In dire straits

Ration shops to go hi-tech

Smart cards to plug leak in public distribution system

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Gurgaon to bid goodbye to clotheslines

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Treated sewage for Gurgaon projects

Haryana government makes treated sewage available to developers affected by court moratorium on groundwater extraction

Subterranean subterfuge

Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.

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

Reserve game

Farmers move court against Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Haryana

Plant site is fertile land and sustains 10,000 people

Haryana ignores Centre's direction to protect Aravalli forests in Faridabad

Mangar development plan proposes universities, mega tourism projects and quarries in one of the last patches of forests having trees native to …

Mine games

Haryana's politics-mining nexus plays havoc with the environment (Read full article)

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Power-packed option

Even remote areas can be electrified through biomass gasification

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

Centre to popularise CFLs

Badlands can earn

Go ahead

Six GM cotton varieties to be cultivated in three states

Reliance SEZ in Haryana sanctioned

Elemental woe

US environmental body proposes temporary pesticide-free zones to protect honeybees

A large number of bees are exposed to pesticide spraying when growers enter into contracts with beekeepers for pollination services

Drugs on EMI

People in an extremely backward Haryana town, where almost every fifth person has hepatitis C, are forced to seek treatment on EMIs

Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity