Punjab witnessed its highest single-day tally of farm fires this season on Monday, with 1,251 new incidents reported. The surge brings the ...

Farmers in Punjab continue their protest for the second day, demanding paddy procurement and sufficient supplies of DAP fertilizer. The pro...

Farmers in Punjab, led by Kisan Mazdoor Morcha's Sarwan Singh Pandher, plan to initiate an indefinite road blockade from October 26 to prot...

GoI directs states to withhold MSP benefits from stubble-burning farmers, following Supreme Court's disincentive recommendation. Strategies...

It is also readying to ask central ministries to consolidate and converge various schemes to ensure a more robust stubble supply chain mana...

Since September 15, there have been about 56 per cent fewer stubble-burning events in Punjab and 40 per cent fewer instances in Haryana tha...

There is a direct correlation between why north India becomes a gas chamber every winter and the scheme of paddy and wheat procurement unde...

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav made these remarks in his intervention during a discussion on the iss...

Burning plant waste puts CO2 captured by plants back in the air, but does not add to CO2 burden, unlike burning coal.

The apex court said this fact cannot be ignored that how many firecrackers have been burnt despite ban being in place. "Every year when Del...

During a press conference here, Rai said that a 15-member impact assessment committee has ascertained the effectiveness of the Pusa bio-dec...

"If need arises, we will extend it (odd-even scheme)," Kejriwal said in response to media queries on whether the scheme, aimed at curbing v...

Over 3,000 school students in Punjab, and youth and corporate volunteers are joining CII in this movement to enable zero stubble burning.

A large number of farmers particularly in Punjab and Haryana are burning the farm stubble/straw, which causes air pollution, in the absence...

The situation was so bad late last year that the Capital was referred to as a gas chamber by health experts, forcing authorities to declare...

AAP has chosen to maintain a studious silence over the critical issue of stubble burning in the state, said PPCC leaders Rana Gurjit Singh,...

An official spokesperson of the agriculture department said that the harvesting of crop has been banned during night so that the produce co...