A woman entered a 12-feet deep tank filled with raw material for making tomato sauce to clean the area and slipped and fell into it. Eight of her co-workers jumped into the tank to save her, and six of them, including the woman, died while two are still battling for their lives in the hospital.
The deaths, according to police sources, occurred due to some poisonous gas in the tank.

The department of textile and clothing in the College of Home Science at Chandra Shekhar Azad (CSA) University of Agriculture and Technology in Kanpur has designed special clothes for the physically-challenged persons, particularly women.

UP chief minister Mayawati’s letter box, rather bag, seems to be overflowing.
The number of letters that the chief minister receives every day has been steadily going up and the general post office in Lucknow has now set up a separate cell that deals exclusively with letters addressed to the chief minister.

In a bizarre turn of events, a village panchayat in Greater Noida has ordered that all girls belonging to dalit communities would be “picked up” from their homes if Priyanka, a brahmin girl who had eloped with Sanjay, a dalit boy, did not return home immediately.

Former Australia opener Geoff Marsh has been appointed coach of new Indian Premier League side Sahara Pune Warriors while Demot Reeve, former England all rounder, will be the assistant coach.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday lashed out the UPA government and accused the Congress of working under American pressure.

UP chief minister Mayawati now holds a record for carving out the maximum number of districts in Uttar Pradesh. Alongside, she also remains the only political leader to have given a marked presence to dalit icons in the state by naming the new districts after them.

When BJP president Nitin Gadkari arrives in Lucknow on July 4 on his first trip to Uttar Pradesh, he will have an onerous task before him.
Party cadres in UP are waiting with their bundles of demands, suggestions and complaints to greet the party president whose two earlier visits to UP have been cancelled at the last minute.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s constituency, Amethi, has been renamed and given the status of a district by the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh.
This was decided by the state Cabinet on Thursday. The new district, the state’s 72nd, will be renamed Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar.

Fifteen policemen, including the then station officer of Gomti Nagar police station, a sub-inspector and 13 constables, have been booked in a fake encounter case on charges of murder, tampering of evidence and Arms Act.