In UP, an estimated 89 per cent households have access to safe drinking water, 54 per cent with the source within their own premises. But only 26 per cent have access to effective excreta disposal

In a brazen act of corruption, officials in Uttar Pradesh state Malaria department have been 'utilising' funds worth several crore in the name of spraying insecticides without having any field staff

Brig. N S Rana of the Allahabad sub-area launched a 'cleanliness awareness campaign' in Allahabad on Thursday for maintaining a neat and clean environment. In order to solve the problem of garbage,

With the residents of more than a dozen localities in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, complaining of supply of contaminated water, three patients of diarrhoea were admitted to the Infections Disease Hospital

A recent study in India estimates that one out of every 10 schoolgoing children has bronchial asthma. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are 15-20 million asthmatics in India

Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control board, in collaboration with civic authorities, has decided to launch an environmental development scheme in different parts of Lucknow. This unique scheme will be

For the first time in north India the most modern central bio medical waste treatment and disposal plant is being inaugurated on Friday at Bhaunti. This plant will cater to the needs of the hospital,

After a long eight years wait, all the hurdles in the way of starting second phase of Ganga Action Plan(GAP Phase-II) have been removed with the quashing of the stay on the same by the Supreme Court.

In what could be termed as over-enthusiasm on the part of the top brass of the Uttar Pradesh state health department, incinerators were installed in a densely populated area in the state capital.

The vice-chairperson, Kanpur Development Authority, Ms Anita Bhatnagar Jain, said environment is a social problem and affects one and all equally and thus the onus to maintain an ecological balance