LUCKNOW: City youth on Saturday took out a campaign to promote the use of indigenous energy resources such as coal, gas, solar, wind energy, biogas, and ensuring future energy supplies from Iran an
It’s a village of 250-odd houses, mostly farming families. The population is around 1,000. People here may be born healthy but, chances are, many will die crippled.
LUCKNOW: The executive committee of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation has termed the work of cleaning the city drains as `inefficient`, even as continuous rains hit the city for the past few days.
Committee chairman and city mayor Dinesh Sharma on Friday convened a meeting with various corporators and members of the committee to assess the situation.
LUCKNOW: The Centre has slammed the Mayawati government for laxity in lowering Value Added Tax (VAT) on petroleum products. The reaction followed the decision taken by the Central Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), who raised prices of diesel, kerosene and domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) recently, owing to rising international oil prices.
Monsoon rain continued to lash most parts of North India on Tuesday even as 14 people were killed due to rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh and the hill State of Uttarakhand.
At least 12 persons, including women and children, were killed in rain-related incidents as heavy to moderate rain lashed Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, officials said.
LUCKNOW: Scientists, academicians and mango workers will deliberate on augmenting production and utilisation of mango at Central Institute of Subtropical Horticulture (CISH) during a four-day global conference from June 21 to 24. The conference will focus on 'mango for healthcare and livelihood'. India has more than 1,000 mango varieties growing.
