LUCKNOW: After taking its toll on the mango and rice crops in the state, erratic weather has now taken a toll on potato production in Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, UP is the largest potato-producing state in the country.

Though temperature differentials between last year and this year have not been more than five degrees, agriculture department officials said the potato crop has suffered.

LUCKNOW: UP on Monday got a major boost for its ongoing Ganga clean-up programme with the Centre clearing its four important projects, pending for a long time.

Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon.

LUCKNOW: Fifteen people have been killed and several others injured in duststorms in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here on Thursday.

LUCKNOW: The state was reeling under severe heat wave on Sunday with unrelenting sun and hot gusty winds people to crave for early respite from the hard weather.

As Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur and Lucknow vied for being the hottest on the day, it was Allahabad that baked at 46 degrees Celsius.

The city witnessed the hottest day of the year so far with the mercury touching the highest mark.

BRIJESH PANDEY reports on a community robbed of its livelihood by the machinations of the mafia
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Exploitative machinery Trucks carrying sand dug up by earth movers, near Allahabad

Biswajeet Banerjee | Lucknow

With several crore rupees going down the drain and the Ganga still remaining

With an aim to upgrade the sewage system of Allahabad, the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has sanctioned over Rs 315 crore project for this holy city.

The government of India has shifted from cash payment of wages under the renamed Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme to settlement through bank accounts. This has been done in order to prevent defrauding of workers and to give them greater control over their wages. Has this been achieved after the switch?

Madan Lal Sharma, a farmer from Nithari village, has won a three decade-long legal fight against the Noida Authority over land compensation.

The Allahabad High Court has ordered the Noida Authority to pay Sharma compensation for his land at the rate of Rs 28.12 per sq. yard instead of Rs 10 per sq. yard.

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