LUCKNOW: With the proposed garbage dumping site in Malihabad being unable to obtain the requisite environmental clearance, the search for a new site has been initiated.

LUCKNOW: The district administration in the state capital has apparently failed to ensure implementation of a supreme court ruling related to control of noise pollution.

Repeated attempts to contact the district magistrate, Lucknow for his comment on the arrangements in place to check the compliance with the apex court ruling, proved futile till late on Wednesday night.

Targeting state government for deaths due to Dengue, Samajwadi party on Thursday accused officials for neglecting public health services.

SP spokes person Rajendra Chaudhary said, despite numerous deaths in state capital state Minister for health and Medical Services, Anant Mishra have not visited hospitals which shows apathy on part of the government.

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LUCKNOW: Even as the suspected dengue patients continued to pour in in city hospitals on Wednesday, the health officials prayed for the early onset of the winters to save them from the disgrace of not being able to tackle the huge pressure.

LUCKNOW: Even as around three dozen more suspected dengue cases, including around 12 in government hospitals, were reported in the city on Tuesday, confusion prevailed over the diagnostic test for confirmation of the disease.

While the Trauma Centre, medicine ward and the paediatrics emergency ward of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU) was overburdened with the patients, sev

LUCKNOW: Several cultural programmes were organised to mark the 68th foundation day of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Sunday at Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants ( CIMAP) in the city.

Several other events like lectures by scientists, release of publications and felicitation of staff were also held on the occasion.

The celebrations were held at all t

In the wake of the recent deaths of children in Lucknow and Ghaziabad after they received a measles shot, the Union Health Ministry under Ghulam Nabi Azad has proposed to rope in an international laboratory to help investigate the reasons behind the deaths.

Samples have already been sent to the Central government approved CRI in Kasauli, and while officials do not doubt its results, they are of

A forest ecosystem was developed on barren sodic land at Banthra Research Station of National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, during 1960s. About 74 species belonging to 34 families were recorded in this new forest, which was characterized as mixed dry sub-tropical forest with deciduous and evergreen species.

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: In what is turning out to be a State versus the Centre match, the Uttar Pradesh Government has refused to take the blame for the four immunisation deaths in Mohanlalganj tehsil of Lucknow on August 21.

In a letter sent to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday, State Medical and Health Minister Anant Kumar Mishra has said that prima facie it appears that the fou

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The Centre has sent a two-member team to Lucknow to probe the deaths of four infants after they were administered anti-measles vaccination at an immunisation camp in the Mohanlal Ganj area.

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