Uttar Pradesh

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …

Plant macro-remains from Neolithic Jhusi in Ganga Plain: evidence for grain-based agriculture

The results of the study of archaeobotanical samples from Neolithic site, Jhusi, at the confluence of Yamuna and Ganga rivers in Allahabad, UP, are presented here and discussed in the light of information on prehistoric plants of subsistence in Ganga Plain during 7th millennium BC

Healthcare inequality

The Indian healthcare industry may grow by 50 per cent between 2006 and 2013. Infrastructure spending on healthcare is expected to touch $4.2 billion by end of this period from the current level of $6.7 billion. However, its geographical spread is still going to be biased, according to a recent …

Healthcare inequality

The Indian healthcare industry may grow by 50 per cent between 2006 and 2013. Infrastructure spending on healthcare is expected to touch $4.2 billion by end of this period from the current level of $6.7 billion. However, its geographical spread is still going to be biased, according to a recent …

The Pied Piper Of Parks

Roma, 44, lobbied in favour of the Forest Rights Act against a State impervious to the possibility of a civil war Roma had just finished a masters degree in social work from a Delhi college. She found herself gripped with the anxieties of a young urban woman.

Yamuna Authority, farmers reach truce

Greater Noida, August 20 The Yamuna Expressway Authority seems to have resolved its disputes with the farmers. The agitating farmers had been stalling development projects for the last two years. Farmers of Noida and Greater Noida under the banner of BKU participated in a meeting with Yamuna Expressway Authority chairman …

17 more test positive to swine flu in UP

LUCKNOW: Swine flu in Uttar Pradesh has a strong Pune connection. More than 11 of total 17 cases who tested positive to H1N1 influenza on Thursday in the state, had a Pune link. Official sources informed that on an average, 100 persons are being screened for the swab test daily …

CGWB reveals a huge ground water reservoir

LUCKNOW: Call it an irony of sorts. At a time when there is brouhaha over the depleting ground water table, the central ground water board (CGWB) has revealed a huge ground water reservoir hidden deep within the earth's crust. Virtually untapped, the extent of this reservoir in UP alone is …

Monitor polio cases: Manmohan

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed concern over the increase in polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and asked the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry to closely monitor the situation while taking steps to eradicate the disease. Dr. Singh made the statement at a meeting …

Hope under a cloud

madhya pradesh east madhya pradesh normal rainfall 774 mm actual rainfall 490 mm Departure -37% May be worst drought in 100 years, warns CM The state is gearing up to face the worst drought that it has suffered in a long time. As many as 37 of the 50 districts …

Rs 3,203 cr for polio eradication

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing concern over the re-emergence of polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday cleared implementation of the polio eradication strategy for three years till 2012 at an estimated expenditure of Rs 3,203.98 crore. Stating that the …

Mayawati seeks Nepals help to contain floods

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday called for formulation of long-term flood prevention and irrigation schemes along the 550-km Indo-Nepal border in the State, emphasising that quick exchange of information about rainfall in the catchment areas of rivers originating in Nepal was imperative. At a meeting with Nepalese …

2nd polio case in G.B. Nagar

A second polio case has been detected in G.B. Nagar district. The victim is a one-year-old child in Flauda village of Dadri while 21 new cases of P-3 have been reported in the state. The number of total polio cases has now gone up to 159 by including these latest …

Hundreds of villages flooded in UP

LUCKNOW: Release of water from barrages in Nepal and heavy rain have flooded hundreds of villages and affected hundreds of thousands of people in several parts of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday. According to officials, in the past two days, over 500,000 cusecs of water have been released from …

Stray ghariyal sent for rehabilitation

LUCKNOW: A crocodile rescued from outskirts of city was handed over to ghariyal rehabilitation centre at Kukrail on Wednesday. The semi-adult female crocodile has already been put in isolation at the centre to come to terms with its new surroundings. The isolation will continue for about 10 days. The forest …

City stares at a `sinking' future

LUCKNOW: The state capital is losing six lakh litres of groundwater reserves daily because of indiscriminate extraction. This poses threat of massive land subsidence in next 15 years. Apart from Narhi, Charbagh and Rajajipuram, on the top of the list of areas under danger zone is Gomtinagar, one of city's …

CMs meet talks drought, PM says dont panic

As the Prime Minister, Agriculture Minister and Finance Minister seized the opportunity provided by the Chief Ministers

Contract killers

In garbage dumps on the eastern outskirts of Delhi, Ravleen Kaur unearths an extortion racket that runs on a lapsed contract This is not what I had in mind when I signed up for journalism. I had dreams of becoming a war correspondent and cover conflicts in, say, Afghanistan. But …

UP government to increase pulse production

With prices of pulses shooting up more than double in last one year it has gone beyond reach of common man, the UP government aiming to increase pulse production is doing, what it can do the best. Instead removing major stumbling blocks in pulse cultivation as being urged over the …

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