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The state has procured around 176 lakh tonnes of paddy and around 17 lakh tonnes of Basmati so far as the harvesting of both crops nears completion.

Air quality indices remained in very poor and poor categories in many parts of Haryana and Punjab.

Haryanas Sonipat reported an air quality index (AQI) of 392, followed by 361 in Fatehabad, 352 in Sirsa, 328 in Faridabad, 266 in Jind, 260 in Rohtak, 245 in Bhiwani, 236 in Gurugram and 212 in Kaithal. In Punjab, Bathinda reported AQI at 298, followed by 250 in Rupnagar, 239 in Mandi Gobindgarh, 234 in Ludhiana, 223 in Patiala, 219 in Amritsar, 202 in Jalandhar and 171 in Khanna.

The notice issued to deputy commissioners in Barnala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Ludhiana, Moga, Muktsar and Sangrur asked why action should not be taken against them for failing to control farm fires.

The number of stubble blazes in Punjab continues to rise, with 2,544 fires recorded on Wednesday, in defiance of the Supreme Courts directives. | Latest News Delhi

Binder Singh and Harmandeep Kaur belonged to different districts in Punjab. The police said they are unaware of why they travelled to the Faridkot school to die by suicide.

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Punjab Thursday registered 1,150 stubble burning incidents, taking the total number of such cases to 33,082. India News | Punjab Logs 1,150 Farm Fires.

A red alert has been sounded in all districts of Punjab to curb stubble burning amid rising air pollution in Delhi and North India.

The fresh crop residue burning cases indicated that there was no let up in such cases despite the Punjab Police sounding a red alert in all the districts, warning of legal action against those found burning stubble

'Amini', the fourth in a series of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) projects built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) for the Indian Navy, was launched.