The temperature rose on Sunday after rains eluded most places in the northern region including the National Capital, while heavy downpour in Uttar Pradesh led to river Sharda crossing the danger mark.
In Uttar Pradesh, Birdghat (Gorakhpur) received 102 mm of rain and Siddhartha Nagar had 96.6 mm during the past 24 hours.
According to Central Water Commission report, river Ganga is rising in
The process to acquire land for a nuclear power plant to be set up at Kumahria in Gorakhpur is on, said Ashok Tanwar, Sirsa MP and AICC national secretary, in Fatehabad on Wednesday.
To review the efforts being made to set up this plant, a meeting of senior officials was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on June 2, he said.
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. They have hope from the Forest rights Act 2006 in getting legal identity, as it recognises the traditional rights of scheduled tribes and other forest-dwellers on forest land and resources.
New Delhi: At least 56 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar when severe dust storm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers, lashed some parts of the states on Wednesday evening, according to AIR.
In Uttar Pradesh, at least 30 people were killed in cyclonic storm that hit several districts of eastern UP.
A team of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), which is setting up a nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, would shortly meet Haryana officials to clear the misgivings related to the recent nuclear mishap in Fukushima, Japan, as also sensitise state officials about the safety preparedness of Indian atomic power projects.
LUCKNOW: Lucknow zoo is set for a new look. The artistic benches along the pavements and bottle palms lining the roads will make the place more attractive.
There is much more to come on the zoo front in the coming days. The state government has planned renovation on a bigger scale. Nirman Nigam has readied a proposal worth approximately Rs 24.72 crore for the renovation of the place.
Every year, as this season rolls around, Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by a form of encephalitis, which causes brain inflammation and kills hundreds of people. This year, over 250 children have died and many more disabled by the disease.
In no other place in India is an illness so predictable and so lethal.
Widespread rain across the state in the past few days, particularly in the last 48 hours, has come as a boon for paddy farmers, especially in the eastern Uttar Pradesh districts of Gorakhpur, Basti and Azamgarh which were facing a drought-like situation because of deficit of rainfall until last week.
