LUCKNOW: Even as widespread rains ended the dry spell over UP on Saturday, monsoon continued to elude Lucknow. While many places in eastern parts recorded rains, skies remain overcast in the city, but barring a brief shower in the wee hours, the clouds did not precipitate into rains.

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A flood alert has been sounded in ten districts of western Uttar Pradesh with swelling of Yamuna while water level in Ganga was also rising at many places.

Deputy secretary of the revenue department Raj Raten said that the flood alert has been issued in Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Baghpat, Meerut, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Hathras and Mathura districts.

LUCKNOW: The UP Bhumi Sudhar Nigam will start a pilot project on Ravine Reclamation. A part of UP Sodic Land Reclamation III project, this concept has been designed with the assistance of World Bank. At a workshop organised by the department recently the design was scrutinised by agriculture scientists.

LUCKNOW: A team of experts from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) visited Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Thursday and laid to rest the raging controversy over a feared radioactive leak in the campus and the adjacent residential colonies in the town.

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Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon.

LUCKNOW: Mango aficionados, farmers and industry bigwigs, chew on this. If minister of food processing industries, Subodh Kant Sahai is referring to India as a future 'World Food Factory', it is not without reason.

LUCKNOW: In a major crackdown against the illegal wildlife trade, forest department along with revenue and police department swooped down on the shops selling endangered birds at Nakhas on Wednesday. Five people were arrested from the place in the joint action. Besides, 48 birds of different varieties were recovered by the team of officials.

LUCKNOW: The UP Jal Nigam (UPJN) is doing all it can to make the proposed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) plant at Kakori a reality. After the State Advisory Council met the senior members of UPJN on June 14, the implementing authority for the plant is busy preparing a fresh blueprint for the site.

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday restrained the state authorities from proceeding further with the construction of any permanent structure within 100 metres of the Gomti riverbed.