Lucknow

Teachers in Lucknow Protest Against New Book on Sex Education

School teachers in Lucknow have reacted strongly against a new syllabus book incorporating sex education, by burning its copies . The protest comes even as the State Government issued an order asking the books be recalled, until the 'offensive' portions are amended, following earlier protes...

Dengue on the Rise in Lucknow

The dengue virus appears to be fast engulfing Uttar Pradesh's capital with 20 cases detected Saturday and 17 Friday. "Of the 31 dengue-positive cases admitted to various government hospitals in the state's 32 affected districts,// 20 were from Lucknow alone," V.S. Nigam, the spokesman of the s...

Excellence in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Recognized at Frost & Sullivan's India Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2008

...ar Gold Award Recipients Automotive: Automotive Ancillaries: TATA Motors Limited, lucknow GREAVES COTTON Limited -- Light Engines Unit-II, Ranipet ...

Dr. Ravi Nanda Joins OrthoSynetics(TM) as Strategic Consultant

...c Society and the Edward H. Angle Society. He also is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. Dr. Nanda received his dental training from lucknow University, India in 1964. He received his orthodontic training first at Lucknow, India and then from Nymegen, The Netherlands and the University of C...

Dr. Inder Verma named recipient of 2008 Vilcek Prize in biomedical science

...'s leading authorities on the development and use of engineered viruses for gene therapy. Dr. Verma was born in India, received a master's degree from lucknow University, and a Ph.D. from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, Israel. After postdoctoral study at MIT in the laboratory of the Nobel lau...

UNT Health Science Center Appoints Eight New Faculty Members

...d a doctorate in chemistry, a Master of Science degree in organic chemistry, and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, all from the University of lucknow in India. Rajendra Sharma, a member of Yogesh Awasthi's research team, has been added as a research associate professor of molecular biology and i...

UP Plans to Plant Ten Million Saplings on a Single Day

...her in the cap for the department. "Agra particularly needs to take a more active interest in afforestation efforts," he added. The target for lucknow division is one million saplings; for Faizabad division 1.3 million and for Meerut division 557,000 saplings. Yadav said it would be one of th...

North India Reels Under Heat Wave

...y temperatures with no rain in sight till early next week," the official told IANS. While Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh recorded 45 degrees Celsius, lucknow was 44 degrees. Jaipur saw the mercury cross 43 degrees while Hissar in Haryana recorded a maximum of 45 degrees. Jammu recorded a whopping 44...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...revalence of heartburn was as high as 82 per cent in Delhi, known for its spicy chaats, Bhopal reported a 71 per cent prevalence, Kolkata 68 per cent, lucknow (65 per cent), Mumbai (75 per cent), Chennai (66 per cent), Ahmedabad (68 per cent) and Hyderabad (72 per cent). "Food related problems constitute...

Child Dies After Meal, Vitamin Dose

...school in Chitwapur locality. One of the sick children is in serious condition and has been put on ventilator. The others are on way to recovery, lucknow Chief Medical Officer K.K. Singh told IANS Saturday. "One child's condition was deteriorating. He is on the ventilator and we are hopeful of savin...

Lucknow in Biological News

Montana State University research reaches Supreme Court of India

...itute in Lucknow, India reported its lab results to the Indian Supreme Court. In doing so, it referenced MSU's findings and echoed MSU's concerns. The lucknow Institute tested a portion of the Ganges about 200 miles upstream from Hamner's sampling. He doesn't expect to see a pure Ganges in his lifetime, b...

Lucknow in Biological Technology

New England Peptide Forms Scientific Advisory Board

...d a two-time recipient of the section's Outstanding Service Award. Srivastava earned a doctoral degree in organic chemistry from the University of lucknow in India. Post-doctoral appointments included posts at the University of Georgia and the medical school at the University of Colorado, working under J...