Strongly backing Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the "brutalities" perpetrated on farmers in Greater Noida villages, saying the state has descended into "anarchy and lawlessness".

The Congress on Wednesday defended party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's claim of 74 mounds of ash containing human remains having been found in Bhatta Parsaul village of Greater Noida and asked the Uttar Pradesh government to order a probe.

Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had complained to him about the atrocities they were subjected to.

Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi today appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had complained to him a

In the eight decades of its existence, over 100,000 people have opened accounts here. Ram Ramapati Bank in this popular pilgrim city is a bank all right, but it doesn't deal in money.

All that an acc

The parents of a year-old girl, found abandoned on Shitla ghat in Varanasi after December 7 blast, has been sent to 14 days judicial custody by a court here. The child Gauri will remain with her mother Gita during this period, while 11-year-old Riya will stay with her uncle, the police said on Wednesday.

A 60-year-old woman, who was critically injured in the blast here on Tuesday succumbed to injuries on Saturday, taking the toll in the incident to two.

The sound of chanting of mantras reverberating in the air during the “Ganga aarti” in this holy town turned into wails of people with the bang of an explosion Tuesday evening.

Security agencies were on Wednesday examining CCTV footage at the site of the blast at a Ganga ghat here which left a child dead and 37 injured even as a forensic team from Agra collected samples fro

Attributing the terror attack in Varanasi to security lapses and intelligence failure, Opposition parties on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati.