LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati has requested prime minister Manmohan Singh to classify Jhansi, Chitrakoot and Mirzapur revenue divisions as special category divisions under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) for ensuring rapid development of backwards areas like Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal.

LUCKNOW: Light to moderate rains continued in many parts of the state, thus bringing the rainfall deficit up by seven per cent in the last 10 days. The total rains in the monsoon season till August 27 were 46 per cent below normal, which stood at 39 per cent below normal on September 8.

LUCKNOW: A middle-aged man suffered burn injuries after a car which was being installed with a CNG kit caught fire here on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident was reported from Chinhat police circle.

Ghaziabad/Greater Noida: After the recent clash on NH-24 between the police and agitated locals, it was the turn of hundreds of farmers who took to the streets near Jaitpur village in Greater Noida protesting against the construction of the Ghaziabad-Greater Noida Expressway.

Days after the centrally empowered committee (CEC) constituted by the Supreme Court recommended a stay on Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Expressing concern over the reports that poverty stricken people in drought-hit Bundelkhand region were ALLEGEDLY mortgaging their women, the UP Congress Committee (UPCC) would send a three-member team to the area on Tuesday.

LUCKNOW: After tasting success in elevating the health standards of the state through Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers, state government will appoint women to take care of state's livestock. Designated as Ladies Livestock Link Worker (LLLW), they will be operational at village level. Working under the local veterinary officers, nearly 36,000 LLLWs will be appointed in four years.

At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam

LUCKNOW: Polio eradication in UP seems to have come across a double whammy this season. In a state where authorities are fighting hard against the sub-optimal efficacy of oral polio vaccine, the increasing challenge of diarrhoeal outbreaks is making things worse.

Lucknow: A choked Ghiyasuddin Haider (GH) Canal overflowed following heavy rains that lashed the state capital on Thursday, leaving many areas inundated even as municipal officials were left redfaced.