More than 400 people in northern India have died in the past month from encephalitis, a rare condition that causes inflammation of the brain, government officials said on Wednesday.

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A woman poisoned her five minor children and then took her own life in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, police said on Friday. She was evidently depressed over declining relations with her policeman hu

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati dropped two more ministers who are facing an inquiry by the Lokayukta on Wednesday.

The Samajwadi Party is already halfway through its first phase of campaigning. The BJP will be plunging into the campaign next week. The BSP has also launched its campaign on a low key. The Congress, however, will launch its campaign in the first week of November with yatras led by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is now trying to make a conscious effort to woo dalits and OBCs in Uttar Pradesh but the party does not have an acceptable dalit and backward face to project and promote in the coming Assembly elections.

Naseem Khan is satisfied with the modest earnings from his small tailoring shop. But every year around Dusshera, Khan turns slightly worried.

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India Against Corruption (IAC), on Sunday, launched a referendum on the Jan Lokpal Bill in Uttar Pradesh.

At least three devotees, in their 20s, were electrocuted and 28 injured when electric wires used for tapping power illegally fell on a Durga Puja marquee in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district early on

Continuing with her letter-writing spree, UP chief minister Mayawati has now written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to increase the quota for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and giving reservation to them in the

A man shot dead his sister-in-law and nephew on Friday morning in Bulandshahr district over the petty issue of cutting a tree.