Lucknow: Voted to power with a promise to weed out corruption and send the guilty behind bars, the Akhilesh Yadav government has, a year-and-a-half later, not been able to take much action in cases involving high-ranking figures of the Mayawati regime despite damning evidence emerging out of the Lokayukta's investigations.

With these reports pertaining to Naseemuddin Siddiqui, the powerful and influential public works department (PWD) minister and number two in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government, submitted by the Lokayukta, Justice (retd) NK Mehrotra, more than a year ago, gathering...

Panaji: A trial court in Goa Saturday sent a 39-year-old truck driver to nine days of police remand for molesting a five-year-old girl.

The incident took place on Friday when a naval officer had engaged the accused, Sudesh Parab, to transport his luggage out of his house at the Naval Officers' Residential Area (NOFRA) in Dabolim, 30 km from here.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Lawrence...

Agartala: Due to lack of funds, several national railway projects in southern Assam, Tripura and other northeastern states would be delayed by a year, an official said here Saturday.

"Railway officials at a meeting here told Tripura government (officials) that the gauge conversion works, extension of railway lines in southern Assam, Tripura and other northeastern states would be delayed by a...

Lucknow: A woman died here of swine flu late on Friday. Neelam Singh had recently returned from Delhi and had complained of breathlessness and other complications. Her husband, a doctor at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) here, got her admitted to a medical facility in the city.

Tests conducted on her confirmed that she was infected with H1N1 swine flu virus and was shifted to an...

New Delhi: It was a warm morning in the capital on Saturday with the minimum temperature settling at 24.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below average for the season. The Met Office has forecast a hot day ahead.

"The sky will remain clear and a hot day lies ahead for the city. The maximum temperature is expected to reach about 43 degrees Celsius mark," an India Meteorological Department official...

Bhubaneswar: A man has been arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in an Odisha village, police said on Saturday.

Santosh Rout, 45, was arrested after the girl's father lodged a complaint Friday. The victim, a Class five student, had suffered injury marks on her body, a police officer said.

Rout allegedly dragged the girl to a secluded place and raped her on Thursday evening when she had...

Mumbai: In one of the biggest seizure of drugs, customs officials at Mumbai Airport Friday nabbed a South African woman carrying 26 kg of drugs worth over Rs.13 crore, an official said here.

The woman, identified as Sity Lentin (42), had concealed the drugs in her luggage, said Assistant Commissioner of Customs S. Wankhede said.

Lentin works for an event management company which has...

New Delhi: Women are being given training in self-defence and road safety at a special camp here Friday.

The camp was organised by Delhi Police in collaboration with auto-mobile company Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Private Limited.

The training camp also focused on sharpening women's ability to predict dangers in a safe and practical manner. In order to help women feel empowered and...

New Delhi: Riding high after the arrest of three cricketer, including India fast bowler S. Sreesanth, in spot-fixing in Indian Premier League (IPL), Delhi Police are still struggling to file a chargesheet 13 years after having exposed the murky world of match-fixing in 2000.

The cricketing world was shocked in 2000, when Delhi Police named then South African captain Hansie Cronje, who died...

Ghaziabad: A shortage of staff at the Ghaziabad Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) is resulting in long queues of people applying for passports.

Regional Passport Officer Sita Ram Yadav said the present skeletal staff is not able to cope with the almost 600 applicants each day from 13 districts of Western Uttar Pradesh.

"We need about six to eight staff at the C-level counters (screening level),...