LUCKNOW: National Rural Health Mission's (NRHM) general body set new targets for the state health department on Wednesday.

LUCKNOW: The enforcement directorate (ED) on Tuesday filed 14 cases in connection with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam being probed by the CBI.

LUCKNOW: State minister for health and family welfare Ahmad Hasan wants government health facilities in the district to be developed as a model for other districts.

LUCKNOW: The higher education directorate on Wednesday circulated government of India advisory on discouraging consumption of junk food among students in higher education institutions.

Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (Meliaceae), popularly known as neem, is a wellrecognized tree. Despite its insecticidal properties, neem in the Indian subcontinent is known to be infested by insect pests. In November 2009, mature neem trees in the village of Bhauli, Bakshi ka Talab, Lucknow, started defoliating and soon consumed the entire leaves. This attracted the attention of researchers, as it had hitherto not been observed. Observations revealed a lepidopteran to be the cause of this.

Haryana tops the list of 16 States where environment and forest clearance norms are being violated, fully or partially, by projects.

Lucknow: Two UP power plant units — Anpara C and Rosa — were shut down due to shortage of coal. Power shortfall on Sunday jumped to 2,000 MW in the state.

One tiger, prowling in Rehman Khera on the outskirts of Lucknow since the past four months, is not only causing a major strain on the state exchequer but is also posing a major problem for the state government.

A sum of nearly `4 lakhs has been spent on the on-going campaign to nab the wild cat and forest officials have been camping in the area since early January — when the animal was first sighted — but all their efforts to catch him have proved futile.

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav directed the officials to ensure that promises made to farmers in the Samajwadi Party's poll manifesto are fulfilled.

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is burning the midnight oil for speedy implementation of the river regulation zone (RRZ).

Environment minister Jayanti Natarajan admitted that the rules of the RRZ are in the process of being framed. She expects that once this notification is passed, a major hurdle to end the operations of land mafia grabbing thousand of acres of land along the Ganga, Yamuna, Gomti, Krishna , Cauvery and Godavari rivers (to name a few) will be halted.

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