Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central A
Minister for water resources Pawan Kumar Bansal is reported to have been horrified to have learnt of the macabre incident in which a mother, Qadeeran, and her youngest son, Rasheed, were killed by
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter to UP Chief Minister Mayawati over alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in seven districts and demanded a CBI probe
Read this special report by Down To Earth on the iconic Paan losing its appeal. Its trade has dipped 40-50 per cent in the past decade, while consumption of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, increased during the period. Farmers now prefer other crops.
Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon.
LUCKNOW: Next time you are driving through Bundelkhand or its Mahoba district in particular and luckily manage to spot a pond which also has water in it, think twice before you fill up your water containers for the rest of the journey. For, it may land you in lock-up as it happened with 18 local farmers on Saturday.
