NGT orders shut 15 chemical industrial units in Haryana for flouting norms

Experts express concern, point at state pollution control board for poor implementation

Policy Backfires

Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish 

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

Hope for vultures

Lethal find

Scientists find high arsenic content in Haryana's groundwater

A sunny mandate

Solar water heating system in Haryana's private buildings

Farmers move court against Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Haryana

Plant site is fertile land and sustains 10,000 people

Callous forest law

Power-packed option

Even remote areas can be electrified through biomass gasification

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Cotton Curse: Tired of losses, farmers giving up cotton on a large scale

The production of cotton in Punjab has almost halved in the past decade

The minimum support price conundrum and Indian farming

MSP had no legal sanction when it was conceived and can also be challenged now

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Cotton Curse: No buyers for salvaged produce after pink bollworm wreaks havoc

Labourers refuse to pick leftover crop as yield too low and traders refuse to buy citing poor quality

Is rainfall linked to pollution? Depends on whether you live north or south of Vindhyas

DTE analyses PM10 spatial data for August 2022 and 2023 

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity

As told to Parliament (March 31, 2022): Gir’s lion density is 15.20 individuals per 100 sq km

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Pentavalent takes its toll

The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed

Nuclear power at the cost of livelihood

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

In Short

Drought spreads its tentacles

UP government caught napping as state comes under dry spell