Allahabad High Court refused to interfere with the acquisition proceedings of the land and dismissed the petition. The court said that the land was acquired for a public purpose and subjected to proper acquisition proceedings.

The sudden fall in temperature and unexpected rains are conducive to the spread of the swine flu virus, officials said.

Around 800 residents of Dalibagh faced water crisis on Diwali as the motor pump broke down on Tuesday. Residents kept waiting for long but there was no supply till Wednesday afternoon.

LUCKNOW: Another historical structure has surfaced from the depth of Gomti.

NEW DELHI: China’s dirty air often grabs global headlines with photos of its cities swathed in smog.

Taking a serious view of the growing cases of swine flu in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court has directed the State government to procure three lakh masks and a similar number of “'Tamiflu”'

Aluminium (Al), an environmentally abundant and immobile element, has been studied for its mobility in the Gomati River Basin, a part of the Ganga Alluvial Plain, northern India. The dissolved Al concentrations in the Gomati River water and the Lucknow groundwater range over three orders of magnitude, from 14 to 77,861 ppb. In the Gomati River water, Al is classified as a moderately mobile element. Nearly 19% of Lucknow groundwater samples and all the Gomati River water samples have Al values above the permissible limit (200 ppb) recommended by the World Health Organization.

An RTI filed by a Greater Noida-based NGO, Social Action for Environment and Forest (SAFE), revealed that more than 27,000 trees would be axed for the construction of the 302.22 km Agra-Lucknow Gre

Close on the lines of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad--the drying river was linked with Narmada Canal so that it received water supply--the UP government is planning to feed clean water from Indir

Cyclone Hudhud created the feeling of winter as heavy rains lashed eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh accompanied by strong winds.

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