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

Centre implements Supreme Court suggestion to exclude stubble burners from MSP. Punjab, Haryana to tighten enforcement as paddy cultivation...

Meanwhile, it is gathered that at a review meeting chaired by the Cabinet Secretary on November 8, it was suggested to the Punjab governmen...

Officials said the milder 'environmental compensation' structure than the one proposed in 2020, which came into effect on Friday, is in kee...

The draft rule to the CAQM Act, 2021, proposes 2,500 'environmental compensation' per incidence of stubble fire for a farmer owning less th...

Tomar also said that the government is unhappy that it could not succeed in convincing some of the protesting farmers' unions about the ben...

One way is to redesign the combine harvesters to cut the paddy straw from the plant’s base to remove the stem. The straw can either be sold...

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said farmers or stubble burning should not be blamed for air pollution, citing a Supre...

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

The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas to tackle pollution in the Delhi airshed came into...

Apart from repealing the three farm laws, farmers are demanding that they be exempt from the purview of the newly-instituted CAQM and elect...

The three farm laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove middlemen and allow farme...

The two Congress MPs from Punjab accused the government of being insensitive towards farmers and asked how many of them would have to sacri...

The meeting was also attended by Union MoSes for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary, and the agriculture minister of Harya...

The protesters held placards displaying messages like 'Delhi air is poisonous', 'breathing is killing me', '#My Right to Breathe' and 'Unbr...

With the Sri Lankan cricket team's dramatic protest against playing conditions highlighting the mounting embarrassment over Delhi's polluti...

Reports from the ground suggest that Punjab and Haryana's firm approach seems to be working but major challenges lie in the days ahead as f...