After four dozen deaths due to heavy storm and rainfall during the last 48-hours, 14 more casualties were reported in separate mishaps in the State since Sunday evening.

In Bulundshahr, one Rakesh Agarwal, a native of Jawa locality of Aligarh was returning with his family after attending marriage of his maternal niece in Bulundshahr in the wee hours of Monday.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi reviewed the progress of the developmental projects in her parliamentary constituency and directed the officials to speed up employment under MNREGA, repairs of roads and providing drinking water in the summer season.

Chairing the meeting of the district Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meeting here on the last day of her visit, Sonia Gandhi asked the officials

The farmers

With next assembly polls being round the corner, UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is all set to shell out over Rs 4000 crore for purchase of additional electricity in order to keep the power starved consumers in good humour.

Out of this huge amount the power corporation have to manage about Rs 2100 crore from its own resources while the state government is likely to provide rest of the mone

With the Congress deciding to hold a rally in Banda on April 30 to highlight the miseries of the people living in Bundelkhand, the Bahujan Samaj Party Government has revived Uttar Pradesh's demand for a special package saying "without this help the region cannot prosper".

"The State Government does not have resources of its own to start a special scheme.

UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has warned the private franchisee company Torrent Power, currently managing power distribution in Agra city, for cancellation of the agreement.

The private company which was handed over power distribution in Agra a year ago have reportedly defied the terms of agreement with power corporation by not providing certain information and data over this period.

Tremors of Japan's earthquake are being felt in Uttar Pradesh as government officials are sceptic about funding by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the ongoing projects as this Land of Rising Sun is itself facing a financial crunch post-tsunami.

The JICA is financing projects including Gangajal under which Ganga waters would be taken to Agra by a 100-km canal from Bulandshah

Catering to its Dalit vote bank, the Bahujan Samaj Party government has sanctioned Rs 1,250 crore for construction of roads in Ambedkar villages that were identified in the party's last three regimes but where work had come to a halt with the fall of the party's governments.

A highly placed official in the PWD told 'The Pioneer' that the government had decided to construct pucca roads in Ambedk

Even as the farmers of western Uttar Pradesh are up in arms against the state government's decision to acquire agricultural land around Yamuna Expressway for construction of residential colony, plots worth about Rs 1800 crore have been sold in the fiscal that ended on Thursday.

The government dossiers claim that the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has so far allocated 835 hec

The claims of better power supply in state during this summer by UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) might get hit by shortage of coal at national level.

The recent projections by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has come as a pointer of hard times ahead for UPPCL which had announced commissioning of generation in various units of thermal power plants in this year.

Based on proposed synchron