14 Dead, Scores Injured as Train rams into truck

In an unfortunate incident, a passenger train laded with devotees on way to the holy city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, India rammed into a truck carrying sand killing atleast 14 people and leaving scores injured....

India - Supreme Courts Condemns Mayawati's "Statue Government"

Taking a strong stand against the Uttar Pradesh's Mayawati lead government, Supreme Court of India criticized it for going ahead with the misuse of public money. The Mayawati government was planning to...

Indian Dacoit Ganshyam Shot Dead in Chitrakoot

In the mother of all encounters in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a 500-strong police force managed to shoot down dacoit Ganshyam Nishad in Chitrakoot district a couple of hours back after 52 hours of gun battle. It was a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh...

Indian testosterone: the next tsunami!

"people eating, people washing, people sleeping....people visiting, arguing and screaming....people clinging to buses....people, people, people". Paul Ehrlich:  The Population Bomb. India is on the rise. ...

Munna Bhai in Trouble

Bollywood’s Cine-star turned politician, Sanjay Dutt, has invited trouble by courting controversy in his election campaign for Samajwadi Party at Pratapgarh in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.  ...

Shoe-throwing fever catches on!

Ever since the Iraqi journalist took a snipe at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US president George Bush, shoe-throwing fever is catching on all over the world as a medium of registering protest. The second person to get a taste of shoe-throwing protest was the...

Indian Elections Are Insult to the Voters Intent

INDIAN ELECTIONS ARE INSULT TO THE VOTERS INTENT   Unless a miracle happens; no matter who becomes the Prime Minister of India the facts remains the same that quasi -criminals Rule India. Like criminals...

Cops beat up a 5-year-old girl

A five-year-old girl was beaten up by the police in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh just because she allegedly stole Rs 280."The girl named Komal was brought to the police station by locals who accused her of...

India's low-caste leader eyes prime minister's job

A Bahujan Samaj Party member and Uttar Pradesh top official, low cast Mayawati, shows her intention to run for the Prime Minister post in India. " India's low-caste leader eyes prime minister's...

UP: Water purification technology fails

There is an urgent need to develop new water treatment methods for the Agra-Mathura-Vrinadavan region of Uttar Pradesh, where people have been forced to consume highly saline water since the technologies...

India's Black Dahlia type murder

::By Robert L. Sungte:: They may not have heard the story or seen the film on the infamous murder story of Hollywood aspirant Elizabeth Short's "Black Dahlia", but three people in the Central...

Eye for an emerald eye

Nainital is a hill station in the Kumaon region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. About 300km from the Indian capital, New Delhi, the name itself conjures up images of Bollywood movies from the...

Outsourcing riots

" Something happened that outraged you? Want to hit back? Want to create a riot? Contact us, we are riots specialists in Bombay, we will give you all the necessary people and information required for having your own personalised riots. You can even outsource your riots here,...

Delhi main transit point of narcotics: Centre

"Delhi has become an 'important transit point'of narcotics and the Union Home Ministry attributes it to the capital's proximity to opium producing states like Uttar Pradesh, and being the centre of the transportation network."

India's monsoon rains kill 161

Rains bring more woe. "In all, eight of India's 28 states have been facing the monsoon fury. Uttar Pradesh and western Maharashtra state, where 43 and 41 people were killed since May 26, accounted for a majority of the fatalities. "

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