Stubble burning

New Delhi: Recording of paddy straw burning events, through a standard protocol developed by ISRO, is carried out on year-to-year basis from 15th September to 30th November. Paddy harvesting season 2023 now comes to an end and with it, the…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Punjab government over stubble burning, one of the factors for air pollution in Delhi-NCR, and observed that farmers are being made a villain as they are not being heard in…

New Delhi: Air quality in Delhi continued to remain in 'Very poor' category with the overall AQI (Air Quality Index) at 320. The NHRC, meanwhile, has slammed the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi for the rise in…

Why this hullabaloo over the Oreva Company official’s description of the Mourvi tragedy as an ‘act of God’? When the local municipality handed over the repair, management and control of the footbridge to this company on a Rs. 300 stamp,…

Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena has written a letter to Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann stating that stubble burning in the state has turned the national capital into a gas chamber. The LG took to Twitter to share the letter…

Ludhiana: Stubble burning has again contaminated the atmosphere  of several parts of Punjab even as 33 cases were reported before the onset of wheat harvesting season. Reports said farmers took to burning stubble and 84 fires were…