Agra (India): Even as the mercury plummeted to 0.6 degrees Celsius Sunday, the Taj city witnessed heated protests in several parts over electricity shortages, with the residents saying the experiment with a private power distributor had failed.

  Mathura (India): Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the Yamuna river in Mathura in the past couple of days, causing alarm among the devout and the environmentalists in the Hindu holy city.

Agra (India): Taj city experienced the coldest night of the season recording 0.6 degrees celsius Thursday morning.

Vrindavan (India): While the whole of Braj Mandal is shivering with cold, the holy town of Vrindavan is red hot with anger and resentment against a popular Kathavachak whose effigies were torched by Hindutva elements.

Agra (India): Residents of Taj city and Fatehpur Sikri are hardly impressed or excited about the visit of the French President N Sarkozy with his wife Carla last month. For them it is just another visit by a VVIP, "which would only create traffic jams, restrictions on movements, Taj gates closed and all sorts of problems."

Aligarh (India): Dr. Latif Husain S. Kazmi, Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University participated as a delegate in an international conference on World Philosophy Day conducted by the Iranian Institute of Philosophy and International Society of Islamic Philosophy, Iran.