Muzaffarnagar: 30 families booked for illegally staying in relief camps

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 13:42

Thirty families have been booked for allegedly living in relief camps in Sanjak village here despite not being riot victims, police said on Friday.

UP babu says nobody dies of cold; Akhilesh tells him to mind his words

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 09:57

After former state chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, now Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary (Home) AK Gupta has stirred a controversy by claiming no one died of cold at the riot relief camps.

Two more children die of encephalitis in Bihar

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 14:38

Suspected encephalitis, which causes irritation and swelling of the brain, claimed the lives of two more children in Bihar`s Araria district Monday, taking toll to seven in last four days, officials said.

Muzaffarnagar riots: SC takes note of deaths of children

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 17:32

Supreme Court took "serious" note of deaths of over 40 children in relief camps for riot-affected people in Muzaffarnagar and directed Uttar Pradesh government to immediately take remedial measures to meet the threat of winter.

At least 152 deaths due to dengue reported this year

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 20:27

A total of 152 dengue deaths have been reported from the country this year and Maharashtra has topped the chart with 35 causalities, the government said Tueday.

Natural disasters kill 24 in China

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 19:12

At least 24 people were killed in natural disasters across China last month that caused direct economic losses of USD 1.12 billion.

11 whales found dead in southwest Florida

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 06:19

Eleven whales presumed to be from the pod that was stranded last week in southwest Florida were found dead over the weekend in the lower Florida Keys, officials said.

Odisha: Pall of gloom descend at Pandara street

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 14:42

Neighbours have no words to console 60-year-old Sarojini Padhy, who has lost her husband, three sons and a daughter, in a suspected "food poisoning" incident.

Five die in Odisha poisoning incident

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 18:46

The death toll in suspected "poisoning" incident in the town mounted to five on Tuesday with the death of two more family members during treatment at hospital.

Four more children succumb to encephalitis in east UP

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 12:49

Four more children succumbed to encephalitis taking the death toll from the viral disease to 573 this year in eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, health officials said Thursday.

Protesters hit Cairo`s Tahrir on anniversary of deaths

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 00:44

Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Cairo`s Tahrir Square on Tuesday to commemorate the deaths of protesters killed two years ago and call for reforms, with many in the crowd calling for the power of the security forces to be curbed.