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In SC, Punjab blames centre; Haryana lists rewards, fines to curb farm firesPunjab blames lax central laws for its inability to enforce strict measures against stubble burning, citing amendments that replaced penal ...
Stubble burning incidents: Haryana suspends 24 agriculture dept officialsHaryana's Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Department has suspended 24 officials for failing to prevent stubble burning. The Supreme Court ...
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 ...
Delhi pollution crisis: AAP-BJP slugfest continues over stubble burning in states ruled by themDelhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva claimed there were over 3,000 stubble burning incidents in AAP-ruled Punjab on Sunday while Delhi Chi...
Centre aims zero stubble burning in current season: TomarThe Centre aims to work towards achieving zero paddy stubble burning incidents in the current season, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh T...
Centre rejects Punjab's Rs 2,500/acre cash sops to stop stubble burningThe '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...
Hectic meet between Ministry and Air Quality commission to reduce burning of farm stubbleThe Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has also expressed concern that incidents of stubble burning in Terai may hit the air quali...
Stubble burning: Delhi govt forms a 15-member panel to ascertain impact of Pusa bio-decomposerEnvironment Minister Gopal Rai said the panel will have five MLAs, and officials from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, and Agr...
Stubble burning: Pusa bio-decomposer successful; will tell SC, says KejriwalPusa bio-decomposer is a solution developed by the scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, which can turn crop resi...
SC doing its part to deal with stubble burning, Centre & states have to do theirs: Delhi HCThe court made this observation while declining to entertain a plea seeking immediate steps to prevent stubble burning in Punjab and Haryan...
Supreme Court appoints ex-judge M B Lokur as one-man panel to prevent stubble burningThe bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, directed the states concerned to provide adequate security, secretar...
SC asks states about arrangements made to prevent stubble burning
"You just want to sit in your ivory towers and rule": SC pulls up states on pollution in Delhi-NCRComing down heavily on state governments, the top court said that if they don't bother about people, they have no right to be in power. "Yo...
Punjab records 24 % increase in farm fires, no challan issued so farThe number of farm fires in Haryana, however, has decreased by 10 per cent as compared to last year, despite the "moderate implementation o...
Delhi's air quality set to dip, but stubble-burning no villainBecause of easterly winds coming from UP, the pollutants in the air will remain at the ground level for longer hours, CPCB member secretary...
Ban on stubble burning not fully implemented: GovernmentWhile meetings of Environment Minister Dave with state environment ministers were held on many occasions, four secretary-level meetings hav...
Haryana government bans farmers from burning wheat stubbleThe Board has approved nine prosecution cases for filing in the Environment Courts against farmers for violation of stubble burning for yea...