LUCKNOW: Moving ahead with their afforestation drive, LDA officials planted saplings in sector-N of Kanpur Road housing scheme on Friday. As many as 10,000 saplings were planted by the group of LDA officials which included V-C Mukesh Meshram; secretary, M P Mishra and a host of other senior officials.
BHUBANESWAR: Kharif operations like transplantation and deweeding of paddy crops have been considerably delayed in many parts of southern and western Orissa due to erratic monsoon.
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) may not be known much for going green. But, the nodal agency for constructing memorials carved out of red sandstone, has finally decided to add some green cover to the city.
Long infamous for heroin, opium, and other poppy products, the Golden Triangle, the mountainous, thickly forested intersection of Laos, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and China, is now becoming known for another plant: Hevea brasiliensis, the Par
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.
Show me the money: the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) seems to have perfectly blended this saying into their always-wishful nature. After making hue and cry over the reduction of funds, related to infrastructure development works, the civic body has now demanded release of extra funds to the tune of Rs 50 crore from Delhi Government to make the Capital green before Games.
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched the annual plantation drive in the Capital from her 3 Motilal Nehru Place official residence on Tuesday in the presence of a large number of school children who also planted a variety of saplings.
