Uttar Pradesh

KANPUR: A six-member delegation from Nigeria Sugar Institute has sought technical consultancy from National Sugar Institute, Kanpur to begin a short-duration training programme for its technicians to set up sugar academy in Nigeria. The team is on a visit to this city.

Twenty-five litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case along with their counsels appeared on Wednesday before a Supreme Court-appointed mediation panel, in Faizabad, officials said.

According to a report in The Hindu, the district administration of Faizabad issued notice to 25 litigants on behalf of the Supreme Court-appointed panel.

New Delhi/Lucknow, Mar 12 (PTI) In a setback to the prospects of an opposition grand alliance to take on the ruling BJP in the Lok Sabha election, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) made it clear on Tuesday that it would not have any electoral tie-up with the Congress in any state for the polls beginning April 11.

In a statement, BSP supremo Mayawati said, "It is being made clear again that the Bahujan Samaj Party will not have any electoral alliance with the Congress in any state."

Lucknow, Mar 12 (PTI) The Bhaujan Samaj Party is sticking to old-fashioned electioneering, shunning fancy raths and holograms, and keeping public relations companies that offer such high-tech options at bay, a party leader said.

Instead, the party will bank on public meetings by supremo Mayawati and booth-level campaigning by its workers.

Kanpur (UP) Mar 12 (PTI) The toll in the hooch tragedy here rose to six on Tuesday with three more people dying at the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) hospital, said SSP Anant Dev Tiwari.

Taking cognizance of the incident, the state government has placed the district excise officer, Rajesh Kumar Mishra, under suspension for his negligence, an official release issued in Lucknow stated.

KANPUR: Terming the cancellation of the Lawyers’ Association election on Monday at the Collectorate here, the advocates said it was a black chapter in the history of polling for the office-bearers of the Association. If responsible persons were strict in their obligation, such unanticipated situation could not have been taken place.

KANPUR: Excess of everything is bad. This theory applies in use of mobile too. Too much talk on mobile enhances risk of damaging wrist’s veins. Besides, the fingers remain under pressure thereby causing vibrations in the hand, said the doctors participating at the workshop organised by UP Orthopaedic Association & the Regency Health Care at Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Memorial medical college here on Sunday.

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 11 (PTI) In a suspected case of honour killing, a woman was shot dead allegedly by her cousin in Haiderpur village here, police said Monday.

Shivani was killed on Sunday, after her cousin, Sumit Kumar, found that she was in an illicit relationship with another cousin of hers, Anuj, and that she along with him had killed her husband, Happi, they said.

New Delhi, Mar 9 (PTI) The Congress will fight the general election in Uttar Pradesh on its own strength, party's west UP incharge Jyotiraditya Scindia said Saturday, asserting the path of his party may be different from that of the SP and the BSP but their objective is the same.

Scindia also said that as far as talks for alliances are concerned, "like-minded parties should also think in a like-minded way".

Baghpat, Mar 9 (PTI) A man was booked for allegedly raping a minor in a village here, police said Saturday.

According to a complaint lodged at Khekra police station by the victim's father, their neighbour had been raping the 16-year-old girl for the past four months and also recorded videos, said Circle Officer R P Singh.