Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

On the pattern of Delhi, the use of polythene may be completely banned in the state capital also. The first citizen as well as environmentalists have started thinking on these lines and a proposal to this effect may be tabled in the next meeting of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) house.

Lucknow: It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn

Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

Film-maker Sanjay Mathur's film 'Qahar' will be screened at the prestigious three-day Enviornment Fest that opens on Thursday.

The festival is being organised by Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies at the City Montessori School auditorium.

Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

The ambitious waste management project sanctioned for Lucknow in 2007 is yet to take off despite funds being released for it.

Lucknow: The Lucknow University students did not shy away from donning an unusually different role on Tuesday. Just a handful of students, 15 of them to be precise, from different departments of the Lucknow University came together to clean the campus. The role was short-lived but the students are more than determined that its impact will certainly last long.

lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed from the nearby Kishanpur Sanctuary.

Alarming Reduction In Water Level Of The River Around Barrage
Lucknow: One needs nothing more than a pair of naked eyes to see it happening. Beyond the barrage, the river Gomti is gasping for life. It has virtually dried up with a huge dry tract visible in the middle. The river meanders around this tract

The wandering big cat has outsmarted all efforts of forest department to catch it. While the beast has successfully managed to cross various regions, forest officials have only failed attempts to count for.

The lurking tiger has managed to hoodwink the forest officials. The combing operation at Gauriaghat village in Gosainganj ended in vain on Sunday as the forest officials, mounted on elephants, failed to trace the big cat. The tiger had reached Gauriaghat village on Saturday and was believed to have taken shelter in the thickets that cover a large area of land along the Gomti.

Gasp... you are in Lucknow

Lucknow: Guess how much dust has already settled over the state capital in the wake of the ongoing construction of five dream projects of Behen Mayawati, costing Rs 3,000 crore to state exchequer? This is estimated to be an alarming 9,000 to 10,000 metric tones.

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