LUCKNOW: The tiger has fortune on its side. Forest official's frantic shot could only hit it on the tail. Foresters failed to trail even the injured tiger but WTI men spotted the feline with a bruised and bleeding tail crouching behind the bushes in Kumarganj forest.

LUCKNOW: The Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) would be organizing two day training course on the improved technology for medicinal and aromatic plants in its Lucknow campus on February 13 and 14.

LUCKNOW: They were standing tall as the proud holders of a world record till last year. But now, most of them are shrivelled or dead. The monsoon rains spelt doom for the saplings of Pipraghat. The site has reverted to its old look before the massive plantation took place here.

LUCKNOW: To encourage the poor girls in continuing with further education, chief minister Mayawati, on Wednesday, launched Savitribai Phule Balika

Shiksha Yojana here on Wednesday by giving a cheque of Rs 15,000 and a bicycle each to 10 girl students of Lucknow.

LUCKNOW: The much-hyped UP Water Management and Regulatory Commission (UPWMRC) meant to check misuse of water in the state has been reduced to an entity merely on papers. Literally. Announced amid much fanfare in August last year by irrigation minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, the commission is yet to have even its members appointed, leave aside its functioning.

LUCKNOW: The UP Project Development Corporation (UPPDC) has been entrusted with the task of taking care of the Gomti. It was decided on Monday that the agency would be carrying out the dredging operations in the river, the cost of which would be borne by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), UP Housing and Development Board (UPHDB) and irrigation department jointly.

LUCKNOW: Already battling with inflation and economic recession, the common man may now also have to bear the brunt of weather vagaries. If the winter season continues to be `unusually warm' and `sans rains', as it is these days, it would cause extensive damage to crops, thereby reducing the production by 20-30% this year.

RAEBARELI: After much suspense and drama, the jinx on the Raebareli Rail Coach Factory finally broke on Tuesday. A jubilant UPA chairperson, Sonia Gandhi formally inaugurated the Rs 1685.23 crore project -- an eco-friendly, state-of-the-art coach manufacturing unit, the third in the country after Chennai and Kapoorthala, in her constituency.

LUCKNOW: Let the experts and forest officials believe that instances of wild cats sneaking out of the jungles into the cities are a result of urbanisation at the cost wildlife, forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh sees mischief behind it, if not sheer politics.

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