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.

NOOSE TIGHTENS

Neha Shukla | TNN

Lucknow:

New Delhi: Want quota for children in schools set up on acquired land, Authority to consider demand

If you think admission to a reputed public school is a problem for parents living in metropolitan cities like Delhi alone, think again.

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow: Winters are turning inauspicious for ghariyals in Uttar Pradesh. More than 100 ghariyals died in the winter months last year at the National Chambal Sanctuary. This winter 1,000 ghariyals of Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre might perish due to hunger.

Anil Yadav | Lucknow

Sugar will not be that sweet this year as its production is likely to fall because cane-growers are diverting cane from sugar mills to khandsari units in the wake of their pending cane dues.

With such largescale diversion of cane crops, the Sugarcane and Cane Development department have prognosticated that the sugar production might see a fall this year.

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.

STRAYING FOR A CAUSE

Lucknow: The incident of a young tiger venturing out of Pilibhit forest has been a blessing in disguise for the wildlife of Uttar Pradesh. The tiger, it seems, has walked 300 kms away from its natural habitat for a cause

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.