Punjab must share water with Haryana, the Supreme Court ruled, terming “unconstitutional” a law the state passed in 2004 to end all its water agreements with neighbouring states. The verdict, 12 years after a presidential reference to the court, has sharply escalated politics in Punjab ahead of polls next year. ...

NEW DELHI: Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state in the country. The announcement was made on the state’s foundation day. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation Free. “Kerala has become an ODF state,” Drinking Water and Sanitation Secretary Parameswaran Iyer said. He ...

NEW DELHI: Praising the Delhi government’s announcement of taking emergency steps to tackle the severe air pollution, a green body today said these will need strict enforcement and vehicle restraint measures, including odd-even scheme, for effective impact. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said for enduring impact, the government must ...

The new arhar (red gram or pigeon pea) variety released by Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) – Pusa  Arhar 16 – brings to fruition a long awaited desire of early maturity variety of the crop. Pusa Arhar 16 comes to maturity in 120 days, possibly due to synchronous flowering, and ...

To improve the situation regarding nutrition and health of children up to the age of 6 years, Department of Women Empowerment and Child Welfare, Haryana Government has decided to organize Rural Health and Nutrition Day once in a month and has launched Health Check Up and Vaccination Scheme. Beneficiary: Children ...

To provide supplementary feeding for 300 days in a year to the children in the age of 6 months to 6 years, to adolescent girls and to expectant and nursing women, Department of Women Empowerment and Child Welfare under Haryana Govt. has introduced Supplementary Nutritional Feeding Scheme. The objective of ...

Haryana Government has launched National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme which will be sponsored by the Central Government. Under this scheme scholarship will be awarded to the meritorious school students who are economically weak. These scholarships will be provided quarterly to the students studying as regular students in class IX ...

This scheme is launched by Haryana Government under the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Department. This scheme is for the women empowerment in the state. The scheme aims to provide free training of tailoring to the destitute and deserted women. This will make them independent so that they ...

In order to motivate parents of SC girls and to reduce heavy drop-out after passing 10+2 examination, this scheme has been launched from the year 2009-10 by the department of “Welfare of Scheduled Caste and Backward Class Department”. Under this scheme scholarship SC girls studying in science, commerce and professional ...

To encourage the merit amongst Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes students, this scheme was launched from the year 2005-06. It was amended in 2009 which made this scheme’s scope extended up to post-graduate classes. This scheme is under the Welfare of Scheduled Caste & Backward Classes Development. The key features ...