Curfew has been relaxed in a phased manner in Gorakhpur in three police station areas for two hours each whereas no relaxation has been given in the Gorakhnath police station area where curfew has been imposed for the last five days.
The hospital superintendent has blamed malnutrition for the deaths.
Politicians across the political spectrum graced Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani's wedding ceremonies at the Jio World Convention Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex in north west Mumbai.
Twenty coaches of the Ahmedabad-bound Sabarmati Express passenger train derailed near Govindpuri station in Kanpur early Saturday after the engine hit an 'object placed on the track'.
Yadav fought hard, but his party was well behind the BJP.
12 people have reportedly been killed and 45injured when two speeding passenger trains collided near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh late Tuasday night, a railway official said.
The byelections are scheduled to be held on March 11.
Rediff.com's Nishi Tiwari visits Gorakhpur where the encephalitis 'epidemic' has reached alarming levels.
Babita, 20, became the proud mother of a baby girl at the district hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, at 12.20 am on Monday. Her yet-to-be-named daughter has already created history -- she is the world's seven billionth baby.
Two passengers were killed and 34 injured when eight coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed near Gonda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, an official said.
An initial inquiry revealed that the accused was in an inebriated condition when he placed the call to the helpline, police said.
How the pachyderms at the Elephant Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Tiruchirappalli are cooling off.
According to Additional Director (Health) Diwakar Prasad, the child from Mahrajganj district succumbed to the disease at BRD Medical College Hospital on Sunday.
They were arrested from the Vaishali Expres, which was bound for Gorakhpur.
As many as 16 children have succumbed to encephalitis in Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 495.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday mentioned in his Independence Day speech the recent death of nearly 70 children at a state-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh, and said sympathies of the entire nation were with the affected families.
The situation in the town has also improved and curfew has been partially relaxed.
The party also declared sitting MP Praveen Nishad as its candidate from Sant Kabir Nagar
Nearly 600 hundred people have been arrested under various offences.
The BJP, which romped to power in 2019 on the back of an unequivocal mandate from UP, winning 62 of its 80 seats, was cut to size this time and had to be content with only 33 seats.
UP government data claims 6.5 deaths a day till August against 16 in 2014, 19 in 2015 and 17 in 2016.
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) gave a huge blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance by winning 43 seats out of total 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, as per the Election Commission.
A widely circulated video captured Mukesh showcasing his dancing flair during the pre-wedding ceremony, where he danced to a popular Bhojpuri song.
With three more children succumbing to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, the death toll due to the disease has climbed to 304 in eastern Uttar Pradesh this year.
The encephalitis menace continues unabated in eastern Uttar Pradesh as four more children succumbed to the disease at BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, bringing the toll in the disease to 289.
The BJP president dismissed the Congress's demand for resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the death of several children in a Gorakhpur hospital, saying such tragedies had happened during that party's rule also.
"There will be no discrimination in name of caste, religion and sex. There will be overall development," Adityanath said in his address at the Maharana Pratap Inter College in Gorakhpur, his parliamentary constituency.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is looking to monetise 33 stretches of national highways during the current financial year (FY25) through its toll operate transfer (TOT) and infrastructure investment trust (Invit). These stretches include Lucknow-Aligarh, Kanpur-Ayodhya-Gorakhpur, and Bareilly-Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, Gurugram-Kotputli-Jaipur bypass and Jaipur-Kishangarh in Rajasthan, Panikoili-Rimuli in Odisha, Chennai Bypass in Tamil Nadu, and Muzaffarpur-Darbhanga-Purnia highway in Bihar. Cumulatively, the 33 stretches, spanning 2,741 kilometres (km) earned approximately Rs 5,000 crore revenue in FY24.
Addressing a public rally in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi, Modi said the schemes earlier were meant for a select few and the past governments did not get seek feedback from the ground.
Releasing the pictures, he said, "We gathered sufficient details about the two customers who bought the three bicycles used for carrying out the blasts."
Electoral setbacks and thwarted ambition can have an unpredictable effect on leaders,, observes Aditi Phadnis.
The blasts reportedly took place in the heart of the city.
The infants had died allegedly because of disruption in oxygen supply due to pending payments to the supplier, a charge stoutly refuted by the state government.
However, chief medical officer Dr Ravindra Kumar, part of the panel, said that the deaths were not due to lack of oxygen.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan on July 7 and 8 during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of about 50 projects worth around Rs 50,000 crore, official sources said Tuesday.
Doctors went on a wild rampage in the Gorakhpur Medical College on Tuesday, beating up all and sundry including patients and journalists after the family of a fatal encephalitis victim blamed the child's death on "neglect" by the attending junior doctors.
The Navi Mumbai police uncovered a plot to kill the actor during their investigation disclosing a video call conversation between Lawrence Bishnoi gang member Ajay Kashyap and another accused.
'There was a strong undercurrent of deprivation, and also frustration against misuse of power and authority.' 'This election was an opportunity for the manifestation of this discontentment.'
The residents or junior doctors went on strike on Tuesday when agitated relatives of a patient, who had died during treatment, clashed with the medicos.
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