More than five lakh people living in 1,000 villages on the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh remained hit by spiralling rivers on Tuesday, with death toll due to floods rising to 67.
Uttar Pradesh government may be headed for troubled waters over failure to curb extensive ground water contamination in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra.
After the TOI report on a study by Central Ground Water Board which confirmed presence of arsenic above permissible limits in several localities of the city , instead of focusing on ways to remove