UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has warned the private franchisee company Torrent Power, currently managing power distribution in Agra city, for cancellation of the agreement.
The private company which was handed over power distribution in Agra a year ago have reportedly defied the terms of agreement with power corporation by not providing certain information and data over this period.
Tremors of Japan's earthquake are being felt in Uttar Pradesh as government officials are sceptic about funding by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the ongoing projects as this Land of Rising Sun is itself facing a financial crunch post-tsunami.
The JICA is financing projects including Gangajal under which Ganga waters would be taken to Agra by a 100-km canal from Bulandshah
Catering to its Dalit vote bank, the Bahujan Samaj Party government has sanctioned Rs 1,250 crore for construction of roads in Ambedkar villages that were identified in the party's last three regimes but where work had come to a halt with the fall of the party's governments.
A highly placed official in the PWD told 'The Pioneer' that the government had decided to construct pucca roads in Ambedk
Even as the farmers of western Uttar Pradesh are up in arms against the state government's decision to acquire agricultural land around Yamuna Expressway for construction of residential colony, plots worth about Rs 1800 crore have been sold in the fiscal that ended on Thursday.
The government dossiers claim that the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has so far allocated 835 hec
The claims of better power supply in state during this summer by UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) might get hit by shortage of coal at national level.
The recent projections by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has come as a pointer of hard times ahead for UPPCL which had announced commissioning of generation in various units of thermal power plants in this year.
Corruption in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in UP may be another point of tussle between the state and Central governments, already at loggerheads over various issues.
After getting no exact response from the state government over repeated queries regarding the action taken against officials, responsible for financial irregularities co
The swamp deer or Barasingha, the state animal of Uttar Pradesh, has become critically endangered and even figures in the IUCN red alerts but ironically no special efforts are being made for its conservation.
Even officials in the UP Forest department admit that no specific project has been launched to save this species apart from some steps that have been taken as part of the save tiger projec
Giving monuments and memorials a miss this year, the state government presented a tax-free, but deficit budget on Tuesday promising development of all sections of the society.
Finance Minister Lalji Verma, who presented state budget in Vidhan Sabha, called it a financial document aimed at
