Director of BHU institute booked for taking 'false'' credit for research

Thursday 9 May '13

An FIR has been registered against the Director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAgSc), Prof Ravi Pratap Singh, of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) alleging that he took credit for a rese...

Let off 35 yrs ago, HC finds man a murderer

Thursday 18 April '13

Nearly 35 years after he was acquitted by a sessions court, the Allahabad High Court Tuesday convicted a man, now 75, of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Four other accused have died dur...

Let off 35 yrs ago, HC says 75-yr-old guilty of murder

Thursday 18 April '13

Four other accused in the case have died during this period.

Litterateurs say new Hindustani Academy chief not fit for post

Wednesday 17 April '13

Launch signature campaign seeking his removal.

Farmers losing land to freight corridor to get aid in bank account

Tuesday 16 April '13

The same procedure will be applied in other stretches also, said officials.

HC quashes govt order stipulating 5-year cut-off for applications

Friday 12 April '13

The Allahabad High Court has quashed a 2001 government order (GO) stipulating that an application for appointment on compassionate grounds, made five years after the death of an employee, would not be...

Can lend but won''t return Indian artefacts: British Museum

Saturday 6 April '13

Artefacts that had been taken from India by the British during colonial times and are part of the British Museum may be lent for exhibition in India, but cannot be returned, British Museum Director Ne...

HC to hear PIL seeking AIIMS in Gorakhpur instead of Rae Bareli

Thursday 21 March '13

The PIL also demands that such an institute be set up in Gorakhpur first.

Sun sets on Kumbh 'with no harassment case''

Monday 11 March '13

The city of tents that had come to exist on the sandy river bed around Sangam formally closed down with an estimated 70 lakh taking the holy dip on the occasion of Mahashivratri on Sunday, marking the...

Court strikes down ban on selling plots on Hindon river flood plains

Saturday 9 March '13

The court noted that when multi-storey apartments were being allowed to be constructed in the same area, then there was no reasonable basis for discriminating against the owners of the smaller plots.

Men flee Balipur to escape 'more attacks'', SP suspends three officers

Tuesday 5 March '13

Even as only women and children remained in Balipur, where two days ago the village pradhan, his younger brother and Circle Officer (Kunda) Ziaul Haque were killed, the newly appointed Superintendent ...

Men expect 'more attacks'', flee Balipur

Tuesday 5 March '13

In Balipur, the men were nowhere to be seen. There were only women and children. The only men seemed to be the ones in khaki

At Kumbh Mela, only few remain

Saturday 2 March '13

Deserted camps, skeletal signs of administration as Mela enters final 10 days.

Kumbh: 90 lakh take dip on Maghi Purnima

Tuesday 26 February '13

The 43rd day of Kumbh-2013 saw around 90 lakh people taking the holy dip on Maghi Purnima here on Monday.

Devotees stream in for Kumbh''s 'last'' holy dip

Monday 25 February '13

Unmindful of tight security arrangements, elaborate traffic diversions and consequent jam-like situation, devotees in large numbers have begun reaching Sangam for the Maghi Purnima snan (bathing), vir...

Mela winding up

Saturday 23 February '13

Dusty roads, empty spaces, camps being dismantled and empty tents the Kumbh Mela area is gradually but surely showing signs of folding up even though two important bathing days remain.

Kumbh: Pilgrims stranded as buses stay off roads

Thursday 21 February '13

The nationwide strike called by trade unions had its impact on the Kumbh Mela too. Many devotees who were depending on buses for transport found themselves stranded here on Wednesday.

Disheartened by rain, 'admn apathy'', kalpvasis pack their bags midway

Tuesday 19 February '13

Two days of heavy rain leaves Kumbh area without power and in stench.

Devotees hit by 'worst rain'' in 35 yrs

Sunday 17 February '13

With continuous rain breaking the record of over 35 years, the Kumbh Mela became a picture of chaos here on Saturday with tents getting uprooted, camps getting flooded and the ruined checkered plates ...

Crowd controller

Sunday 17 February '13

Managing the milling crowds of bathers at the Sangam, constable Pratap Patel tackles irascible sadhus, devout villagers and me-first rowdies

Govt on toes as 70 lakh take holy dip

Saturday 16 February '13

Basant Panchami Shahi snan observed in stampede shadow, akharas take out 'silent'' march.

Indian diaspora get in touch with their roots

Saturday 16 February '13

Their forefathers had gone from various parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh to countries like Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago as indentured labourers under the British rule.

Drawn to Kumbh, Indian diaspora get back to their roots

Friday 15 February '13

Their forefathers had gone from various parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh to countries like Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago as indentured labourers under the British rule.

Wiser after Allahabad tragedy, Rlys pulls up socks for Basant Panchami

Thursday 14 February '13

The railway officials have admitted that after the stampede occurred, the relief operations could be initiated only after loss of crucial time that could have saved more lives.

More buses to tackle rush on Basant Panchami

Wednesday 13 February '13

Govt had arranged 2,500 buses for Mauni Amavasya, but most of them got stuck in jams