The impact of global warming has become much conspicuous this year. Unlike the past, the days seem to be getting hotter this time even when the Met office records of the previous 10 years show that the maximum temperature has shot up to as high as 40.4 degree Celsius in March in the past.
The impact of global warming has become much conspicuous this year. Unlike the past, the days seem to be getting hotter this time even when the Met office records of the previous 10 years show that the maximum temperature has shot up to as high as 40.4 degree Celsius in March in the past.
Patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and those with damaged lungs have good news. A new effective drug is in the offing for curing lungs damaged by pollution and smoking. Presently, the drug is under animal trial and soon the human trial phase will be undertaken.
As part of its 'Green Initiative', Indian Railway plans to equip its entire fleet of over 1000 AC coaches with eco-friendly refrigerant technology. The Northern Railway (NR), Lucknow division, will get this facility by March-end," confirmed a senior NR official to The Pioneer.
Health officials are in a fix with the detection of two suspected polio cases at Barabanki within a span of a week. One of the cases has been confirmed as P-I strain of polio virus while the lab report of the other is still awaited. It has raised the tally of polio cases to 15 in 2009 with all of them being reported from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The work of road construction at the National Highway, NH 28, near the Sitrampurmajha village in Basti district has been stopped to allow a stray tiger to move into Sohelwa forest via the Gonda reserve forest. The tiger had strayed from Ghazipur and had moved into Basti district and has been keeping the Forest department officials on their toes.
Waterlogging constitutes the most challenging problem in the Gangetic plains of the state affecting agricultural productivity. Attempts have been made by various departments and agencies in sectoral manner for prevention and reclamation of flooding, water clogging and degraded lands but the impacts have not been satisfactory.
A BBC film, 'Crocodile Blues', telecast in the Animal Planet series on Monday, gave credit to city wildlife activist Suresh Chowdhary for providing footage.
The film made by Icon films was directed by Bel Roy and it was premiered in London on December 4.
Chowdhary told The Pioneer that he had coordinated and helped in providing material as the vice-president of Katarniyaghat Foundation.
Waterlogging has emerged as a big problem in the Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh as it adversely affects agriculture productivity. Attempts made by various departments, organisations and agencies so far for prevention of flood and waterlogging and reclamation of the degraded land have been disjointed and have had little impact.
The forest officials tranquilized and captured the Lakhimpur Kheri maneater on Sunday evening at Maharajnagar village in Kheri.
The three-year-old tiger will be brought to the Lucknow Zoo and is expected to reach here on late Sunday night or Monday morning. The captured tiger was tranquilized by Ajan Mazumdar of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI).
