LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh cabinet, on Thursday, ratified the decision to give a maximum 18- month grace period to nine pending power projects in the state, the MoUs for which were filed during the BSP

LUCKNOW: The 8.68% rise in the number of vehicles during 2011-12 has taken its toll on city's ambient air quality.

LUCKNOW: An NGO in Rae Bareli's Shivgarh area uses community mobilisation activities to save expectant mothers and neonates from untimely demise.

LUCKNOW: An ailing power sector got a dose of more than Rs 8,000 crore in the state budget tabled by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday.

LUCKNOW: Anticipating what farmers support could mean to Samajwadi Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Akhilesh government doled out sops worth Rs 5,432.37 crore for agriculture and allied a

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav presented his first budget in the state assembly on Friday morning. The budget 2012-13 is of Rs 2 lakh crore, which is 18% higher than 2011-12 budget.

LUCKNOW: Urbanisation has led to migration of poor people from rural to urban areas in want of a better standard of living. By 2030, nearly 50% of the population will stay in urban areas.

LUCKNOW: With a promise of initiating more development activities in UP, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Wednesday decided to sig

LUCKNOW: Nearly a month after having approved the e-tendering mechanism for allotting contracts in the mining sector, the UP government, on Wednesday, ordered the immediate implementation of e-tend

LUCKNOW: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has detected anomalies of around Rs 5,000 crore in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in UP between 2007 and 2011 when