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A married couple drowned while crossing a check dam when they were returning to their home from work in Uttar Pradesh's Banda, police said on Thursday.

Police on Wednesday recovered the body of a man missing for three days from a village in the Mahoba district.

Security arrangements have been beefed up in UP's Aligarh after the death of Mukhtar Ansari, who suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday night.

Jailed gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. He was 63.

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to Uttar Pradesh's Banda Medical College on Tuesday after his health deteriorated in jail.

The Uttar Pradesh government assured the Supreme Court on Friday it will strengthen the security of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari inside the Banda jail if needed, so no harm is done to him.

Six more bodies have been fished out from the Kishanpur ghat on Saturday in the incident where a boat capsized in the Yamuna in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh on August 11.

A man's body was found with injury marks on his neck on the terrace of his girlfriend's house, the Uttar Pradesh police said on Tuesday.

Video clip of five women, who had undergone sterilization surgery, lying on the floor in a government hospital in Banda, has exposed the state of affairs in UP's health care sector.

Several employees of electricity department in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district say they have been wearing helmets to work because their office building is "dilapidated".

After intervention by a district court, seven people were charged for allegedly raping a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district.

An official of the Chitrakoot district panchayat office in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district has been booked on the charge of rape, police said on Sunday.

The Bahujan Samaj Party today declared names of its 16 candidates for Lok Sabha elections in the state. Among them is Afzal Ansari, the brother of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who is serving sentence in Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail in connection with various criminal cases.

Thunderstorm and dust storm accompanied by gusty winds are very likely at isolated places in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh over the next two days, the weather department has warned. The districts that could be hit by thunderstorm or dust storm include Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur, Hardoi, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Meerut, ...

A couple and their two sons were axed to death by unidentified assailants in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

A married couple drowned while crossing a check dam when they were returning to their home from work in Uttar Pradesh's Banda, police said on Thursday.

Police on Wednesday recovered the body of a man missing for three days from a village in the Mahoba district.

Security arrangements have been beefed up in UP's Aligarh after the death of Mukhtar Ansari, who suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday night.

Jailed gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. He was 63.

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to Uttar Pradesh's Banda Medical College on Tuesday after his health deteriorated in jail.

The Uttar Pradesh government assured the Supreme Court on Friday it will strengthen the security of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari inside the Banda jail if needed, so no harm is done to him.

Six more bodies have been fished out from the Kishanpur ghat on Saturday in the incident where a boat capsized in the Yamuna in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh on August 11.

A man's body was found with injury marks on his neck on the terrace of his girlfriend's house, the Uttar Pradesh police said on Tuesday.

Video clip of five women, who had undergone sterilization surgery, lying on the floor in a government hospital in Banda, has exposed the state of affairs in UP's health care sector.

Several employees of electricity department in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district say they have been wearing helmets to work because their office building is "dilapidated".

After intervention by a district court, seven people were charged for allegedly raping a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district.

An official of the Chitrakoot district panchayat office in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district has been booked on the charge of rape, police said on Sunday.

The Bahujan Samaj Party today declared names of its 16 candidates for Lok Sabha elections in the state. Among them is Afzal Ansari, the brother of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who is serving sentence in Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail in connection with various criminal cases.

Thunderstorm and dust storm accompanied by gusty winds are very likely at isolated places in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh over the next two days, the weather department has warned. The districts that could be hit by thunderstorm or dust storm include Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur, Hardoi, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Meerut, ...

A couple and their two sons were axed to death by unidentified assailants in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.