Agra (India): A healthy rivalry among social workers and voluntary agencies has helped set up a dozen night shelters for the poor and the homeless in this city of the Taj.

Agra (India): When Agra's municipal commissioner resolved to make the city polythene-free in October, few took him seriously. But just 40 days into the campaign, Vinay Shankar Pandey is garnering support from unsuspecting quarters- right from sweet-shop owners to vegetable vendors.

Agra (India): The city of the Taj can look forward to a whole lot of new developments in 2011, from banning of polythene bags, a much-needed war on encroachments around historical monuments, streamlining traffic and completion of the vital Yamuna Expressway.

Agra (India): The city of the Taj can look forward to a whole lot of new developments in 2011, from banning of polythene bags, a much-needed war on encroachments around historical monuments, streamlining traffic and completion of the vital Yamuna Expressway.

Agra (India): Around a year ago, 10 Indian young men embarked from Dubai for on-ship training- sailing high on their Merchant Navy dreams. But today, one of them is dead while the others are believed to be in Iranian custody for crude oil smuggling, their families say.

Agra/Firozabad (India): Attacking UPA president Sonia Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Janata Party President Subramaniam Swamy, said 2G scam was a threat to national security.