Written By Niha Masih

The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration has given its go ahead to prosecute Nestle India, which manufactures instant noodles Maggi, a batch of which was found to contain dangerous levels of lead.

In a condemnable incident, a child was found working at a press conference called by Junior Human Resource and Development (HRD) minister Ram Shankar Katheria at his house in Agra on Friday.

Children below 10 are seen arranging chairs for an event in Uttar Pradesh by the state's ruling Samajwadi Party.

The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to approach the Delhi High Court to challenge a trial court's acquittal of the 16 policemen accused of killing 42 people in Hashimpura in Meerut in 1987.

A young Agra resident, Sadhvi Pandey, is being praised for stopping a local politician's Mercedes after his guard allegedly winked at her, and then climbing atop the car and standing there till she was handed an apology and Rs 6,500 to pay for a mobile phone that she said was smashed by the leader's aides.

Supriya is sleeping serenely tucked in a red dupatta, lying in her grandmother's arms at the Tudikhel relief camp in Kathmandu. She is barely a few hours old, the white hospital tag still visible on her tiny hand.

At Kathmandu's biggest relief camp at Tudikhel grounds, a hot wind has blown away one leg of Binda Gupta's tent. Her brother tries to fix it unsuccessfully.

An American student of Indian origin, who was doing her PHD from Varanasi's Benaras Hindu University, has alleged she was molested by five men on campus on the evening of April 22.

Mohammad Kalim and four other men were sleeping on the pavement outside the America Express Bakery in Bandra West, when actor Salman Khan's Toyota Land Cruiser ran them over on September 28, 2002. Mr Kalim then in his 20s, was injured; his friend Nurullah, died.

A week after a devastating 7.9-magnitute earthquake struck, Nepal continues to search for survivors through the rubble. Among those missing are over 1,000 foreign nationals.

A nightclub owner, a tourist, and a call centre employee are holding fort at a government hospital in Kathmandu, for the last five days after a powerful earthquake caused large scale devastation across Nepal, killing over 5000 people.

At Kathmandu's Bir Hospital, there is a long row of dead bodies lined up. Each has a small sticker pasted hurriedly on their forehead with their names or areas they died at. From under the white shroud, a hand clutching a mobile phone peeks out.

The maidan of Tudi Khel in the heart of Kathmandu looked like a picnic spot on Sunday, crowded with tents fashioned out of bright blue tarpaulin. Hundreds of families, children included, cooked food and slept on rugs.

The devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday morning left the bustling old city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu a ghost town.

A 15-year-old Mathura schoolgirl was repeatedly stabbed with scissors by a man who had stalked her, after she allegedly refused to marry him.Today morning, the man and two of his friends entered the girl's house, where she was alone, and inflicted 50 wounds on her hands and back.

The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration has given its go ahead to prosecute Nestle India, which manufactures instant noodles Maggi, a batch of which was found to contain dangerous levels of lead.

In a condemnable incident, a child was found working at a press conference called by Junior Human Resource and Development (HRD) minister Ram Shankar Katheria at his house in Agra on Friday.

Children below 10 are seen arranging chairs for an event in Uttar Pradesh by the state's ruling Samajwadi Party.

The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to approach the Delhi High Court to challenge a trial court's acquittal of the 16 policemen accused of killing 42 people in Hashimpura in Meerut in 1987.

A young Agra resident, Sadhvi Pandey, is being praised for stopping a local politician's Mercedes after his guard allegedly winked at her, and then climbing atop the car and standing there till she was handed an apology and Rs 6,500 to pay for a mobile phone that she said was smashed by the leader's aides.

Supriya is sleeping serenely tucked in a red dupatta, lying in her grandmother's arms at the Tudikhel relief camp in Kathmandu. She is barely a few hours old, the white hospital tag still visible on her tiny hand.

At Kathmandu's biggest relief camp at Tudikhel grounds, a hot wind has blown away one leg of Binda Gupta's tent. Her brother tries to fix it unsuccessfully.

An American student of Indian origin, who was doing her PHD from Varanasi's Benaras Hindu University, has alleged she was molested by five men on campus on the evening of April 22.

Mohammad Kalim and four other men were sleeping on the pavement outside the America Express Bakery in Bandra West, when actor Salman Khan's Toyota Land Cruiser ran them over on September 28, 2002. Mr Kalim then in his 20s, was injured; his friend Nurullah, died.

A week after a devastating 7.9-magnitute earthquake struck, Nepal continues to search for survivors through the rubble. Among those missing are over 1,000 foreign nationals.

A nightclub owner, a tourist, and a call centre employee are holding fort at a government hospital in Kathmandu, for the last five days after a powerful earthquake caused large scale devastation across Nepal, killing over 5000 people.

At Kathmandu's Bir Hospital, there is a long row of dead bodies lined up. Each has a small sticker pasted hurriedly on their forehead with their names or areas they died at. From under the white shroud, a hand clutching a mobile phone peeks out.

The maidan of Tudi Khel in the heart of Kathmandu looked like a picnic spot on Sunday, crowded with tents fashioned out of bright blue tarpaulin. Hundreds of families, children included, cooked food and slept on rugs.

The devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday morning left the bustling old city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu a ghost town.

A 15-year-old Mathura schoolgirl was repeatedly stabbed with scissors by a man who had stalked her, after she allegedly refused to marry him.Today morning, the man and two of his friends entered the girl's house, where she was alone, and inflicted 50 wounds on her hands and back.