Lucknow In order to strengthen the power generation in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government is in talks with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for funding of its forthcoming 2x660 MW Obra C power plant in Sonebhadra. A JICA team was in Lucknow on Wednesday for preliminary survey of the project and spoke with senior officials in this regard, according to a state government official.

Lucknow Uttar Pradesh’s bleeding power sector can breathe a sigh of relief from the never-ending saga of resource crunch, pressure from financial institutions and day-to-day exercise of managing funds for virtually everything, thanks to the Centre’s approval in principle for a R15,000-crore financial restructuring plan spanned over a period of 10 years by a consortium of 21 banks, which would provide the loan amount over the next three years.

Following Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s directive to speed up the process of tranquilising the tiger roaming in Rehmankheda forest of Lucknow for the past three months, the forest department has

Hundreds of young and old eco-activists turned up at the Yamuna ghats in this Taj city on Sunday morning to pick up trash, mostly polythene bags, to mark the start of World Water Week March 18-25.

Programme coordinator Shravan Kumar Singh said: "UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is known for his love for environmental and nature conservation programme. Through our clean up exercise today (Sunday) we have sent out a strong message - that we want the cleaning up of Yamuna to be taken up at the earliest and on war-footing."

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Union of India and Uttar Pradesh government on an application seeking a direction to vacate the interim stay on the court monitored CBI investigation of foodgrain scam as directed by the Allahabad High Court

A Bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice on an application filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, who was the petitioner before the High Court.

The thunderstorm and lightning which struck the state on Tuesday afternoon claimed half-a-dozen lives besides leaving as many people injured, including children.

One of the pet projects of Mulayam Singh as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, five years earlier, was the 7,480-Mw Dadri power project. It was also Reliance Power promoter Anil Ambani's dream project, but for some time now, the project has fallen off the radar of the developer.

Dadri got its initial blessing from Singh in 2003. Later, it ran into a number of troubles. The most significant one being fuel supply. The size of the project was expanded to 3,500 Mw on paper, though. Not much could move on the ground, as gas was supposed to be supplied from the Krishna-Godavari block operated by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries.

Issues of development and governance would decide the fate of an unpromising BSP, renascent SP, hopeful Congress and a dispirited BJP in a changed Uttar Pradesh

The Union Health Ministry has mooted a proposal for monitoring construction activity and service delivery in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) by independent accredited agencies.

Real estate developer Kamrup Housing group has said it will invest about Rs.220 crore in developing two housing projects in Greater Noida and Guwahati.