Despite Surplus Showers, The Much-Hyped Rainwater Harvesting System Fails To Make Any Headway In City

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Lucknow: Despite a heavy monsoon this year, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has failed to reap its benefits. All plans of the authority on the installation of rain water harvesting (RWH) plants in the city have seen no action so far.

BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW

The fragrance of flowers offered to deities at shrines will now linger on, long after the flowers have wilted away.

The Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) in Lucknow has launched a new project called

Lucknow: Endorsing health department's pledge to curb maternal mortality rate, the district administration and health team formalised a strategy to promote institutional deliveries. For this, they have decided to publicise provisions of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) - a scheme sponsored by the ministry of health and family welfare, under the National Rural Health Mission.

Lucknow: With the state capital expecting to witness a surge of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers at the

Relief from sultry weather soon

Lucknow: One can wait for heavy showers to lash the state in the next three to four days to bring the much-needed relief from the sultry weather conditions which have gripped parts of the state, including the capital, for the past couple of days. Existence of the

The Uttar Pradesh government is now mulling over a bill to check groundwater overuse The Uttar Pradesh government is hard at investigating widespread land subsidence in several districts during the second week of June this year. According to the Geological Survey of India (gsi), Lucknow, cracks appeared in districts Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jalaun, Etawah, Lucknow and Kanpurdehat (see map: Caving

Lucknow: In February last year, the Allahabad high court termed the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis (JE) in the eastern UP "a national emergency'. Coming down heavily of the authorises, Justice Sunil Ambwani expressed displeasure over inadequate remedial measures taken both by the Centre and the state and demanded a prompt damage-control strategy.

Northern Railway (NR) is continuing with its cleanliness drive at Charbagh station. On Tuesday, three persons were caught for littering the station area and Rs 100 was recovered from each of them as fine. Besides, ten people were fined Rs 2,714 for roaming without platform ticket and one person was fined Rs 200 for smoking at the platform. In the past five months of action, the special task force has mopped up Rs 4,00,162 as railway revenue by slapping a fine on 1,832 people caught littering the station, moving without platform ticket and smoking at the platforms. TNN

Lucknow: Exactly after a gap of ten days since an adult crocodile was caught from a pond in Fattepurwa village of Chinhat locality, forest team rescued another such crocodile from a pond in Bhakamau village.
The crocodile was spotted on Sunday morning and the matter was brought to the notice of the forest department team.
The team caught the reptile on Tuesday from the village under Gudamba police station, which was then taken to the ghariyal rehabilitation centre in Kukrail.

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party, whose role could be crucial in a trial of strength in the Lok Sabha in case Left parties withdraw support to the UPA government at the Centre, on Monday kept its cards close to the chest on its stand saying a meeting of the UNPA will be convened soon to discuss the nuclear deal issue. "We are in touch with leaders of UNPA allies and a date will be fixed soon according to the convenience of all including SP general secretary Amar Singh who is currently on a foreign tour,' SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters here.