LUCKNOW: The forest department has planned a second green mission for Bundelkand region. Beginning July 1, department will start the effort to make the region greener by more than 2.8 cr saplings. Last year's special plantation project, which was marred by controversies, has not deterred the department from going ahead second time.

LUCKNOW: It took nearly 22 long years for UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to get a leather industry booked under Water Pollution Control Act, for discharging untreated effluent into a river in Barabanki.

LUCKNOW: In a bid to stabilise and conserve existing tiger population after a spate of killing and accidental deaths reported in the state over the last five years, the government has taken a decision to expand the buffer zone of Dudhwa National Park.

LUCKNOW: Hundreds of labourers started indefinite stir from Monday in various parts of the state to draw attention of the authorities towards
their grievances related to National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

LUCKNOW: Mayors from the 12 cities of the state have expressed their anguish over the state government decision to handover the project of installing a solid waste treatment plant to UP Jal Nigam.

LUCKNOW: The work on the new parking at Charbagh station has started. By the end of the year the station might get a better and organised parking. Railway administration has planned a five-lane drive-in road at the station to enable smooth traffic flow and to check the station from getting crowded.

BARABANKI: After withdrawal of the facility of growing poppy under licence from the district, the farmers of opium producing plants have adopted

LUCKNOW: The state government has directed the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), UP Housing Board, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and the estate department to take up an intensive afforestation drive in the city before the onset of the monsoon.

LUCKNOW: PWD minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui while expressing displeasure over the poor quality of road construction in the state said that some officers are giving boost to corruption by showing repairing of same roads again and again.

LUCKNOW: The villagers living on the fringes of Kishenpur sanctuary in south Kheri forest division are demanding relocation. The demand is coming forward from village clusters in Kamp Tanda.

The hamlet was in news after a stray tiger