Rampur, Pilibhit and Bahraich districts reported two deaths each, while two persons were killed in Ballia and Shahjahanpur respectively.
Five bodies were recovered while 52 others were missing in flash floods caused by cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh's Ganavi village that swept away 16 houses, a senior district official said on Wednesday.
The Home Ministry is understood to have given its nod to the file seeking disciplinary action against the two officials of the paramilitary force, sources said.
From the indications available so far, the November strikes in UP appear to have been carried out by Indian cells of the HuJI. If this is proved by further investigation, the HuJI possibly now has an Indian branch with operatives, capable of carrying out terrorist strikes autonomously without too much dependence on their counterparts in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
After a marathon 27-hour operation to remove her parasitic twin only a week ago, 2-year-old Lakshmi has been shifted out of the ICU and is recovering fast.
Six months ago, she could barely walk owing to an abnormality -- she was born with eight limbs. Today, she is like any other normal kid of her age, thanks to a dedicated team of doctors who operated upon her in Bangalore. Lakshmi is back in her village and hundreds of people are turning up at her doorsteps to see her.
He said the surrendered militants owed allegiance to Hizbul Mujahideen, Tehreek-e-Jehad, Hizb-e-Islami and Kashmir Revolutionary Force.
Upset that the groom hid information about his health, the bridge married a guest.
Being part of Rampur-Bushashr princely state once ruled by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's ancestors, poll result in Himachal Pradesh's Rohru Assembly seat was out the day he files his nomination.
Ten bogies of Guwahati-Delhi Sampark Kranti Express derailed near Mokama railway station in Patna district Sunday morning, injuring some passengers.
With the state going to polls soon, Akhilesh Yadav needs to step out of his father's shadow and come into his own as the state's CM.
Elections will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
Having even taken recourse to changing their faith to save their houses from being razed, the residents of Rampur's Valmiki Basti now hope better political sense prevails. Dhruv Munjal reports
975 people have been arrested in connection with the violence in Muzaffarnagar, in which 40 people lost their lives, police said on Tuesday.
The Army has lost 21 soldiers due to bunkers caving in and damage to barracks along LoC in Rampur, Uri, Baramulla and Tangdhar sectors, a defence spokesman told PTI.
Radico Khaitan Ltd said it increases capacity of its distillery unit at Rampur from 45 million tonne liters to 60 million tonne liters per annum. The company launched Old Admiral VSOP brandy in Kerala market.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attributed the impressive show by his party to the "alert voters" who he said rejected the 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) of opposition parties.
The BJP had decided to launch a week-long 'akraman andolan' (aggressive agitation) from Tuesday against removal of the statue and demolition of a square on which it was placed.
The water was likely to reach Rampur on the Indo-Tibet border by evening, Chief Minister Veerbhadra Singh told reporters.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat reached the poll-bound state besides Union ministers J P Nadda and Thawar Chand Gehlot, and Bihar minister Mangal Pandey, who are already camping here.
'There are 31 million houses without electricity.'
A woman along with her five children was burnt alive in Raghopur block of Bihar's Vaishali district in the wee hours Sunday for refusing to withdraw a theft case against three persons, police said.
The BJP is protesting the removal of a statue of Jan Sangh leader Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and demolition of a square in Rampur town of Uttar Pradesh.
Accusing the minister of trying to whip up communal passions in the state, he said the BJP would organise protests across the state on the issue.
The MLAs who have been expelled for six years are Sanjay Pratap Jayaswal (Basti district), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Mohammed Muslim (Tiloi-Amethi), Dil Nawaz Khan (Bulandshahar) and Nawab Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).
Besides the polarisation in favour of the BJP, there could be other reasons for the under-representation of Muslims too, says Shafeeq Rahman.
Even as Priyanka is gaining traction among the electorate and the media, her counterpart for the western UP region, Jyotiraditya Scindia, has been low key and perceptibly missing from the 'heat and dust' of elections in UP, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
He went on a road trip from Dharamsala to Kaza.
Two people, one legally assisting the affected people because of their exclusion from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and another whose relative has been declared a 'foreigner' by the quasi-judicial Foreigners' Tribunal (FT), talk to Rediff.com about the issues on the ground that people excluded from the NRC are facing and how it can turn into a long-drawn legal process.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
Out of 98 cities selected for the Rs 48,000 crore Smart Cities project, 24 are capital cities.
Akhil Gupta got the shock of his life when the CBSE Class 12 results showed that he had got only 13% in Physics though he had scored well in other subjects.
The incident is believed to be the fallout of a business feud.
Think about it! Where else you're going to see things like this eh?
The Samajwadi Party stormed to the power with 224 of the 403 assembly seats.
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