Ahead of Makar Sankranti, when thousands of people from the city are planning to take a holy dip in river Ganga, the holy river continues to be contaminated by untreated sewage and tannery waste.

Allahabad: Maha Kumbh, the world’s biggest gathering of humanity, is set to begin on Monday when an estimated 1.1 crore devotees will take the holy dip at Sangam on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. All arrangements seem to be in place except for one problem — there isn’t enough water in the Ganga for the mass ritual.

Experts at Allahabad University and UP Pollution Control Board said there’s just knee-deep water at Sangam and around three feet at the main bathing areas. The level in the post-monsoon season should be two-three metres above this, they said

Lucknow: At least five rhinos have gone missing from the Dudhwa national park. Though the forest department officers are tightlipped about the incident, wildlife enthusiasts have voiced concern over their disappearance.

“Frantic search is on for the rhinos, missing for the past four days. The area has been cordoned off,” said a Dudhwa official. When TOI tried to contact Dudhwa director Shailesh Prasad, he hung up. His deputy, too, could not be reached for a comment on the development all through the day.

In a bid to make available clean and continuous flow of water in river Ganga during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad next month, the UP government has issued directions for shutting down industrial

Even as the fog receded in most parts of Uttar Pradesh Monday, 26 people have died in the last 24 hours because of the extreme cold, officials said.

Cracking the whip on errant industrial units that release effluents into river Ganga, chief secretary Jawed Usmani, in a meeting with the UP Pollution Control Board on Thursday, said operations at

UP is one of the ten states in the country to get a new and advanced system to check fitness of vehicles. But, it's still not clear if the system will be set up in Lucknow or any other city.

Uttar Pradesh is one of the 10 states in the country to get a new and advanced system to check fitness of vehicles.

Land acquisition seems to be the biggest roadblock for the Railways' ambitious high-speed rail corridor project.

Representatives of various tribes in the state on Sunday resolved that they will form an all India union and will vote for the party which promises to implement the Forest Rights Act 2006 that prov