Sri Lankan tourist found dead in Uttar Pradesh

September 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of a state official in Agra, official sources said Sunday. The body of Bhopal Development Authority chief executive officer M.G.

September 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A bandit wanted in over a dozen criminal cases, including murder, was Wednesday arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district, police said. Chukki Yadav, who carried a reward of Rs.35,000 for his capture, was caught by the Special Task Force after a shootout.

September 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Five members of a family were killed at their home in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. Businessman Gama Gupta, his wife, two daughters and a two-year-old granddaughter were found dead Saturday inside their home in the Oonch town of Bhadohi, some 250 km from Lucknow.

September 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The weatherman's prediction of heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh for three days beginning Friday has raised hopes among farmers that they can still grow something this kharif season. India's most populous state has been suffering a paucity of rainfall this monsoon, with the authorities declaring 58 of the 71 districts drought-hit.

July 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Unidentified men shot a German tourist in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district before escaping with his bag containing some cash, passport and other documents, the police said Wednesday. "Unknown assailants early Wednesday fired at George Galose, 45, after which he was rushed to the district hospital, where his condition is critical," Additional Superintendent of Police Ramakant Prasad told IANS over phone.

June 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A gangster who had 28 criminal cases pending against him was found shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said Saturday. "Babloo Dubeys bullet-ridden body was found today (Saturday) in the fields near Jahanganj town in Azamgarh district," police inspector O.P.

June 23rd, 2009 BHOPAL - Five employees of an Indore-based private firm, abducted by dacoits on Sunday, were freed after a gunbattle between police and the dacoits in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, police said here Tuesday. Another kidnapped employee was found dead.

June 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW - Celebrating its gains in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh will mark party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's birthday June 19 with community feasts, mainly in Dalit-dominated areas. June 19 will be celebrated as Samrasta Diwas (Harmony Day) in Uttar Pradesh.

May 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was found dead Wednesday morning with a bullet injury to his head at the official residence of an Uttar Pradesh minister to whom he was assigned as a guard, the police said. Constable Suresh Kumar was found dead in his quarter inside Tourism Minister Vinod Singh's residence on the Kalidas Marg here.

March 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Prabunath Singh, former Bihar state minister, was found dead Monday under mysterious circumstances in a train in Uttar Pradesh, railway officials said. 'Singh was found dead in the Vaishali Express at the Basti railway station in Uttar Pradesh,' Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector S.K.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati released a list of candidates for 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. She also announced that the BSP's nationwide campaign would start from Saturday.

March 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Each of the 128,112 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections will have at least one telecommunication facility to ensure prompt and direct connectivity with voting officials, India's poll panel chief here said Thursday. 'We have taken some special measures to curb cross-border movement of people, which in the past has been the cause of trouble during polling in areas along inter-state borders,' Chief Election Commissioner N.

February 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A male adult tiger has been found dead in a forest area in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, an official said Monday. 'The tiger was found dead on a tree Sunday evening in the Mahof forest,' divisional forest officer Pramod Gupta told IANS over telephone.

January 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The wife of a sales tax deputy commissioner in Uttar Pradesh has shot herself dead with the licensed revolver of her husband, the police said Thursday. 'Uma Goel, wife of Aadesh Goel, posted in the sales tax department in Kanpur, was today (Thursday) found dead inside the bathroom of her residence in Shastri Nagar area of Meerut,' deputy superintendent of police Vishal Vikram Singh told IANS on phone.

January 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Twenty members of an inter-state gang, involved in manufacturing and supplying spurious country-made liquor, have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, police said Tuesday. The men were arrested from the Narayanpur village of Ballia district, about 300 km from here, Monday late night.