STUBBLE BURNING
Farmers' protest: Unions, Centre begin 7th round of talks, Tomar hopeful of a positive outcomeThe seventh round of talks between farmers' unions and the central government on farm laws began on January 04. Government and the farmers ...
- Air quality panel seeks Punjab’s stubble strategy
Apart from repealing the three farm laws, farmers are demanding that they be exempt from the purview of the newly-instituted CAQM and elect...
- Govt-farmers meet remains deadlocked; common ground reached on stubble burning, power tariff
The three farm laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove middlemen and allow farm...
- Stubble burning has stopped but Delhi's air pollution situation remains serious: Prakash Javadekar
Stubble burning has stopped now but Delhi's air pollution situation remains serious, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on F...
- Stubble burning rose by more than 20 pc this year: Air quality commission official
K J Ramesh, member of the newly formed commission for air quality management, said 2018 recorded 51,751 incidents of farm fires from mid-Oc...
- Steep rise in stubble burning incidents in Punjab this year
Every year at the onset of winters, crop residue burning or stubble burning begins in Punjab and Haryana leading to heavy air pollution in ...
- Politics of stubble burning: Solving the problem requires us to rethink paddy farming and irrational subsidies
It’s time to address the stubble burning problem not with more government sops to paddy, but by encouraging farmers in Punjab and Haryana t...
- Stubble-burning led to high Covid death rate in Delhi: Health Minister Satyendar Jain
"There was heavy pollution due to stubble-burning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and it came as a double attack. Since the pollution due to stu...
- Hold Punjab, Haryana CMs liable for Delhi pollution: Atishi to air quality panel
"The commission can file FIR and imprison anyone for up to 5 years for causing pollution in Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) so we have ...
- Stubble burning: Pusa bio-decomposer successful; will tell SC, says Kejriwal
Pusa bio-decomposer is a solution developed by the scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, which can turn crop resi...
- Renewable energy start-up working on sustainable solution of stubble burning
A renewable energy start-up Verve has been working in the segment of converting stubble into a substantial source of income and energy in t...
- Delhi's air quality 'very poor', stubble burning contribution may increase
The Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor, SAFAR, said the wind direction and the wind speed is favourable for the transport of t...
- Delhi’s air quality remains in ‘poor’ category amid stubble burning
Delhi’s air quality was recorded in the 'poor' category on October 18. Thick blanket of smog enveloped Delhi-NCR. Continuous stubble burnin...
- The Borlaug legacy: The common link between farmers’ protests in Punjab and stubble burning
Norman Borlaug’s battle against world hunger, which won him the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago, was fuelled at least in part by his own exp...
- SC appoints one judge monitoring committee in stubble burning case
Supreme Court appoints ex-judge of apex court Justice Madan B Lokur as one-man panel to monitor steps to prevent stubble burning and also d...
- Punjab, Haryana begin penalising farmers for stubble burning
More than 3,700 farm fires have been reported in the two states. Authorities have imposed environmental compensation of over Rs 20 lakh. Of...
- Being in denial will not help, Arvind Kejriwal to Prakash Javadekar on stubble burning
Taking to Twitter, the chief minister sought to know why pollution has suddenly increased in Delhi-NCR in the last fortnight if stubble bur...
- Breathing poor air
- Worsening COVID-19
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