Buying new car more taxing now
LUCKNOW: Buying a new car would be a bit more
LUCKNOW: Buying a new car would be a bit more
LUCKNOW: Ghariyals might be in for a new-age monitoring in the state through a technique called biologging. In fact, it would entirely be a new experience for the artificially reared reptilian breed. The state forest department is planning to release ghariyals implanted with a camera and sensory devices in the wild.
LUCKNOW: The state is set to get a new zoo in Gorakhpur. The supreme court nod on Friday cleared the decks for the third zoo in the state. It will not only be the biggest, including the two existing zoos, but also the first to come up in eastern UP.
Greater Noida: Uttar Pradesh tops the country with 397 polio cases of P-3 virus, including three recent cases of P-3 virus detected in Kalaunda village of Dadri. The cases include 28 cases of P-1 virus. In all 33 new cases of polio have been confirmed in districts of Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Jahangirpur, Rampur and Kanshi Ram Nagar in UP during this year.
Parents blame midday meal More than 40 children of the Babugarh area here were rushed to a hospital after they complained of suffocation and nausea, an official said on Sunday. The kids were rushed to a government hospital at Hapur on Saturday evening, said sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Mahendra Prasad.He said the children fell ill after they ate fruits of Jatropha plant.
LUCKNOW: The team from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and officials from Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Wednesday discussed the alignment of the proposed metro rail in the city. The DMRC team is in the city to discuss the technical issues related with the project.
LUCKNOW: The recent starvation deaths of leopards in UP could be the latest manifestation of deteriorating forest quality. A four-month-old leopard cub died in June this year while another cub, about a-year-and-a-half old, died on Tuesday while it was undergoing treatment at Lucknow zoo.
New Delhi: If all goes well, residents of Noida can expect Metro to reach their doorstep before the trade fair starts next month. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning to start trial runs next week and the line will be opened if the Commissioner of Railway Safety gives the mandatory certificate.
The Union Tourism Ministry, along with the UP Tourism Department, is set to develop a village in Congress president Sonia Gandhi
LUCKNOW: The type-1 polio virus could be on the verge of eradication, says a recent study conducted in Moradabad district of UP. The aim of the study was to evaluate the residual immunity gap among children in western Uttar Pradesh and adapt future strategies in this regard. It began with 1,002 children in April and concluded with data of 871 infants aged between six and nine months in May.
New Delhi: With Uttar Pradesh curtailing water supply to the Bhagirathi and Sonia Vihar plants for an additional eight days due to annual maintenance of the Ganga Canal, Delhi is likely to face a serious water crisis till the city makes alternative arrangements.
New Delhi: In a move that will make travel between Delhi and national capital region cities like Noida and Ghaziabad a lot simpler and cheaper, taxis and radio cabs plying between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will not be required to pay any tax at the border from Wednesday.
KOCHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued a notification under the Biological Diversity Act (2002) and released a revised list of endangered species in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.
From solar lanterns to solar technology-run ATMs, from traffic and streetlights to railway signals, Tata BP Solar (Established 1989) now wants to light up 10 million households across India and generate 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020.
By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
LUCKNOW: Giant mobile towers mushrooming on the roofs of buildings and houses in densely populated areas across the state has drawn serious attention of the High Court on Thursday. The bench comprising of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi has proceeded to look into the problems of people and environment as well caused due to mobile towers.
LUCKNOW: The state forest department is making several efforts to extend protection to endangered Indopiptadenia oudhensis, locally called `genti' or `haathipaula'. It is a perennial tree variety whose existence has shrunk to border areas of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand, close to Nepal. In UP, this variety is confined to Suhelwa wildlife division in Balrampur district.
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the Noida Authority officials are planning to clean up the streets and drains to give a completely fresh look to foreign visitors.
Since the Uttar Pradesh government stayed away from the meeting held at Orchha in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday to discuss development of Bundelkhand through NREGS, the Centre has decided to hold a separate meeting for UP after the by-elections in November. The Congress, at the same time, accused UP of obstructing development in the region.
LUCKNOW: As rivers emerging from Nepal showed no signs of relent, the floods in over a dozen districts of east UP and Terai region claimed 10 more lives on Monday, taking the toll to over 30.