Punjab’s panchayat flip-flop

State considers reverting to direct polls, court raps it for taking away right to recall sarpanch

Farmers shun cotton

Delayed monsoons, high input cost make farmers shift to guar, groundnut and pulses

Path lab in a tablet

Kanav Kahol, an expert on biomedical informatics, quit his teaching job in the US and came back to India to create a technology that would …

Board trouble

A new report severely castigates the functioning of India's pollution control boards

Weeding out waste

Punjab starts an ecofriendly state-level programme to clean ponds by using duckweeds

WATER SHARING

Problem of plenty

Doaba farmers have more potatoes than they can sell or store

Stubble trouble

Post-harvest clumps in rice fields burn and increasepollution in Punjab

Colonializing Agriculture, a review

Book>> Colonializing Agriculture, The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism by Mridula Mukherjee Sage Publications New Delhi 2005

Treated sewage for Gurgaon projects

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

Reeds to the rescue

An ecofriendly way of treating polluted wastewater holds promise for rural India

Ploughing on in Punjab

How successful will the state's crop deversification scheme be?

No hair-raising experience this

Punjab takes precautions for mealy bug attack

Norms flouted at Punjab and Himachal eye camps

Doctor who performed surgeries at Punjab camp has been arrested while officials of the NGO are still on the run

Now land acquisition stir in Punjab

Farmers protest thermal power project by Indiabulls  

Hope for vultures

Farmers oppose WTO

Subterranean blues

Subsoil carcinogens possible cause of cancer in Punjab

What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed-makers

Punjab crop loss spurs debate on pesticide use

Fall of a premier institute

Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak

Shift grain bowl status from North to other regions of India

Balwinder Singh Sidhu, agriculture commissioner and chief conservator of soils in Punjab, is known for giving his opinion in a frank and …

Piecemeal proposals

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

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