LUCKNOW: Planning to drive your dream car in the heart of the city? Hold on. For, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is planning to put brakes into your dream drive by increasing the parking cost. And that too on an hourly basis.

LUCKNOW: The city is not just losing its tree cover fast but also the scope for regeneration of the lost cover. Endless construction and ever increasing urban pressure has hardly left places where trees could be planted. In fact, at many of the places where trees have been cut this year there might be no new plantation possible.

LUCKNOW: Entrepreneurship education is meant to provide knowledge and develop expertise to start and manage own independent enterprise. Students opting for PG Diploma in Management Business Entrepreneurship (PGDM-BE) course are guided to work on detailed project report and emerge with bankable business plan after completion of classroom training.

The state Legislature scheduled to begin from July 31 may witness heated arguments between the treasury and opposition benches over the drought situation in the state. As per indications available with the Revenue Department and corridors of power, preparations are in full swing to declare majority part of the state as drought-affected.

LUCKNOW: Fish once again swam to the surface in a desperate attempt to get air, near Kudiaghat, as levels of dissolved oxygen in the particular
stretch of river plunged drastically sending officials of UP Pollution Control

LUCKNOW: The White Paper released by chief minister Mayawati did paint her government on a brighter side, but at the same time it put forth the difficulties and the lack of support from the Central government. In fact, the Paper rolled the ball in the Centre's court for timely completion of the proposed projects.

LUCKNOW: Even as the state Met department kept a close watch on the movement of the "low pressure" area over the Bay of Bengal, which converted into

a "deep depression" on Tuesday, chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta after a review meeting issued directions to distribute among farmers seed of crops requiring less water to grow.

All owners dead except one after a trial lasting 25 years, a special court in Lucknow convicted the owners of a tannery for polluting river water. On June 2, the court sentenced the owners of East India Leather Company to six months

LUCKNOW: In order to save fast depleting ground water reserves, UP government is contemplating to introduce a permit system for the bulk users and a self regulation mechanism for residential colonies using deep bore pumps.

To tap the growing potential in insurance sector, India Post is now giving much more importance to rural populace. Although India Post has been providing insurance schemes for the rural sector for long, it has now pulled up its socks to achieve significant targets this year.