Patna, Nov 20 (IANS) Bihar's per capita energy consumption is the lowest in the country and the government's rural electrification campaign is a "failure", according to a report by the Greenpeace India ...

Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 20 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi took to the wheel even as elder brother and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi sat next to her after the two landed in ...

By Asit Srivastava Lucknow, Nov 20 (IANS) Imagine riding through a lush green forest, soaking in lessons on the environment. That's what many school students in Uttar Pradesh are about to experience, thanks ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) It was a photo exhibition on climate change, but instead of the negative impact of the phenomenon, it showcased how people in rural India are coping with ...

Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 19 (ANI): A private chartered bus crushed a Class 9 student of the Gyan Bharti School here this morning. The bus hit Amit Mishra in Sector 34 while he ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): Farmers from all parts of the country have begun congregating in the national capital in an attempt to stall proceedings in the winter session of parliament in ...

Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) Eight people of a family were killed early Thursday when a tanker hit their Tata Sumo in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district. The accident took place at about 2 a.m. ...

Noida, Nov 19 (IANS) A warehouse of Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran was gutted in a fire here Thursday morning, officials said. The warehouse in Noida - an Uttar Pradesh town adjacent to national ...

Lucknow, Nov 18 (IANS) A police constable posted at the residence of a district judge in Muzzafarnagar in Uttar Pradesh shot himself, officials said Wednesday. Constable Hakim Singh was posted at the residence ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Four swine flu deaths were reported in India Tuesday, taking the toll due to the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 530, health department officials said here. One death ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) A city court Tuesday remanded two men to seven days police custody for allegedly helping a suspected Pakistani spy in getting a passport and a driving licence ...

Lucknow, Nov 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel and Bharatiya Janshakti Party founder Uma Bharti Tuesday said she is willing to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) but not the ...

Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel Kalyan Singh's bid to return to the party he walked out of twice before seems to have been viewed favourably by the ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Nuclear installations in the country have been put on high alert and security tightened as a precautionary step after intelligence agencies cited possible terror attacks, home ministry ...

Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) 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 ...

Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Sachin Tendulkar should "keep off the political pitch" for his own well-being, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said Monday in response to the cricket maestro's comments last ...

Agra, Nov 15 (IANS) The body of a 24-year-old woman was lifted by police from the funeral pyre in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district Sunday after her parents filed a complaint that she ...

Lucknow, Nov 15 (ANI): Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Sunday lashed out at Samajawadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for cheating him and his son and not keeping ...

Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 14 (ANI): Children's Day was celebrated at Anand Bhawan, the ancestral home of the Nehru-Gandhi family on Saturday. A cultural event was also organised during the two-hour-long programme. Besides, a ...

Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) To attract youth and encourage them to promote literacy in Uttar Pradesh, an NGO has said it will offer those teaching the illiterate an opportunity to opt either ...

Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) The five-year-old daughter of an engineer in a government department, who was kidnapped late Thursday night from the Indiranagar area here, was safely rescued by the police from ...

Mumbai, Nov. 13 (ANI): In view of the upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games and Kumbh Mela, farmers of Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh have begun large-scale cultivation of flowers. "We are hoping that our ...

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Manish Pandey took Karnataka within 23 runs of a sensational victory against Delhi before bad light ended the Ranji Trophy Super League match in an exciting draw ...

Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) It was a lucky escape for 10 people sitting inside a truck and a car when their vehicles were hit by a superfast train Friday at an unmanned ...

Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 13 (ANI): Security at the Taj Mahal here has been tightened following threats of an eminent terrorist attack. The Taj Mahal, a monument of unsurpassable architectural beauty, is one ...

New Delhi/ Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 13 (ANI): The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) unlocked the Yamuna Bank to Noida Sector 32 metro line for passengers this morning. On Thursday, Delhi Chief Minister ...

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) An upset Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, son of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Thursday said his wife Dimple's defeat in the Lok Sabha by-election ...

Chandigarh, Nov 12 (IANS) A local court here Thursday sentenced a Pakistani national, undergoing seven-year jail term for spying, to two years' additional imprisonment for helping terrorists, including the alleged assassin of ...

Lucknow, Nov 12 (IANS) A 12-year-old girl was allegedly beaten by a teacher in an Uttar Pradesh's state-run school as she opposed his drinking liquor in the classroom, police said Thursday. The Class ...

Devra (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 12 (ANI): A US trained software engineer is educating poor children at a Dalit school here by giving computer lessons to them. Karan Shishir, a US university graduate, teaches ...