Uttar Pradesh, India News

Five youths from Chandigarh involved with an inter-state auto lifting racket were arrested after a brief shootout in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, police said Friday.

NEW DELHI, 10 JULY: The Supreme Court today refused to restrain the Uttar Pradesh government from carrying out work for installation of statues of chief minister Miss Mayawati and other Dalit leaders at a park in Noida.

Lucknow, July 10 : The Uttar Pradesh government has instituted a high-level probe into the disappearance of 23 files relating to the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmbhoomi dispute while the police have filed a report on the missing documents, an official said.

India Gazette Friday 10th July, 2009 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 Friday.

Lucknow, July 9: 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.

The Madhya Pradesh government has recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of a Congress legislator in the state.

India Gazette Wednesday 8th July, 2009 Syed Abdullah Bukhari, the grand old Shahi Imam of Delhi's historic Jama Masjid and for long one of India's most outspoken Muslim leaders, died here Wednesday after a long illness.

Unidentified men shot at a German tourist in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district and escaped with his bag containing some cash, passport and other documents, police said Wednesday.

India Gazette Tuesday 7th July, 2009 At least five pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh were killed and 12 seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district Tuesday morning, police said.

Lucknow, July 6 : A man wanted in over 20 criminal cases, including those of murder and abduction was shot down by the police here Monday, officials said.

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Monday stayed the demolition being carried out by the Uttar Pradesh Government at a township developed by the Sahara group in Gorakhpur.

New Delhi, July 6 : India's health budget has gone up by nearly Rupees 4,000 crore to Rupees 21,113.33 crore with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday giving special emphasis to the rural healthcare.

Lucknow, July 4 : An Indian Police Service officer has been named in an allegedly illegal child adoption case in Uttar Pradesh following National Human Rights Commission directions, a police official said Saturday.

Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here have rejoined a 10-year-old boy's broken spinal cord, hospital authorities said Saturday, terming it as a 'first-of-its-kind case'. The boy, Premchand from Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, fell while playing in a field and the moving blades of a tractor's harrow went over his back cutting his ...

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party national general secretary Satish Misra may continue to remain her confidant, but Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has no intentions of letting him don the mantle of her successor as she Saturday said only a Dalit will succeed her.

AT LEAST three days of nonstop monsoon rains have caused flooding in hundreds of villages in India's remote northeast, affecting around 200,000 people, officials said on Friday.

Lucknow, June 29 : 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.

Lucknow, July 2 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Thursday flayed the Congress-led central government for its 'shrewd design' of hiking the fuel prices after the Lok Sabha elections.

Floods triggered by monsoon rains have inundated hundreds of villages and displaced an estimated 200,000 people in India's north-eastern state of Assam, a news report said Friday.

Uttar Pradesh government on Friday gave the green signal for filing of chargesheet in a court against BJP MP Varun Gandhi for making allegedly inflammatory speeches in Pilibhit, moving a step closer to his trial in the case.