Lucknow: A choked Ghiyasuddin Haider (GH) Canal overflowed following heavy rains that lashed the state capital on Thursday, leaving many areas inundated even as municipal officials were left redfaced.

LUCKNOW: UP government would enter into an agreement with the Tehri hydro-electric power corporation (THDC) for establishment of a 30 MW hydro-electric power plant in Jhakua near Jhansi district.

LUCKNOW: Nine fresh cases of swine flu were reported in the state capital on Tuesday, taking the state total to 83. Health authorities claimed that most of the cases were related to existing patients.

LUCKNOW: Amid complaints of tardy implementation of central schemes like the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) by the UP government, the Congress has launched a drive to help the target groups.

LUCKNOW: Moving ahead with their afforestation drive, LDA officials planted saplings in sector-N of Kanpur Road housing scheme on Friday. As many as 10,000 saplings were planted by the group of LDA officials which included V-C Mukesh Meshram; secretary, M P Mishra and a host of other senior officials.

BARABANKI: The turbulent Ghaghra is finally flowing below the danger mark after causing havoc in villages on its bank. About a hundred villages falling under Fatehpur, Ramnagar and Sirauli Gauspur tehsil of the district were badly affected by recent floods caused by discharge of water from Kali and other rivers from Nepal.

LUCKNOW: It is not only the allotee whose plots in Vyom Khand were cancelled by LDA a fortnight back. Resentment also brews amongst the farmers whose land were acquired by authority for the scheme only to get the land use changed back to green belt. Farmers now fear that the compensation due to them would get hung up.

LUCKNOW: Call it an irony of sorts. At a time when there is brouhaha over the depleting ground water table, the central ground water board (CGWB) has revealed a huge ground water reservoir hidden deep within the earth's crust.

LUCKNOW: Release of water from barrages in Nepal and heavy rain have flooded hundreds of villages and affected hundreds of thousands of people in several parts of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.

LUCKNOW: A crocodile rescued from outskirts of city was handed over to ghariyal rehabilitation centre at Kukrail on Wednesday. The semi-adult female crocodile has already been put in isolation at the centre to come to terms with its new surroundings. The isolation will continue for about 10 days.