Punjab to offer free emergency hospital services

The scheme aims at addressing out-of-pocket expenditure in the state

Petty decision

Experts in the dark

The best myth

Paying the price

Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Simply Put: Gulliver in Lilliput

The ‘qissa’ of Basmati

As the European Union gets set to pronounce whether to give a GI tag to India’s Basmati rice, we explore the history of a grain that …

Farmers in Punjab are burning stubble as an act of rebellion

They are angry that even as they suffer from farm distress and do not get any proper returns on their labour and produce, the onus of stubble …

आम चुनाव : पंजाब में राष्ट्रीय नहीं, स्थानीय मुद्दे हावी

आगामी 19 मई के लोकसभा के आखिरी चरण में वोट पंजाब में डाले जाएंगे। जहां स्थानीय मुद्दे ज्यादा हावी हैं। 

Why farmers in Punjab and Haryana continue to burn rice stubble?

Every year during October and November, farmers in Punjab and Haryana are blamed for polluting the Delhi air by burning stubble

Despite appeals and fines, paddy crop residue burning on the rise in Punjab

Data from state pollution control board reveals increase in incidents

Gone with the wind

INDIA

Crop failure

In Focus

Shallow tubewell no good

Farm pacts

Go hunt'em

Punjab wants crop-mowing boars and blue bulls dead

Beginning a new term

Terminator technology patent holder enters the Indian market

NGO study, government lingo

Bright futures

Punjab farmers can get higher wheat prices now

Draft national policy for farmers is a good begining

Draft national policy on farmers focusses, not farming

What ails employment guarantee

implementing the rural employment guarantee scheme

Punjab sets an example by banning junk food in schools

By not allowing children to bring junk food from home, the state education department's message—that junk food is unhealthy—is made …