City slaughterhouse takes green steps
With the east corporation trying to reduce the pollution footprint of the city’s only functional slaughterhouse, the Ghazipur landfill site and its surrounding areas are likely to get respite from one
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Give timeline for use of Ghazipur waste to build roads: Parliament panel
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel on Monday directed the housing urban affairs ministry to talk to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on how soon the mount of garbage piled up at Ghazipur can be
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Glitches prevent UP’s Rs 7,000-cr power project from taking off
'BHEL is trying to rectify the fault but the fate of the project is still uncertain.' The first unit of 500×2 MW Anpara D thermal power project in Uttar Pradesh, commissioned a few months ago, has failed
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Flood situation remains grim, toll reaches 280
Over 17 lakh people have been hit by the floods in Uttar Pradesh, where the situation continued to remain grim with the swollen rivers inundating thousands of villages and the death toll in the deluge
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3.5 lakh people hit by floods in Uttar Pradesh
LUCKNOW: Rain-related incidents claimed 13 more lives in the state on Tuesday, taking the toll to 264 this monsoon. More than 3.5 lakh people have been affected by the floods in 112 villages and localities
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13 more people die, toll reaches 63
Even as major rivers in the state continued to rise on Friday, 13 more people reportedly died in rain-related incidents during the past 24 hours, taking the toll to 63 since June 15. Six people died in
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Unabated cold wave kills 16 more in UP
The mercury remained at sub-zero levels in at least five districts of Uttar Pradesh claiming 16 more lives over the past 24 hours taking the death toll due to the bitter cold to 249. According to reports from the metrological office, Gorakhpur and Ghazipur clocked -1°C and remained the coldest places in the state followed by Lucknow at -0.7°C.
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Cold wave on killing spree
34 more deaths in Uttar Pradesh; season’s toll goes up to 233 At least 34 more deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday as cold wave conditions continued unabated in North, East and Central parts of the country even as temperatures went up slightly at some places. The Capital witnessed a chilly but sunny morning with the mercury rising a bit during the early hours. There was a shallow fog in the morning hours and the minimum temperature was 4.4 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal and up from Tuesday’s 3.3 degrees.
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Ruthless cold wave claims 24 more lives in North India
Plummeting mercury, coupled with a thick fog cover, threw normal life out of gear in the entire North India on Monday, with 24 more people succumbing to the chill in various parts of the region. While 20 more people died in Uttar Pradesh, four persons lost their lives in Uttarakhand, said officials. Delhi continued to shiver with the mercury below normal in the city by five notches to settle at 2.4 degrees Celsius, even as it rose from Sunday’s 1.9 degrees Celsius.
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Cold wave kills 29 in north India
New Delhi: There was no respite from the cold wave across north India on Monday as the mercury dipped close to the freezing point at several places in the region and killed 29 more people, mounting the toll from it this season to around 200. Officials said six people died in Ghazipur, three each in Azamgarh and Barabanki in UP. Two deaths were reported from Fatehpur, Sultanpur and Chandauli besides one each in Jaunpur and Siddhartnagar in the state that had reported the maximum cold-related deaths —175 — this season.