'Not in favour of FIRs against farmers over stubble burning': Punjab CM MannPunjab CM Bhagwant Mann said he does not favour FIRs against farmers for stubble burning and called for a Rs 3,000-per-acre incentive to ma...
19 Sep, 2026, 05.52 PM IST
Punjab: 283 farm fires mark highest single-day spikeA dramatic rise in stubble burning was observed in Punjab on Wednesday, with 283 new incidents reported -- a staggering total of 1,216 fire...
29 Oct, 2025, 10.38 PM IST
Stubble burning cases have reduced from 7,000 in 2021 to 2,300 in 2023: Haryana State Pollution Control Board Secretary Pradeep KumarThe Haryana State Pollution Control Board reports a significant drop in stubble burning cases, from 7,000 in 2021 to 2,300 in 2023. Farmers...
22 Oct, 2024, 11.21 AM IST
Punjab reports 512 more farm firesHaryana's Fatehabad reported an air quality index (AQI) of 368, followed by 358 in Faridabad, 342 in Gurugram, 337 in Jind, 330 in Rohtak a...
22 Nov, 2023, 09.30 PM IST
Punjab clocks 634 fresh farm fire cases, police say over 1,000 FIRs registeredPunjab recorded 637 and 740 farm fires on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. With the fresh cases, the total number of farm fires recorded ...
20 Nov, 2023, 10.08 PM IST
Punjab reports 740 fresh incidents of stubble burningHaryana's Sonipat reported an air quality index (AQI) of 392, followed by 361 in Fatehabad, 352 in Sirsa, 328 in Faridabad, 266 in Jind, 26...
19 Nov, 2023, 07.57 PM IST
Punjab reports 2,060 farm fires; 'severe', 'very poor' AQI in parts of HaryanaOut of a total of 19,463 farm fires reported this year till now, Sangrur topped the list with 3,207 stubble-burning cases, followed by 1,97...
07 Nov, 2023, 11.33 AM IST
At 3,230, Punjab records maximum farm fires in a day; air quality 'severe' in parts of HaryanaPunjab on Sunday reported 3,230 farm fires, the highest in a day so far this season, while the air quality in large parts of Haryana was re...
06 Nov, 2023, 11.24 AM IST
Reached to stop farm fires, government official made to burn stubble by farmers in PunjabThe incident came to light after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann posted a purported video of the entire incident on his X handle.
05 Nov, 2023, 08.54 AM IST
Air pollution: Punjab sees 12.59 pc rise in stubble burning events in last 50 days, says ICAR dataOn Friday alone, a total of 2,945 stubble-burning events were detected in six states, out of which a maximum of 2,437 incidents were in Pun...
04 Nov, 2022, 08.03 PM IST
Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur account for 60 per cent of stubble burning cases in PunjabPaddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is one of the reasons behind the alarming spike in air pollution levels in the national capital r...
24 Oct, 2022, 10.44 AM IST
Govt planning to use stubble for biofuels, manure: Union minister Bhupender YadavUnion Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav made these remarks in his intervention during a discussion on the iss...
10 Dec, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
Nearly 40,000 stubble burning incidents reported in Punjab so far this yearAccording to GS Gill, Nodal Officer, Punjab Pollution Control Board, the incidents of stubble burning were reported mainly in Sangrur, Bath...
05 Nov, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
How stubble burning in Haryana & Punjab is the biggest culprit for poor air quality in DelhiThis is the season when the farmers of Punjab and northern Haryana resort to massive burning of rice stubble to quickly get their fields re...
12 Nov, 2017, 10.28 AM IST
Defiant farmers take oath across villages in Malwa to burn paddy stubblePaddy has been sown in over 29.5 lakh hectares in Punjab, including 4.5 lakh hectares under the aromatic basmati crop.
07 Oct, 2017, 11.16 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi asks farmers to take a pledge of not burning crop stubblePM Modi suggested that he was taking an electoral risk by making such utterances as some people might say that Modi "does not know politics"
25 Nov, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
Heart Of Green Revolution Burns, Delhi ChokesA survey by ToI reporters across Punjab and Haryana finds that despite concerns raised by the Punjab and Haryana HC and the NGT, farmers ha...
05 Nov, 2016, 10.56 AM IST