More areas of the city have been brought under curfew as situation continued to be tense in localities which witnessed communal violence, official sources said in Bareilly on Saturday.

At least nine people, eight of them teenagers, were killed and 15 injured when a speeding train ploughed through a tractor-trolley at an unmanned railway crossing near Shivrajpur, 50-km from Kanpur, on Tuesday.

A substantial number of people in Uttar Pradesh has joined the Congress in the last one year, thanks to the Rahul Gandhi effect.

Indian Mujahideen militant Salman, an accused in 2008 Delhi serial blasts case who was trained in handling weapons and explosives in Pakistan, has been arrested by Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh from Siddharth Nagar district, police said here today.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister claimed on Saturday that her state is not in a position to give any monetary compensation to the families of those killed in the Pratapgarh stampede.

Twelve-year-old Kishori was lost in daze outside the ashram, separated from her mother and two aunts in the stampede that left at least 61 people dead on Thursday and unsure of their fate.

At least 61 people are killed and several others injured in a stampede at the Ram Janki temple in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Election Commission to decide whether the installation of statues of elephants at the cost of the state exchequer by the Mayawati government in Lucknow and Noida amounts to the installation of election symbol of the party.

An executive engineer of irrigation department in Etawah has sent his resignation letter to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, accusing a ruling BSP MLA of threatening him with dire consequences.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday terminated the services of a police inspector, who beat up a Dalit woman accused of murdering her husband in Musafirkhana area of Sultanpur district, a senior official said here.

The toll in the hooch tragedy here rose to 15, with nine more people dying overnight after consuming the spurious liquor.

Bringing the curtains down on a bitter relationship of late, Samajwadi Party on Tuesday expelled Amar Singh and his close associate Jaya Prada for anti-party activities, after which he gave mixed signals on his options of tying up with Congress.

A Dalit woman and her four daughters were burnt to death and their charred bodies were found early this morning in Behanganpurwa village, nearly 70 kms from the district headquarters, police said.

At least three persons were killed and 14 others injured when the Kalindi Express train rammed into Kanpur-bound Shram Shakti Express near Tundla amid dense fog this morning.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday launched various welfare schemes to the tune of over Rs 7,312 crores on the occasion of her 54th birthday, being observed as "Jan Kalyankari Diwas".

Overnight rains in parts of north India on Wednesday compounded the misery of the people reeling under cold wave, which claimed 351 lives this winter.

Cold wave intensified its grip over north India where the toll mounted to 326 on Tuesday with 38 fresh deaths, all in Uttar Pradesh, even as Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh reeled under sub-zero temperatures.

Reacting sharply to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's statement blaming Uttar Pradesh government for hike in sugar prices, Chief Minister Mayawati said on Monday that it was "most irresponsible and insensitive" comment made by a responsible minister.

Cold conditions on Monday intensified in most part of north India where the toll went up to 262 with four more deaths, even as flight and train operations were normal in the absence of fog.

At least six persons were injured on Monday when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed on them in Rudauli town of the district, police said.

The cold wave that has swept across North India over the past week has now killed over 200 people.

Cold wave claimed 154 lives across north India, even as its intensity slightly abated on Tuesday after the sun came out lifting the fog and raising temperature in parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

Ending speculation about his return to BJP, its former leader Kalyan Singh on Tuesday floated a new political outfit - Jan Kranti Party - on the occasion of his 77th birthday.

After demanding creation of separate Bundelkhand and Paschimanchal states, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday shot off a second letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking carving out of 'Poorvanchal' comprising eastern parts of the state.

The two pilots, who landed the helicopter carrying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi allegedly in poor visibility in UP's Sitapur district on Monday, have been taken off duty to enable them to appear before the DGCA for a probe, official sources said today.