LUCKNOW: Even as heat wave conditions intensified in the state on Monday with mercury level 5-7 degrees above normal in most districts, it is now also turning out to be the longest dry and hot weat

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh cabinet, on Thursday, ratified the decision to give a maximum 18- month grace period to nine pending power projects in the state, the MoUs for which were filed during the BSP

LUCKNOW: The 8.68% rise in the number of vehicles during 2011-12 has taken its toll on city's ambient air quality.

LUCKNOW: An ailing power sector got a dose of more than Rs 8,000 crore in the state budget tabled by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday.

LUCKNOW: Urbanisation has led to migration of poor people from rural to urban areas in want of a better standard of living. By 2030, nearly 50% of the population will stay in urban areas.

LUCKNOW: The high day time temperature is not only leaving people high and dry, but has also shrunken the ground water level in some parts of the state capital alarmingly.

A blistering heat wave swept through North and East India on Tuesday claiming two lives in Uttar Pradesh. Delhi recorded a maximum of 43.5 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal, and a minimum of 26.8 degrees Celsius. Two train passengers were found dead at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh where the temperature touched 42.7 degrees Celsius.

In Punjab and Haryana, the heat wave intensified further with maximum temperatures hovering in the range of 42-45 degrees Celsius.

LUCKNOW: A small fry from the coastal belt of India could prove a potent weapon in the battle against the menace of Japanese encephalitis in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

LUCKNOW: Lucknow Municipal Corporation's decision to rope in experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to examine the works done under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission,

LUCKNOW: Faced with a host of complaints pertaining to drainage and sewerage works executed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Lucknow Municipal Corporation on

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