LUCKNOW: Members of the Indian cricket team RP Singh, Suresh Raina, Mohd Kaif and Akash Chopra played a different innings on Monday. The match was entero virus which causes polio in children and cripples them for life. The social face of the cricket stars bowled over Lucknowites, while they shattered misconceptions related to pulse polio immunisation at a press conference.

LUCKNOW: The high court on Friday sought reply of the state government on a PIL seeking timely availability of fertilisers to farmers in the state. The court fixed November 26 for next hearing of the case.

LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November.

LUCKNOW: The sugarcane farmers in UP continued to agitate against state and Central governments cane purchase prices. While some farmers set afire documents and furnitures of a sugar mill office in Muzaffarnagar and forced other factories to suspend their work, in Sultanpur, farmers blocked the roads in protest.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district.

LUCKNOW: Sumit and Jaimala, the jumbo pair at the Lucknow zoo will soon be leaving it. The Central Zoo Authority's circular conveying its latest instructions on elephants "being called back" from zoos reached Lucknow on Thursday.

LUCKNOW: Year 2009 will go down as the year of Bundelas in Uttar Pradesh's history. A focal point of bitter confrontation between the Congress and the ruling BSP, the parched terrain, straddling seven districts in UP and five in MP, has never had it so good. Recent months have seen a shower of packages, projects and promises coming its way with both the rivals trying to outdo each other.

LUCKNOW: As part of celebrations on completion of Dinesh Sharma's three years as mayor of Lucknow, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) organised a cleanliness drive on Sunday.

LUCKNOW: Even as Samajwadi Party held demonstrations all over the state to protest against low sugarcane purchase prices (SAP) fixed by the Central and state governments, the activists of Bhartiya Kisan Union held a demonstration in Delhi while farmers in Muzaffarnagar blocked the busy Meeurt-Karnal highway.

LUCKNOW: Top rung of state urban development authority (SUDA) went into a damage control exercise on Tuesday, a day after the Centre pointed a finger at UP, clubbing it with four other states for performing poorly in integrated low cost sanitation (ILCS) scheme for urban poor.