The Haryana State Pollution Control Board reports a significant drop in stubble burning cases, from 7,000 in 2021 to 2,300 in 2023. Farmers...

An action plan with Rs 500 crore is in place to combat stubble burning. 21,511 applications for subsidies on crop residue management machin...

Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the hazardous air quality in the national capital, while directing that farmers shoul...

Stubble burning by farmers in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab leads to massive increase in air pollution across North India, and has beco...

According to an official release here, the plan for paddy crop residue management was discussed at a high-level meeting in view of the comi...

On 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...

Mann on Wednesday slammed the BJP-led Centre for "targeting" Punjab farmers for farm fires, alleging that the saffron party wanted to aveng...

Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is one of the reasons behind the alarming spike in air pollution levels in the national capital r...

Haryana has logged 244 fire events as compared to 1,026 in 2021 and National Capital Region (NCR) districts of Uttar Pradesh have recorded ...

With pollution level in Delhi shooting up during the winter months, the issue of stubble burning often led to a blame game between the Delh...

The 'incentive' in the Punjab government's proposal was to cost '1,875 crore, of which the central share would be '1,125 crore and Punjab a...

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR and Adjoining Areas said according to a report based on the protocol framed by the ...

The Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has also expressed concern that incidents of stubble burning in Terai may hit the air quali...

According to GS Gill, Nodal Officer, Punjab Pollution Control Board, the incidents of stubble burning were reported mainly in Sangrur, Bath...

This year, the challenge is stiffer for other reasons too: paddy was sown in a wider area and late in the kharif season, which means farmer...

While burning of paddy in kharif poses graver concern in winters due to concentration of toxic residue, the pollution is well distributed i...

While meetings of Environment Minister Dave with state environment ministers were held on many occasions, four secretary-level meetings hav...