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- Three arrested with leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Three men associated with an international wildlife poaching racket were arrested today with three leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, police said.
The three....
- Police probe bee attack at Mayawati rally
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police today registered a case of criminal conspiracy against unnamed people for attempting to trigger a stampede at the rally of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)....
- Magistrate booked for assaulting railway employee
Lucknow: A sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) in Uttar Pradesh was booked today for assaulting a level-crossing gateman who did not let him cross the tracks while a train was approaching, an offic....
- Curfew relaxed for 14 hours in Bareilly
Bareilly: Curfew clamped here after communal violence was relaxed for 14 hours today but authorities permitted only cycles, autos and rickshaws on the roads.
With no further violence ....
- No regrets about not meeting Mayawati, says US envoy
Lucknow: US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer today said he had no regrets about not being able to meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, who told the diplomat she was preoccupied with pre-fixe....
- Official assaults employee for not opening railway gates
Lucknow: A government official in Uttar Pradesh allegedly roughed up a railway employee for refusing to open the level crossing gates closed before a train was to arrive in Pratapgarh district,....
- SP legislator booked for setting widow on fire
Lucknow: A Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator in Uttar Pradesh has been booked for setting a woman on fire over a land dispute, police said today.
S. Azad, who represents the Sadar assem....
- Curfew relaxed for 11 hours in Bareilly
Bareilly: Curfew in Bareilly was relaxed for 11 hours today for the third time since it was imposed two weeks ago as normalcy returned to this Uttar Pradesh town following communal clashes, aut....
- Two poachers held with 80 tortoises in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Two poachers were arrested today in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district and 80 tortoises were recovered from their possession, police said.
The two men from Kolkata, in thei....
- Mayawati declines to meet with US ambassador
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has declined to meet US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer, who arrived here today on a two-day visit to the state, citing her "busy political sched....
- Curfew relaxed in Bareilly
Bareilly: Curfew in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district was relaxed for eight hours today for only the second time since it was imposed two weeks ago following a communal clash, authorities s....
- Probe into swarm of bees at Mayawati rally
Lucknow: In a late Monday night development, the Uttar Pradesh government ordered a high-level probe into the sudden arrival of a swarm of bees at the Ramabai Ambedkar ground while Chief Minist....
- Rs.5 crore garland for Mayawati?
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was today presented a giant garland of currency notes by her fans from Karnataka. Though the exact value of the garland is not known, onlookers pu....
- What's wrong if I install my own statues, asks Mayawati
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is unable to understand why she is under fire from various quarters for installing her own statues.
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- BSP's Brahmin mascot Misra in new role
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today said party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra was not going to be in the mainstream of the BSP'....
- Curfew relaxed in Bareilly, situation turning normal
Lucknow: With no fresh incident of violence reported in the last two days and the situation fast returning to normal, curfew in Bareilly district was relaxed today, nearly two weeks after a com....
- Lucknow feels heat of Mayawati rally
Lucknow: People in this Uttar Pradesh capital, particularly the board examinees, today had a harrowing time reaching their destinations due to lack of buses owing to the Bahujan Samaj Party'....
- Thousands gather for Mayawati's rally
Lucknow: Tens of thousands of people from all over the country, including Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, gathered here today for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's rally to mark th....
- Backward districts of UP receive the highest demand for passport
Mumbai: In a surprising revelation it has come to pass that the maximum demand for passports in India comes from the country's most undeveloped districts in eastern and central Uttar Prades....
- Lucknow turns blue on eve of Mayawati's rally
Lucknow: Blue -- the colour of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) -- dominated Lucknow city today on the eve of the ruling party's rally to mark its silver jubilee, touted as the biggest ever wi....
- Elaborate arrangements made for Mayawati's rally
Lucknow: Elaborate arrangements were being made for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's rally here March 15. Over a million people are expected to attend the rally on Bahujan Samaj Part....
- Cyclist on runway as Mulayam's plane lands
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had a narrow escape today morning when a cyclist suddenly appeared on the runway just as his plane was landing at the Saifai aerodrome in Utta....
- Agra to get facelift before Games
Agra: The city of Taj is set to get a new look ahead of the Commonwealth Games in October during which around one million tourists are expected to visit the Mughal era wonder.
The Agr....
- Bareilly remains tense after 12 days of curfew
Bareilly: Tension continued in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, parts of which have been under curfew for 12 days, following the fresh outbreak of trouble in which 15 people were injured ....
- Fake currency notes of Rs.2.48 crore recovered
Lucknow: Fake currency notes of Rs.2.48 crore were recovered from a train in Uttar Pradesh's Chanduali district, a railway official said today.
The fake notes and maps of Thailand....
- Former mayor held for allegedly duping daughter-in-law
Agra: Former Agra mayor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kishori Lal Mahaur has been arrested following a complaint from his widowed daughter-in-law who accused him of duping her of prop....
- Ghaziabad board to impose new cess to fund Metro rail
Ghaziabad: An additional charge will be imposed on realtors to arrange the funds for Metro rail service here and for speeding up the pace of development, Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) s....
- 15 injured in Uttar Pradesh violence
Lucknow: At least 15 people, including a senior police officer, were injured today in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district when members of a community clashed with police to protest the releas....
- Teenaged girl kills child to attain occult powers
Lucknow: A teenaged girl in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district allegedly killed a three-year-old boy to "attain occult powers", police said today.
The 15-year-old girl s....
- Police find photos of godman 'marrying' missing woman
Ghaziabad: Police searching for a missing self-styled godman and a woman devotee he is accused of kidnapping have recovered photographs of the two as a married couple.
Photographs dep....
- Marriage made in heaven, solemnised in police station
Lucknow: The wedding card of this couple who eloped might read something like this -- Satish Kumar weds Maya Pasi. You are cordially invited to attend the marriage at a police station in Uttar ....
- Where Hindus and Muslims pray together
Gaddeajijpur: When Hindus visit a temple in Gaddeajijpur village of Uttar Pradesh, they also make it a point to pray at the adjacent mausoleum. It is no different for Muslims. For, the villager....
- Five children injured in bomb explosion
Lucknow: Five children, including a girl, were injured when a country-made bomb hidden in a garbage dump exploded today in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said.
The childr....
- Boys lodged in juvenile jail for throwing colour on Mayawati's poster
Lucknow: Four minors were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly throwing colour on Chief Minister Mayawati's poster during Holi. The minors have been sent to jail.
Charg....
- Ulema Council threatens stir against cleric's arrest
Lucknow: The Ulema Council today threatened to launch a statewide agitation against the arrest of a leading cleric, nabbed for his alleged role in last week's communal clash in Uttar Prades....
- Pay toll on Noida-Greater Noida Expressway from Sep 30
Noida: The Noida-Greater Noida Expressway will cease to be toll-free from Sep 30, the Uttar Pradesh government said today.
The government, in a notification, has included the 21.5-km-....
- Two government employees robbed
Ghaziabad: Two motorcycle borne men robbed two government employees working with the electricity department of Rs.367,000 here today, police said.
The incident occurred at 1.30 p.m. i....
- Dozen 'Indian Idol' aspirants injured
Noida: Over a dozen people were injured here today when thousands of boys and girls gathered for the audition of music reality show "Indian Idol" rushed into the venue causing a stamped....
- Six killed as train rams into vehicle
Lucknow: At least six people were killed and 16 injured today when a train rammed into a tractor-trolley in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district.
The Farrukhabad-Kanpur passenger train....
- Cold wave in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The temperature is likely to dip in Uttar Pradesh the next few days, with a cold wave making a comeback in the state, the weatherman said today.
The state experienced an unus....
- Cleric arrested for communal clash in Bareilly
Lucknow: Security was today intensified in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district following the arrest of a leading cleric for his alleged role in last week's communal clash.
Maula....
- Look-out notice issued for 'godman' wanted in kidnapping case
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police have issued a look-out notice for a self-stlyed 'godman' who is wanted for the alleged abduction of a 27-year-old woman devotee.
"A senior ....
- Three held with sambar carcasses in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Three poachers have been arrested with carcasses of sambar in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district, police said today.
The three men, who are in their early 30s, were nabbed S....
- Austrian tourist attacked in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A 30-year-old Austrian tourist was attacked, robbed and left unconscious near a rail track in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said today.
Mario Max was found on ....
- Agra music legend struggles to survive
Agra: One of the last exponents of the Agra Gharana of Hindustani classical music, 86-year-old Ustad Akeel Ahmad Khan is not only unwell but is also a disenchanted man. He has no government sup....
- Mayawati too has reservations on women's quota bill
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday expressed strong reservations against the women's reservation bill to be introduced in Rajya....
- Restaurant, huts gutted in Noida fires, 3 injured
Noida: A restaurant in a sector 26 club and a cluster of shanties in sector 63 of Noida were burnt down in two accidents of fire late on fire on Saturday, officials said today.
Accord....
- Ashram management blamed for Uttar Pradesh stampede
Lucknow: The preliminary report of a probe into Thursday's stampede in Uttar Pradesh has held the management of the ashram responsible for the disaster in which 63 people, mostly women and ....
- Two poachers held with leopard skins in UP
Lucknow: Two poachers, who operated in several states of the country, have been arrested with leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district, police said today.
Ashish Gupta and....
- No funds to compensate stampede victims: Mayawati
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday said that her state was facing an "acute financial crisis" and was not in a position to give any monetary compensation to the fa....
- Dodging all, Rahul Gandhi meets families of stampede victims
Mangarh (Pratapgarh): Dodging policemen and giving his own partymen the slip, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi called on families of the victims of Thursday's stampede at an ashram h....
- Ashram stampede: Case lodged against organisers of feast
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government today lodged a case against unnamed organisers of the "bhandara" (free lunch) at an ashram on Thursday, when a stampede triggered by unmanageable c....
- Undertrial dies in Ghaziabad jail, 10th in a year
Ghaziabad: A prisoner died in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad today, making it the 10th such death in a year.
Jail Superintendent V.K. Singh said Bhupendra Pal, 24, who is facing a trial in a....
- 'My greed responsible for sons' death in ashram stampede'
Mangarh (Uttar Pradesh): Ram Kumar Milan is inconsolable after losing his three sons in Thursday's stampede at the Bhakti Dham ashram here. He can't stop blaming his own "greed"....
- A two-and-a-half-year-old-boy booked for power theft in Kanpur
Kanpur: In one of the most bizarre of cases, Kanpur Electricity Supply Company Limited (Kesco) has booked a two-and-a-half-year-old boy for power theft in Kanpur. Bajariya police have also lodg....
- Electrocution rumour sparked stampede, killing 63
Mangarh (Uttar Pradesh): As a pall of gloom hung over the Bhakti Dham ashram here a day after a stampede killed 63 women and children, an eyewitness said today that an electrocution rumour spar....
- Mayawati orders probe into stampede deaths
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today ordered a high-level inquiry into the stampede that left more than 60 people dead at an ashram in Mangarh village in Pratapgarh district.
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- 37 children, 26 women killed in stampede in Uttar Pradesh ashram
Lucknow: 37 children and 26 women were killed and 25 injured in a stampede in an Uttar Pradesh ashram, police here said today.
63 bodies had been recovered and more could have been killed in t....
- Stampede in ashram, 15 feared dead
Lucknow: At least 15 people could have been killed in a stampede in an ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district, an official spokesperson here said today.
The tragedy at the ....
- Curfew relaxed in Bareilly
Lucknow: With the situation in trouble-torn areas of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district limping back to normal, the curfew imposed on Tuesday was relaxed today morning, officials said.
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- Unusually warm weather in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Parts of Uttar Pradesh, including state capital Lucknow, are witnessing unusually warm weather with the day and night temperatures 4-5 degrees above average, the state Met office said ....
- Couple in extra marital affair burnt to death
Agra: A man and a woman allegedly locked in an extra-marital affair were burnt to death in Agra district in Uttar Pradesh after being doused with kerosene, police said.
Police identif....
- Moonshine kills five in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Five people died and six lost their eyesight after drinking spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, police said today.
About 15 more fell ill, a police o....
- Curfew continues in Bareilly, board students let off
Lucknow: Curfew continued in several parts of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district today, a day after a communal clash over a procession, but students were allowed to appear for their board ex....
- Uttar Pradesh gets DNA lab, lie-detector
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's first DNA laboratory with an additional lie-detector facility is coming up here.
Set up on the premises of the existing forensic science laboratory, the n....
- Holi celebrations set off Hindu-Muslim clash
Lucknow: Tension gripped Uttar Pradesh's Badosarai town in Barabanki district today afternoon following a "minor clash" between Hindus and Muslims over Holi celebrations.
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- Holi: a fusion of Dussehra, Diwali in Uttar Pradesh town
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): A Ramlila ending with the effigy of demon king Ravana going up in flames and a brilliant display of fireworks -- that's Holi for you in Bamanpuri town of this dist....
- Drive to check moonshine sale in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government today ordered a statewide drive to check the sale of spurious liquor and bust illegal liquor manufacturing units, an official said.
"SPs (sup....
- Five of family murdered in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A woman and her four children were found murdered in their house in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district, the police said on Friday.
The incident took place in Morakandar vi....
- Two men shot dead in tiff over throwing garbage
Greater Noida: Two people were shot dead and two others critically injured when an argument over throwing garbage in a drain turned ugly in Greater Noida, police said on Friday.
Accor....
- High court allows Mayawati government to chop over 200 trees
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to chop down 213 trees to make way for a boundary wall around a 120-acre eco park, named after th....
- Elephant runs amok in Meerut, damages over 20 vehicles
Meerut: A male elephant, kept on display at the marriage reception of the children of two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs, ran amok, attacking and damaging 20 cars, a truck and a police jeep befo....
- Elephants from Nepal kill 1, injure eight in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: One person was killed and several injured when a herd of elephants which had apparently strayed in from Nepal went on a rampage in a village in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, offi....
- Government employee slapped for delay in producing files
Lucknow: Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district today ordered an enquiry against a sub divisional magistrate (SDM) for allegedly slapping a government employee.
Ramesh Cha....
- Four students hurt in explosion in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least four students were critically injured in a bomb explosion near their school in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambhi district today, police said. Officials ruled out any terror angle....
- Kidnapped official rescued in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Rakesh Jain, a 53-year-old Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat who was missing since last Friday, was rescued by the Special Task Force (STF), police said today. Five of Rakesh's abductors ha....
- Main accused in Uttar Pradesh hooch tragedy held
Lucknow: The main accused in a hooch tragedy that claimed at least 13 lives in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district has been arrested along with a policeman, a police official said today.
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- Eight robbers, chain-snatchers held in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Eight criminals were arrested today in two raids here on charges of robbery and chain snatching, police said.
Four criminals were arrested during a search operation in Khod....
- Engineer quits, citing threats by BSP legislator
Lucknow: An engineer of the Uttar Pradesh irrigation department on Saturday sent his resignation letter to Chief Minister Mayawati following alleged extortion bids by a legislator of the ruling....
- Uttar Pradesh sounds terror alert for schools
Lucknow: With the apprehension of one or more terrorist strikes looming large over India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh police have sounded an alert for schools.
In an advis....
- Two girls burnt to death in Noida
Noida: Two minor girls were burnt to death when their makeshift dwelling caught fire in Harola locality of Noida on Thursday night, police said.
According to Superintendent of Police ....
- Youths run over policemen in Greater Noida
Greater Noida: A police official was critically injured along with four other policemen when eight drunk youth in three cars ran over them in the Kasna area of Greater Noida on Wednesday night,....
- New factories relaxed from electricity duty in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government today decided to relax new industrial units from electricity duty to provide relief to industries, particularly power-intensive units.
The decisi....
- Armed youth fights police trying to help him
Lucknow: A mentally unstable youth, who locked himself into a room in his house here on Wednesday, continued to battle the policemen trying to get him out for over 24 hours. The 27-year-old has....
- Toll in Uttar Pradesh hooch tragedy rises to 13
Lucknow: At least eight more people have died after drinking moonshine in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, taking the toll to 13, an official said today.
"The toll till toda....
- Police officer beats up a dalit woman at police station
Lucknow: In yet another case of persecution and inhuman treatment to the lower section of the society Uttar Pradesh police in Sultanpur district thrashed a Dalit woman who is suspected to have ....
- Ulema Council to hold rally in Lucknow
Lucknow: Members of the Ulema Council (a body of Muslim clerics) will hold a rally here on Feb 20 to protest alleged harassment of the minority community by the police on the pretext of tacklin....
- Five killed after consuming illicit liquor
Lucknow: At least five people were killed and 16 others fell ill today after they allegedly consumed spurious liquor in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, officials said.
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- Two engineering students held with heroin worth Rs.10 mn
Lucknow: Two engineering students have been arrested with heroin worth Rs.10 million (Rs.1 crore) in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, police said today.
Deepak Rawat and Dani....
- 22 killed as bus falls into river in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 22 people on their way to a wedding were killed and 30 injured when the bus they were travelling in fell into a river in Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun district, an official said ....
- Women protest atrocities in Uttar Pradesh, caned by police
Lucknow: Women activists of the Congress party here were caned by the police today as they sought to raise the issue of "increasing atrocities on women" in Uttar Pradesh, party workers ....
- Woman throttles children, commits suicide
Greater Noida: A woman throttled her daughter and son, killing the girl, before committing suicide in Greater Noida today, police said. The son is battling for life in the hospital.
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- Two die in police custody, nine cops booked
Lucknow: Nine Uttar Pradesh policemen were today booked for allegedly beating to death two men picked up for "conspiracy" to loot a beer shop in Allahabad.
Sanjay Nishad, 22, ....
- Love to be food of music at Taj festival
Agra: Love will be the theme of the Taj Mahotsava that opens here on Thursday just 500 metres from that eternal monument to love, the Taj Mahal.
The theme song that will open the 10-d....
- Gangster shot dead in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A gangster wanted in 37 criminal cases including murder was gunned down early today by the police in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district, an official said.
Ali Mohammad wa....
- One killed in firing at wedding
Ghaziabad: A 22-year-old youth was killed in firing by an apparently drunk reveller at a wedding in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday.
Phool Kumar, a resident of Muzzafarnagar distri....
- Metro gets extension from Dilshad Garden to Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) Metro extension project from Dilshad Garden to the New Bus Stand in Ghaziabad, an official sai....
- Hapur, a hub of flower, vegetable production
Hapur (Uttar Pradesh): Exporting fresh flowers to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and selling high-value vegetables to hotels and embassies in Delhi, this town in western Uttar Pradesh ....
- BJP looks for a Gandhi vs Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi/Bulandshahr: With Rahul Gandhi creating a storm in Uttar Pradesh, particularly among the young and the disempowered with his whirlwind "mass contact" tours, the Bharatiya Jana....
- Man held for impersonating as top official
Greater Noida: A man was arrested here today for impersonating as a top government official and for driving around in a car with a red beacon, which he claimed he was entitled to as his post wa....
- Rahul to meet students in Azamgarh
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh town, often dubbed a nursery of terror, to meet college students, the party said today.
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- Rainfall likely in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Light to moderate rainfall is likely in parts of Uttar Pradesh today and Thursday, the weatherman has said.
According to the state met department, a weather disturbance affec....
- Uttar Pradesh accident toll rises to 24
Lucknow: The death toll in Monday's accident where a tractor-trolley skidded off a road and fell into a deep, water-filled ditch in Uttar Pradesh, rose to 24 today, police said. The victims....
- Mayawati announces huge salary hike for legislators
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today announced a substantial hike of over 66 percent in the salary and allowances of the state's legislators, who will now receive around Rs.....
- 'Abnormal circumstances made my son attack Rathore'
Lucknow: S.K. Sharma, a Banaras Hindu University (BHU) professor and father of the youth who today attacked former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, said "abnormal circumstances" mus....
- Five of a family burnt to death in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Five members of a family were burnt to death while six were severely injured when a fire broke out at their house in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, police said today.
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- Labourer's hand chopped for not settling Rs.600 debt
Lucknow: A man's right hand was mercilessly severed by a group of moneylenders after he failed to settle a debt of around Rs.600, police in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district said today.
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- Five held for molesting woman on train
Ghaziabad: Five men were arrested here today for molesting a woman on Ranikhet Express train, officials said.
Babita boarded the general compartment of the train at the New Delhi rail....
- Global neuro-surgery experts to assemble at Agra
Agra: Top international gurus of neuro-surgery will share invaluable knowledge and pass on the latest skills to 200 Indian doctors at a two-day workshop in the city of the Taj, beginning Feb 13....
- International homeopathy meet starts in Agra
Agra: In order to make research in the field of homeopathy more potent, an international research centre in collaboration with six European countries was inaugurated here, with over 50 reputed ....
- Three poachers arrested in UP
Lucknow: Three people have been arrested with skins of two spotted deer and several antlers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district, police said today.
The three men, in their late ....
- Six mutilated bodies found near rail track
Lucknow: Panic gripped an Uttar Pradesh town when six mutilated and decomposed bodies were found lying near the railway tracks today morning, police said.
The bodies of three men, two....
- Youth held for bursting fire cracker near Taj
Agra: A young man has been arrested for bursting a fire cracker close to the world heritage monument of the Taj Mahal here, police said.
Dharmendra, in his early 20s, burst the cracke....
- Uttar Pradesh minister, family booked for seeking dowry
Lucknow: On the directions of an Uttar Pradesh court, the police have booked the state Sports Minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal and his six family members under the Dowry Act, an official said today.....
- Court wants Mayawati's minister booked for dowry demand
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh court today directed the police to book state Sports Minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal and his family members for allegedly calling off his son's marriage because the br....
- Government employees boycott work over mistreatment of Dalit
Lucknow: Hundreds of government employees in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district decided to boycott work today after a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) slapped a Dalit class four government empl....
- A suicide occurs every two hours in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A suicide takes place every two hours in India's most populous state, according to a study.
What was even more glaring was that Lucknow, the state capital, had topped the....
- Security tightened in Azamgarh as Muslims vow to protest
Lucknow: Tight security arrangements have been put in place ahead of senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh's visit to Azamgarh today. The decision was made following an announcement of the ....
- Volunteers to clean Yamuna, Potomac, Yangtze rivers
Agra: As part of a global initiative by the Rivers of the World Foundation and the Yamuna Foundation for Blue Water, volunteers in China, India and the US will pick up trash and clean up the ri....
- Greater Noida police receive traffic complaints via MMS
Greater Noida: The newly introduced system of filing complaints via SMS and MMS by Greater Noida police to nab those violating traffic rules received a good response from the public, police sai....
- Man behind 1993 train blasts held near Lucknow
Lucknow: A Lucknow resident wanted in connection with the 1993 serial train blasts, in which over 200 people were killed, was arrested today after a prolonged gun battle near here, police said.....
- Maid lends womb to childless couple, refuses to give baby
Ghaziabad: A 20-year-old maid of a childless couple agreed to become the surrogate mother to their child. But, after giving birth to the baby, the maid had a change of heart and refused to hand....
- Six of a family set on fire in Uttar Pradesh village
Lucknow: Six members of a family were set on fire in a Uttar Pradesh village over a land dispute, police said today.
Kisan Chand, a farmer and resident of Beejpur village in Mahoba di....
- Uttar Pradesh minister faces dowry allegations
Lucknow: An enquiry has been initiated against Uttar Pradesh Sports Minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal over allegations that he called off his son's marriage because the woman's family failed ....
- Agra meet to discuss robot use in urology treatment
Agra: Use of robots and computers for surgery on patients with urological problems will be discussed at an international conference on advances in urology, to be held in the city of the Taj Mah....
- 91 years old and still writing strong!
Agra: He is 91 years old and has written as many as 157 books. M.L. Agarwal, an educationist from Agra, has been writing prolifically since 1951 and refuses to call it a day.
His book....
- Boy with cancer treated for TB for two years
Lucknow: An eight-year old boy in Uttar Pradesh was treated for tuberculosis for two years when he was actually suffering from cancer, a senior doctor at the Balrampur Hospital said.
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- Student dies during physical education test
Ghaziabad: A class 12 student died during a physical education exam at a public school in Ghaziabad district today, police said.
According to the police, T.R.M. Public School in Modin....
- Memorials will not cost any more money, says Mayawati
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today claimed that the memorials and statues erected by her in Lucknow and in Noida will not put any further drain on the state exchequer.
- Five murders rock Lucknow today
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh capital reported five murders today, leaving the local police groping in the dark.
While an aged couple and their eight-year-old grand-daughter were killed ....
- Mayawati wants her statues to be guarded by a separate police force
Lucknow: The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati has proposed a bill at the state assembly whereby she has asked for a separate police force to be created for the purpose of safeguarding ....
- 'Railway projects worth Rs.1,288 crore in Uttar Pradesh'
Lucknow: The Railways Ministry has allocated a sum of Rs.1,288 crore towards various projects in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa said today.
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- Sun brings relief, but chill continues in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Sunshine today brought some relief to the residents of Utar Pradesh from damp and misty mornings, but the weatherman said the cold wave will continue to sweep most of the state.
- Protests in Ghaziabad over damage to Ambedkar statue
Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad was tense today morning as residents of this town adjacent to the national capital held a demonstration protesting the desecration of a statue of B.R. Ambedkar, police said....
- Thick fog in Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow schools closed
Lucknow: A thick fog cover and intense cold today hit normal life in parts of Uttar Pradesh, affecting rail services and slowing road traffic. All schools in Lucknow suspended classes up to Cla....
- Uttar Pradesh government employees call off stir
Lucknow: A three-day strike by Uttar Pradesh government employees and teachers has been called off following a late night settlement between the agitating workers and the government.
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- Three crushed to death in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Three persons were killed and a child critically injured when a truck rammed into their motorcycle near the national highway.
Tejpal, his sister-in-law Sangeeta and mother-....
- Maoist arrested in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A Maoist guerrilla was arrested from a forest in Uttar Pradesh's rebel-hit Sonbhadra district, police said today.
Anil Kushwaha, who allegedly worked for Maoist Munna Vis....
- Illegally stocked sugar worth Rs.2 crore seized
Lucknow: Nearly 4,200 quintals of illegally stocked sugar worth Rs.2 crore (Rs.20 million) were seized from a flour mill in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district, an official said today.
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- Fog envelops Uttar Pradesh, disrupts rail traffic
Lucknow: A thick blanket of fog enveloped this Uttar Pradesh capital and most parts of the state today, throwing normal life out of gear and affecting movement of trains.
"Uttar P....
- House full at Agra's night shelters
Agra: With the temperature dropping each day and the city of the Taj Mahal enveloped in a thick blanket of fog for the past week, night shelters here are packed to capacity. An NGO that has for....
- Goods train derails in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A goods train derailed near Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh today, disrupting rail traffic in the region, officials said. No one was injured.
The accident took place at Sathiyaon s....
- Agra hit by fog, intense cold
Agra: Dense fog engulfed Agra today morning and the city continued to reel under an intense cold wave as primary schools extended holidays and most tourists preferred to stay indoors.
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- 8 students suspended for ragging in government polytechnic
Lucknow: Eight students of a government-run polytechnic institute in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district were suspended for physically abusing and ragging a junior on the institute campus, a....
- Most UP legislators fail to declare assets
Lucknow: More than two years after the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, 386 of the 403 legislators, including the likes of Chief Minister Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Ya....
- DPS Ghaziabad evacuated after bomb hoax
Ghaziabad: The Delhi Public School (DPS) Ghaziabad was evacuated today by the police after an anonymous call that a bomb had been planted at the school to blow it up. The threat later turned ou....
- Ex-banker builds secure nests for winged friends
Kanpur: A sparrow's nest fell in C.L. Khanna's courtyard. The eggs were smashed. Khanna cried, gave up his job as a banker and has been building nests for the last nine years.
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- Man arrested for murder after tip-off from brother
Ghaziabad: A 24-year-old man was arrested today on a tip-off to the police by his brother for allegedly murdering a youth here, police said.
Hemant Singh, 24, son of fire station offi....
- Man found dead in train toilet
Lucknow: A man was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the toilet of a passenger train in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district today, an official said.
The young man, who a....
- Madrassa teacher chains students to discipline them
Lucknow: A teacher allegedly chained two students of a madrassa (seminary) in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district for more than seven hours as a punishment for bunking classes, police said toda....
- Agra MP arrested for protesting power cuts
Agra: Rama Shankar Katheria, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Agra city, was arrested on Monday while protesting against power supply shortage and alleged mismanagement by the distribution ....
- Huge stock of sugar recovered in raid at Ghaziabad mill
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad district administration today seized a huge stock of sugar and raw sugar, to be allegedly used for sale in the black market, from a subsidiary unit of Simbhaoli Sugar M....
- Yamuna clean up at Agra a sham, say activists
Agra: Agra's district magistrate and municipal commissioner led a host of officials to clean up the Balkeshwar Ghat along the Yamuna river but residents and environmentalists have called it....
- Maya cracks the whip on UP sugar mills
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has lodged complaint against 39 private sugar mills, accusing them of violating rules and norms with respect to procurement of sugarcane, weighment, paymen....
- Robbers loot passengers on Mussoorie Express
Ghaziabad: Unidentified armed robbers looted passengers on Delhi-bound Mussoorie Express today, critically injuring two of them when they tried to put up resistance, police officials said.
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- Thick clouds delay eclipse's view in Lucknow
Lucknow: A large number of people, from students to homemakers, waiting to see the annular solar eclipse in the Uttar Pradesh capital, had to wait for over an hour as a thick cloud cover obscur....
- Mayawati releases book on birthday, targets Congress
Lucknow: On her 54th birthday today, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) boss and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati released the fifth volume of her book detailing her political struggles. In it, May....
- Rs.7,312 crore welfare schemes on Mayawati's B'day
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati's 54th birthday today was a clear deviation from the past, as she announced welfare programmes and develop....
- Mayawati paints Lucknow BSP blue on her birthday
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh capital was literally covered under a blue blanket - from blue lights to blue buntings - to mark the 54th birthday today of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and st....
- 10 injured in clash after villagers hold cops captive
Lucknow: At least 10 people, including five policemen, were injured today when villagers clashed with a police party which reached an Uttar Pradesh village to free four cops who were being held....
- Special goggles, telescopes - Lucknow set for solar eclipse
Lucknow: Scientific institutions and schools in Lucknow have made elaborate arrangements - from acquiring special goggles to installing telescopes - for people to watch the annular solar eclips....
- Uttar Pradesh panchayat forces woman to ill-treat her lover
Lucknow: Unwilling to accept their love affair, an Uttar Pradesh village panchayat forced a woman to slap her lover with shoes and tonsure his head. Later, after blackening the man's face, ....
- Insurance firm manager found dead in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The body of an insurance company manager was found lying in a drain in Ghaziabad today, police said.
Deepak Teotia, 30, a manager with HDFC Standard Life, was found dead in....
- Uttar Pradesh woman injured in chapati blast
Lucknow: In a bizarre incident, a woman in Uttar Pradesh suffered burn injuries on her face, hands and midriff when the chapati she was making exploded, police said today.
The inciden....
- Gadkari calls meeting of Uttar Pradesh BJP office-bearers
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has called a meeting of party office-bearers from Uttar Pradesh later this month to prepare a plan for the party's revival in....
- Mayawati's birthday with a difference - gifting monthly dole
Lucknow: A monthly dole for Uttar Pradesh's poorest of the poor -- that is the ambitious scheme to be launched on Chief Minister Mayawati's 54th birthday, a day that has become notoriou....
- Wanted man gunned down in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A alleged gangster of Uttar Pradesh and one of his aides were shot dead during a gun battle with police in the state's Azamgarh district, an official said today.
Kamlesh ....
- The price of 'development' - Ghaziabad colonies layered with concrete
Ghaziabad: Many colonies in Ghaziabad are losing whatever green cover they had and turning into concrete jungles - all in the name of development, residents of the city say.
According....
- Man cuts off tongue before deity to have son
Lucknow: A childless man sliced off his tongue and offered it to the deity in an Uttar Pradesh temple to be "blessed with a son", police said today.
Mukesh Kumar, 28, a reside....
- Cold weather disrupts rail, air traffic across Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The return of a cold wind and a sharp fall in the day temperature disrupted rail, air and road services across Uttar Pradesh today. The state administration has ordered the closure of ....
- Nine injured as flyover under construction caves in
Lucknow: Nine people were injured when an under construction flyover between the twin towns of Faizabad and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh caved in early today, police said.
Four of the inj....
- Two carpenters found suffocated to death
Ghaziabad: Two carpenters working at a construction site in Ghaziabad were discovered lying dead in their room, police said, adding it seemed both died of suffocation.
The deaths were....
- RSS chief urges 'serious efforts' to unite Hindus
Lucknow: Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat today called upon its workers "to make serious efforts for uniting different Hindu castes" to help establish a "discri....
- Criminal lynched in Uttar Pradesh village
Lucknow: A criminal facing a score cases was lynched by a group of villagers in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh after he was caught sneaking into a house with an intention to loot, police sa....
- Lawyer seeks protection after 13 cops get life term
Lucknow: The prosecution lawyer in a fake shootout case in which 13 policemen were this week sentenced to life for killing two innocent men today sought protection saying that he and his family....
- 90 percent polling for Uttar Pradesh upper house
Lucknow: Polling for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council to elect 36 representatives from 35 local authority constituencies passed off today with around 90 percent of the electorate using the....
- Kalyan's party promises nominations for youth
Lucknow: Rajvir Singh, son of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, today said their newly formed Jan Kranti Party (JKP) would not discriminate against any religion while distributi....
- A Singur in the making in Uttar Pradesh?
Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh): The farming community here is up in arms against the government's reported moves to take over farmland for a railway freight corridor, making a villain of Railway....
- Suspected poacher held for killing tiger
Lucknow: A suspected poacher has been arrested for killing an eight-year-old male tiger in a forest area in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district, an official said today.
Sourc....
- Eight policemen get life imprisonment in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: After five policemen in Uttar Pradesh were given life imprisonment for killing two innocent men from Jharkhand, a court in the state sentenced eight more cops in the same case, an offi....
- Kalyan Singh starts new party on birthday
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh today celebrated his 78th birthday by announcing the formation of his new Jan Kranti Party, in which he will work as a "patron"....
- Cold wave kills 21 more in Uttar Pradesh; toll 51
Lucknow: An intense cold wave that has Uttar Pradesh in its grip has claimed 21 more lives, taking the death toll in the state to 51, an official said today.
Of the fresh deaths, four....
- Cold wave claims 30 lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The cold wave has claimed at least 30 lives in Uttar Pradesh since Saturday, an official said today. The met office has predicted no change in the weather for the next two-three days.
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- Cold wave claims 14 lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 14 people died of intense cold conditions in parts of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday and today, an official said.
"The 14 deaths have been reported from many district....
- Drizzle dampens holiday revelry at Taj
Agra: A slight drizzle today afternoon forced visitors to the Taj Mahal, who had come to enjoy a longish weekend, to run for shelter.
The Taj and other monuments in Agra witnessed an ....
- Kanpur-Delhi rail route restored after train accident
Lucknow: Rail services were restored between Delhi and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh today, a day after 10 people were killed when two trains collided in Kanpur district, an official said.
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- Wanted criminal gunned down in Noida
Noida: A criminal wanted in many cases and carrying a cash reward of Rs.50,000 for his capture was shot dead in Noida, police said today. An AK-47 assault rifle and a pistol were recovered from....
- Foggy weather to continue in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A thick blanket of fog and cold conditions would continue to grip parts of Uttar Pradesh for at least the next two days, the weatherman said today.
Although the western distu....
- Bank in Ghaziabad gutted in fire
Ghaziabad: A branch of a nationalised bank in Hapur town of Ghaziabad district was burnt down in a major fire, police said today.
The blaze in the branch of Vijaya Bank on the Nationa....
- UP cops herald New Year with blood donation
Lucknow: Policemen in Uttar Pradesh ushered in 2010 in a noble way, donating blood today with a New Year's resolution to "save more and more lives".
Policemen in Uttar Pra....
- Prisoners clash with jail officials, 17 injured
Lucknow: At least 17 people were injured when a group of prisoners at a district jail in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town clashed with jail staff, police said today.
Amongst the injur....
- Tourists pack Taj Mahal, jam roads to Agra
Agra: Thousands of tourists, domestic and foreign, flooded Agra on the last day of 2009, causing hours-long traffic holdups that stretched to the next city. In the past week, around 25,000 peop....
- Two held with Rs.75 lakh-worth heroin in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) today arrested two men in Mau district with heroin worth Rs.75 lakh, an official said.
"Pankaj Gaur and Mohammad Fahad were....
- Uttar Pradesh artist prepares 60-foot New Year card
Allahabad: An Uttar Pradesh artist has prepared a 60-foot-long greeting card to welcome the new year and bid farewell to 2009.
Titled Memories 2009: Lost and Found, the card carries p....
- Sea of pilgrims throng Sangam as Magh Mela begins
Allahabad: A sea of pilgrims and devotees thronged the Sangam here to take a holy dip on the first day of the annual Hindu festival of Magh Mela that started today amid heavy security, official....
- Magh Mela begins on Thursday in Allahabad
Allahabad: The annual Hindu festival of Magh Mela will begin here on Thursday with nearly 25 lakh devotees expected to take a holy dip at the Sangam on day one, an official said today.
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- Two men held with Rs.10 mn-worth marijuana
Lucknow: Two men were today arrested with marijuana worth Rs.10 million (Rs.1 crore) in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, police said.
Pramod Kumar and Ram Shankar, both in their....
- Doctors give new life to youth speared with two rods
Lucknow: A 27-year-old man, who fell on two iron rods at a building under construction, has got a new lease of life after doctors here performed a rare surgery and removed the rods which had pi....
- German tourist seriously injured in fall at Taj Mahal
Agra: A 45-year-old German woman tourist today fell off a platform and injured herself while seeking a vantage place to photograph the beauty and grandeur of the Taj Mahal, officials said.
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- Mayawati asks officials to 'expedite' action against corruption
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today asked officials to expedite action in all pending cases of corruption.
Chairing a law and order review meeting at the Yojana Bhawa....
- Mayawati to celebrate birthday as 'People's Welfare Day'
Lucknow: In a sudden somersault, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has decided to alter the motto behind her birthday - from "Fund raising" to "People's Welfare".
- Uttar Pradesh district tense after Muharram clashes
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district was tense today following clashes between Hindus and Muslims during a Muharram procession that left at least 10 people injured the day before, poli....
- Death of sect member leads to tension in Agra
Agra: The situation continued to remain tense in some parts of Agra today, two days after the death of a member of a religious sect.
Scores of families in Sikandarpur and Lal Garhi ar....
- Muslims turn blood donors on Muharram in Lucknow
Lucknow: Muslims turned blood donors in a village near here today to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed.
Muslim residents of Amrai village in ....
- RLD to mobilise farmers to agitate for statehood
Lucknow: The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) today said it would mobilise farmers to join the campaign for the formation of Harit Pradesh, a proposed state comprising parts of western Uttar Pradesh, a ....
- Lucknow scientists to rejuvenate mango orchard in Rishikesh
Lucknow: In Uttarkahand's pilgrimage town Rishikesh, old and unproductive mango orchards owned by the world-famous Tirupati temple trust will regain their lost vigour and produce fruits, wi....
- Demand for separate 'Braj Pradesh' gains momentum
Agra: After Harit Pradesh, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand, the demand for the creation of yet another state in north India has gained momentum. This time it is Braj Pradesh, comprising Rajasthan....
- Six bombs found in Uttar Pradesh town
Lucknow: Six live bombs were recovered from a residential area in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district today. Police have ruled out the involvement of any terror outfit in the incident.
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- BJP leaders, PM greet Vajpayee on birthday
New Delhi/Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today observed the 85th birthday of party stalwart and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by organising feasts for the poor and a blo....
- Trader shot dead in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a trader and injured his relative in a broad daylight attack today in this Chhattisgarh capital, police said.
"Two unidentified men entered i....
- Police recovered weapons from Jawan's father house
Pratapgarh: An Indian army jawan's father was arrested by the police after an AK-47 along with several country made arms were recovered from his house at Pholpur village.
The ammu....
- Murder case against three Uttar Pradesh policemen
Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh): Three Uttar Pradesh policemen have been booked for murder of an old man, who allegedly died after being assaulted by them in the state's Hardoi district, officials s....
- Lucknow sees prayers, feasts for poor on Vajpayee's birthday
Lucknow: This Uttar Pradesh capital, once regarded as the political bastion of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, today saw members of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrating the ....
- Train hits truck at unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: An engine of a passenger train caught fire when it hit a truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders at an unmanned railway crossing today in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad....
- Five-foot-tall candle for Christmas
Lucknow: A five-foot-tall candle, weighing nearly 10 kg, prepared by an Uttar Pradesh resident, will definitely light up the festive celebrations for Christmas.
Naveen Kumar of Badaun....
- Crorepati clerks in Uttar Pradesh government
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is notorious for its affluent politicians and bureaucrats. Now a new report by the state vigilance department says even clerks in the state government have been found own....
- Six killed in Uttar Pradesh warehouse collapse
Lucknow: At least six people were killed and 12 injured critically when a warehouse of the forest department in Uttar Pradesh's Jyotiba Phule Nagar district collapsed after a truck rammed i....
- Child worker thrashed mercilessly, salt sprinkled over his wounds
Lucknow: An employer severely beat up a child labourer for stealing money. To add to the torture, the 'gentleman' sprinkled salt over the wounds of the little boy. The incident occurred....
- Bus mows down two people in Noida
Noida: A speeding private bus today morning mowed down two people and injured three when it rammed into two rickshaws and a motorcycle here, police said.
The incident took place near ....
- Girl dies after being beaten by teacher
Lucknow: A teacher of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district has been arrested after he allegedly beat up a seven-year-old girl student who died after she succu....
- Mobile booths outside schools to offer healthy milk products
Lucknow: Lucknow Milk Producers Co-operative Union (LMPCU), Uttar Pradesh's largest dairy organisation, will offer "healthy milk products" to children by opening mobile booths outsi....
- Ensure urban amenities in rural areas, Kalam tells students
Lucknow: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Tuesday asked students in Uttar Pradesh to emulate a development model he had successfully implemented in Tamil Nadu years ago to bring urban ame....
- Uttar Pradesh set to shiver
Lucknow: Chilly winds will lash most parts of Uttar Pradesh in the next 48 hours, bringing down the temperature by several notches, officials said today.
The fall in temperature will ....
- Tension in Uttar Pradesh town after desecration at Sikh shrine
Lucknow: Tension gripped Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district today as hundreds of Sikhs carried out violent protests over desecration of their holy scripture, police said.
Agitated ....
- Rahul Gandhi may spend night in Dalit home again
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to spend yet another night in a Dalit's home in Jhansi district, party sources said today.
The Congress M....
- VHP launching helpline for Hindu pilgrims
Lucknow: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is to start a toll-free helpline service in India for Hindu pilgrims and tourists to help them in booking low-cost accomodation, hiring vehicles and med....
- Security beefed up in Mathura
Mathura: Security has been beefed up at the sensitive Sri Krishna Janambhoomi campus in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said today.
A police officer said security was bee....
- Uttar Pradesh takes steps to control food prices
Lucknow: To check rising prices in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today issued a stern warning to hoarders, a day after she asked the authorities to run mobile shops to sell b....
- Policeman suspended for beating girl
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh policeman has been suspended after he and a colleague thrashed a 12-year-old girl accused of committing a theft, police said today.
Sidharthnagar district De....
- Get ready to cross swords with Rani Lakshmibai - at museum!
Lucknow: Rani Lakshmibai, the fiery queen of Jhansi, had taken up arms against the mighty British in 1857 to free her country, and now she might cross swords with you - in an action-packed comp....
- Three killed in Uttar Pradesh pharma firm fire
Lucknow: At least three people were burnt to death, while eight others were injured when a fire broke out at a pharmaceutical factory in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said ....
- Two killed in Uttar Pradesh pharmaceutical company fire
Lucknow: At least two people were burnt to death, while eight others received injuries when a fire broke out at a pharmaceutical factory in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police sa....
- Five poachers held with animal skins
Lucknow: Five poachers from Bihar were arrested with skins of leopards, spotted deer and other animals in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, police said today. The five men, who are from K....
- Blood signature campaign for Bundelkhand
Lucknow: A regional party, campaigning for a Bundelkhand state out of districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, today announced that it would start a blood signature campaign for the forma....
- Uttar Pradesh power company rapped for harassing small consumer
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has pulled up the state power corporation for harassing small consumers while turning a blind eye to defaults by major consu....
- Man loses wife to fellow gambler in card game
Lucknow: A man in western Uttar Pradesh allegedly gave away his 32-year-old wife to a fellow gambler after he lost a card game, police said today.
The incident came to light when the ....
- Bundelkhand protesters disrupt rail traffic, vandalise station
Lucknow: Hundreds of activists of the Bundelkhand Ekikrit Party (BEP), demanding a Bundelkhand state, today vandalised a railway station and blocked rail tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba di....
- Noida police hauled up for torturing kids
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has hauled up Noida police for allegedly torturing two minors earlier this month, saying it is "a serious violation of human rights.&#....
- Smaller states: Mayawati should first do her work, says Digvijay
Lucknow: Slamming Chief Minister Mayawati for playing politics by demanding that smaller states be carved out of Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today said she should f....
- Taj Mahal sparkles after early morning showers
Agra: Showers early today morning washed the dust off the Taj Mahal's white marble making it look sparkling white. "Over the months, dust and sand particles had been deposited over the ....
- New strategy to control encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi: The government will adopt a three-pronged strategy, including an "election type" house-to-house campaign, to contain Japanese Encephalitis (JE) infection that claimed 560 liv....
- Bundelkhand group to launch agitation for statehood
Lucknow: After Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said she was in favour of statehood for Bundelkhand, an organisation from the backward region that straddles Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Prades....
- 'Election type' campaign to fight encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi: The government would start an "election type house to house" campaign to fight Japanese Encephalitis that has killed at least 560 people this year in Uttar Pradesh, Minister ....
- Now Mayawati demands a separate Purvanchal
Lucknow: After her demand for trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati has now sought further partition of the state for carving out Purvanchal on the eastern part.
Maya....
- UP's forest cover goes up slightly
Lucknow: For the first time since Uttar Pradesh lost some of its prime forest areas due to the creation of Uttarakhand, the state's forest cover has registered an increase -- though margina....
- Fiji student accuses Hindi professor of harassment
Agra: A case has been lodged against a professor at the Central Hindi Institute here after a girl student from Fiji accused him of harassing her and warning her of bad results if she complained....
- Dissatisfied Sonia asks officials to get pro-active
Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is unhappy over the poor implementation of central government welfare schemes for the poor in her constituency Rae Bareli and has asked officials to ....
- Uttar Pradesh official gets 15 days in jail
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court today ordered 15-day imprisonment to Aligarh Development Authority vice-chairman Rama Shankar for contempt of court, officials said.
A fine of Rs.2,0....
- Mayawati for trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today said she is for creation of independent states of Bundelkhand and Harit Pradesh out of an "unmanageable Uttar Pradesh". "I have ....
- Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli on two-day trip
Lucknow: Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived here today and headed to her constituency Rae Bareli to evaluate the implementation of developmental schemes there, a party official said.
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- River police keep watch at Taj
Agra: River police in motorboats have started patrolling the Yamuna behind the world famous Taj Mahal to keep an eye on polluters and look out for suspicious elements.
Two motorboats ....
- Three held with 150 kg explosives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Three men were arrested with nearly 150 kg of ammonium nitrate, 95 detonators and 2,500 feet length of fuse wires in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
The men were arrested f....
- Uttar Pradesh government complains Rahul violating security norms
Lucknow: The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh today sent a letter to the central home ministry, complaining that Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was violating security norms during ....
- Uttar Pradesh official asked to explain failure to bring Ansari
New Delhi: A city court today sought the response of Uttar Pradesh prison authorities over the failure to bring independent legislator Mukhtar Ansari before it.
Additional Sessions Ju....
- Permission for Rahul's press meet in Lucknow withdrawn
Lucknow: The Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh administration today suddenly withdrew permission for a press conference that was to be addressed by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, party leade....
- NGO urges child protection body in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Saksham Foundation, a voluntary organisation committed to assertion of child rights, has urged the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a child protection body in the state.
In....
- Security steeped up in Uttar Pradesh for Babri anniversary
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday ordered security to be beefed up across the state, especially in communally sensitive towns, ahead of the 17th anniversary on Sunday of the dem....
- Two killed in crude bomb explosion in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Two people were killed while three others were injured critically when a crude bomb exploded today in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said.
Satyendra and Moni, both in their....
- After violence, Bihar officials to meet migrants in Ludhiana
Patna: The Bihar government today decided to send its officials to Ludhiana after hundreds of migrant workers went on the rampage in the Punjab city, burning vehicles and blocking roads and rai....
- HIV positive youth forced out of UP village
Lucknow: A 27-year-old HIV positive youth in Uttar Pradesh was forced to leave his village by his neighbours, who feared they could get infected through mosquito bites.
The youth, who....
- Maoist leader's body found in Uttar Pradesh forest
Lucknow: Police in Uttar Pradesh have recovered the body of a Maoist leader, wanted in more than 30 criminal cases in three states, from a forest and arrested two of his colleagues who said he ....
- Major fire at premier Lucknow hospital
Lucknow: A major fire broke out today in the emergency ward of the well known Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here destroying drugs worth over Rs.10 lakh, medical equipmen....
- Eleven Noble laureates to join Allabahad science conclave
Lucknow: At least eleven Nobel laureates would attend the seven-day conclave of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad, starting from Dec 8, the institute announced to....
- Varanasi makes a noise about noise pollution
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): If you are in Varanasi, you are advised not to make too much noise.
Until a few weeks ago, no case relating to noise pollution had ever been registered in th....
- Uttar Pradesh invites sugarcane farmers for talks
Lucknow: Buckling under pressure from sugarcane farmers who held a rally in Lucknow today, the Uttar Pradesh government invited them for talks and asked officials to take necessary steps within....
- Sugarcane farmers hold demonstrations in Lucknow
Lucknow: Armed with sugarcane stems, thousands of farmers from various parts of Uttar Pradesh arrived here in jam-packed trains to demonstrate against the sugarcane pricing policy of the state ....
- In Uttar Pradesh, several officers have committed suicide
Lucknow: Senior Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat Harminder Raj Singh's suicide two days ago continues to puzzle family, friends and police today, but a number of officers in the state have ended th....
- Senior Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat commits suicide
Lucknow: A senior bureaucrat in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide here late Saturday, police said today.
Harminder Raj Singh, principal secretary (housing) in the state government, shot....
- Suspected Mumbai gangster arrested in Lucknow
Lucknow: A man wanted in connection with the July 2006 Mumbai train blasts and for 19 criminal cases in Uttar Pradesh was arrested here today, officials said.
Subhash Yadav was held e....
- Kasab 'hanged' along the banks of Ganga in Allahabad
Allahabad: As the country marked the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, hundreds of people in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district turned up at the bank of the Ganga today t....
- Two arrested in Varanasi for noise pollution
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): In the first such case in this ancient city, two people have been arrested for causing noise pollution. This come four years after the Supreme Court imposed strict nor....
- Farmers clash with police in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Agitated over the government's sugarcane policy, farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat district disrupted a rail route, targeted public vehicles and clashed with....
- Mayawati warns against unrest over Ayodhya
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati warned today that her government would take "strict action" against anyone creating law and order problems over the Ayodhya temple-mosque ....
- Three arrested with tiger skin
Lucknow: Three people were arrested with a tiger skin near the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district, officials said today.
Raees Ahmad, Mohammad Naseem and Ban....
- Protesting teachers baton charged in Lucknow
Lucknow: Police said that they had to resort to baton charge here on Monday to disperse hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff from schools across Uttar Pradesh after their demonstration i....
- Alert in Uttar Pradesh after Liberhan report release
Lucknow: Police in Uttar Pradesh were put on alert today to guard against any violent fallout of the release of the Liberhan Commission report, which probed the Babri Masjid demolition, officia....
- Teacher beats student, fractures fingers
Lucknow: A teacher in an Uttar Pradesh school beat a Class 10 girl student with a duster on her knuckles for forgetting to bring her English notebook, fracturing her fingers, police said today.....
- Farmers go on rampage in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr
Lucknow: Hundreds of farmers, protesting the alleged black marketing of fertilisers by cooperative institutions, damaged several vehicles and public property, and clashed with the police in Utt....
- Ghaziabad police to install GPRS in patrol vehicles
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police will install GPRS system in all its patrolling vehicles to better tackle crime in the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games, authorities said.
Concerned....
- Sugarcane farmers not to send children to school as protest
Lucknow: Sugarcane growers of nearly 10 villages in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district have decided not to send their children to school until their demand for a hike in cane prices is met by ....
- Police jeep hits vehicle that Priyanka drove
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh): A police jeep escorting Priyanka Gandhi hit a green Qualis that was part of her cavalcade here. The vehicle is said to be her brother and Congress general secretary Rahu....
- Two held with fake passports, visas in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two men with fake passports, visas and several other forged documents, officials said today.
"Mohammad Hasan and Maqso....
- 4 killed in train-tractor collision
Lucknow: Four people were killed and one seriously injured when a train rammed into a tractor-trolley on the outskirts of the state capital early today, officials said.
The incident o....
- Uttar Pradesh prepares for Kumbh in Haridwar
Lucknow: Gearing up for the Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, beginning January in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh will set up makeshift rest-halts along road routes ....
- DTC launches low-floor buses on Noida route
Noida: The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Thursday introduced 20 of its new low-floor buses on its service between Noida and Delhi. However, one of them had an accident on the first day i....
- Autorickshaw drivers clash with police in Lucknow
Lucknow: Hundreds of autorickshaw drivers here clashed with police, blocked roads, and targeted public vehicles today as they carried out violent protests against the alleged anomaly over suppl....
- Prisoners in Uttar Pradesh jail to serve cows now
Lucknow: Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly central jail have come up with a new idea to reform criminals - cow service! Now prison inmates will have to regularly bathe, feed and milk ....
- High court suspects honour killing, raps Ghaziabad police
New Delhi: Expressing dissatisfaction with the Ghaziabad police's investigation in the mysterious death of a girl who had married against her family's wishes, the Delhi High Court today....
- 1,396 religious places in Meerut constructed on public land: survey
Meerut: As per the latest survey conducted by the Additional District Magistrate, about 1,396 places of worship have been constructed at public land here. Moreover, the maximum number of places....
- Policeman arrested for okaying passport for Pakistan spy?
Lucknow: Three people were arrested here today for their alleged involvement with suspected Pakistani spy Sayeed Amir Ali, and one of them is believed to be a policeman.
While police ....
- Cylinder blast in Uttar Pradesh temple injures 40
Agra: More than three dozen pilgrims and priests were injured when an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder blew up in a temple in Bateshwar, 70 km from Agra, police said today.
Thre....
- Samajwadi Party activists court arrest over sugarcane pricing
Lucknow: Over 2,000 Samajwadi Party activists today courted arrest in several parts of Uttar Pradesh and clashed with the police while protesting against the sugarcane purchase policy of the ce....
- Teacher forces girl to perform obscene dance, booked
Lucknow: A teacher of an Uttar Pradesh school has been booked for allegedly forcing a girl student to perform obscene dance in skimpy clothes and filming it with his mobile phone, police said t....
- Probe against me Mayawati's vendetta: Congress MP
Lucknow: Congress parliamentarian P.L.Punia today charged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati with misusing her official position to set up probe against him and aid it was a "political v....
- CBI to get constables from state police, paramilitary: Director
Ghaziabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has stopped direct recruitment of constables and will acquire its constabulary from the state police forces and paramilitary forces in order....
- Are the Communists fast losing appeal in India?
Lucknow: While Mayawati has received a shot in the arm from her successes in the recent by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, the dismal run of setbacks for the Communist parties continues unabated. N....
- Uttar Pradesh sugarcane farmers intensify agitation
Lucknow: After carrying out a series of protests in western Uttar Pradesh against the sugarcane purchase policy of the central and the state governments, cane farmers are now spreading their ag....
- Infant dies after fall from overcrowded hospital bed in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A newborn baby died in an Uttar Pradesh hospital after falling from a bed that was shared by him, his mother, another woman and another infant, an official said today.
The ba....
- Principal beats school student to death
Varanasi: He stepped out of the school during the recess and he never knew that he had to pay his life for such a mistake. In another incident of inhuman torture to students, a school principal....
- People jump on to tracks at Noida Metro station
New Delhi: Hundreds of curious passers-by thronged the Noida City Centre Metro station today afternoon and even moved on to Metro tracks posing serious doubts on security issues, barely an hour....
- BHU student commits suicide
Lucknow: A first semester student of law at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree inside the university campus in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi town....
- Defying decrees: A madrassa where students sing Vande Mataram
Lucknow: Even as Vande Mataram is once again being debated, discussed and dissected after a fatwa on singing the national song was re-endorsed by an Islamic seminary here, there is a madrassa i....
- 21-year-old marries grandma bride in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Even an age gap of almost 36 years could not come between their love. Twenty one-year-old Abhimanyu Kumar married 57-year-old Suneeta Devi, who is a grandmother, in Uttar Pradesh, offi....
- Three crushed under slab at under-construction NTPC building
Noida: Three workers from Bihar were killed and 20 seriously injured when a concrete slab of an under-construction building fell on them in the early today while they were sleeping, police here....
- UP politicians, intellectuals demand ban on MNS
Lucknow: Political parties in Uttar Pradesh and intellectuals have come together to protest the assault on SP legislator Abu Asim Azmi in the Maharashtra assembly. Vehemently criticising MNS me....
- A campaign against spurious liquor - by drinkers
Saharanpur: They are not asking people to stop drinking, but insisting that villagers buy alcohol from licensed shops. They are drinkers who are wiser after spurious liquor claimed at least 30 ....
- A campaign against spurious liquor - by drinkers
Saharanpur: They are not asking people to stop drinking, but insisting that villagers buy alcohol from licensed shops. They are drinkers who are wiser after spurious liquor claimed at least 30 ....
- Bypoll a shot in the arm for Mayawati
Lucknow: While jolting Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the results today of bypolls to one Lok Sabha and 11 state assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh have come as a shot in the arm for B....
- Mayawati urges centre to resolve sugarcane farmers's woes
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today urged the central government to resolve the woes of the state's 4.9 million sugarcane farmers, who are staging demonstrations in many pa....
- Am proud of Abu Azmi for defying Raj Thackeray's diktat: Mulayam
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav today was all praise for his party's Maharashtra legislator Abu Asim Azmi for defying Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thack....
- Uttar Pradesh cane growers stop trains, damage rail tracks
Lucknow: Agitated over the sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets today, damaged railway tracks, stopped trains, blocked highways and closed shops....
- Uttar Pradesh cane growers damage rail tracks, block roads
Lucknow: Agitated over relatively low sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets today, damaged railway tracks and blocked highways in parts of wester....
- Eminent Hindi scholar Kunwar Pal Singh passes away
Aligarh: The illustrious life of Eminent Hindi scholar and former Dean Faculty of Arts at Aligarh Muslim University, Kunwar Pal Singh has come to an end. He had been suffering from a prolonged ....
- Criminal shot dead in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A criminal, wanted in several cases of murder and loot in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar and surrounding districts, was shot dead by police in a gun battle late on Saturday night, p....
- Two killed in Agra accident
Agra: Two men were killed and another critically injured when a speeding milk tanker hit their scooter here today, police said.
The accident occurred in the morning near the TDI Mall,....
- Two trains run over five in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Five railway employees working on tracks in this town adjacent to the national capital were killed today after being run over by two trains including the Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi ....
- Four Uttar Pradesh officials declare their assets
Lucknow: In highly ill-reputed Uttar Pradesh, four senior officials have voluntarily declared their assets.
Spearheading the campaign was additional cabinet secretary Vijay Shankar Pa....
- Voting begins in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Voting for the by-polls to 11 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency began today amid tight security, an official said.
A total of 177 candidates, including 12 women, ....
- Mayawati's former aide under scanner
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's one-time close aide P.L. Punia, who is now a Congress MP, has landed in the economic offences net in a 20-year-old scam.
In a late....
- Protesting farmers burn sugarcane crop in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Growing resentment against the sugarcane price policy of the central government has prompted farmers to burn their produce in parts of Uttar Pradesh.
At least 20-25 incidents....
- Teacher strips girl student by force, takes photos
Lucknow: A teacher of a private school in an Uttar Pradesh village has been accused of forcibly stripping a 10-year-old girl student and photographing her on his mobile phone, police said tod....
- Munna Bajrangi's accomplice arrested in Varanasi
Varanasi: An accomplice of gangster Munna Bajrangi was arrested by a team of Delhi Police here on Tuesday evening, police sources said.
Meraj Ahmed was picked up from his house in Jai....
- Deoband meet urges terrorists, Maoists to lay down arms
Deoband (Uttar Pradesh): Urging terrorists and Maoist rebels to lay down arms, an Islamic cleric today assured them the community would help them take up their cause.
"If terror....
- 10-year-old stripped naked, chained and dragged for theft
Lucknow: A 10-year-old boy was assaulted, stripped naked, chained and then dragged for several metres by a group of shopkeepers in an Uttar Pradesh village on charges of stealing Rs.20, police ....
- Statue building spree: Uttar Pradesh chief secretary apologises to apex court
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has tendered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court for violation of its order halting all further construction at various memor....
- Sugarcane farmers up in arms against price policy
Lucknow: After expressing dissatisfaction with the Mayawati government's announcement of a hike of Rs.25 per quintal in the price of sugarcane, the four million sugarcane farmers of Uttar ....
- Man on a green mission to plant 100,000 trees
Lucknow: It started with one sapling 17 years ago. Now for Chandra Bhushan Tiwari, life's sole mission is to plant 100,000 saplings. And he has even left a government job to pursue it.
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- Senior railway official caught accepting bribe
Lucknow: A senior Indian Railway Service (IRS) official was arrested here today by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly accepting a bribe from a contractor, officials said.
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- Mayawati accuses centre of ignoring sugarcane growers
Lucknow: Accusing the central government of disregarding the interest of 4 million sugarcane growers of the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has shot off a letter to Prime Ministe....
- Dalit woman dies after being denied medical attention
Lucknow: Caste discrimination allegedly claimed the life of a young Dalit woman, who died after delivering a stillborn child on Thursday, as the staff of a government-run medical centre in Utta....
- 20 bus passengers injured in blast in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Over 20 passengers were injured, some of them seriously, in a powerful blast in a bus in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district today evening, police said.
The blast occurred bec....
- Ghaziabad police gun down wanted criminal
Ghaziabad: A. criminal, for whose arrest the police offered a cash reward of Rs.50,000, was killed in a gun battle with the Ghaziabad police today afternoon, officials here said
The....
- Big B in trouble, FIR lodged against him over UP land
Daulatpur (Uttar Pradesh): It is trouble season for Amitabh Bachchan as this bollywood megastar has got into a fresh trouble after a Daulatpur woman lodged an FIR against Big B alleging that B....
- Police cremate youth's skeleton two years after death
Lucknow: A youth's skeleton lying on the terrace of a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district since July 2007 has allegedly been cremated by the police two years on, but the....
- Four poachers arrested in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Four poachers have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district and several tortoises have been seized from their possession, police said today.
The four were nabbe....
- Uttar Pradesh cops told to probe Amar Singh fraud case
Lucknow: Within hours of Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh on Monday daring Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to proceed against him for alleged financial fraud, the state p....
- Five held for molesting girls on train
Lucknow: Five students have been arrested for allegedly molesting women at gunpoint on a train in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, officials said today.
The incident took place ....
- Over 40 kids fall sick in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: More than 40 children of Babugarh area here were rushed to a hospital after they complained of suffocation and nausea, an official said today.
The kids were rushed to a gov....
- Non-payment to health workers could derail polio drive in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Simmering discontent among thousands of basic health workers over non-payment of dues is likely to derail the November pulse polio round in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous s....
- Kilometre-long invite for Obama - from Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Barack Obama has mail - from a place in Uttar Pradesh state in India that he would never have heard of.
And how! Measuring over one kilometre, the letter has been put togethe....
- 'Low cane output won't affect sugar production in Uttar Pradesh'
Lucknow: The likelihood of a relatively low sugarcane yield this year would not affect sugar production in Uttar Pradesh, a government official said today.
"This year's suga....
- BSP lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh booked for assaulting Dalits
Lucknow: In Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh, which claims to champion Dalits' welfare, a party legislator and 20 of his supporters have been booked for arson and violence ag....
- Meat found inside mosque, tension in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Tension gripped Uttar Pradesh's Shravasti district today morning when a group of Muslims, after finding pieces of meat lying inside a mosque, attacked public vehicles, according to....
- Top district officials visit Dasna Jail
Ghaziabad: Senior judicial, police and civil officers inspected Dasna Jail here following the death of Ashutosh Asthana, prime accused as well as witness in a corruption case involving judges o....
- Wolf kills eight-month-old, mauls three rescuers
Lucknow: A wolf killed an eight-month-old boy and mauled three other people in an Uttar Pradesh village, officials said today.
The wolf, which had strayed into the Comparganj village ....
- Day after Mathura train accident, tracks cleared
Agra: A day after an accident involving two trains killed 23 people in Mathura, the railways today had cleared the track and traffic movement was restored, officials said.
North Centr....
- 23 killed in Mathura train collision
Agra/New Delhi: At least 23 people were killed when two Delhi-bound passenger trains collided early today in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city. Hours after the Goa Express rammed into the statio....
- Uttar Pradesh recruiting 200,000 policemen: Mayawati
Lucknow: Chief Minister Mayawati today announced the government is recruiting over 200,000 policemen to strengthen the existing police force in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populated state.
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- Uttar Pradesh announces Rs.10 lakh for train mishap victims
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government will give compensation of Rs.10 lakh and a job to the families of those killed in the train accident in Mathura early today, the state's Agriculture ....
- Serious lapses found in Dasna jail
Ghaziabad: Following the death of Ashutosh Asthana, the prime accused-cum-witness in a corruption case involving judges of the higher judiciary, in Ghaziabad's Dasna jail, the district admi....
- Youth marries 60-year-old widow
Lucknow: She could be old enough to be his grandmother. But for 22-year-old Mahaveer Kumar age was no bar when he married a 60-year-old widow in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
Re....
- Save the cow, urges VHP leader Togadia
Lucknow: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia, who has been campaigning vigorously across India to save the "mother cow", advocated wide use of products made of cow dung a....
- Trees chopped near the Taj Mahal
Agra: At least two dozen full grown trees have been chopped off in the premises of a state-run hotel located near the Taj Mahal, within the eco-sensitive 500 metre zone of the monument.
- On Diwali, it's treat time for Lucknow zoo animals
Lucknow: Animals in the Lucknow zoo enjoyed a Diwali feast today with Kesari Kheer, roasted dry fruits, tandoori chicken, fruit salad, fruit juices and other mouth-watering recipes.
O....
- Rs.48.7 crore credited in account mistakenly!
Ghaziabad: An ATM user in Ghaziabad was stunned on Thursday to see a balance of Rs.48.7 crores (Rs.487 million) in his savings bank account.
Abhishek Chaturvedi, a resident of F-144, ....
- Patient shot dead in Ghaziabad hospital
Ghaziabad: A patient in a private hospital in Ghaziabad was shot dead by three unidentified youths on Thursday, police said.
According to Assistant Superintendent of Police (in charge....
- Plan panel clears Rs.39,000 crore outlay for UP
Lucknow: The Central Planning Commission today gave its nod to an outlay of Rs.39,000 crore for Uttar Pradesh's annual plan for the forthcoming financial year.
A decision to the e....
- Man allegedly linked to HuJI arrested in Bareilly
Lucknow: A man having suspected links with terrorist outfits, including the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said today.
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- Harsher penalty on cards for states drawing excess power
Lucknow: The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is planning to double the penalty on states for drawing more power from the central grid than they are entitled to.
Accor....
- Couple in UP forced to become siblings
Lucknow: Repeatedly slapping a love-struck couple with shoes for their 'illegitimate' love affair, an Uttar Pradesh village council forced them to tie a rakhi and become siblings, polic....
- 150,000 kg of adulterated khoya seized in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Nearly 150,000 kg of adulterated khoya has been seized in the past few days in Ghaziabad, police said today.
"We have recovered over 1,500 quintals (150,000 kg) of such....
- Delhi-Mumbai train traffic hit after derailment
Agra: Several trains on the busy Delhi-Mumbai corridor were delayed for several hours today when a goods train derailed at the Jadui station near here.
Five bogies of the goods train ....
- 1,000 quintals of fake ricotta cheese recovered in UP
Ghaziabad: Police and the health department have recovered over 1,000 quintals of fake ricotta cheese in Modinagar locality here early today morning, officials said.
Over two dozen pe....
- Noida officials openly flouting RTI rules, alleges activist
New Delhi: While the nation is celebrating four years of Right to Information (RTI) Act, officials of Noida authority seem to be working to stop the information flow to people, an activist alle....
- Crackers worth over Rs.1 cr recovered in Uttar Pradesh
Allahabad: The police raided a storehouse in this Uttar Pradesh city and recovered fire crackers worth over Rs.1 crore which had been stocked illegally, officials said today.
The reco....
- Ford Foundation fellowships to end in 2010
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): The International Fellowships Programme (IFP) run by the US-based Ford Foundation will end in 2010, an organisation official said today.
"The IFP was lau....
- Man makes calls of Rs.1.75 lakh to Pakistan, Middle East, vanishes
Allahabad: Police are investigating a young man who purchased 10 post-paid SIM cards from this city in July, took them to Azamgarh district and in two days made calls costing Rs.175,000 to vari....
- 11 new CBI courts to be set up
Ghaziabad: Eleven new Central Bureau of Investigation courts will come up across the country and the 60 existing ones will be upgraded, CBI Director Ashwani Kumar said here today.
The....
- Taj city gets battery-run rickshaws
Agra: Agra Mayor Anjula Singh Mahaur today launched a battery-run cycle rickshaw in the city of the Taj Mahal.
Marketed by a Haryana manufacturer under the brand name Bricky, it costs....
- Nepal river floods Uttar Pradesh wildlife park
Lucknow: Excess water from Nepal's Sharda river has flooded large parts of the Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh and washed away a key pier of a 120-year-old bridge over the river, a se....
- Allahabad High Court gives go-ahead to Yamuna Expressway
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court today upheld the validity of land acquisition notification for setting up the Yamuna Expressway, allowing the state government to go ahead with the ambitious p....
- Chaos feared on Agra streets with 200 new buses
Agra: As the first 11 of the long-awaited fleet of low-floor buses to be inducted in the city bus service arrived here, residents fear that the new vehicles will lead to frequent traffic jams.
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- UP boy suffers fractures after beating by teachers
Lucknow: A principal and a teacher of an Uttar Pradesh private school have been slapped with cases for beating a class five student because he obtained low marks in a test, police said today.
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- Students forced to clean urinals for coming late
Lucknow: The principal of a government-run school in Uttar Pradesh forced Class 5 students to clean urinals and mop the floors as punishment for not attending their classes regularly, an offici....
- He alone made garden grow out of wilderness
Lucknow: What was once full of thorny bushes, wild grass and bamboo plants today lies transformed into a garden where children come to play. Narsingh Sadhusharan, a farmer in Uttar Pradesh, is ....
- Heavy rains claim 20 lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 20 people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, officials said today.
Heavy showers lashed parts of the state on Tuesday. Most of the casualti....
- No civic amenities, no polio drops: UP villagers
Lucknow: Angry with the administration for the apathy towards their complaints on poor civic conditions, residents of two Uttar Pradesh villages decided to protest by boycotting the ongoing pul....
- Uttar Pradesh top babu to explain why SC order flouted
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ordered the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to be personally present before it on Nov 4 to explain why he should not be punished for "flagrant violation"....
- SC tells Mayawati not to play politics with court
New Delhi: In a stern ultimatum to UP government, Supreme Court today has heavily censured Mayawati and her government for defying the apex body's order to stop any further construction at....
- Three held for forcing 10-year-old girl to marry
Lucknow: Three people were arrested for trying to marry off a 10-year-old girl to a physically handicapped 25-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district, police said today.
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- Expect more rains in Uttar Pradesh: Weatherman
Lucknow: With rains lashing various districts of Uttar Pradesh today, the weatherman predicted more heavy showers in the next few days.
"After creating havoc in Andhra and Karnata....
- UP's Dalits in pathetic condition: Joshi
Lucknow: Lamenting the condition of Dalits in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi Saturday said the community remained neglected even in the Am....
- Mayawati's rural cleanliness project bridges social divide
Agra: When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati launched a rural cleanliness scheme in 2008, not many realised the revolutionary potential of "this seemingly innocent and unattractive sche....
- Sri Lankan tourist found dead in UP
Lucknow: A woman tourist from Sri Lanka was found dead near the railway tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli district, the police said today.
Herat Mudian Anulla, 61, was found dea....
- All quiet and low key on Gandhi Jayanti in UP
Lucknow: Official Gandhi Jayanti celebrations organised routinely by the Uttar Pradesh government have never been so quiet as it was today - neither Chief Minister Mayawati nor Governor B.L. Jo....
- Taj city shuts down to demand high court bench
Agra: The Taj city witnessed a near total shutdown today as business chambers, trade associations and political parties observed a day long strike to demand a bench of the Allahabad High Court.....
- UP has lowest per capita power consumption
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has the lowest per capita power consumption in the country, according to a report by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
Officials admit that the lack of p....
- Abducted Uttar Pradesh corporator freed by police
Agra: In a swift operation Agra police rescued Bahujan Samaj Party corporator Mahendra Singh from abductors near Nunihai industrial estate in Agra, officials said today.
Mahendra Sing....
- Judges in UP differ over declaring assets
Lucknow: The judiciary in Uttar Pradesh is divided over the issue of declaration of their assets.
While sitting judges of the Allahabad High Court, which also has a bench in the state....
- Villagers torch two train bogies
Lucknow: Two coaches of the Mahananda Express were torched at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh today by a mob protesting against the closure of the town's 100-year-old railway station.
Ov....
- Leopard kills five-year-old in UP
Lucknow: In yet another case of wild animals attacking humans, a leopard killed a five-year-old boy and mauled three others in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, forest officials said today....
- Over 100 RSS activists booked in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Nearly 125 activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were today booked for violating prohibitory orders and firing in the air during Dussehra celebrations in Uttar Pradesh'....
- Villagers damage college foundation stone laid by Rahul
Lucknow: Villagers in Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's Amethi constituency have stalled the construction of a private college whose foundation stone he had laid, alleging that the ....
- Couple beaten, forced to marry by angry elders
Lucknow: Love doesn't need the sanctity of marriage - this defiant reply by a young couple in love so enraged elders in an Uttar Pradesh village that they rained blows on the duo and forced....
- Now Israeli mobile jammers for Uttar Pradesh jails
Lucknow: Jails in Uttar Pradesh will soon have high frequency mobile phone jammers imported from Israel as those installed 10 years ago now prove ineffective in checking cell phone use by inmat....
- Two arrested, gold worth over Rs.10 mn recovered
Ghaziabad: Two people were arrested in Ghaziabad on Monday and jewellery worth over Rs.10 million stolen from a shop in Karol Bagh area of the national capital recovered from them, police said ....
- Beggar Bhoora, the unlikely but popular village head!
Lucknow: He begs not just for himself but also for the greater common good. As head of his village in Uttar Pradesh, 46-year-old Dharmveer Bhoora has been able to contribute thousands of rupees....
- UP Haj committee to demand increase in quota
Lucknow: With more devout from the state applying for the Haj pilgrimage, the Uttar Pradesh State Haj Committee today decided to request the central Haj committee to increase its quota.
- Two held with Rs.8.5 lakh in fake currency
Lucknow: Two people were arrested today in Itawah district of Uttar Pradesh with Rs.8.5 lakh in fake currency, police said.
Akhilesh Rajpoot and Kalka Prasad were nabbed by the Specia....
- Lucknow a prospering market for pirated CDs and DVDs
Lucknow: "You can get it, though the print is not very clear. But you will not have a problem watching it," says a roadside vendor in the Naka market when asked if a CD or a DVD of Salm....
- Lucknow AIR bag's Unicef children's broadcasting award
Lucknow: A two-hour children's programme prepared by a local broadcaster of All India Radio (AIR) has bagged Unicef's regional award for International Children's Day Broadcasting (I....
- Two held for molesting Australian woman in UP
Lucknow: Two men were arrested today for allegedly molesting a 37-year-old Australian woman in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said.
The incident took place Saturday in th....
- UP power crisis dims Durga Puja festive glitter
Lucknow: The ongoing power crisis in Uttar Pradesh threatens to cast a shadow over Durga Puja celebrations in the state. Many puja committees have decided not to hold grand functions due to the....
- A small Ravana for your backyard?
Lucknow: If you always wanted to watch the demon king Ravana burning in your courtyard on Dussehra, here is your chance to get small effigies of the demon king made exclusively for your backyar....
- Blast in Lucknow bank, crude bombs recovered
Lucknow: A bomb exploded in the main branch of the ICICI Bank here today, followed by the recovery of two bags of crude bombs, police said, adding that nobody was injured in the blast.
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- Police officer injured as drug addict son opens fire
Allahabad: A senior Uttar Pradesh police official was injured when a bullet fired by his drug addict son during a brawl hit him in the head on Wednesday night here, police said.
The s....
- UP in a tizzy as Rahul stays in Dalit's hut
Lucknow: After taking his party colleagues and the state administration by surprise when he landed unannounced in Lucknow and drove off to an undisclosed destination, Congress general secretary....
- Antique Buddha idol worth Rs.25 crore recovered
Lucknow: An antique idol of Lord Buddha weighing 25 kg and costing Rs.25 crore in the international market has been recovered by police in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district, officials said....
- Uttar Pradesh DSP shot by son
Allahabad: The son of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) shot his father and uncle on Wednesday night after a brawl in the George Town locality of the city, police said.
The inci....
- PM didn't ask UP for report on job scheme: official
Lucknow: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not asked for any report about the implementation of National Rural Employment Scheme (NREGS) in Uttar Pradesh, a state government spokesperson said h....
- Over 100 human skeletons recovered from field in UP
Lucknow: Over 100 human skeletons have been recovered in the span of one week from a field in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district, officials said today.
The inci....
- Raising credibility top priority: UP's new police chief
Lucknow: The new Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police Karam Veer Singh today said that his top priority would be to increase the credibility of the police and make the force more sensitive.....
- Students try to immolate junior in UP
Lucknow: Three senior students of Amity University in Uttar Pradesh here allegedly poured petrol on a junior student and tried to set him afire after a petty dispute, police said today.
- More than 200 live cartridges found in Taj city
Agra: Over 200 live cartridges were recovered from near the Agra Fort in this city of the Taj in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was conduct....
- Uttar Pradesh names new police chief
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday night named Karam Veer Singh as the state's new director general of police (DGP), an official said.
Chief Minister Mayawati has or....
- Man cuts tongue to get a job
Lucknow: An unemployed man sliced his tongue at a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad town as an offering to appease the Hindu god Shiva and "get blessed with a job", police said to....
- Collecting 786 currency notes 'in the name of god'
Lucknow: Sachin Arora has been collecting currency notes for nearly 15 years and now many Muslim clerics have offered up to Rs.50,000 to possess just one of them. The collection is no ordinary ....
- 3 arrested with explosives in Uttar Pradesh
Allahabad: Three men were arrested with huge quantity of explosives from Shankergarh area of the Allahabad district today, police said.
About 400 kg of ammonium nitrate, over 400 deto....
- Agra prisoner hangs himself in jail
Agra: A 45-year-old man who was serving a life sentence hanged himself from a tree within the jail premises here, an official said today.
Netra Pal hanged himself using his lungi at t....
- UP apologises to apex court for violating order
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government today tendered an apology to the Supreme Court for a possible transgression of its Sep 8 order asking the government to halt further construction at vari....
- 'Mini vacation' for UP govt employees
Lucknow: It's a long, long weekend for the employees of the Uttar Pradesh government. Starting today, it's a five-day break for the government officials due to various religious festiva....
- Till shoes do us part, love saga ends on sad footnote
Lucknow: A village council in Uttar Pradesh forced a love-struck couple to slap each other with shoes after they were caught sitting together in a park.
Amar Singh, 26, and Omwati, 21....
- 98-year-old freedom fighter dead
Agra: Thakur Ram Singh, a freedom fighter who was an associate of martyr Bhagat Singh, died here today evening after a brief illness. He was 98.
A member of the Communist Party of Ind....
- 42 cops suspended in Lucknow
Lucknow: As many as 42 policemen were suspended here today for dereliction of duty, officials said.
According to an official spokesman, these included two inspectors, two senior sub-i....
- Strike in western Uttar Pradesh courts
Ghaziabad: Work in all courts in 16 districts of western Uttar Pradesh was paralyzed as a three-day strike called by lawyers to demand a high court bench in the region began today.
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- Four Varanasi students arrested for ragging
Varanasi: Four engineering students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) were arrested Tuesday for allegedly ragging a first-year student outside the varsity campus, police said. The universit....
- Headmaster accused of molesting employee in UP school
Lucknow: A headmaster of a government-run primary school in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh has been accused of molesting an employee, police said today.
Virendra Yadav, who ....
- Two young men held with illegal firearms in UP
Lucknow: Two young men were arrested after an hour-long gunfight with police and charged with illegal possession of several firearms in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said today.....
- Teachers cut hair of Class 5 students for bunking classes
Lucknow: Two teachers of a private school in Uttar Pradesh forcibly cut the hair of four Class 5 students after catching them bunking classes, an official said today.
The teachers cut....
- Uttar Pradesh spends more on elephants statues than live ones
Lucknow: Scores of elephants statues are to come up in a memorial park here in the Uttar Pradesh capital city at a cost of tens of crores of rupees. But for creation and maintenance of a specia....
- Four killed in Lucknow accident
Lucknow: Four people were killed and six critically injured when a sports utility vehicle (SUV) jumped over the road divider and hit a car near here today evening, police said.
The ac....
- Two killed in cracker factory blast in Uttar Pradesh
Agra: At least two people were killed in a blast in a fireworks manufacturing factory in a village near this Uttar Pradesh city today morning, police said.
The accident occurred in t....
- Hooch toll rises to 29 in UP
Lucknow: As many as 11 more people died after drinking spurious liquor in Saharanpur district on Saturday and today, taking the death toll from hooch to 29 in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
- 14 deer die mysteriously in Kanpur zoo
Kanpur: Panic prevailed at the zoo following the mysterious death of 13 spotted and one swamp deer today. There was neither any sign of injury nor could the post-mortem carried out by a team of....
- Principal molests girl student in UP
Lucknow: The principal of a private school has been accused of molesting a Class 9 girl student in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, police said today.
U.M. Montessori principal Pramo....
- Senior Bhopal official's body found near Agra
Agra: The body of the chief of Bhopal Development Authority M.G. Rusia was found by villagers on the railway tracks near Agra. Railway police today said they suspect he was murdered.
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- Hooch toll in UP rises to 18
Lucknow: As many as 18 people have died so far after drinking spurious liquor in Saharanpur town of Uttar Pradesh since Tuesday, police said today.
While two people died on Tuesday, 1....
- Dalit dies after cops' assault, mob beats up police officer
Allahabad: Hundreds of people blocked traffic and beat up a police official in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district today to protest the death of a Dalit man after he was allegedly beaten by ....
- 15 killed after drinking hooch in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 15 people were killed after drinking spurious liquor in Saharanpur town of Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
The deaths were first reported on Tuesday. While two peo....
- Mob attack policeman over death of Dalit
Allahabad: Hundreds of people blocked traffic and beat up a police official in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district today to protest the death of a Dalit man after he was allegedly beaten by ....
- UP hits back at centre for reprimand on IPS transfers
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has taken exception to the central government's objection against alleged frequent transfers of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers.
Respond....
- Jail inmates clash with policemen in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Panic prevailed in the Ghazipur district jail of Uttar Pradesh today morning after over a dozen jail inmates clashed with policemen posted there, officials said.
Though no on....
- Youth lynched by women in UP
Allahabad: A youth was lynched by a group of women after he participated in a religious ceremony disguised as a woman in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, police said today.
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- Villagers take govt official hostage for job scheme bungling
Lucknow: Irked over the non-implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in their village, residents of Phaguniya village in Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh took....
- Ration cards, voter cards found in UP field
Lucknow: Nearly a thousand ration cards and voter ID cards have been recovered from a field in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, officials said today.
Villagers of Ganeshpur village....
- Manmohan, Mulayam, Rajnath, Thackeray play together here
Lucknow: Here Jayalalithaa takes Bal Thackeray on her lap when he sobs, Manmohan Singh is fond of riding on Mulayam Singh's shoulders, while Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh have no differenc....
- Eviction from unauthorised colony triggers violence in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: An angry mob set ablaze a bus and pelted stones at police as some people violently protested the government's move to evict them from an unauthorised colony here, officials said.....
- Now, Mayawati painted in divine forms
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has now been painted in shades of divinity. A 25-year-old painter has projected Mayawati as a goddess in several paintings on display at Lalit Kal....
- Apex court stops UP from demolishing temples
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today stopped the Uttar Pradesh government from demolishing three temples within the premises of Lucknow Central Jail.
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balak....
- Weatherman predicts heavy rain in UP, farmers hopeful
Lucknow: The weatherman's prediction of heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh for three days beginning today has raised hopes among farmers that they can still grow something this kharif season.
- Centre putting spokes in Ambedkar park project: Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday charged the central government with trying to put "stumbling blocks" in the path of Chief Minister Mayawati's dream project - the R....
- Women rough up bank manager over loan
Lucknow: A group of women roughed up a bank manager in an Uttar Pradesh village after he refused to meet them for a loan demand, police said today.
Agitated women, armed with brooms a....
- Dera Sacha Sauda not allowed to hold congregation
Agra: A possible confrontation between Sikh leaders and followers of Dera Sacha Sauda sect was defused after authorities in this Utar Pradesh district withdrew permission to the sect to hold a ....
- Teacher forces students to mop floor, clean toilet
Lucknow: Some students of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district were made to mop floors and clean the toilet as punishment by a teacher, officials said today.
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- Muslim farmer gave up qawwali to sing Hindu hymns
Lucknow: Overcoming opposition from his family and community, a Muslim man left his ancestral profession of singing qawwalis to sing Hindu hymns in the temples of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Tod....
- Students allege ragging in UP college
Lucknow: Four students of a private college in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district have alleged they were ragged and assaulted by their seniors.
Second year B.Tech students of Sitapu....
- Body of girl found in bag on train in UP
Lucknow: The body of a teenage girl was found in an unattended bag in a Mumbai-bound train in Uttar Pradesh today.
Panic prevailed in an AC coach of the Maharashtra Sampark Kranti Exp....
- Mayawati offers job to martyr's grandson
Lucknow: In a late night move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday offered a job to the grandson of Abdul Hamid, one of the heroes of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war who was posthumously....
- 3 women perform last rites of grandfather
Lucknow: Notwithstanding stiff opposition from some village elders, three sisters in Uttar Pradesh performed the funeral of their grandfather in contrast to the Hindu tradition of only men perf....
- Two girls suffocate to death inside locked car
Lucknow: Two girls died of suffocation after accidentally locking themselves in a car in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district on Sunday, police said.
"The girls, Rufi (3) and Tan....
- Auto-lifters gang busted in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police today claimed to have busted a gang of auto-lifters with the arrest of eight men. Six vehicles were recovered from them.
"On a tip-off, we raided t....
- Three escape from district jail in UP
Lucknow: Three inmates of the district jail in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district escaped late on Thursday evening, officials said on Friday.
The three scaled the wall of the jail dur....
- Mayawati using official residence for political ends: Congress
Lucknow: The Congress party has criticized Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for using her official residence for "political" purposes.
Referring to a two-day meeting of t....
- Shariat courts to also act as counsellors to save marriages
Lucknow: With a view to curbing the rising incidence of 'talaq' (divorce), shariat (Islamic law) courts have been asked to act as marriage counsellors with a clear cut brief to prevent ....
- No more collection of birthday funds: Mayawati to partymen
Lucknow: In a surprise move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today told her partymen to stop collecting funds for her birthday celebrations with immediate effect.
The Bahujan Sa....
- Many hospitals involved in Lucknow blood racket: police
Lucknow: Initial investigations by the police in the adulterated blood trading racket in Lucknow, busted on Saturday, has revealed the involvement of many hospitals and blood banks, police said....
- HIV positive student turned out of school
Lucknow: A nine-year-old HIV positive student was turned out of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district as the principal mistakenly feared he would spread the ....
- Floods claim seven lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least seven people, including three children, have been killed in floods in Uttar Pradesh triggered by heavy rains and the release of a huge amount of water from barrages in Nepal, ....
- Three held with ancient silver coins in UP
Lucknow: Nearly 68 kg of ancient silver coins dating back to 1861 and 1892 were recovered from three men who were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, police said today.
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- Street vendors to get space in Lucknow shopping centres
Lucknow: Vegetable and fruit sellers, barbers and cobblers, who set up make-shift stalls on roadsides, will soon get their own space in shopping centres in this Uttar Pradesh capital.
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- Kushinagar Express derails, five injured
Lucknow: At least five passengers were injured when four coaches of the Kushinagar Express train from Mumbai derailed today in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, officials said.
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- Hundreds of villages flooded in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Release of water from barrages in Nepal and heavy rain have flooded hundreds of villages and affected hundreds of thousands of people in several parts of Uttar Pradesh, officials said ....
- Howzzat! Government official writes in 125 styles with both hands
Lucknow: It started as an exercise to improve his poor handwriting when in school and has blossomed into a unique calligraphic talent. Government official Ravi Prakash Saraswat, 50, has mas....
- Former legislator's wife found begging in UP
Gonda (Uttar Pradesh): From power to penury, Prema Devi has seen it all in her 80 years. The widow of a two-time legislator, considered close to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has ....
- Uttar Pradesh withdraws temporary ban on meat sales
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government today hastily withdrew an order banning the sale of meat for nine days -- which would have coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan -- saying it had....
- Postal officials booked for molesting colleague
Lucknow: Three postal officials, including a chief postmaster, in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district have been booked for allegedly molesting a woman colleague, provoking her to attempt sui....
- Record holiday crowds at the Taj Mahal
Agra: Taking advantage of the Independence Day holiday, a large number of tourists visited the Taj Mahal on Saturday. According to official sources, the number of visitors crossed 25,000.
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- Mayawati criticises central govt on I-Day
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today accused the central government of not aiding in the state's development schemes, while pledging to improve the law and order situation a....
- Mayawati scales down security of ministers, VIPs
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has always been worried about her own security, but in a drastic move has ordered reduction in the special security cover to a number of her own m....
- 'Patriotic' sweets in high demand in Varanasi
Varanasi: "Rashtriya burfi", "tiranga jalebis", "Jawahar laddus" and many such sweets are being offered by the sweet shops in this eternal city as Independence Day appro....
- New bridge threatens Vrindavan's heritage ghat: activists
Agra: A new bridge being constructed in Vrindavan has come in for criticism from local environmental activists, who term it a threat to Kesri Ghat - the only remaining ghat in Vrindavan. They a....
- After a cop, now an engineer who believes he is 'Radha'
Lucknow: Meet V.S. Saxena, 72, a retired senior engineer of the railways, who wears saffron coloured salwaar-kameez and dons anklets, bangles and earrings as he transforms himself into 'Rad....
- Two teachers booked for molesting student
Lucknow: Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district have been booked for allegedly molesting a Class 8 student, police said today.
Ganesh Singh and S....
- Mayawati tells police to pull up their socks
Lucknow: Concerned over the unabated rise in crime across Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday asked senior police officers to bring the law and order situation under control or ....
- Case against BJP MP after group clash in Azamgarh
Lucknow: A criminal case was lodged against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Azamgarh Ramakant Yadav today after a young man died in a clash between the supporters of the Ulema Council and ....
- 3 cops suspended for parading teenager half-naked
Lucknow: Three policemen in Uttar Pradesh were today suspended for assaulting a 16-year-old school student and parading him half-naked on the streets of Baraut town in Baghpat district, an offi....
- Ghaziabad clinics, chemists may shutdown over doctor's kidnapping
Ghaziabad: All private hospitals, clinics and chemist shops in this town will remain closed today to protest the kidnapping of a doctor a few days ago, the Ghaziabad wing of the Indian Medical ....
- UP teenager alleges police brutality
Lucknow: A Class 11 student in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district had a nightmarish experience with the police when his motorcycle accidentally hit a woman's car. He claims he was accused....
- Little chance of monsoon revival in UP this week
Lucknow: Though parts of Uttar Pradesh will have overcast skies, the possibility of a monsoon revival will remain bleak, the meteorological department has said.
In Uttar Pradesh, Indi....
- Bank says it gave loan, man says no
Lucknow: A man has issued a legal notice to a private bank in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district after the bank claimed that his uncle, who migrated to Pakistan in 1947, has been given a ....
- Six Bangladeshis held in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Six Bangladeshis were arrested today in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district for their alleged involvement in a human trafficking racket, police said.
"Acting on a tip....
- Bank employee with 5,000 stamps wants to start museum
Lucknow: A bank employee who has collected over 5,000 postage stamps of nearly 200 countries in the past three decades is mulling an idea of setting up a philatelic museum as he wants to "m....
- Arson in Joshi's house: Cops' call records to be checked
Lucknow: As part of the probe into the arson attack on Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's house, the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) will collect cal....
- Agra tense, six injured in stone pelting
Agra: Sporadic incidents of violence took place in several parts of the city on Thursday on the eve of Shab-e-raat, and half a dozen people have been injured in stone pelting, police said.
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- Mother kills son for repeatedly demanding chocolate
Lucknow: A mother beat her six-year-old son to death in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district for his repeated demands for chocolate, the police said today.
"Bandana, 32, a resi....
- Drought will bring down UP paddy output 60 percent
Lucknow: Scanty rainfall in most parts of Uttar Pradesh, where 58 of its 71 districts have been declared drought-hit, will hit agricultural production leading to a shortage of rice in the state....
- Rahul Gandhi to address party workers in UP
Lucknow: The Congress headquarters in the Uttar Pradesh capital is all decked up for the visit of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is arriving here today afternoon to address party lea....
- Six injured in clash over loud music in Agra
Agra: Six people were injured, a car was burnt and stones were thrown at shops here as an argument over the playing of loud music turned into a violent clash between two groups, police said tod....
- 3 UP cops held for helping criminal to escape
Lucknow: Three police constables were arrested here on Wednesday for helping a criminal to escape from police custody, officials said.
Constables Jitendra Yadav, Brijesh Sharma and De....
- UP village heads threaten to stop midday meal
Lucknow: The association of village heads of Uttar Pradesh has threatened to stop the distribution of midday meals in primary schools because they can no longer pay for the cooking with the Rs.....
- Mayawati government denies plan for corridor behind Taj
Lucknow: Contrary to reports, the Uttar Pradesh government has no plan to build any kind of corridor behind the 17th century Taj Mahal, a top state official said here today.
State hou....
- Mayawati insensitive to those facing drought: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress party today said that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is insensitive to the suffering of the people of the state where 58 of 71 districts have been declared drough....
- Power situation worsens in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The power scenario has worsened in Ghaziabad with city areas facing outages of up to 16 hours, while low voltage prevents alternatives like inverters from being recharged and providi....
- Lack of rainfall hits Uttar Pradesh plantation drive
Lucknow: Dry weather conditions in Uttar Pradesh, where 58 of the total 71 districts have been declared drought-hit, are hampering a sapling plantation drive of the state government, say offici....
- Mayawati seeks more money for memorials and statues
Lucknow: Unfazed by the criticism over its statue-erecting spree, the Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh has sought the assembly sanction for an additional Rs.556 crore (Rs.5.56 billion) for ....
- Youth dies in police custody
Lucknow: A youth died in police custody early today in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district after he was allegedly beaten by policemen, officials said. Family members and villagers halted traf....
- Bundelkhand politics stalls both houses of parliament
New Delhi: Both houses of parliament were adjourned today with noisy protests over the government's plan to set up a separate development authority for the drought-hit Bundelkhand region th....
- Seen the Taj Mahal? Now see the love story behind it
Agra: Wondering how you'll pass the rest of the day in Agra after you've soaked in the beauty of the Taj Mahal? Starting today, you can walk across to see a musical presentation that ca....
- Rains elude UP again, farming hit further
Lucknow: After raising hopes of widespread rainfall in parts of Uttar Pradesh, the monsoon has once again disappointed the people of the state where 47 out of 71 districts have already been dec....
- UP govt pushes forward divestment process
Lucknow: Aiming to expedite the disinvestment of public sector undertakings under its policy of infrastructure development and divestment through public private partnership (PPP), the Uttar Pra....
- Three arrested for posting obscene clips of classmate
Lucknow: Three Class 12 students in Uttar Pradesh were arrested today after they posted obscene clips of a classmate they had sedated, police said.
The students from Muzaffarnagar dis....
- Don't interfere in state affairs: Mayawati tells PM
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to keep off "the internal affairs of the state" after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demande....
- Drought-hit Uttar Pradesh can expect rain
Lucknow: People in Uttar Pradesh, where 47 of the 71 districts have been declared drought-hit, can expect some relief in the coming days as the met department has forecast widespread rains in m....
- Women strip to prevent raids at illicit liquor dens
Lucknow: Officials conducting raids to recover spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh had to leave the procedure midway when some women involved in the illegal business reportedly stripped off in fro....
- 10 BHU students charged with ragging
Lucknow: A criminal case was lodged against 10 students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) after they were caught ragging their juniors, officials said today.
Eight second year and....
- Elephant kills man, injures four in UP
Lucknow: A tame elephant trampled a 20-year-old man to death and injured four others in an Uttar Pradesh village today, police said.
The elephant attacked the jeep in which the five w....
- Prophet's picture in textbook stirs row in UP
Lucknow: Taking serious note of a picture of Prophet Mohammed published in an officially prescribed textbook, the Uttar Pradesh Minorities Commission today issued a show-cause notice to the sta....
- Joshi to take over as UP governor on Tuesday
Lucknow: B.L.Joshi will reach the Uttar Pradesh capital on Tuesday morning to take over as the state's governor, succeeding T.V.Rajeshwar, who left today evening after completing his five-y....
- Congress launches campaign for by-polls in UP
Malihabad (Lucknow): The Congress party today started its campaign for by-polls to be held in six assembly constituencies Aug 18 with a rally by party national general secretary Digvijay Singh ....
- Hundreds march to Mathura for ecological awareness
Agra: Hundreds of followers of Sri Krishna, who began a trek here to raise awareness about ecological issues, entered Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh today, an official said.
The gr....
- Policeman arrested in murder for Mayawati bash
Lucknow: Sub-inspector Hoshiar Singh, one of the 11 suspects in PWD engineer Manoj Gupta's murder, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district today after absconding for seven mont....
- 20 Uttar Pradesh districts declared drought-hit
Lucknow: A dry spell has led the Uttar Pradesh government to declare 20 of the state's 70 districts as "drought-hit" while nearly three dozen more will be added to the list if the m....
- Software engineer held for snatching mobile phone
Noida: A software engineer was arrested here today for snatching a mobile phone two months ago. He was tracked down using the cell phone's special code, police said.
Three motorc....
- Joshi returns bodyguards allotted by UP govt
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who had alleged that Chief Minister Mayawati could "plan attacks on her", has refused to accept the security cover provided to....
- Drought looms over parts of Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: With rainfall in Uttar Pradesh nearly 58 percent below average so far this monsoon, the spectre of drought looms large over parts of the state. According to the agriculture department,....
- Would-be policemen go on rampage over delay in getting forms
Lucknow: A group of young men gathered at a post office in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district went on a rampage today, protesting a delay in distribution of application forms for jobs ....
- Three-day Shahjahan Urs ends peacefully in Agra
Agra: Despite fears of sectarian differences and confusion, officials heaved a sigh of relief as the three-day 354th Urs, death anniversary, of Mughal emperor Shahjahan ended peacefully here wi....
- Crush of people kills two eclipse watchers in Varanasi
Varanasi: Two people were killed here today morning when thousands of people gathered at the banks of the Ganges to watch the solar eclipse.
"One person died because of drowning a....
- Violence at army recruitment camp in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Tension prevailed in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli district when several candidates participating in an Indian Army recruitment drive today indulged in arson and vandalism, alleging ir....
- Joshi replaces Rajeshwar as UP governor
New Delhi: Uttarakhand Governor B.L. Joshi was late on Saturday transferred and appointed as the Uttar Pradesh governor in place of T.V. Rajeshwar, whose term has expired, a Rashtrapati Bhavan ....
- Five injured in blast in Uttar Pradesh court
Lucknow: Five undertrials were injured in a blast in the lock up of the district court in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district today, police said.
Three of them received serious injuri....
- Two former Jharkhand ministers proclaimed offenders
Ranchi: Two former state ministers Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai, evading arrests on corruption charges, were today proclaimed offenders by a Jharkhand court and notices saying that they are wa....
- Five arrested for torching Joshi's house: Police
Lucknow: Police say they have arrested five people for setting afire the house of Congress state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi late on Wednesday night. However, family members of the five alleg....
- Joshi will definitely be punished, asserts Mayawati
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said today that jailed state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi might get bail now, but she "will definitely get punished" for making "....
- BJP demands UP be declared drought hit
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded that Uttar Pradesh be declared a drought-hit state and the central government announce special relief packages for its farmers.
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- UP official suspended for Dalit remarks moves apex court
New Delhi: A senior Uttar Pradesh official today moved the Supreme Court challenging the state government's decision to suspend him for anti-Dalit remarks he had made in his book published ....
- UP Congress Chief in jail for 14 days
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi was today sent to Moradabad jail on 14 days' judicial custody on a charge of insulting Chief Minister Mayawati, after members of th....
- Burnt house, 14 days in jail for Rita Bahuguna Joshi
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi was today sent to Moradabad jail on 14 days' judicial custody on a charge of insulting Chief Minister Mayawati, after members of th....
- Mayawati goes all out to impress 13th Finance Commission
Lucknow: Chief Minister Mayawati is out to impress the 13th Finance Commission whose members are here look into Uttar Pradesh's financial demands out of the central government's kitty.
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- Amethi tense following protests over poor power supply
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Amethi town, the parliamentary constituency of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, remained tense today following violent protests by people against erratic po....
- Romance of ravines dying out for India's bandits?
Lucknow: The sloping, forested ravines along the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border are part of Indian folklore, igniting popular imagination with stories of the cruelty and daredevilry of the....
- Dalits are top priority, asserts Mayawati
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today made clear that Dalits would remain on top of her list of priorities.
Alarmed by the spate of atrocities against Dalits in different parts ....
- Rahul hunts for youth talent in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi: Buoyed by the Congress' unexpected success in the Lok Sabha elections, the Youth Congress is busy talent hunting in Uttar Pradesh, a keenly-watched exercise overseen by Rahul Gan....
- Irrigation sources dry up in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: With a weak monsoon bringing in only scanty rainfall, most lakes, ponds and other water bodies used to irrigate vast areas in Uttar Pradesh are drying up fast, officials said today.
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- Holi with cow dung to appease rain gods
Lucknow: It is not about colours, but cow dung and unseasonal Holi. Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh daub cow dung on one another in this Holi that is believed to appease the rain gods.
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- Illicit liquor making unit busted in UP school
Lucknow: Police have busted a spurious liquor manufacturing unit that was operating from a school in a town in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district and recovered 560,000 litres of illicit liqu....
- Stone quarry blast in Uttar Pradesh killed two
Lucknow: At least two people were killed and 10 injured after a blast in a stone quarry at an Uttar Pradesh village today, an official said here.
The blast took place around 2 p.m. in....
- Student singed, beaten for not attending classes
Lucknow: A 10-year-old boy was allegedly singed with a burning candle and beaten up by his teacher in a school in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district for taking leave without informing authorit....
- Boy saves four lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A 12-year-old boy in an Uttar Pradesh village saved the lives of four people, after a mother attempted suicide by jumping into a river with her three daughters, police said today.
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- Monsoon goes weak in UP
Lucknow: After bringing in showers in parts of Uttar Pradesh, the monsoon that arrived in the state late this year has now gone weak due to changes in the wind pattern, met officials said today....
- Power cut: UP may restrict AC usage
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL) has proposed restriction on use of air conditioners (AC) for all categories of consumers, including government offices, to counter the ....
- Pre-monsoon showers bring relief to UP
Lucknow: Pre-monsoon showers in parts of Uttar Pradesh today brought much-needed respite for people in the state, which had been reeling under intense heat for the last three months.
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- UP cops booked for hiding facts in murder case
Lucknow: A case has been lodged against three policemen for disposing off the body of a kidnapped youth and concealing facts in a murder case in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district. The thr....
- City of Taj reels under power, water shortage
Agra: The monsoon is delayed, the Yamuna river is dry, power is playing truant and tourists are staying away. It is all adding up to make life in the city of the Taj exceedingly difficult and m....
- Three of family dead in Naini town, residents turn violent
Lucknow: Some residents of Uttar Pradesh's Naini town today turned violent and tried to set fire to two police jeeps after three members of a family were found dead, police said.
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- Dalit woman paraded half-naked in UP
Lucknow: Five people allegedly thrashed a 40-year-old Dalit woman, chopped her hair and then paraded her half-naked through an Uttar Pradesh village alleging that her husband was involved in a ....
- Fire destroys Adidas factory in Gurgaon
Gurgaon: The Adidas factory on Delhi-Gurgaon National Highway-8 was gutted in a fire today. There were no casualties, a fire official said.
The blaze started from the basement of the ....
- Fire at Agra market, shops severely damaged
Agra: Fire fighters battled till today morning to put out a blaze that broke out at the Jatni Bagh commercial complex here at about midnight and reduced some shops to ashes, police said.
- Groom demands dowry, gets garland of shoes
Lucknow: Just as the marriage ceremony was about to begin, a groom in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district made a dowry demand. What he got instead was a garland of shoes and a dog collar fr....
- Mayawati goes all out for showdown on Rahul's birthday
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today mobilised workers of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to stage demonstrations in each of the state's 70 districts as the Congress workers b....
- Bandit gunned down after 50-hour siege, four cops killed
Lucknow: After battling over 400 heavily armed police personnel for more than 50 hours in an Uttar Pradesh village, bandit Ghanshyam Kewat was today shot dead after he tried to escape by jumpin....
- Curfew relaxed in Meerut, no fresh clashes
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district reported no fresh violence today, two days after group clashes left 15 people injured. The curfew imposed would now be relaxed for about 14-16 hours....
- 6 booked for forcing boy to marry 30yrs woman
Lucknow: Criminal cases have been slapped against six people for forcing a 10-year-old boy to marry a 30-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, police said today.
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- Curfew imposed in Meerut after violence
Lucknow: Curfew has been clamped in parts of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district after two groups clashed and indulged in arson and vandalism, leaving nearly 20 people injured, police said toda....
- UP governor rejects Mayawati's choice of CIC
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Governor T.V. Rajeshwar has turned down Chief Minister Mayawati's recommendation of Ram Kumar, a "tainted" former bureaucrat, for the post of the state's ....
- Dalit teenager dies after hospital refuses treatment
Lucknow: A Dalit teenager in Uttar Pradesh died today after a government-run hospital allegedly refused to admit him, police said.
"Anil Kumar, 18, who had suffered burn injuries....
- Mayawati faces flak over remarks on Gandhi
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has come under severe criticism from opposition leaders for having made derogatory remarks about Mahatma Gandhi.
While addressing a mee....
- Cop swims across river with hands, legs tied
Lucknow: Aiming to enter the record books, an Uttar Pradesh policeman exhibited rare daring by swimming across Ganga river with his hands and legs tied and a canvas bag covering his body.
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- Ghaziabad man allegedly beaten to death in police custody
Ghaziabad: A 45-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in police custody in Ghaziabad, the victim's son said on Sunday. Police say they have ordered a departmental enquiry and registere....
- 3 bringing hashish from Nepal arrested
Lucknow: Three men, involved in bringing contraband drugs from Nepal and supplying them in various parts of India were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district with hashish worth Rs.2....
- Students allege ragging in Punjab college
Lucknow: Two engineering students of a college in Punjab have alleged physical abuse by seniors and registered a case of ragging in Uttar Pradesh. The two ran away from the college and came to ....
- Dress code in colleges to stop eve-teasing draws flak
Kanpur: Instead of banning jeans on college campuses why not train girls in martial arts and empower them to check eve-teasing, suggested a student today as the decision by four women colleges ....
- Uttar Pradesh expects surplus power next year
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is all set not only to achieve self-reliance in power, but if top officials are to be believed, it would also generate surplus energy.
"The commissioning o....
- 100 skulls recovered in Aligarh, police clueless
Aligarh: A fortnight after nearly 100 human skulls were discovered by street urchins in a dried-up pond here, the Uttar Pradesh police are still to come up with a credible explanation for the m....
- World Bank okays Rs.1,332 crore loan for UP
Lucknow: The World Bank has given its nod to a whopping Rs.1,332 crore (Rs.13.32 billion) soft loan for reclamation of sodic land in Uttar Pradesh - a move that will help an estimated 250,000 f....
- Male power officials forced to wear bangles
Lucknow: Agitated over rampant power outages, Congress party workers led by a woman made electricity department officials in an Uttar Pradesh district wear bangles, a measure to shame men, poli....
- Agra citizens form task force for development
Agra: Citizen groups, representatives of NGOs and professionals have formed a volunteer force with the aim of checking corruption, speeding up development issues and improving the general envir....
- Agra region battles water, power woes
Agra: The city of the Taj Mahal is witnessing mass gatherings - not to view the 17th century marble wonder but to protest against the acute shortage of water and electricity.
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- Staff of UP hospital go on strike
Lucknow: Hundreds of patients suffered following a flash strike by nearly 2,000 employees, including doctors and para-medical staff, of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Scie....
- Ascetics march to save Lord Krishna's Braj
Agra: Thousands of Hindu ascetics and farmers reached the Agra city border today afternoon, demanding a separate state of Braj - the land of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha - and protestin....
- Agra MP starts his innings with protest demonstration
Agra: Rama Shankar Katheria, the new MP from the city of the Taj Mahal, started his stint as a parliamentarian with a protest demonstration here today against opening of a country-made liquor k....
- Two dozen human skulls, bones, found in UP
Lucknow: Panic prevailed in the Civil Lines locality of Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town today when over two dozen human skulls and bones were found in a pond, police said.
The skulls....
- Spurious products flood Agra
Agra: Did the bottled water at the railway station here taste a bit different? Did the ice cream leave a bitter taste? Welcome to the city of the Taj Mahal, where according to the police and so....
- Drunk kin of former legislator hits tanker, five injured
Noida: Five people were critically injured when a kin of a former legislator rammed his vehicle into a stationary tanker in an alleged drunk state, the police said today.
According to....
- Uttar Pradesh all set for 'mini elections'
Lucknow: After the Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh is all set to witness another political battle, as byelections will have to be held in 10 assembly constituencies where seven sitting legis....
- Uttar Pradesh has most tainted MPs
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has once again set a record of sending the maximum number of tainted MPs to the Lok Sabha - 31 of the state's 80 MPs have criminal cases pending against them.
- One arrested for killing peacocks in UP
Lucknow: One man was arrested and four people booked for killing three peacocks in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad district on Thursday, an official said.
Forest officials and the police....
- Varun accuses poll officials of bias
Lucknow: Varun Gandhi, the controversial Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Pilibhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh, had heated arguments with some poll officials today, accusing them....
- Hailstorm, thundershowers claim 20 lives in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 20 people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh after thundershowers and hailstorm lashed the state on Monday night, an official said today. Wall and cei....
- Government employee fires at ATM after failing to get money
Lucknow: Frustrated after his repeated attempts to withdraw money from an automated teller machine (ATM) failed, a government employee in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district opened fire at the mac....
- One killed in Vrindavan temple stampede
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh: One woman was killed and another injured in a stampede at the Bankey Bihari Temple here as thousands of devotees gathered to offer prayers on the occasion of Akshay Tr....
- Noida, Ghaziabad reel under power, water shortages
Ghaziabad: The towns of Ghaziabad and Noida, adjoining the national capital, are facing a major crisis with long power cuts throughout the day and night. Several areas are also facing an acute....
- Hindus will avenge NSA against Varun through votes: Singhal
Lucknow: Hindus will avenge slapping of the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi while exercising their franchise, Vishwa Hindu Parisha....
- Kids, women severely burnt as high-tension wire falls on them
Ghaziabad: Three children and three women were severely burnt when a high-tension wire fell on them in the Khoda area of Ghaziabad on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.
According to o....
- Mayawati flays EC for removing Jaunpur officials
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday raised objections to the Election Commission transferring three police officials over the suspicious circumstances surrounding the ....
- Rahul to compete among 324 candidates for 17 Lok Sabha seats
Lucknow: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's electoral fate will be decided in the second phase of the country's 2009 general elections on Thursday.
As many as 324 aspir....
- Poll campaigns don't lead to Nithari village
Noida: No posters, banners, rallies or speeches. None of the usual poll humdrum is visible in Nithari village near here. Its residents say they are a forgotten lot but for the macabre killing....
- Two women robbed of passport, US currency in Noida
Noida: Two women who were returning after shopping at a mall here were robbed of their passport, US currency and other valuables at gunpoint by two men on a motorcycle, police said Saturday.
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- Three killed in Ghaziabad accident
Ghaziabad: Three people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed when the tractor trolley they were travelling in collided with a truck on National Highway-24 near here, police said.
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- Woman, son burnt alive for dowry in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: A 30-year-old woman who was constantly harassed by her husband and in-laws for dowry was allegedly burnt to death by them along with her two-year-old son, police said Saturday.
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- Doctor shot dead in Greater Noida
Greater Noida: A doctor was shot dead by unidentified assailants outside his clinic here, police said Thursday.
Amit Gupta, a medical practitioner, who ran a clinic in the Jagat Farms market....
- People's view: SP anti-English stand outrageous
Lucknow/New Delhi: Outrageous, illogical and regressive – these are some of the angry reactions from people in Lucknow and other metros of the country to the Samajwadi Party's manifesto that pr....
- 'Kavita Chaudhary murder accused died unnatural death in jail'
Ghaziabad: Ravindra Pradhan, the main accused in Meerut University professor Kavita Chaudhary's murder, didn't die a natural death in jail last year, a medical report has revealed.
The vis....
- Female security guard alleges sexual harassment
Noida: A 30-year-old woman guard with a security agency here has alleged sexual harassment by a senior officer in the company. But the police say it is the firm that has slapped a case agains....
- Two girls killed for falling in love
Ghaziabad: Four criminals have been arrested here on charges of murdering a young girl who fell in love with a boy from another locality.
Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar said t....
- EC seeks report on cash dole by Congress MP
Lucknow: Taking note of TV footage showing Varanasi MP Rajesh Misra of the Congress offering money to people in his constituency, the Election Commission Friday sought a report from the dis....
- Election time! Liquor makers around Lucknow get busy
Lucknow: The general elections are not far and so households in at least 50 villages around the Uttar Pradesh capital are busy making the one thing that is in high demand by political parties....
- Ghaziabad police file case against Noida policemen
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police have registered a criminal case against five police personnel from Noida under anti-corruption laws following a court directive.
The case was registered T....
- Three copsbooked for killing man in UP
Lucknow: In an alleged case of police excess, three policemen in Uttar Pradesh brutally beat up a man, who later succumbed to his injuries, officials said Thursday. A case has been registered....
- One killed, seven injured in UP communal clash
Lucknow: One person was killed and at least seven were injured as groups of Hindus and Muslims clashed Tuesday during a religious procession in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said.
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- 'Govt projects polluting Lucknow'
Lucknow: The Mayawati government is turning a blind eye to the "suffocating" levels of air pollution in the Uttar Pradesh capital, says the chief of an environment body set up by the Supreme Co....
- Fifteen injured in Noida during demolition
Noida: At least 15 people were reportedly injured when the police resorted to baton charge and firing after residents of a village here resisted a demolition drive in their area.
According....
- Retired judge in trouble over housemaid
Ghaziabad: Police are in a quandary after a retired district judge was accused of employing a 12-year-old girl as a house maid and for allegedly confining her illegally. The judge in turn h....
- UP polling stations to have telecom facilities
Lucknow: Each of the 128,112 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections will have at least one telecommunication facility to ensure prompt and direct connectivity with vo....
- Axe may fall on some UP officials
Lucknow: The two-day stock-taking visit by the Election Commission of India here may eventually prove dear to certain Uttar Pradesh officials, about whose fair conduct some opposition parti....
- Congress names 24 candidates for UP
Lucknow: The Congress announced on Wednesday 24 candidates in Uttar Pradesh for upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Out of 24 seats, nine candidates are sitting MPs.
It is believed that possibility o....
- SP wants six top UP officials removed
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to remove six top officials of Uttar Pradesh, including Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, in view of the forthcom....
- 65-year old appears for class 10 exams for 44th time
Lucknow: A 65-year-old grocery shop owner in Uttar Pradesh, undeterred by past failures, is appearing for class 10 exams for the 44th time.
"Jabbar is taking the exams in the Adarsh Janta In....
- Officials scramble to remove poll banners
Lucknow: After India's election commissioners announced they would visit this Uttar Pradesh capital today evening, officials have been working overtime to remove all evidence of the large num....
- In Delhi's neighbourhood, two grooms ride to weddings in choppers
Noida/Ghaziabad: There have been several occasions when the rich and the famous in India have used choppers to arrive for their weddings by making a style statement - and Delhi's neighbourho....
- Lucknow couple tie the knot in hot air balloon
Lucknow: Marriages are said to be made in heaven and it got a bit closer to that in the case of a Lucknow-based couple who exchanged their vows on Thursday evening in a hot air balloon.
G....
- Prostitution racket busted in Noida
Noida: A prostitution racket operating here and in parts of the national capital was busted on Friday with the arrest of nine call girls and seven men, police said.
"We received informati....
- Anonymous letter threatens terror strikes in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Days after a caller from Pakistan warned of terror strikes in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, the police have received an anonymous letter naming sites where the attacks would ....
- Fraud alleged at online education firm; no wrongdoing, says company
Ghaziabad: One of India's largest online education providers Educomp Solutions has been accused of fraud, but the company insists there is no wrongdoing, saying it has already provided whatev....
- Activists demanding reservation clash with police in Lucknow
Lucknow: Nearly 800 activists of a regional party, demanding special reservation for the most backward classes, clashed with the police here on Wednesday and pelted stones at vehicles, a police ....
- Caller from Pakistan threatens terror attacks in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Security has been tightened in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district following a call from Pakistan threatening to carry out terror strikes in the region, police said today.
"The ca....
- Two criminals gunned down in Noida shootout
Noida: The Noida police on Monday night claimed to have gunned down two suspected criminals in a shootout in this satellite township on the outskirts of the national capital.
Superintenden....
- Thousands of Muslims hold rally in Lucknow
Lucknow: Thousands of Muslims led by the Ulema Council took to the streets here today to protest the alleged victimisation of youths belonging to the minority community in the name of combating....
- Dalit couple in Uttar Pradesh asks authorities to kill them
Lucknow: A Dalit couple in Uttar Pradesh has asked the authorities to kill them as they are not able to cope with poverty, officials said on Friday.
Ram Lakhan, 50, a resident of Paura vil....
- Government's homeopathy scheme does not reach Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Announced by the central government with much fanfare nearly two years ago, a scheme to promote and provide homeopathic medicines to pregnant women and new-borns is yet to bear fruit....
- Meerut's war on polio finds a global face
New Delhi: Munzareen Fatima is hardly the toast of Indian showbiz ? but the tough Meerut housewife clad in a burqa and a lace shawl covering her head is India's new face at the 2009 Oscar awa....
- MMS scandal victim says she was threatened, blackmailed
Noida: The twenty-something victim of an MMS scandal, that has her striping on camera, on Thursday said she was cheated, threatened and blackmailed by her boyfriend, who circulated the video ....
- Muslims from Azamgarh to hold rally in Lucknow
Lucknow: Thousands of Muslims will converge in this state capital Friday under the banner of the Ulema Council to stage demonstrations against the harassment of Muslim youths by police on t....
- I'm my father's son, Sanjay Dutt tells Lucknow
Lucknow: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt promised to walk in his late father's footsteps and invoked his family's old, forgotten ties with the city time and again on Wednesday in an effort to tell v....
- Where there's a will, there's a bridge, in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A 200-foot-long bridge under construction in an Uttar Pradesh town is founded on determination, cooperation and willpower of hundreds of villagers, who are setting it up without an....
- Sanjay Dutt in Lucknow to discuss poll strategy
Lucknow: Bollywood star and the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow Sanjay Dutt will meet party workers later Wednesday to formulate strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and interact ....
- Two-year-old Dalit girl raped in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A two-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped in an Uttar Pradesh town today by an unidentified man, police said.
"The incident took place in the morning in Chajmanpur locality of....
- Just one centimetre, this 'Hanuman Chalisa' costs Rs.100,000
Lucknow: This book is so small that you need a magnifying glass to read it, but it is up for sale at a whopping Rs.100,000 (Rs.1 lakh). On display at an ongoing fair in Uttar Pradesh's Varana....
- Over 2,000 critical care specialists meet in Agra
Agra: Aiming to provide effective and affordable hospital services to the common man, more than 2,000 critical care specialists today began a five-day conference in Agra.
The specialists from....
- Lawsuits on Lucknow land allotment scam transferred to apex court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday transferred from the Allahabad High Court to itself lawsuits by people close to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who are defen....
- Shiv Sena activists arrested for beating lovers in Agra
Agra: At least 20 activists of the Shiv Sena were on Saturday arrested after they roughed up some youngsters to protest celebration of Valentine's Day, the Agra police said on Saturday.
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- Three points that went against Pandher
Ghaziabad: While the court had enough evidence against Surinder Koli to convict and sentence him for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, it relied on three major points to nail bus....
- Meerut's Gulzar looks beyond Oscar to a polio-free world
Lucknow: Mohammed Gulzar ? the name may not ring a bell. But this polio affected boy plays a key role in the 38-minute Oscar nominated documentary "The Final Inch" and says he is happy with t....
- Mayawati's budget allocates lion's share to infrastructure, social sector
Lucknow: Infrastructure and minority welfare grabbed the lion's share of allocation in the second budget of the 20-month-old Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, presented by Finance Ministe....
- Death for Koli and Pandher for Nithari teen's rape and murder
Ghaziabad: Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surendra Koli were today sentenced to death for raping and killing a 14-year-old girl from Nithari village four years ago.
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- Uttar Pradesh opposition demands CBI probe into engineer's murder
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh assembly on Thursday again witnessed unruly scenes as the opposition demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the murder of a public works engine....
- Three killed in caste clashes in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: A marriage procession turned into mayhem when three people were shot dead in a clash between Brahmins and Dalits in a Ghaziabad locality on Thursday evening. Police and Provincial ....
- Judgement day sees Pandher relaxed, Koli tense
Ghaziabad: The businessman and his help, accused in the rapes and murders of 19 children and young women in what are known as the Nithari killings, were a study in contrast Thursday ? Moninde....
- Policemen arrested for thrashing boy
Ghaziabad: A police officer was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly beating up a boy who had given a rose to his daughter, police said.
Vinod Kumar, station officer of the Saasni poli....
- Nine policemen suspended for beating Dalit woman to death
Lucknow: Nine policemen of Uttar Pradesh have been suspended for allegedly beating up a middle-aged Dalit woman, leading to her death, an official here said on Wednesday.
"The nine policem....
- UP budget session adjourned after unruly start
Lucknow:The 2009-10 budget session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly got off to an unruly start here on Tuesday with the opposition stalling the opening address of Governor T V Rajeshwar.
As s....
- Mikes fly in UP assembly over engineer's murder
Lucknow: The budget session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly got off to a raucous start today with opposition Samajwadi Party legislators throwing paper missiles and hurling mikes while Governor....
- Explain encroachment on Yamuna plains: apex court
New Delhi/Agra: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and the Agra Development Authority to explain within three weeks how builders and colonisers were pe....
- Agra to host global critical care congress
Agra: Making critical care affordable and reducing the incidence of death from snakebites, burns and accidents are some of the issues that over 2,000 experts from different countries will deb....
- Two robbers arrested in Noida
Noida: Two suspected members of an inter-state robbers' gang were arrested from this satellite town of the national Capital city, and the police on Sunday said they were allegedly involved ....
- Now a 12-year-old thrashed by Uttar Pradesh police
Lucknow: Police in Uttar Pradesh have done it again. Days after brutally beating an eight-year-old Dalit girl on suspicion of theft, police detained and mercilessly beat a 12-year-old boy for a....
- Jewellery shop in Ghaziabad robbed of Rs.3.65 mn
Ghaziabad: Six armed men robbed jewellery worth Rs.3.5 million and Rs.150,000 in cash from a shop here Saturday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 6 p.m. Saturday in Chiranjiv Vi....
- Car in Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari's convoy mows down two
Lucknow: Two people were crushed to death by a car that was a part of Bhojpuri actor-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari's convoy in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district, police said today.
"We hav....
- Income Tax officials search builders' offices in NCR
Noida: Income-Tax sleuths searched the offices of at least half a dozen real estate builders in the national capital region (NCR) on Friday, sources said.
An 11-member team of Income-Tax o....
- Ghaziabad police give whole register to RTI applicant
Ghaziabad: The police in Ghaziabad have handed over their whole original complaint register to a man who had, through the Right to Information (RTI) Act, sought data on car thefts in Ghaziaba....
- Uttar Pradesh police consider minor boy threat to peace
Lucknow: A 12-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh has been charged by the police of being a threat to peace.
Tehsin, a resident of Qutabpur village in Saharanpur district, has been charged under....
- Doctor's son murdered, wife critically injured in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The son of a doctor was found murdered and his wife lying unconscious with multiple wounds in their house in Ghaziabad Thursday night, the police said on Friday.
The incident ca....
- Samajwadi Party MP trains guns at Mulayam
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Burke on Thursday said Muslims would never pardon party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his growing bonhomie with rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ....
- Uttar Pradesh police shoot at youth for refusing money
Lucknow: Two Uttar Pradesh policemen have been accused of shooting at a youth who refused to give them extortion money, officials said on Thursday.
Arun Kumar Mishra, who received bullet i....
- Victims or victimised? Nithari families face arrest
Noida (Uttar Pradesh): His daughter was one of the 19 children and young women whose body parts were found from a drain in this affluent suburb of the national capital. While Jhabbu Lal waits....
- Uttar Pradesh police books 80-year-old under Gangster Act
Lucknow: How much harm can an 80-year-old man do? Apparently enough to be booked under the Goonda Act by the Uttar Pradesh police, who now deny any knowledge of the matter and have promised a....
- Tulsi for Taj nothing but a gimmick, say conservationists
Agra: Conservationists and environmentalists have questioned the official move to initiate large-scale cultivation of the tulsi plant in Agra, ostensibly to insulate the Taj Mahal from environm....
- Gigantic carpet bags him fresh orders from China
Lucknow: Call it Jabeer Babu Ansari's magic carpet. Having shot into the limelight by weaving a 160-foot-long carpet for a hotel in China, the Indian manfufacturer is now flooded with fresh ord....
- 10-year-old Dalit girl gang raped in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A 10-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang raped by three men in a village in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
"The victim's mother, a resident of Ray village in Fatehpur, has a....
- Stray tiger continues to elude Uttar Pradesh officials
Lucknow: A young tiger, who strayed out of his home in the woods of Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit region three months ago and killed a villager, continues to elude wildlife officials.
Even tran....
- Criminal killed in Noida shootout
Noida: A notorious criminal has been killed in a shootout with the Noida police, officials said Tuesday.
Nawal Bihari, a 32-year-old who came from Palamu, Jharkhand, and was staying at Lal....
- Mayawati revamps police structure after child's torture
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday ordered a revamp in the policing structure in nine major districts to improve crime control. "This was being done with a view to impr....
- Several Muslim clerics give clean chit to Mulayam
Lucknow: Alarmed at the resentment within the Samajwadi Party over its new ties with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday held a meeting with 100-odd Mus....
- Uttar Pradesh police officer commits suicide
Lucknow: A police officer on Tuesday shot himself with a service rifle in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. Sub-inspector Rajendra Singh killed himself at the Magora police stat....
- Protesting farmers arrested in Greater Noida
Greater Noida: Police on Monday arrested 129 farmers seeking more compensation for their land acquired for a cement plant in Greater Noida on the outskirts of the national capital after pro....
- Three arrested with 800 detonators in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: As many as 800 detonators were seized from three men nabbed in the Maoist-infested Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
"The three were arrested Sunday night in K....
- 13 killed in Uttar Pradesh accident
Lucknow: At least 13 people were killed and four injured when the truck they were travelling in went off the road and fell into a ditch in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district on Sunday, police ....
- Azamgarh clerics to field candidates for Lok Sabha
Lucknow: After a show of strength in New Delhi, Islamic clerics from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh town have vowed to field candidates during the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Upset that Muslim....
- A trade fair to pamper your pets
Noida: Food items like salmon sticks, chicken sticks and fish rolls, health seminars and grooming tips - no, this is not any ordinary lifestyle expo but indicative of the wide variety of pr....
- Meerut cinema hall receives blow-up threat
Lucknow: Security around a cinema hall in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, was beefed up Saturday following a threat to blow it up, police said.
The manager of the Nishat cinema hall in the city's....
- Complaint against DPS Ghaziabad for insulting Tricolor
Ghaziabad: A complaint has been filed in the local court against the Delhi Public School (DPS) Ghaziabad for insulting the national flag by allegedly hoisting it upside down, a lawyer said on T....
- Hundreds of protesting Muslims from UP reach Delhi
New Delhi: Hundreds of Muslims from Uttar Pradesh, wanting to hold demonstrations in the national capital against the alleged harassment of youths by police on the pretext of tackling terror,....
- Uttar Pradesh hikes salaries of teachers, civic employees
Lucknow: All teachers of government-run and aided educational institutions, civic employees and junior doctors in Uttar Pradesh will receive the benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission.
The s....
- Three Nepali women rescued in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Three Nepali women, promised lucrative jobs in Delhi, were rescued by the police in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh. Three men bringing them to the national capital have also been....
- Slain terrorists sneaked into India from Nepal: police
Lucknow: The two suspected Pakistani terrorists whom the police gunned down near New Delhi on the eve of Republic Day had sneaked into India via Nepal, officials said here on Tuesday.
"O....
- Rail network in UP on alert after terror threat call
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh): Bomb disposal squads have started checking trains, railway parcels and frisking passengers at the Rampur railway station and other stations along the route in Uttar ....
- Uttar Pradesh strongman's brother held in Punjab
Chandigarh: The Punjab police have arrested Dharamvir Singh, brother of Uttar Pradesh strongman and politician D.P. Yadav, for possession of fake currency notes, police officials said on Wedn....
- Agra woman dies while escaping from monkeys
Agra: A young housewife died when she fell off the terrace of a three-storey building here after being attacked by monkeys but a baby she was holding had a miraculous escape.
The incident ....
- Rooftop train ride kills three in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Riding on the train rooftop proved fatal for some young men on their way to an army recruitment board exam in Uttar Pradesh.
At least three men died while about 40 were injured la....
- Two-day-old girl found abandoned in Noida
Noida: A two-day-old girl was found abandoned in this Uttar Pradesh town on the outskirts of the national capital on Monday, police said.
The baby girl was lying beside the road between Sa....
- Factory worker killed in Noida
Noida: An employee of a garment manufacturing unit was killed and two others were injured when a boiler exploded in their factory here on Monday.
According to the staff of Finesse Internat....
- Woman hit by stray bullet meant to scare away monkeys
Noida: In bizarre incident on Sunday, a housemaid sustained gunshot injuries when she was accidentally hit by a bullet fired to scare away monkeys that had been creating a nuisance in the res....
- Six policemen among seven held for abducting schoolgirl
Lucknow: Seven people, including six policemen, have been arrested for abducting a schoolgirl in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
"A case has been filed against seven....
- Collection agent robbed of over Rs.200,000 in Noida
Noida: A collection agent working for a liquor dealer was robbed of Rs.207,000 by six unidentified people here, the police said on Thursday.
Raj Sharma was returning late Wednesday after c....
- Protests in Noida on Mayawati's birthday
Noida: Hundreds of Samajwadi Party workers protested in this Uttar Pradesh district over "absence of law and order" and demanded the removal of Chief Minister Mayawati, who celebrated her 53r....
- Government should probe Mayawati's acquisitions: Mulayam
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday urged the central government to probe Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's acquisitions, especially the expensive birthday g....
- 20 men arrested in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Twenty members of an inter-state gang, involved in manufacturing and supplying spurious country-made liquor, have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.
The men ....
- 'Illegal' stone mining triggers protests in Mathura
Mathura: Protests were held Monday against the alleged illegal stone mining in this Uttar Pradesh city, amid concerns from environmental activists that ecology was being disturbed at holy pla....
- Wanted man gunned down in Agra
Agra: A man wanted for the murder of a youth leader of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) was Monday shot dead by the police here.
Sanju Pandit was killed in a shootout when he was entering Agr....
- Amar accuses Mayawati, BSP rubbishes charge
New Delhi/Lucknow: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh on Sunday released a CD containing telephonic conversations of what he claimed to be Bahujan Samaj Party leaders asking cadres to....
- One more arrested for Noida gang rape
Noida: One more suspect was arrested on Sunday for the gang rape of a management student in Noida that stunned residents of the Indian capital and surrounding areas earlier this week, the p....
- Suspected ISI agent sent to 14-day judicial custody
Lucknow: A court in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday sent Ameer Ahmad, a suspected agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to 14-day judicial custody, the police said.
Ahmad was pres....
- Sanjay Dutt to be Samajwadi candidate from Lucknow
New Delhi: Sanjay Dutt on Thursday became the latest Bollywood actor to dabble in politics with the Samajwadi Party announcing that he would be its candidate from the Lucknow Lok Sabha cons....
- Former BSP minister faces robbery charges
Lucknow: Fifteen people, including a former minister of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), have been named in a "loot and dacoity" case in Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Thursday.
"On the d....
- Noida rapists to be booked under NSA, Gangster Act
Noida: The 10 men charged with gang raping a young woman here will be booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) and the Gangster Act, given the gravity of the crime, the police s....
- Three killed in accidents near Noida
Noida: At least three people were killed and four others injured in two separate accidents near here on Wednesday, the police said.
In the first accident, two people travelling in an autor....
- I am framed up to save somebody high up: Uttar Pradesh legislator
Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh): Shekhar Tiwari, a legislator of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) who has been arrested for the murder of a government engineer here last month, on Wed....
- Court reserves order on Mayawati's plea
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's plea challenging the central government's decision to reassess her income in 2001 to f....
- Left sees 'practical difficulties' in pre-poll alliance with BSP
New Delhi: The Left parties' efforts to present a viable third alternative ahead of the Lok Sabha polls later this year have come a cropper due to the practical difficulties involved in bring....
- Uttar Pradesh BSP MP faces fraud charge
Lucknow: Seven people, including a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian, have been accused of selling a plot of land in Uttar Pradesh using forged documents, the police said on We....
- BSP leader surrenders, driver held for engr's lynching
Lucknow: Yogendra Dohre alias Bhatia, a former leader of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), who is prime accused in the lynching of a government engineer, on Tuesday surrendered ....
- Home ministry official's kidnapped daughter found within hours
Noida: A senior home ministry official's daughter, kidnapped from this Delhi suburb late Sunday night, was found in Ghaziabad town in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh a few hours later, the police sa....
- Elite police force created in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: In the wake of many terrorist strikes in India, the Ghaziabad police on Monday constituted an elite force to combat terror.
The 100 member force of the Quick Response Team ....
- Illegal arms factory busted in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: An illegal arms manufacturing factory was busted in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday and almost two dozen country-made pistols seized, the police said.
"Acting on a....
- Heritage status, separate authority demanded for Yamuna
Agra: People's representatives, NGOs, environmental activists and pollution experts from Agra and its surrounding areas in Uttar Pradesh at a conference here have demanded heritage status ....
- Former Samajwadi Party minister charged with abduction
Lucknow: A former minister of the Samajwadi Party and four others have been charged with abduction of a teenaged girl in Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Monday.
"An FIR (first informati....
- Accused MLA's kin questioned on lynching of engineer
Ghaziabad: The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday questioned two relatives of ruling Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Shekhar Tiwari, who is accused of murdering a government engineer, about the crim....
- Two goods trains collide in Kanpur, route affected
Lucknow: A freak rail accident in Kanpur Sunday disrupted movement of trains on the busy Delhi-Kolkata trunk route.
An incoming goods train rammed into a stationary goods train near the P....
- Uttar Pradesh schools to teach newsreading
Lucknow: Newsreading is to be included in the curriculum of 25,000 government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh to improve the general knowledge and presentation skills of students.
"This new co....
- Engineer's lynching: legislator's remand extended
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh court on Saturday extended till January 7 the police remand of ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari, who is accused of murdering a governmen....
- BSP legislator confesses engineer's murder
Lucknow: Arrested Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari on Friday confessed that he had beaten and tortured Uttar Pradesh government engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta so brutally ....
- More trouble for BSP: Leader held for rape
Lucknow: A senior functionary of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman in Uttar Pradesh. The scandal comes close on the heel....
- Taj to be safer, more tourist friendly in 2009
Agra: Soon, visiting the Taj Mahal may become less of a hassle for those who speak English and not the local language. They can just walk across to the nearest police station for help.
Po....
- Engineer's murder: One cop suspended, three sacked
Lucknow: Auraiya district superintendent of police Ekramul Haque was suspended and three policemen were dismissed for 'dereliction of duty' after an engineer was murdered last week alleg....
- 'Cops too involved in UP engineer's murder'
Lucknow: Police inspector Hoshiar Singh and two police gunmen too could be involved in last week's murder of a government engineer in Auraiya for which a ruling party legislator has been a....
- Mulayam, Amar visit slain engineer's parental home
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and general secretary Amar Singh on Sunday visited the parental home of M K Gupta, a government engineer who was killed allegedly by a legi....
- Three arrested in Uttar Pradesh for smuggling explosives
Lucknow: Three people were arrested in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh today for smuggling in explosives from Madhya Pradesh. A huge cache of explosives was recovered from them, poli....
- Maya ready for CBI probe but with a rider
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawato on Saturday said she was ready for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the murder of an engineer provided the central govern....
- Fingers pointed at ASI as stone slab falls at Taj
Agra: Conservationists here have reacted sharply after a seven-foot-long slab of red sandstone fell off at the Taj Mahal this week. Is the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) - responsible ....
- Rahul Gandhi assures help to slain engineer's familyl
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday spoke with the family of the slain Uttar Pradesh engineer over telephone and assured all help, party sources said.
While Gand....
- BSP legislator booked for lynching engineer
Lucknow: A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator was arrested on Wednesday evening for lynching an engineer in Uttar Pradesh allegedly after he refused to pay extortion for Chief Minister May....
- Samajwadi Party protests engineer's lynching in UP
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party has called for a shutdown in Uttar Pradesh Thursday after a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator was arrested for lynching a government engineer, and ....
- Engineer lynched by BSP legislator, supporters
Lucknow: An engineer in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district was lynched by a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator and his supporters after he refused to pay an alleged extortion demand for ....
- Tiger declared man-eater, to be shot dead
Lucknow: A tiger on the prowl for the past one month in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district is to be shot dead after it was declared a man-eater. The tiger killed a teenage boy, an official....
- Uttar Pradesh junior doctors end strike
Lucknow: The five-day long strike by junior doctors in Uttar Pradesh to demand a raise in salaries on par with the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, ended Friday after a stern stand ....
- Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh support Antulay's demand
Lucknow: Prominent Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh on Friday came out in support of Minorities Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay, who sparked off controversy by questioning the circumstances of ....
- Court orders Uttar Pradesh doctors to end strike
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court Thursday ordered striking junior doctors of six state-run medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh to resume their duties by Friday, failing which they would have ....
- Over Rs 3.5mn robbed from Ghaziabad bank
Ghaziabad: Four armed men robbed over Rs 3.5 million at gun point from a bank here Wednesday evening. They took away the gun of a bank guard, the police said.
The armed robbers barged ....
- UP on alert for Babri mosque demolition anniversary
Lucknow:An alert has been sounded in Uttar Pradesh on the 16th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque.
Special security has been provided at all the railway stations, bu....
- 16 killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident
Lucknow: At least 16 people were killed and over 20 injured when a bus collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Tuesday.The accident occurred late Monday ....
- Two girls injured in blast at Lucknow garbage dump
Lucknow: Two girls picking garbage at a rubbish dump were injured in an explosion on Sunday, police said. This is the third explosion in the city in three days. The ragpickers were sifting thro....
- Two boys injured in Noida explosion
Noida: Two boys were injured in Delhi's Noida suburb today in an explosion in a garbage dump in Chaura locality where they were sifting through the refuse. "Two rag pickers, Monu (8) and Golu (....
- Blast in Lucknow district court
Lucknow: An explosion in the district court premises created panic today. No casualties were reported. "The nature of the blast that took place outside the office of the district judge is yet t....
- Hot oil poured on child seeking mid-day meal
Lucknow: Hot oil from a cauldron was poured on a Class 4 student in an Uttar Pradesh school when the boy asked for lunch provided under the government-sponsored mid-day meal scheme, officials s....
- Diesel sale to stop from Monday in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Diesel dealers in Uttar Pradesh will stop business from Monday if the state government did not withdraw the 5 percent entry tax imposed on the commodity in September, the dealers' body....
- Boy dies after falling into borewell in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A nine-year-old boy, who was trapped in a 50 feet deep borewell in an Uttar Pradesh village, died early on Sunday despite efforts to rescue him, officials said. Puneet fell into the op....
- Six dead in Meerut blast
Meerut: At least six people died and several injured in an explosion that took place at the Bengali Basti and Zakir Nagar area of the city this afternoon. The nature of the explosion is yet to ....
- NRI attacked by call girl, accomplices
Ghaziabad: A US based NRI businesman was allegedly attacked by a call girl and her gang members before they ran away with a taxi he had hired from this satellite town of Delhi, the police said ....
- Teenaged cousins killed allegedly by family for eloping
Noida: In a case of suspected honour killing, two teenaged cousins were shot dead allegedly by their families after they eloped with their lovers at Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district.....
- Major oil theft busted in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A major theft from the pipeline of the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation has been detected in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday. However, no arrests have b....
- 30 cows poisoned to death in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: The carcasses of at least 30 cows were discovered in Ghaziabad this morning, with their owner and others suspecting the animals had consumed poisonous garbage at an unauthorised dump....
- Two arrested while smuggling explosives to Nepal
Lucknow: Two people who were trying to smuggle a cache of explosives to Nepal were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district, a police official said on Thursday. The Special Operation Grou....
- Man arrested in Noida for faking own murder
Noida: The Noida police has arrested Abdul Salam today, who killed his friend Zakir and disfigured his face before dressing up the body in his own clothes in December 2002, so that Shamshad cou....
- 2,500 kg adulterated khoya seized in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: In the second such seizure on consecutive days, the Ghaziabad police today seized 2,500 kilograms of adulterated khoya (milk product used in making sweets), the police said. The poli....
- Dacoits kill 4 of family in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: A jeweller and three of his family members were murdered by dacoits in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Saturday. "In order to loot jewellery and other valua....
- Mulayam, Amar meet prominent Muslim scholar
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and party general secretary Amar Singh on Thursday met Rabe Hassan Nadwi, vice chancellor of the Nadwa College and the chairman of the All I....
- Lucknow zoo on global network
Lucknow: The city zoo in Lucknow will be able to share animal management and conservation information with other zoos across the world, officials said today. Out of 180 recognised zoos in the c....
- SP can contest assembly polls without Cong: Mulayam
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Sunday said it was ready to contest the upcoming assembly elections on its own if it did not reach a consensus with the Congress, which it supports at the centre....
- Mayawati to give back land for railway project
Lucknow: Making a U-turn, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh today decided to return the land in Rae Bareli, Lok Sabha constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, for construction of a r....
- Bomb found, detonated in Agra
Agra: A battery operated bomb was found in the city of the Taj Mahal and had to be detonated after the bomb disposal squad failed to defuse it, police said on Friday. The bomb was found in a lo....
- Non-bailable warrant against ashram chief
Muzaffarnagar: A local court today issued a non-bailable warrant against an asharm head for allegedly murdering his wife and a follower. Chief Judicial Magistrate Rahu Rao also directed the pol....
- Kanpur blast solved with arrest of two: police
Lucknow: With the arrest of two people, police claim to have solved the blast in the industrial city of Kanpur this week that was accidentally caused by firecrackers. Atiq Mohammad, who used to....
- We are close to cracking Aarushi case: CBI
New Delhi: The newly appointed spokesperson of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Harsh Bhal disclosed today that CBI was very close to cracking the infamous Noida twin murder case in which....
- Man arrested in connection with Kanpur blast
Lucknow: One person was arrested on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the blast in Kanpur late Tuesday, the police said. The explosion took place outside a liquor shop in Colonelgan....
- 'Congress hatching political conspiracy against BSP'
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has accused Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of ?hatching a political conspiracy? against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) over the withdrawal of land in ....
- Blast in Kanpur, eight injured
Kanpur: At least eight people, including two children and a woman, have been injured in a bomb blast that took place at the Bajariya area of Colonelganj in the city this evening. The blast occ....
- Six pilgrims killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident
Lucknow: A tourist bus, carrying pilgrims from West Bengal, rammed into a truck in Uttar Pradesh, killing six and injuring over 10 people, police said. "The accident took place Tuesday morning ....
- Sonia cancels Rae Bareli rally after BSP muscle-flexing
Lucknow: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has cancelled her plans to address a rally and perform a religious ceremony for a rail coach factory in her Rae Bareli constituency today after the Uttar Pr....
- After 96 hours, child's body recovered from borewell
Agra: The body of two-year-old Sonu, who fell into an open borewell in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district four days ago, was recovered today, officials said. "Sonu's dead body has been recovered fro....
- 20 IAS, 12 PCS officers transferred in UP
Lucknow: In yet another reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday transferred 20 IAS officers including two District Magistrates and 12 PCS officers, according to an official release in....
- UP to convert 8 lakh hec of barren land into agri land
Mathura: Uttar Pradesh Govt has decided to convert 8 lakh hectares of barren and unused land into Agricultural land, in the coming four years. "The state Government plans to convert eight lakh ....
- Maya cancels land allotment for Raebareli rail factory
Lucknow/New Delhi: The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has cancelled allotment of land for a rail coach factory in Raebareli, which was to be inaugurated by AICC chief Sonia Gandhi on Octo....
- UP govt withdraws land for UPA's rail coach factory
Lucknow: In a major development ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit to her constituency of Rae Bareli, the Uttar Pradesh government has reportedly withdrawn the land it sanctioned ....
- Vijay Mandal molested Aarushi before murder
New Delhi: Aarushi Talwar, the deceased teenager in the infamous Noida double murder case, was allegedly molested by Vijay Mandal before being murdered, highly placed sources in FSL told Hea....
- Little boy falls into well near Agra
Agra: Rescue operations are on to save a two-and-a-half-year-old boy who fell into a 150-foot-deep borewell while playing, the police said. According to Senior Superintendent of Police Raghuvir....
- MP's family caught for travelling without ticket
Lucknow: An MP and two former parliamentarians, all from Bihar, were fined after their family members travelling with them in a Rajdhani Express were caught without tickets, a railway officia....
- Double murder in Noida again
Noida: A businessman and his brother-in-law was murdered by his another cousin today in Dujiana area, police said in the industrial city in the neighbourhood of the national capital. Mahesh Rat....
- Aarushi case: CBI to re-investigate, forms new team
New Delhi: The CBI has formed a three-member core team to re-investigate the sensational Noida double murder case after the agency drew flak for failing to file a charge sheet within the stipul....
- 6 lakh students to appear for B Ed entrance in UP
Agra: Agra University is all set to hold the country's biggest professional entrance examination of Bachelor in Education (B Ed) on October 19. About 600,000 forms have been sold by the varsity....
- Mumbai Police comb Azamgarh in search of Abu Rashid
Azamgarh (UP): The Mumbai Police today conducted a search in Azamgarh town of Uttar Pradesh to look out for Abu Rashid, the main suspect in the recent series of bomb blasts across the country. ....
- Nitish Katara murder witness arrested
Ghaziabad: Ajay Katara, the main witness in the 2002 murder of Delhi youth Nitish Katara, was today arrested in Ghaziabad on charges of kidnapping a property dealer, police said. Police arres....
- Agra school girls pick up brooms to clean city
Agra: Over 500 school girls used brooms to clean up a road as part of a cleanliness campaign in this Uttar Pradesh city, which is home to the Taj Mahal. The girl students from St Anthony's Coll....
- 4 people identified for lynching Graziano CEO
Greater Noida: The police claimed on Tuesday to have identified four people involved in the lynching of the Graziano Trasmissioni India CEO, Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, last week. "We have identif....
- Babloo, two aides get life term
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh court today awarded life imprisonment to alleged gangster Babloo Srivastava and his two aides for the murder of a customs officer 15 years ago. L D Arora, an assistant....
- 4 killed as flyover under construction collapses
Lucknow: At least four people were killed and several injured when a flyover under construction collapsed here today in evening. At least 20 people were believed to have been trapped under th....
- India CEO of US-based IT firm attacked in Noida
Noida: The chief executive officer (CEO) in India of a US-based software firm was dragged out of his car and viciously attacked in Noida, police said today, four days after the India CEO of an ....
- 19 feared drowned as boat capsizes
Pratapgarh: At least 19 people, mostly college students, were feared drowned when a boat capsized in the Sai river about 35 kilometers from the district headquarters this morning. The boat carr....
- Aarushi case: CBI intensifies search operation
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has intensified its search operation in order to recover the weapon of offence and mobile phones of Aarushi and Hemraj. Under the condition ....
- Rising Yamuna poses threat to Taj Mahal
Lucknow: The steadily rising level of the Yamuna river, which is in spate due to heavy rains, could pose a threat to the Taj Mahal in Agra, officials said on Wednesday. The rise in the water le....
- Labour Minister apologies for his remarks on CEO killing
New Delhi: Under attack from the India Inc for his controversial comments in the wake of the killing of a CEO in Noida, Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes today expressed his apologies. "My profou....
- CEO's murder sends negative signals to industry
Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh): The murder of the Indian CEO of an Italian company on Monday has sent shock waves among businesses with many saying such incidents will send negative signals to o....
- Rain, floods wreak havoc in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: The army has been called out to assist the Uttar Pradesh civil authorities after torrential rains combined with flooded rivers wreaked havoc in India's most populous state, claiming 14....
- CEO of a multi-national beaten to death in Noida
New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, the CEO of Grazanio Private Limited was lynched to death by his own employees at Udyog Vihar in Greater Noida, today. The injured CEO, Lalit Kumar Chowdhury (5....
- CISF to step up security at Taj Mahal
Agra: More Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel are to be deployed at the Taj Mahal in view of increased threat perceptions from terrorist outfits, officials said on Sunday. One C....
- 15 killed as torrential rains lash Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Torrential rainfall claimed at least 15 lives in various parts of Uttar Pradesh, including the state capital which received the heaviest rains for September in the last 10 years, offic....
- Mysterious deaths of 14 black bucks in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh forest authorities are at a loss to explain the mysterious deaths of 14 black bucks in Agra and Kanpur districts of the state. In the last two weeks, 14 black bucks have....
- Brothers commit suicide alleging police harassment
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police suspended a police officer and two constables after two brothers committed suicide in state's Aliganj town alleging harassment by the police. The incident was ....
- Uttar Pradesh stops power cuts to industry
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has withdrawn its decision to stop power supply to heavy industries from 10 pm to 6 am, officials said today. The decision was taken 10 days ago and the reason, accordin....
- 50 people hospitalised in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: At least 50 people of Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district have been hospitalised during the last 24 hours, an official said today. "We are still not able to ascertain what made these pe....
- Oil spill in UP worries for officials, brings money to villagers
Lucknow: While an oil spill in the Ganga river in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh brought worries for the government officials, it came as a pleasant surprise for the villagers of the area who....
- Man arrested for offering Rs 1 mn to kill Mayawati
Lucknow: A man, who offered Rs 1 million to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, was arrested in Jaunpur district, the police said on Sunday. Abhilakh Patel, an office bearer of the Bhar....
- Aarushi murder case: Krishna, Rajkumar freed
New Delhi: It seems to be a difficult task for the CBI to unearth anything substantial against the three accused in the blind murder case of Aarushi-Hemraj. The CBI which has already given clea....
- Rahul tours flood-hit Uttar Pradesh district
Gorakhpur: Congress general secretary and MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur region, where over 10,000 people have been displaced by floods. Gandhi was in....
- BSP leader found dead in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: In a schoking incident, a leader of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party was found murdered in a lake in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district on late Tuesday night. "There was several bullet ....
- Uttar Pradesh turning into terrorist hub: BJP
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party today alleged that Uttar Pradesh was fast turning into a hub of terrorists and members of the banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Refer....
- Agra tense after communal clashes
Agra: Parts of the city of the Taj Mahal were tense today after a minor accident triggered off communal clashes where mobs pelted stones at each other and two houses were set on fire late on Mo....
- UP girl students to know about women related laws
Lucknow: Students in various girls' degree colleges across the state will know more about women related laws through a campaign to be undertaken by the Uttar Pradesh state women's commission, a....
- Aarushi case: CBI announces Rs 1 lakh reward for clue
New Delhi: After ninety long days of the gruesome twin murder of Aarushi and Hemraj was discovered, Neerja Gotro, DIG Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today announced Rs 1 lakh reward for ....
- UP to host national junior rowing championship
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Rowing Association (UPRA) has started hectic preparations to host the National Junior Rowing Championship (NJRC), to be held in the city for the first time in Novembe....
- English introduced as a subject in engineering colleges
Lucknow: Sensing that poor communication skills in English might be holding back engineering students in Uttar Pradesh from getting good jobs, authorities have decided that the subject would be....
- Second round of Congress-SP talks tomorrow
New Delhi: Congress and Samajwadi Party are set for hard bargaining in the seat sharing talks for Uttar Pradesh tomorrow amid clear signs from the SP that it was in no mood to give more than a ....
- MCA student commits suicide after failing in exam
Ghaziabad: An MCA student of Institute of Technical Studies (ITS) on Friday committed suicide by consuming poison after failing in his examination. The twenty-two years old student, identified ....
- Former UP minister defects from BJP to BSP
Agra: Ram Babu Harit, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister in Uttar Pradesh and three-time legislator, has shifted to the state's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in an apparent move ....
- Tie up or not, Samajwadi to spare Rae Bareli, Amethi
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party today said that it will not contest from the Rae Bareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh even if it does not form an electoral alliance with the Congre....
- UP schools under scanner over mid-day meal anomilies
Lucknow: Over 50 schools in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district have come under the scanner for anomalies in the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme sponsored by the central government, an official said. So....
- Aarushi murder: CBI watches as Vijay Mandal gets bail
New Delhi/Ghaziabad: The Special (CBI) Court in Ghaziabad today released Vijay Mandal on two bail bonds of Rs 25,000 each and a personal bond of Rs 25,000. He was released on the application mo....
- After 19 years in jail, court finds man innocent
Lucknow: After spending nearly 19 years in jail, a 47-year-old man was on Wednesday found innocent in each of the 67 criminal cases he was charged in by the Uttar Pradesh Police. Sher Bahad....
- Mystery fever forcing mass exodus from Kanpur villages
Kanpur: A mystery fever that has claimed more than hundred lives in past four weeks in Kanpur, is forcing mass exodus from the villages in its vicinity. The worst affected villages in the regio....
- Favoured by Mughals, Agra sandstone attracts modern builders
Agra: The smooth red sandstone used in Mughal monuments like Agra Fort, Red Fort and Fatehpur Sikri had lost its popularity at one time with the increasing use of bricks and mortar, but is back....
- Financial assistance for 100 more madrassas in UP
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government is considering proposals for providing financial assistance to 100 more madrassas, according to informed sources. Chief Minister Mayawati is likely to soon....
- Seven killed in train-tractor collision
Bulandshahar: Seven persons were killed and eight seriously injured today when an express train hit a tractor-trolley at Sikandrapur railway station, police said. Muzaffarpur-New Delhi bound Li....
- After 135 deaths UP issues health alert
Lucknow: With thousands of people affected by diarrhea, malaria, gastroenteritis and even a mysterious disease that has claimed at least 135 lives, Uttar Pradesh has sounded a statewide health ....
- SBI manager suspended in fake currency scam
Lucknow: The manager and an accountant of the State Bank of India (SBI) Domariyaganj branch in eastern Uttar Pradesh have been suspended in connection with the fake currency scam, an offici....
- Varanasi blasts: Waliullah sentenced to 10 years
Lucknow: HuJI activist Waliullah was convicted by a Lucknow court in the 2006 Varanasi blasts that claimed nearly 70 lives and sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Additional District a....
- RBI finds Rs 30 mn fake currency in SBI currency chest
Lucknow: A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) team has completed the scan of a currency chest at the Domariyaganj branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) and found fake currency with a nominal va....
- Mayawati blames Mulayam for Greater Noida mess
Greater Noida: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday blamed her predecessor Mulayam Singh Yadav for the plight of farmers in Greater Noida who were demanding better compensation for....
- Rahul Gandhi promises more industrial training centres
Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday promised the residents of Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh that more industrial training centres would be opened to enab....
- Muslim clerics come out in Abu Bashar's defence
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): Prominent Islamic clerics led by the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Maulana Ahmed Bukhari, on Thursday came out in support of madrassa teacher Mufti Abu Bashar, ar....
- Botanical Institute establishes India's first moss garden
Lucknow: The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) has set up India's first moss garden, scientists said. The garden, which will be inaugurated soon, is only the third of its kind in the....
- SIMI activist linked to Ahmedabad bombings arrested
Lucknow: A Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activist allegedly linked to the Ahmedabad serial bombings was arrested from Lucknow's Moulviganj area by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist ....
- 100 political leaders arrested in Greater Noida
Greater Noida: Two days after five farmers were killed in a clash with police in a Greater Noida village, around 100 leaders of different political parties were arrested on Friday when they att....
- Greater Noida CEO removed after farmers' deaths
Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh): Chairman and CEO of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority Lalit Srivastava was today removed from his post following the death of five people in viol....
- Five killed in police firing in Greater Noida
Greater Noida: Five people were killed today in firing by police on farmers protesting inadequate compensation for their land being acquired in Uttar Pradesh's booming Greater Noida region bord....
- More bank staff involved in fake currency scam
Lucknow: Preliminary investigations by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) have revealed the involvement of one more bank employee of the State Bank of India (SBI) branch at Domariyaganj in Ut....
- Express trains collide; One dead, five injured
Ghaziabad: One person was killed and at least five others were injured today when two Express trains, on the same track, collided near Sahibabad, about 12 km from Ghaziabad. The incident took p....
- Alert driver prevents major train accident in Kanpur
Lucknow: Thanks to an alert driver, a major accident was averted in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district when the brake coupling of the Gomti Express train broke down, an official said today.
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- Activist arrested over remarks against Mayawati
Lucknow: Sarika Chaudhary, the Uttar Pradesh president of the Indian Justice Party, was on Saturday arrested for making allegedly derogatory remarks against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo an....
- Activist arrested over remarks against Mayawati
Lucknow: Sarika Chaudhary, the Uttar Pradesh president of the Indian Justice Party, was on Saturday arrested for making allegedly derogatory remarks against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo an....
- Aarushi case: Judicial custody extended for accused
Ghaziabad: In connection with the twin murder case of Aarushi-Hemraj, the Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad today has further extended the judicial custody of Raj Kumar, Krishna and Vijay Mandal f....
- Pakistan is behind fake currency rackets: Delhi Police
New Delhi: It is not just the terror attacks or ceasefire violation for which Pakistan has been blamed, the Delhi Police on Thursday said, it suspects ISI's role in sponsoring the racket of cou....
- Another fake currency case surfaces in UP SBI
Lucknow: Even as the police probe the fake currency racket in the State Bank of India (SBI) branch at Domariyaganj in Uttar Pradesh, a woman constable with CRPF has registered a police complain....
- 10 killed as boat capsizes in Uttar Pradesh river
Lucknow: At least 10 people were drowned and four were missing after a boat capsized in the Saryu river in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, the police said.
Five people managed to swim to th....
- RBI unearths fake notes in bank currency chest
Lucknow: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials and sleuths of the Uttar Pradesh police in a Monday night raid unearthed fake notes in the currency chest of the State Bank of India at Domariyaga....
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