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Know Your Smart City: Punjab & Haryana

The seventh part of the 'Know Your Smart City' web series looks at cities in Punjab & Haryana

Know Your Smart City: Union Territories

The 13th part of the 'Know Your Smart City' web series looks at cities in the Union Territories

Rural distress could trigger mass migration to cities

Sowing area in major grain-producing states estimated to be much lower this year

Big opportunity in making India energy efficient: Ravichandran Purushothaman

Interview with President, Danfoss India

Rising fodder prices spell gloom for poultry sector

Protests take a toll on Indo-Pak trade via Wagah

Haryana conducts survey on cotton crop loss

State govt says usual formula for compensation was Rs 12,500 an acre for 100% damage that could be raised in case of cotton

Whitefly attack: Punjab wants Cotton Corp to rescue farmers

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met Union textile minister Santosh Gangwar on Sunday in this regard

Whitefly attack highlights need for better Bt cotton

Crop loss due to this is estimated at 40-50%of the total crop or around 1.5 to 2 million bales

Branded basmati sales to touch 2.9 mt

Processors eye domestic market, with growth in preference for packaged & branded products and slide in exports

Flipkart to engage local celebrities for penetration in non-metros

Company did a regional market study for the first time and kick started its celebrity campaign from Punjab

IIT Ropar missing campus, faculty

Steel units shut down in Punjab in the wake of high power tariff

High cross subsidy on the open access of power has also jeopardized the health of steel industry in the last few years

SEZs in Haryana were floated only to grab land at throwaway prices: Birender Singh

Out of 37 SEZs for which land was acquired after the notifications under section 4 and selection 6 of the Land Acquisition Act only 6 are functional, he adds

Delayed execution and staff crunch hits IIT Ropar

It is located in the Roopnagar district of Punjab, about 50 kilometres from Union Territory of Chandigarh on the NH-21

FCI fixes higher rice procurement target despite fears of crop loss

Observers say the paddy output in the ongoing kharif marketing season (October to September) might be five per cent less than last season

Ahead of Reliance Jio's entry, Airtel ramps up 4G network in Punjab

With a tele density 105.13 Punjab ranks third, after Tamilnadu and Himachal Pradesh according to TRAI statistics

Punjab, Haryana cotton growers lose 40% crop

Opposition accuses Punjab Government for providing spurious pesticides

Basmati exporters' realisations down 18%

Traders are yet to exhaust the kharif 2014 stock, which has led to oversupply

Deficient rains to spoil cotton farmers' party

A shortfall of 50% of monsoon rain till now may result in 20% fall in production in cotton growing states