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UP Principal Secretary-Housing shoots himself

by Sunita Bothra November 29, 2009 India

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s Principal Secretary (Housing) Harminder Raj Singh shot himself in the head with a personal revolver at his home in Vikramaditya Marg. Before this, the official attended a party at the residence of a colleague.
No one knows what drove the 1978 batch IAS officer to take the extreme step. The 56-year-old officer was [...]

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Counting begins in Uttar Pradesh

by ANI May 15, 2009 India News

With several key leaders in the electoral race, counting began in each of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Saturday morning.
According to an Election Commission spokesperson: “Counting for each of the 80 seats in UP commenced at 71 district headquarters across the state commenced at 8 a.m. sharp under the supervision of central [...]

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Deadly polio strain from Bihar creating havoc in Uttar Pradesh

by Indo-Asian News Service October 27, 2008 Health

Uttar Pradesh has once again emerged as a hotbed for P 1, the most deadly polio strain, which was slowly being eliminated in India. But Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, is again seeing a surge in the paralytic disease thanks to the virus being imported from neighbouring Bihar.
Though Uttar Pradesh was earlier described [...]

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UP: Hotbed for polio virus

by Santosh Mishra October 26, 2008 Health

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh has once again emerged as a hotbed for P 1, the most deadly polio strain. Though Uttar Pradesh was earlier described as the “world’s most tenacious reservoir of P 1 poliovirus” by World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, the state remained free of the most dangerous and fast travelling virus [...]

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8 killed, over two dozen injured in Varanasi heavy rains

by Agencies August 20, 2008 India News

At least eight people were killed and two dozen others injured due to heavy rainfall in eastern Uttar Pradesh since Tuesday night, prompting authorities to alert the army.
“About 300 mm rainfall has been recorded in 12 hours since 8 PM in Varanasi,” District Collector Ajay Kumar Upadhaya told a news agency on Wednesday.
Over [...]

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Family’s stand vindicated: Rajesh Talwar

by Agencies July 12, 2008 India News

Dr Rajesh Talwar, who walked free after spending 50 agonising days in prison in connection with the Noida double murder case, has said the family’s stand “has now been vindicated”.
“I was in a lot of grief. I thank God and the CBI as what my family has been saying all along now stands vindicated,” [...]

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Agra moving to English via Hinglish

by Indo-Asian News Service March 10, 2008 India News

People are queuing up to enrol their children in English medium schools and Hinglish tabloids are flying off the newsstands in the city of the Taj as society here – like in much of India’s cities – undergoes a transition from having a minority of English speakers to a large number of those keen on [...]

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11 ‘kanwarias’ killed in Uttar Pradesh

by Indo-Asian News Service March 5, 2008 India News

Eleven Shiva devotees, known as kanwarias, were killed when a cement-loaded truck they had boarded turned turtle in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, the police said Wednesday.
The devotees were going to Kasganj to fetch water from the Ganges for Shiv Ratri celebrations when the accident occurred at about 11.50 p.m. in Khemgarhi village, about 70 [...]

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Government gets maximum complaints from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi

by Indo-Asian News Service February 27, 2008 India News

The government received the highest number of complaints from Uttar Pradesh during 2005-08, followed by Delhi, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Suresh Pachouri said here Wednesday.
Pachouri in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said there were as many as 46,397 complaints from Uttar Pradesh and 24,240 complaints from Delhi.
The government [...]

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