Punjab bans gutkha

It is the ninth state to do so

Rajasthan cries foul

Permits revoked

Purification project

The lie of the land

The Bhakra Nangal project's success is rooted in myth, says a new study

According to report

Yellow rust strikes wheat in northern India

ICAR, agricultural universities and state agriculture departments issue advisories, alerts

AAP makes Lok Sabha debut in Punjab

Seasoned politicians defeated by aam aadmis

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