The one-month-old Akhilesh Yadav government has started to work on its pre-poll promise to promote the information technology (IT) sector in the state, with Uttar Pradesh mulling a 100-acre &lsquo;IT City&rsquo; in Lucknow.

UP plans to build 100-acre 'IT city'

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Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on Wednesday presented a roadmap for the development of the sector.

UP MSMEs present road map for overall sectoral development

Even as it hogged media limelight recently after one of its students was offered a dream job offer by IT marquee firm Facebook, Allahabad-based Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) still remains grounded in reality.

'IITs are not made overnight'

Uttar Pradesh power mandarins have begun to feel the heat of the rising mercury level in the state with peak hour electricity demand shooting past 12,000 Mw.

UP Power Corp feeling heat of rising mercury

The Uttar Pradesh government has assured farmers of settlement of their sugarcane dues totalling over Rs 4,000 crore in the next two months.

UP assures settlement of over Rs 4,000-cr cane dues

HCL founder and chairman Shiv Nadar has waxed eloquent about the scheme of Uttar Pradesh government to distribute tablets and laptops to students passing standard X and XII respectively.

HCL founder lauds UP's scheme of free laptop, tablet

In the backdrop of bumper wheat production estimates of over 30 million tonnes (mt), the wheat procurement season started in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

Amid bumper wheat output, UP's wheat procurement begins

Uttar Pradesh, which carries the socio-economic stigma of being one of India&rsquo;s Bimaru (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) states, has something to rejoice: it leads in availing of banking services and possessing telephone/mobile assets.

Bimaru UP ranks 1st in banking, phone services

Realty major DLF Limited has envisioned almost 1,000 acres of land under development in major towns of Uttar Pradesh in the next two to three years. This would be in addition to projects either underway or proposed in the National Capital Region of Noida and adjoining areas.

DLF envisions 1,000 acres of development in UP by 2015

Holland-based broadcast technology and solutions company Exset is seeking to partner the Uttar Pradesh government for digitisation in the state. The Amsterdam-headquartered company will soon issue a white paper on digitisation road map in UP.

Holland-based broadcast tech firm seeks to partner UP

Even as the Samajwadi Party (SP) celebrates its success in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly election and is set to form the new government, the real challenge is staring at its face. The sops promised in the party election manifesto would require deft resource mobilisation and fiscal prudence, as the cost of delivery is estimated to be around Rs 50,000 crore in the first year itself.

Akhilesh's steep cost of victory

After clocking sub-8 per cent growth rate during the current 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12), the Uttar Pradesh government is targeting 10 per cent growth in the 12th Plan period beginning this April.

UP targets 10% growth in 12th Plan

After announcing distribution of laptops and tablet computers to students passing standard X and XII, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced the formulation of a new policy to boost Information Technology (IT),IT Enabled Services (ITES) and electronics industry in the state.

New IT policy to boost sector in UP

Even as initial euphoria around the victory of Samajwadi Party in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll is subsiding, the new government led by the state&rsquo;s youngest ever chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has its task cut out on the fiscal and industrial front.

Power, expressways, SEZs, MSMEs are priorities of UP govt

Public sector Bharat Sanchal Nigam Limited (BSNL) and communications solutions provider Shyam Networks have launched 3G data card Winknet in Uttar Pradesh.

BSNL-Shyam Networks launches 3G data card Winknet in UP

The new Akhilesh Yadav government&rsquo;s promise of a dole for the jobless in Uttar Pradesh is causing a commotion of sorts across employment exchanges in the state.

Mad rush for jobless dole in UP

State Bank of India (SBI), which has the largest banking network in Uttar Pradesh of over 1,200 branches, is expanding the alternative channels of banking.

SBI 'banking' on alternative channels

The concept of &lsquo;digital classroom&rsquo;, wherein conventional teaching is aided by technology-based learning, is growing fast among the private schools in India. According to an estimate, about 15,000 schools of the over 1,50,000 private schools across the country have either fully or partially adopted &lsquo;digital classroom&rsquo; system in their campuses.

Digital classroom concept growing fast

Amid a challenging economic environment, 517 students of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow were awarded diplomas at the 26th annual convocation ceremony.

517 IIM-L students awarded diplomas

On the back of higher cane production and acreage in Uttar Pradesh, the sugar output has already exceeded 6.1 million tonnes (mt), higher than the total 5.9-mt mark for entire 2010-11 season.

UP sugar output exceeds 6 million tonnes

The corporate houses and traders in Uttar Pradesh have expressed disappointment with the Union Budget 2013, saying its proposals would neither boost consumer demand nor control inflation.

Virendra Singh Rawat