Arun Shukla

In a first in Madhya Pradesh, 60 students of the Government Mahakoshal Arts and Commerce College in Jabalpur have started an internship on community engagement under the new National Education Policy (NEP), a professor said on Monday.

A student consumed poison to end life after failing to clear class XII CBSE exams on Wednesday.The body was later sent for postmortem.

Nationalism has not died down in the Naxalite-hit Palamu district. A three-day Shahadat Diwas-cum-Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Samaroh began here on Friday.

Chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM), Kanpur Nagar, Satyadeo on Wednesday asked doctors to desist from issuing medical certificates in an arbitrary manner.

A 12-year-old boy was killed in a road accident, when he along with his mother was crossing the road on Faizabad Road on Monday.

A vigilance investigation bureau (VIB) team on Tuesday arrested a state food corporation (SFC) district manager from Purnia for allegedly taking Rs 1.15 lakh as bribe for the payment against his outstanding bills.

LUCKNOW: In yet another encounter with the crack team of the trans-Gomti police, a dreaded gangster, wanted in as many as 42 cases of heinous crimes, including 17 that of robbery, was shot dead on Tuesday evening. The gangster was a suspect in a series of dacoities committed in Madiaon police circle earlier last month.

How politicians manage to outsmart opposition and retain power by hook or by crook was aptly depicted in ‘Via Fursatganj’, a political satire staged by the Third Bell Repertory at the Akhilesh Das auditorium on Monday.

Scores of SP workers assembled at the GPO park on Tuesday to celebrate the 66th birthday of chief minister.

Sixteen children afflicted with cerebral palsy have so far registered in Palamu for a free check-up in the state capital on November 17.

Authorities of Allahabad University have constituted the advisory committee for holding Students’ Union Elections.

In another setback to BSP chief Mayawati, her aide and former MP Brijesh Pathak quit the party and joined the BJP on Monday.

A 25-year-old BDS student was crushed to death by a speeding carrier near Sai Market on Faizabad Road outside the campus of a private university, where she was studying, at 11.15 am on Sunday.

The state government employees on Friday joined the Anna Hazare movement to protest against corruption and support the Jan Lokpal bill.

Lokayukta Justice (retired) NK Mehrotra has recommended in his latest inquiry report on allotment of Member of Legislative Assembly funds submitted to the chief minister that the procedure of allottment of the funds should be amended.

With his first criminal act in police records dating back to 1973, Arun Shukla alias Anna alias Maharaj started off a muscle man wielding terror in Daliganj and Hasanganj pockets of the state capital.

While the State Human Rights Commission directed principal secretary (home) to lodge an FIR against the then station officer Sarojininagar and constables Dharmendra, Kamlesh, Genda Lal and Rakesh Kumar, the DIG sent the SO to lines on September 22 itself.

Talks are on with the Noida municipal authorities for setting up of a lawn tennis club roping in ace lawn tennis player Mahesh Bhupati in order to promote this game," said Shantanu Srivastava, an ex-IITian on his visit to IIT-K recently.

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A middle-aged woman was critically injured after some miscreants fired at her in Gangapur Colony in Bidhnoo police station limits on Wednesday night.

Barring a few cases of violence, the Ganesh immersion procession in the city was by and large peaceful.

If one were to look at the positives emanating out of the outcome of Lok Sabha polls, what emerges is the fact that most of the proxy candidates of crime lords in Bihar lost the election.