UP problem cats are sugarcane tigers
Neha Sinha Posted: Jan 19, 2009 at 0009 hrs IST
Neha Sinha Posted: Jan 19, 2009 at 0009 hrs IST
KAMLA DAS, 25, belongs to a landless family in Salba gram panchayat in Chhattisgarh
NREGA Survey 2008 was conducted in May-June 2008. It covered 10 districts spread over six North Indian States (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh). The sample districts were Araria and Kaimur (Bihar), Surguja (Chhattisgarh), Koderma and Palamau (Jharkhand), Badwani and Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh), Dungarpur and Sirohi (Rajasthan) and Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh).
The NREGA is making a difference to the lives of the rural poor, slowly but surely.
Prerna Singh Bindra | Chaubeypur (Faizabad) Confused officials, angry villagers hound animal to kill humans
Lucknow: It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn
Jan. 15: The maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Uttar Pradesh is comparable to that of Sudan and the state, along with eight others, contributes to two-thirds of maternal deaths that occur in India. This has been revealed in the Unicef
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow Film-maker Sanjay Mathur's film 'Qahar' will be screened at the prestigious three-day Enviornment Fest that opens on Thursday. The festival is being organised by Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies at the City Montessori School auditorium.
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow The ambitious waste management project sanctioned for Lucknow in 2007 is yet to take off despite funds being released for it.
NOOSE TIGHTENS Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow:
New Delhi: Want quota for children in schools set up on acquired land, Authority to consider demand If you think admission to a reputed public school is a problem for parents living in metropolitan cities like Delhi alone, think again.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Winters are turning inauspicious for ghariyals in Uttar Pradesh. More than 100 ghariyals died in the winter months last year at the National Chambal Sanctuary. This winter 1,000 ghariyals of Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre might perish due to hunger.
Anil Yadav | Lucknow Sugar will not be that sweet this year as its production is likely to fall because cane-growers are diverting cane from sugar mills to khandsari units in the wake of their pending cane dues. With such largescale diversion of cane crops, the Sugarcane and Cane Development department have prognosticated that the sugar production might see a fall this year.
Lucknow: The Lucknow University students did not shy away from donning an unusually different role on Tuesday. Just a handful of students, 15 of them to be precise, from different departments of the Lucknow University came together to clean the campus. The role was short-lived but the students are more than determined that its impact will certainly last long.
STRAYING FOR A CAUSE Lucknow: The incident of a young tiger venturing out of Pilibhit forest has been a blessing in disguise for the wildlife of Uttar Pradesh. The tiger, it seems, has walked 300 kms away from its natural habitat for a cause
lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed from the nearby Kishanpur Sanctuary.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Has the young tiger of Pilibhit outwitted WII? The twomember team of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had joined the search operation about a week back. Going by the reports from Faizabad division, the team has gone back. In all possibility, another set of experts have joined the operation.
New Delhi: When a tiger walks over 400 kilometres, it
This annual report by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG)highlights their contribution to the various environmental movements in India. And addresses the issue of sustainable livelihood through environmental and natural resource management by concentrating its efforts towards empowering marginalized section of the society. GEAG is a part of South Asian collaborative action research