Three more youths succumbed to their injuries in the train rooftop accident in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 17, officials said Wednesday. The authorities continue to pass the buck over why hundreds of youths were allowed to sit atop a train, which led to the victims being crushed by an overbridge. The accident [...]
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14 dead, 14 injured as train roof-riders fall off
February 2nd, 2011 |
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At least 14 people riding on the roof of a train died and 16 were seriously injured Tuesday after they were swept off as the train passed under a low over-bridge in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahajahanpur district, police said. The accident took place before the train entered Rosa station in Shahjahanpur, 190 km from Lucknow. The [...]
Nine-year-old fan inspires Abhishek Bachchan
January 20th, 2011 |
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Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan was impressed by the endeavour of nine-year-old Aishwarya Sharma, the youngest ever to file a Right to Information (RTI) query for removal of a garbage disposal site in front of her school. Abhishek met his young fan in the capital during the CNN IBN Citizen Journalist awards ceremony Wednesday night, where [...]
Cooks flown down from Lucknow for Imran’s wedding
January 5th, 2011 |
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Bollywood actor Imran Khan’s wedding is the first high profile wedding of the year and he is making sure that it is nothing less than perfect, so much so that even the cooks are being flown from Lucknow to prepare traditional non-vegetarian dishes. “For the wedding, cooks are being specially flying down from Lucknow. These [...]
Yoga in the snow? Mountaineer challenges Baba Ramdev
December 31st, 2010 |
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He’s a mountaineer and a yoga instructor and claims to have performed yoga bare-bodied in Ladakh’s snow-clad mountains at an altitude of over 14,000 ft. And Ajai Kumar Bajpayee has now dared renowned yoga guru Baba Ramdev to match his feat. Bajpayee, 32, a liaison officer with the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) and a native [...]
BJP celebrates Vajpayee’s birthday in Lucknow
December 25th, 2010 |
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The 87th birthday of former prime minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Saturday celebrated by party leaders and activists here. Mass feasts, recitation of verses from the Ramayana and cultural events were hosted by BJP cadres in Lucknow, which Vajpayee represented for five consecutive terms in the Lok Sabha. “He [...]
Sunni Waqf Board to move Supreme Court against Ayodhya verdict
December 14th, 2010 |
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The Sunni Central Waqf Board is expected to file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits. Advocate Zafaryab Jilani, who appeared for the Board in the High Court, confirmed that they were moving the Supreme Court on Tuesday. [...]
Ayodhya land to be divided in three: Prasad
September 30th, 2010 |
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Two of the three judges had said that the disputed land in Ayodhya would be divided into three parts, one for the Hindus, one for the Muslims and one for the Nirmohi Akhara, one of the parties in the case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ravi Shankar Prasad said here Thursday after the [...]
Supreme Court rejects plea to defer Ayodhya verdict
September 28th, 2010 |
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Rejecting an appeal that sought to defer the Allahabad Court’s verdict on Ayodhya-Ramjanambhoomi title issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its nod to the court’s Lucknow Bench to go ahead with its announcement of the judgment in the case. Retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi had petitioned in the court to defer verdict to allow [...]
Ayodhya verdict should not be deferred, say many Hindu, Muslim groups
September 28th, 2010 |
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Even as the Supreme Court Bench is considering a plea that parties in the Babri-Ram Janmabhoomi title suit should resolve the matter in an out of court settlement, Hindu and Muslim groups called upon the apex court and the Government that the matter should not be allowed to linger on further. A day ahead of [...]
Security stepped up in UP ahead of Babri mosque demolition verdict
September 14th, 2010 |
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Stringent security measures have been initiated in Uttar Pradesh to thwart any untoward incident ahead of the verdict on the 1992 Babri Mosque demolition case, due to be pronounced on September 24 by the Allahabad High Court. The top brass of police in Uttar Pradesh met here to discuss all the relevant measures. Later briefing [...]
Allahabad High Court verdict on Babri Mosque demolition on Sept. 24
September 8th, 2010 |
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The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court will pronounce its judgement on the Babri Mosque demolition case on September 24. Earlier, a special full bench of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court comprising Justice SU Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice Dhramveer Sharma had reserved its verdict in the Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid title [...]
Vidhu Chopra sends notice to ‘The 4th Idiot’ makers
May 8th, 2010 |
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New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Vidhu Vinod Chopra, producer of the hit film “3 Idiots”, has sent a legal notice to the makers of animation film “The 4th Idiot” for copyright violation.
“You have used the name of our movie, its story (including scenario, screenplay, dialogues, etc) characters for publicizing and promoting your film,” according to [...]
Bandh across country today to raise voice against Price rise
April 27th, 2010 |
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Tuesday witnesses a nationwide strike from the Left and several non-BJP opposition parties against the price rise Central government.
The Bandh has affected lives of common people in several states in country where on one hand Kolkata air services were disrupted as the Kingfisher and Jet Airways abandoned their flights and on the other [...]
Mysterious disease claims four lives in Uttar Pradesh
April 20th, 2010 |
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A mysterious disease has claimed the lives of a four-year-old girl and three women in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district, officials said Tuesday.
The deaths took place Sunday and Monday in Mankapur, a Dalit-dominated village in Gonda, some 200 km from Lucknow. The mysterious disease is marked by tremors, convulsions and vomiting.
“We still don’t know what the [...]