead in the Sutlej river at Nangal allegedly due to high toxicity caused by pollution. Residents of nearby Bela Dhiani village noticed the dead fish floating in downstream on Wednesday morning. Collecting the fish for ...