Agra: As campaigning for the first phase of the 7-phased Uttar Pradesh assembly elections gains momentum, many old-timers and other locals in the City of the Taj rue the absence of the cacophony associated with the earlier electoral battles.

New Delhi: Releasing report, "The State of Female Infanticide in Himachal Pradesh", Asian Centre for Human Rights stated that child sex ratio (CSR) has seriously declined from 982 females per 1000 boys (0-6 years) in 1971, the period before the use of the ultrasound machines for sex selection and abortion, to 909 in 2011 in Himachal Pradesh. 

Balrampur : River Rapti in Balrampur district of UP is now flowing in high flood situation. At Saturday evening, it was flowing at a level of 104.99 mtrs with a rising trend. This is 0.37 mtrs above its danger level of 104.62 mtrs and 0.46 mtrs below its previous HFL of 105.25 mtrs recorded on September 11, 2000. On saturday morning, it was flowing at a level of 104.79 mtrs.

Aligarh: Garima Kumari is a computer science graduate from Mangalayatan University, Aligarh is contributing immensely in Health Informatics Program at the Boston University.

Vrindavan: The focus of Holi festivities has now turned to Vrindavan and Mathura after the Lathmar Holi of Barsana. The festivities however were a bit dampened by sudden drop in temperature and a cloudy sky Tuesday morning but later in the day bright sunshine added a zing to celebrations.  

Agra (India): The self-acclaimed Healing Guru of Agra, Deepak Kashyap, 52, was shot dead late Sunday evening in Taj Nagri residential area, by unidentified gunmen.

Agra (India): 17 years after India's Supreme Court called for reducing pollution around the Taj Mahal, this tourist city certainly boasts of cleaner public transport and improved greenery. But many bigger battles are yet to be won.

Aligarh (India): “It was the AMU that reserved seats for women in the Employees Union for the first time in India,” eminent historian Prof. Irfan Habib said, addressing a group to welcome the Reservation Express that reached Aligarh Saturday.