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TN student's death in Ranchi: Stalin announces Rs 3 lakh solatium, writes
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
M Madhankumar (28), a student at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Jharkhand, was found dead with burn injuries near a hostel building at the institute on Thursday.
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Delhi: MCD constitutes 517 Surveillance Teams to implement Winter Action P
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has constituted 517 surveillance teams, constituting 1,119 officers, to check the open burning, illegal construction and demolition (C&D) waste dumping, checking of C&D sites, and dust on roads under its jurisdiction, said officials.
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Punjab: Fines imposed on farmers in Punjab's Faridkot over stubble burning
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Kiranjeet Gill, an officer of the Agriculture Department of Faridkot, said, "When we went out in the field yesterday too, a fire was lit by a farmer on Muktsar Kotkapura Road in Wada Daraka village near Kotkapura and there was a lot of smoke coming out of it, there was a danger of an acciden
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"Due to Delhi's people, govt's hard work, we had 200 good air days": AAP
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Speaking to ANI on the issue, Kakkar said, "Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and our Environment Minister are continuously working on the ground. Due to Delhi's people and the government's hard work, we had 200 good air days. In Punjab, we reduced stubble burning by 50-67 per cent. We are agre
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MCD deploys 517 surveillance teams to combat air pollution in Delhi
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"To implement the Winter Action Plan (WAP) MCD has constituted 517 Surveillance Teams constituting 1119 officers to check the open burning, illegal C&D waste dumping, checking of C&D sites and dust on roads under its jurisdiction." read the MCD release.
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321 farmers indulged in stubble burning in Punjab's Moga: Agriculture Depa
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Agriculture Department officials in the Moga district of Punjab have said that 321 farmers in the district have indulged in stubble burning, and they have gone to the fields of 205 farmers and imposed a fine against them.
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BJP's Shehzad Poonawala dons gas mask, claims Smog Tower in Delhi non-func
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Shehzad Poonawalla says, "Delhi has become a gas chamber under Arvind Kejriwal. He has ensured that AQI levels are at their highest in the last four to five years. He has done nothing to tackle pollution; he used to blame stubble burning in Punjab."
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Haryana's target is to reduce stubble burning by 50%: Dy Commissioner Jind
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
As the air quality in several parts of Delhi slipped to the 'severe' category on Friday morning and the three neighbouring states- Delhi, Punjab and Haryana are locked in a tussle over the pollution problem, Deputy Commissioner Mohd Imran Raza Jind said that their target was to reduce stu
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Punjab: Anti-Sikh riots victims burn effigy of Congress leader Kamal Nath
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The families of 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims took out a protest rally on Thursday and burned effigies of senior Congress leader Kamal Nath and Punjab Congress President Raja Warring in the Dugri area of Ludhiana.
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Punjab: HPCL to set up 2G bio-refinery plant in Bathinda
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The 2G bio-refinery is designed for the utilization of paddy straw for the production of ethanol for blending with petrol under the Ethanol Blending Program of the Central Government.
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Punjab: Bathinda AQI recorded 'poor' category after stubble burning
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"The smoke of stubble spread in Bathinda, the air became poisonous, and the administration appealed to the distressed farmers not to burn the stubble." Lucky, a local resident said.
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Israel-Hamas war: 2,50,000 Israelis displaced, bodies still being identifi
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The official said that it took more than two weeks to identify some of the southern victims of the October 7 mass murder attack launched by Hamas death squads, including a mother burned to death in Kibbutz Kfar Aza after her home was burned down and her husband killed.
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