Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
It is Allahabad -superstar Amitabh Bachchan's hometown -and not Lucknow which is the most populous district in Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad, with a population of 59.59 lakh, is followed by Moradabad has population of 47.73 lakh, Ghaziabad with 46.61 lakh and Azamgarh which has 46.16 lakh. Lucknow ranks fifth with a …
LUCKNOW: After taking its toll on the mango and rice crops in the state, erratic weather has now taken a toll on potato production in Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, UP is the largest potato-producing state in the country. Though temperature differentials between last year and this year have not been more …
LUCKNOW: UP on Monday got a major boost for its ongoing Ganga clean-up programme with the Centre clearing its four important projects, pending for a long time. These projects are estimated to cost around Rs 500 crore and will be funded on the basis of 70:30 ratio by the Centre …
Two days after a group of villagers ransacked the site of the under-construction 1,980-MW Bara thermal power plant in Allahabad and damaged property, the developer JP Power Ventures has started moving out the expensive construction equipment and other machinery. The decision, which would stall the project, has been taken to …
“What do you want from us? Blood, saliva or data?” People confronted me as soon as I entered Mohammadpur Umri. As I mumbled an answer, an elderly person put his hands on my shoulders, as if in apology. Introducing himself as Acchan Mian, he explained the hostile reaction. “The village …
Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon. The total plantation target of planting saplings over …
LUCKNOW: Fifteen people have been killed and several others injured in duststorms in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here on Thursday. Eleven people were on Thursday killed and 15 injured in eight villages in Soraon tehsil in Allahabad district in duststorm related incidents, they said. Four persons …
LUCKNOW: The state was reeling under severe heat wave on Sunday with unrelenting sun and hot gusty winds people to crave for early respite from the hard weather. As Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur and Lucknow vied for being the hottest on the day, it was Allahabad that baked at 46 degrees …
BRIJESH PANDEY reports on a community robbed of its livelihood by the machinations of the mafia image Exploitative machinery Trucks carrying sand dug up by earth movers, near Allahabad THE BEST way to deal with any agitation is to crush it with a heavy hand. At least this is what …
With an aim to upgrade the sewage system of Allahabad, the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has sanctioned over Rs 315 crore project for this holy city.
The government of India has shifted from cash payment of wages under the renamed Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme to settlement through bank accounts. This has been done in order to prevent defrauding of workers and to give them greater control over their wages. Has this been achieved after the …
Madan Lal Sharma, a farmer from Nithari village, has won a three decade-long legal fight against the Noida Authority over land compensation. The Allahabad High Court has ordered the Noida Authority to pay Sharma compensation for his land at the rate of Rs 28.12 per sq. yard instead of Rs …
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
LUCKNOW: As dry hot westerly winds coming from deserts of Rajasthan continued to lash north India, the state was gripped by a severe heat wave. Almost all the districts of UP recorded hottest day of this summer on Monday. No respite is in sight as weatherman predicted that heat wave …
Rice-wheat cropping system is most popular among the farmers in eastern Indo-Gangetic plains of India. The adoption of reduced and zero tillage seed drill of rice and wheat can improve the timeliness of sowing and help farmers. Keeping this in view ZTSD (Zero tillage seed drill) was introduced by KVK's …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned loans amounting to Rs 7227.76 lakh to the state government in the current fiscal. The loans have been granted from the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) of the bank and include Rs 1049.14 lakh for irrigation projects in Banda, …
A field experiment was conducted in Allahabad District of Uttar Pradesh to test the possibility of utilizing fly ash, in afforestation of sodic soil with Albizia procera, as a substitute of fertilizers and amendments. Fly ash proved to be a good substitute of rice husk, was superior. Similarly the treatments …
The JP Group has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Karchana power plant to be established in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The group quoted the lowest power production cost, Rs 2.970 per unit of power to be produced by the 2x660 megawatt plant. The group was followed by …
