The National Green Tribunal and Delhi High Court have asked the Centre and state governments of Punjab and Haryana to respond to the persisting problem of...
North-westerly winds blowing at speeds of 10 to 12 km per hour across Delhi are bringing along pollutants from Punjab and neighbouring Haryana leading to bad...
From warning farmers to registering cases against them to creating awareness on stubble burning, Haryana government has tried everything to stop stubble burning
National Green Tribunal asked states to provide machinery free of cost to the farmers having less than two acres of land, to farmers having medium land...
The magnitude of atmospheric pollution due to brick kilns can be gauged from the fact that burning of one kg of coal releases at least four...
Panchkula’s existing landfill site is an exhausted dump yard of unsegregated dry and wet waste, while the newly proposed one may bring the garbage crisis closer...
A "poor" AQI essentially means that people will have breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure to such air. On further dip in air quality, AQI will turn...
To mark the third anniversary of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan remarkable, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs today announced urban areas of...
According to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) around 35 million tonnes of paddy straw are burnt in Haryana and Punjab before the onset of...
Under the ‘Target Vulnerable Open Defecation Areas’ approach, the Karnal Municipal Corporation first identified the areas prone to open defecation like railways and slum pockets and...
Urban Haryana consists of 80 Urban Local Bodies, of which 14 including Karnal, Sirsa, Panipat, Ratia, Fatehbad have already attained the status of open defecation free
Former Cricket Captain, Sourav Ganguly launched Gurugram’s city-wide initiative of segregating waste into three differently coloured bins
Northern states like Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have been asked to submit Yamuna cleanup action plan by the Green Court before September 4
A workshop titled 'Transforming the Najafgarh Basin' was held in Gurugram to identify gaps and challenges faced in stopping the sewerage from directly flowing into the...
Of the total 22 districts in Punjab 10 have already become open defecation free. If all districts go ODF by end of this year, then Punjab...