Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

On the pattern of Delhi, the use of polythene may be completely banned in the state capital also. The first citizen as well as environmentalists have started thinking on these lines and a proposal to this effect may be tabled in the next meeting of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) house.

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.

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.

After failing to ensure sufficiently clean water in the river Ganga for the first bathing of the Ardha Kumbha 2007, the Uttar Pradesh government initiated corrective measures. Advocate Gerneral SMA

Shankaracharya Vasudevanand Saraswati lamented the pollution in Ganga and said that if the erroneous policies of the Centre and the state govenment continued the Ganga would not survive till the next

A two km stretch of marshy land, which was vital for the sarus living in Etawah, has already been devoured by the airstrip at Sefai. And now three wetlands close to the airstrip are on their way of

First the bad news: Air pollution in the city has increased significantly since 2002. Now the good news: The level of air pollution in the city's industrial areas has decreased

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav announced that farmers, whose land would be acquired for a development project, would be compensated adequately and one of his family members would

A Tiger Conservation Society has been constituted by the state government to work towards the protection and conservation of their species in Uttar Pradesh. Disclosing this at a press conference,

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