Sonbhadra District Uttar Pradesh

An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 on the Richter Scale struck the Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

Two people on election duty died and nine taken ill of suspected heat stroke as they were being dispatched to their assignment locations in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, a senior official said on Friday.

The police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a woman in the name of exorcism, officials said on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh via video conferencing.

Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh gained sudden prominence after news circulated that the area has a rich vein of gold.

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has rejected claims of around 3000 tonnes of gold deposits in UP's Sonbhadra district, saying the estimated reserve is 160 kg.

Gold deposits estimated to be around 3,000 tonnes and worth Rs 12 lakh crore have been discovered in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), almost five times India's current reserve of the precious metal.

A video has emerged from Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra that shows a cook of the government's mid-day meal programme mixing a packet of one-litre milk with a bucket of water to feed some 81 students at a local school.

The panchayat president of Renukoot Nagar in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district was shot dead by unidentified miscreants on Monday. Initial probe report suggests rivalry behind the killing, said police.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today visited Umbra village in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, where 10 people were shot dead by a village head and 200 of his associates over a land dispute.

Over two weeks after 10 people, including three women, were shot dead over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra, the state government today removed top administrative and police officials from their posts.

A ruling alliance MLA claimed on Wednesday that he wrote to Yogi Adityanath about the in Sonbhadra where 10 tribals were gunned down a week ago, but his letter was not shown to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today blamed the Congress for the shocking murder of 10 tribal farmers in a shootout over land in Sonbhadra district this week. The Chief Minister claimed the deaths werethe result of a "very big political conspiracy" that had exposed the opposition's "anti-Dalit, anti-tribal face"

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Sonbhadra tomorrow where 10 people were killed in a shootout this week over a land dispute. The Chief Minister's visit comes amid a spiralling political row over the deaths, blamed on a village chief trying to forcefully take control of land from farmers.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, after meeting the families of the Sonbhadra shootout victims following a night of detention and high drama in Uttar Pradesh, has decided to return home to Delhi, but with a promise that she will return. "I'll be back," she said outside the guest house in Mirzapur district where she had been taken by the police on Friday.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 on the Richter Scale struck the Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

Two people on election duty died and nine taken ill of suspected heat stroke as they were being dispatched to their assignment locations in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, a senior official said on Friday.

The police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a woman in the name of exorcism, officials said on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh via video conferencing.

Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh gained sudden prominence after news circulated that the area has a rich vein of gold.

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has rejected claims of around 3000 tonnes of gold deposits in UP's Sonbhadra district, saying the estimated reserve is 160 kg.

Gold deposits estimated to be around 3,000 tonnes and worth Rs 12 lakh crore have been discovered in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), almost five times India's current reserve of the precious metal.

A video has emerged from Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra that shows a cook of the government's mid-day meal programme mixing a packet of one-litre milk with a bucket of water to feed some 81 students at a local school.

The panchayat president of Renukoot Nagar in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district was shot dead by unidentified miscreants on Monday. Initial probe report suggests rivalry behind the killing, said police.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today visited Umbra village in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, where 10 people were shot dead by a village head and 200 of his associates over a land dispute.

Over two weeks after 10 people, including three women, were shot dead over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra, the state government today removed top administrative and police officials from their posts.

A ruling alliance MLA claimed on Wednesday that he wrote to Yogi Adityanath about the in Sonbhadra where 10 tribals were gunned down a week ago, but his letter was not shown to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today blamed the Congress for the shocking murder of 10 tribal farmers in a shootout over land in Sonbhadra district this week. The Chief Minister claimed the deaths werethe result of a "very big political conspiracy" that had exposed the opposition's "anti-Dalit, anti-tribal face"

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Sonbhadra tomorrow where 10 people were killed in a shootout this week over a land dispute. The Chief Minister's visit comes amid a spiralling political row over the deaths, blamed on a village chief trying to forcefully take control of land from farmers.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, after meeting the families of the Sonbhadra shootout victims following a night of detention and high drama in Uttar Pradesh, has decided to return home to Delhi, but with a promise that she will return. "I'll be back," she said outside the guest house in Mirzapur district where she had been taken by the police on Friday.