Hardwar: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday reiterated that the administration was facing no shortage of funds or resources in carrying out relief and rescue operations in the flood and landslide ravaged areas of the state.
Even as the death toll crossed 100, Bahuguna said that he was not in a situation to give the exact estimate of the people killed in the calamity.
Speaking on the wide scale damages in the state as a result of torrential rains, massive landslides and flash floods, Bahuguna said that pilgrimage for the Chardham Yatra will take over a year to commence again, adding that the path leading to Kedarnath shrine has been reduced to debris.
The Chief Minister claimed that the devastation could have been much worse had the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand not been there. He said the dam has helped control the flood water, which could have washed away western Uttar Pradesh....
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05:29 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Hamirpur/Mahoba: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday lashed out at Opposition parties for terming his ambitious laptop distribution scheme as an eyewash and said people would teach the critics a lesson in the coming days. "The SP government has started its laptop distribution programme and it is to be seen how in the days to come, people of the state teach the detractors a lesson," Yadav said while...
03:09 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya has agreed to undergo a polygraph test in the Kunda killings case. CBI sources said Raja Bhaiya appeared before a special CBI court in Lucknow on Tuesday and gave his consent to undergo the polygraph test in connection with the murders which took place in his assembly constituency Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh on March 2. "I have neither changed...
03:11 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Muzaffarnagar: The Monsoon, arriving a month earlier than normal, has wreaked havoc in large parts of Uttar Pradesh. It has been raining for over 24 hours in many areas of Uttar Pradesh. The administration and people are on high alert in areas adjacent to rivers in the state. Due to sudden increase in the water level of rivers at least 150 people have been stranded on piece of land in...
11:16 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Ghaziabad: Police on Saturday rescued a group of women and children who were being trafficked at the railway station in Ghaziabad. Three people have been detained. The group, which is from Jharkhand, was allegedly being taken as bonded labour to New Delhi. The men were taking the group to the national capital on the pretext of providing them employment as domestic help. ...
08:04 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Lucknow: Terming as "unfortunate" Saudi Arabia's decision to reduce Haj pilgrims' quota, Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan on Friday said the Centre should make all out efforts to restore the quota. Khan said the quota reduction would dishearten those who have completed all formalities and are waiting to undertake the pilgrimage. "About 33,111 people in the state have already been chosen on temporary basis for the pilgrimage of which 31,960...
01:12 AM, Jun 15, 2013
Bulandshahr: In the well-known Arauli honour killing case in Bulandshahr, a woman identified as Mahvish and her family members set themselves ablaze in front of Uttar Pradesh police personnel alleging atrocity by them. Mahvish's brother-in-law suffered 90 per cent burn injuries and has been shifted to a hospital in Delhi in a very critical condition, police said. The police managed to save Mahvish, her sister-in-law and another brother-in-law. The police...
11:34 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal was in news once again for all the wrong reasons with the state recording the maximum number of crimes committed against women in 2012. According to National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 30,942 cases of crimes against women were registered in the state in 2012 which accounted for 12.67 percent of total crime against women in the country. West Bengal is followed by Andhra Pradesh...
01:26 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's free laptop distribution scheme for intermediate pass students as promised in the manifesto during assembly elections in 2012 has hit a roadblock in Lakhimpur. A programme was organised to distribute laptops in Lakhimpur on Wednesday. However, the heavy rains on Tuesday night led to the laptops kept in a government building getting drenched. Several laptops have been ruined and stopped working after...
02:18 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, a woman identified as Kamlelesh Dubey, has been allegedly killed in Aligarh byher neighbours because her daughter used to wear jeans and western attire. The incident took place in Bannadevi area of Aligarh on Tuesday. Kamlesh Dubey's neighbour Phoolwati used to comment on her daughter for wearing jeans. This led to an altercation between Kamlesh and Phoolwati when the former objected to her neighbor...
11:49 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Lucknow: Amit Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the National General Secretary of the BJP is expected to be in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. This is his first visit to the state after being made the party in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. Amit Shah is one of the accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter and is currently out on bail. As part of his daylong engagements...
10:53 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: A special court will hear a plea by CBI which has sought permission to conduct a lie detection test on former UP minister Raja Bhaiya in connection with the Kunda Deputy SP Zia-ul-Haque's murder probe. The plea was filed along with a consent letter from the former UP Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh for the test. Raja Bhaiya was questioned by the CBI early in May about his relations...
07:31 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad declared results of the 10th Board exams at 12.30 pm on Saturday. The candidates can check their results on: upresults.nic.in. The Board declared 86.63 per cent of the total appearing candidates successful. The first and second toppers were from Barabanki district. Ashutosh Mishra topped the exams with 97.33 per cent marks while Anuradha Shukla stood second with 97 per cent. The High School...
01:42 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed the second chargesheet in the Kunda DSP murder case. However, former UP minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya has not been named in second chargesheet too. The CBI on Thursday had sought permission from a Lucknow court to carry out a lie detection test on Raja Bhaiya in connection with the killing of Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq three months back....
12:49 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has put a stay on the Akhilesh Yadav government's decision to withdraw cases against terror accused. The Lucknow bench has referred the case to a larger bench. This came after the UP government announced that it wants to withdraw cases against 16 terror accused in the 2007 serial blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. The High Court had earlier questioned the legality of this decision...
11:53 AM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: The death in police custody of accused Khalid Mujahid,who died under mysterious circumstances in police custody while being taken to a prison in Lucknow from Barabanki,is under probe. According to sources, Justice RD Nimesh Commission has questioned the police version of Mujahid's arrest. The police allegedly forced Khalid Mujahid to sign on a statement accepting that he was involved in the Lucknow and Faizabad courts blasts in November...
04:23 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought permission from a special court for conducting a lie detection test on former UP minister Raja Bhaiya in connection with the Kunda Deputy SP Zia-ul-Haque's murder probe. The application has been moved in court with Raja Bhaiya's consent. Haque's wife Parveen Azad had accused the SP leader of being involved in the murder which took place on March 2. The...
01:29 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Bahraich: Three terror suspects from Pakistan have been detained in the Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh on the Indo-Nepal border. The three men have admitted to have received terror training in Pakistan but claim they were on their way to Jammu and Kashmir to surrender. The police say the suspects had entered India through Nepal. Acting on a tip-off that three suspected terrorists, who had once worked for Hizbul Mujahideen...
11:31 AM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man committed suicide by consuming poison in the custody of Uttar Pradesh Police, a Delhi Police officer said on Wednesday. Rinku, a resident of Aligarh, was arrested on Tuesday from Delhi's Khajoori Khas area by a joint team of Delhi Police and UP Police for eloping with a 14-year-old girl, who also belongs to Aligarh. "After Rinku's arrest, he was handed over to UP Police. On...
02:26 AM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: UP Board Director Vasudev Yadav declared class XII results for the state on Wednesday. Lucknow's Harshit Srivastava from SKD college, Barabanki's Arjita Verma from Ramsevak Yadav inter-college and Unnao's Manu Singh from Triveni Basi inter-college topped the state with 96.80 per cent. The intermediate results show that girl have outperformed boys yet again with 96.32 per cent girls clearing exams as against 89.79 per cent boys this year....
03:53 PM, Jun 05, 2013
