BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW

The mutilated body of a male tiger was found on the Mailani Gonda rail track on Saturday between Tikunia and Bichhia which falls between Katarniaghat and North Kheri forest divisions of UP

NEW DELHI

Two dengue patients have died and 40 of them are battling the disease at different hospitals, taking the number of dengue cases in the district this season to 348.

Giving these details, Gurgaon civil surgeon Dr S.S. Dalal said the district administration and health authorities are making all efforts to control the spread of the disease.

Fogging has been done in the houses of all the positive cases and many houses in the neighbourhood have also been covered under the operation as a preventive measure, he said.

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: With at least two dozen districts of Uttar Pradesh reeling under the impact of rain-related diseases, the worst may not yet be over for them, despite the decline in floods and a respite from the prolonged spell of monsoon.

Over 400 people have died of viral fever, malaria, diarrhoea, encephalitis, gastro-enteritis and measles. With runoff of water receding following a lull in rainfall, a fresh outbreak of water and vector-borne diseases has not been ruled out.

Press Trust Of India / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 2:58 IST

Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh will have to pay farmers an additional Rs 1,480 crore following the Supreme Court

LUCKNOW,Aug. 29: After Bihar, Uttar Pradesh is preparing to face the fury of floods. Almost all the major rivers in the state, including Gomti, Sharda and Kuwano are in spate following torrential rains over the past several days. According to official sources, some of the rivers have crossed the danger mark on Thursday night.

The Gomti river was flowing 0.74 metres above the danger mark in Sultanpur district, while in Lucknow, the river is just 0.30 metres below the danger mark.

Pawan Dixit
Kanpur Dehat

RURAL Kanpur is fighting its most frightening scourge

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

LANDING IN TROUBLE
Saubhadra Chatterji / Semrota (uttar Pradesh) August 22, 2008, 1:01 IST

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Bhupinder Singh Hooda should take heart. They are not alone in facing political storms over their governments' land acquisition efforts.

Congress' star general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, too, got the rough edge of his constituency's tongue when, during a free-wheeling interaction in Amethi, his voters berated him for eyeing their land, even if for development.

Atiq Khan

Agreement reached on compensation for acquired land
U.P. Minister, Cabinet Secretary talk to farmers
Deal comes days before Mayawati's visit

LUCKNOW: The farmers' agitation over the compensation for acquired land and the death of five of their kinsmen in police firing in Ghorhi Bachhedha village in Greater Noida (Gautam Budhha Nagar district), Uttar Pradesh, was withdrawn on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: The 980 MW coal-based power generating unit at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh can serve as a model for environmental management and as a template for other power plants in the country, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh has said.