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 Bijnor district's Rawali village. The place where these people are is surrounded on all sides by flood waters.
Heavy rains continued through out Monday night in Muzaffarnagar and water has entered several houses and shops. Most of the roads are waterlogged, revealing the utter lack of preparation on the part of the municipal administration to deal with the situation.
According to the met department, Saharanpur and adjacent areas received 20 mm rain in a day while it was 16 mm in Hapur. Anupshahr and Hardoi recorded 14 mm rainfall, Meerut 11, Kasganj and Aligarh 9 mm rainfall....
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11:16 AM, Jun 18, 2013
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Visakhapatnam: An 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle in Paderu in the district, police said on Saturday. According to police, the girl's uncle Killo Rambabu (35) had asked the minor to accompany him for some work last evening. However, he took the girl to an isolated place and raped her there. After the crime, the accused dropped the victim at her residence, police said. "The girl did not...
10:46 PM, Jun 15, 2013
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10:05 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Madurai: A one day old male baby was kidnapped today from the maternity ward of Government Rajaji hospital here by a woman, but police said they would soon nab her as her image had been captured on Closed Circuit TV camera. Police said the installation of CCTV at the ward had helped them identify the woman stealing the baby from the cradle. A case had been registered and copies of...
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New Delhi: After hanging fire for six years, the makeover plan for Delhi's Chandni Chowk will finally see the light of the day with the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure giving its nod to it, said officials. "The Shahajahanabad Redevelopment Plan was sent to Unified Traffic And Transportation Infrastructure and has been approved by it," said Delhi government sources. The Delhi cabinet had approved the plan in 2007 with an...
11:20 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government bore the wrath of the High Court on Friday as it slammed the administration for "obstructing" the CBI probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. CBI sources had said that the Gujarat government was opposed to one of its officers, Satish Verma, carrying out the investigations. The HC bench tore into the government asking whether its duty was to cooperate with the agency or create...
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New Delhi: The government will initiate a number of reforms such as lifting the cap on foreign direct investments in the coming weeks to spur growth, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday. "I expect a number of decisions in the next few days and weeks. In June, you can expect a number of decisions taken and implemented that will accelerate reforms and spur investments in critical sectors," Chidambaram said...
04:15 AM, Jun 14, 2013
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New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has questioned the Central Government's ambitious plan to provide food security to the poor. Modi said Gujarat has a food security scheme in place for the last 10 years, but the Centre has woken up to it just now. Modi expressed doubts about the Centre's intentions on his twitter account. Modi tweeted that the poor people in Gujarat were being provided wheat at...
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San Francisco: Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the US government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet. In a show of unity, Google rivals Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. also supported the attempt to pressure the US Justice Department to loosen the legal muzzle that limits disclosures about government surveillance...
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07:36 AM, Jun 12, 2013
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Istanbul: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters who have taken to the streets across Turkey demanding his resignation that his patience has its limits and compared the unrest with an army attempt six years ago to curb his power. Riot police used teargas and water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters from a square in the capital, Ankara, just a few kilometers from where Erdogan spoke. He held six rallies on...
08:42 AM, Jun 10, 2013
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08:29 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Istanbul: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party on Saturday ruled out early elections as thousands of anti-government demonstrators defied his call for an immediate end to protests. Huseyin Celik, deputy chairman of the Justice and Development (AK) Party founded by Erdogan just over a decade ago, said local and presidential elections would be held in 2014 as planned, and a general election in 2015. "The government is running like...
06:57 AM, Jun 09, 2013
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10:05 AM, Jun 06, 2013
