The engine of the Shramshakti Express derailed this morning in a yard near Kanpur station, disrupting train traffic on the Jhansi-Banda route.

No passenger was injured in the derailment.

The inciden

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said there was possibility of an alliance minus the Congress and the BJP after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

"Efforts will be made to form an alliance

As a huge crowd bid her the final farewell, veteran freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sehgal's body was on Tuesday taken to the GSVM medical college here where it would be donated for research.

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Captain Lakshmi Sehgal, who was part of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, died here on Monday following a brief illness.

A nine-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide by hanging herself after her siblings refused to let her watch her favourite television show, police said on Tuesday.

The tragedy took place at

Rejecting HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's 'one-nation one-test' proposal, IIT-Kanpur on Friday decided to conduct its own entrance exam from next year. This decision was taken at a meeting of the institute

Rising mercury coupled with hot and dry winds have compelled the eunuch community of the city to perform prayer dance, with a hope that it would bring rains here.

Large number of eunuchs performed da

The mutilated body of an 11-year-old boy, who had gone missing four days back, was recovered from a defunct brick kiln in the Jarkala village here, police said.

The boy Gulshan's body was recovered o

A doctor and compounder of a private hospital here were arrested on Saturday after a woman died allegedly due to wrong treatment, police said.

According to a police complaint filed by traffic consta

As many as 150 shops were gutted after a major fire broke out at a market in Baqarganj area here.

The blaze was reported at around 2 a.m. after which around 6 fire tenders were pressed into service,