Uttar Pradesh

Eighty-six years after the city got electricity, overhead power cables in Varanasi are being dismantled after a project to lay underground lines over 16 sq-km has been finally completed. Laying cables for 50,000 consumers through the serpentine lanes and congested markets in one of the world’s

Sixteen-year-old Saharanpur girl Harshita Arora's app that updates users about price fluctuations in more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies in 32 countries has become one of the most sought-after paid apps on Apple’s App Store. What’s more, she launched it just on January 28 this year. Daughter of a local

A travelling ticket examiner (TTE) saved the life of a 63-year-old passenger who suffered cardiac arrest while travelling in the Puri-Haridwar Utkal Express. On Thursday morning, the Good Samaritan, 35-year-old TTE Aftab Ahmed Khan received an alert about an unconscious passenger travelling in the

Rudra Pratap Singh, 13, often surprises people watching TV with him. During a game of football or cricket, when a country's team sings their national anthem, Rudra sings along in perfect unison. A student of Class VIII, the teenager has already learnt the national anthems of 18 countries and plans

When 12-year-old Chirag Rathi is asked to multiply 42,225 by 645, it takes him about half a second to reply "2,72,35,125". In mathematical prowess reminiscent of the famed Shakuntala Devi, this Class VIII prodigy from Nakud Tripudi, a remote village in UP's Saharanpur district, takes even less time

Teachers of 17-year-old Shruti Tiwari, a resident of Matehiya village in Lakhimpur Kheri district's Bheera town, say that she will be remembered by Class X students in UP for years to come. Shruti, who found herself struggling with science subjects in 2015, started making her own notes in Hindi

Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik had unveiled the new logo for the 2019 Allahadbad Kumbh Mela last month. The logo comprises temples, saints, rivers, kalash (pitcher) and the Swastik. The logo's tagline “Sarvsidhiprad Kumbh”, means Kumbh is the provider of all accomplishments It may be mentioned that

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage under UNESCO has inscribed ´KumbhMela´ on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during its 12th session held at Jeju, South Korea from 4-9 December 2017. This inscription is the

Indian Air Force carried out major landing operations on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway, about 60 km west of Lucknow, today. The series of landings took place close to Bangarmau in Unnao District of Uttar Pradesh, where a 3 km stretch was specially prepared for such operations. The landing operations

In the hinterlands of UP , gram pradhans are signing on to social media platforms. The reason: it's easier to access the UP police through the digitial forum than getting the attention of the cop at the thana. Pradhans like Gita Rai (@i8YjlKjW7ZGZX7g) and Sachin Singh (@sachin_kakari) are

Nandini Sarkar and Aastha Verma, two girls from Varanasi, have shattered a 450-year-old glass ceiling at the medieval wrestling ring. In a major break from tradition, the akhara that's managed by the Sankat Mochan temple trust has permitted girls to practise and wrestle at its hallowed mud pit

Over 300 hamlets in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi were declared open defecation-free (ODF) on Monday. With this, every house in 610 villages of the district, out of a total of 1,332, have got toilets. The district administration said December 31 has been fixed as