Agra (India): Hundreds of men, women and children gathered at the Yamuna ghat in Taj city Monday night, to offer special puja to appease "Yamuna maiyya" ahead of the rainy season, with a request to flood again.

Agra (India): No more singing Summer Holidays with Cliff Richards. Kids in Taj city are all booked for special classes in a variety of summer time camps from theatre, Kathak dancing to martial arts and honing culinary skills.

Agra (India): Even as the Taj city recalls the sad water tragedy in 1993 when more than a dozen people of Khatik Pada, died drinking poisionous municipal water, hundreds of residents in various localities of Agra have been on the streets demanding water.

Aligarh (India): Professor AR Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic Staff College and Professor Dept. of English, Aligarh Muslim University will deliver 3 lectures at British Universities in this summer.

Agra (India): The scorching summer heat is beginning to impact the Taj Mahal in myriad ways. To a casual observer it looks pale, jaundiced, fatigued and sick.

Agra (India): With temperature shooting to almost 44 degrees on Sunday, tourists at the Taj Mahal were seen crowding under the trees or performing some dance steps to escape being burnt on the sizzling red sand-stoned pavements.