Chief Ministers of both states announced Rs 4 lakh ex gratia to the next kin of the deceased.
Around 1.72 crore voters, including 94.60 lakh men and 77.84 lakh women, are eligible to cast their votes in this round to decide the fate of 635 candidates.
Seven more children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll due to the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 390 this year.
With six more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll due to the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has mounted to 351 this year, health officials said on Wednesday. The worst affected districts are Gorakhpur, Deoria and Kushinagar.
Cold wave continued unabated in Uttar Pradesh as 13 more people succumbed to the chill in the state, taking the death toll this winter to 129.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused the previous governments in Uttar Pradesh of letting poverty and the mafia take over the state's eastern part, saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party government is now writing a new chapter of development there.
The trouble arose when the youths entered Udit Narayan Inter College where Rahul's meeting was underway and chanted slogans and distributed pamphlets, official sources said.
A chowkidar was on Tuesday arrested and five policemen were suspended in connection with the alleged gang rape of a woman inside a police station in Khadda area in Kushinagar district, a senior officer said.
In yet another case of guardians of law turning into violators of law, a sub-inspector of police and the local village watchman together allegedly gang-raped a 39-year-old woman inside the premises of a police station in Uttar Pradesh Kushinagar district, a popular Buddhist destination.
In a 14-page letter to Mayawati, Ramesh cited the instances of alleged irregularities and corruption in implementation of the scheme in Balrampur, Gonda, Mahoba, Sonbhadra, Kushinagar, Mirzapur and Sant Kabir Nagar.
A woman was allegedly gang-raped within the premises of a police station in Khadda area in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, police said on Monday.
Priyanka Gandhi's charge were the key seats of Lucknow, Amethi, Raebareli, Sultanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Barabanki, and Kushinagar.
With three more children succumbing to the killer Japanese Encephalitis virus on Monday, the death toll in eastern Uttar Pradesh has now gone up to 332.
In the upcoming round of privatisation, unviable airports are likely to be clubbed with six main airports and a prospective bidder may be restricted to bid for two airports.
A woman was raped inside a police station by two home guards in Bihar's Bagaha district, the police said on Saturday.
Rajesh Singh has won the prize money of Rs. 1 Crore.
Yogi will stay in Gorakhpur till May 19 and will address at least three rallies every day in the region, reports Siddharth Kalhans.
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.
24 migrant workers were declared dead on Saturday early morning when a trailer truck carrying sacks of lime along with people rammed into the back of a stationary truck with many migrant workers sitting in it near a roadside eatery on the national highway in Auraiya.
The reason behind the suicide was yet to be ascertained as no suicide note was found, police said.
Police personnel in adequate strength were deployed across the state to maintain law and order, officials said.
The death toll due to the cold wave that has disrupted normal life across north India rose to 326 on Wednesday.Another 38 deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the state to almost 300. The dense fog has further added to the problems of the people in the region with Kanpur recording a temperature of 3.7 degree Celsius, the coldest place in the state, followed by Varani, where the temperarure was recorded to be 4 degree Celcius.
"To all casteist leaders I would like to say my only caste is poor, my only identity is poor."
'This is against the Constitution and we will oppose it tooth and nail.'
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.
This is the first disciplinary action against an official in connection with alleged irregularities in allotment of land to megastar Amitabh Bachchan in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh.
In Assam, nearly 27.80 lakh people across 26 districts have been affected by the deluge. The deaths were reported from the Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Morigaon districts. The death toll due to floods and landslides this year has risen to 122.
Twenty-eight more people have succumbed to Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh taking the death toll to 185.
"Prime Minister Modi is not a leader, he is an actor. It would have been better if Amitabh Bachchan was made the prime minister," she said at an election meeting at the end of her roadshow in Mirzapur.
The duo has been identified as Mushiruddin Salauddin Siddiqui (27), a native of Kanpur, but residing in Virar town of neighbouring Thane district, and Manzoor Mahmood Ansari (37), a resident of Birganj town of Nepal.
An estimated 57.03 per cent voters cast their ballots on Saturday in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections covering 49 Assembly seats, including Mau, where gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari is in the fray.
Unofficial results indicate that the SLPP would comfortably win at least 17 out of the 22 districts on offer.
As many as 56 fresh cases were reported, Additional Director (Health) C B M Tripathi said in Gorakhpur, adding that the toll this year was the highest in the past one decade.
23 divisions in the state are in the grip of the disease.
T Mandal, general manager (project) with NHPC, had been abducted from Vaishali district in Bihar on November 19.
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 victims, aged between eleven and sixteen years, were allegedly raped by armed men at a brick kiln in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
The Hindu Yuva Vahini, floated by its firebrand leader and Lok Sabha member Yogi Adityanath, has fielded candidates against the saffron party in six assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Although Gorakhpur is the largest urban centre and trading hub in Eastern UP, catering not only to the neighbouring district but also the adjoining Bihar and Nepal, it had been lacking in proper infrastructure of road and air connectivity, impeding the harnessing of its socioeconomic potential.
'There are enough funds to solve this problem.'
