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Uttar Pradesh police have alerted security agencies deployed in the security of Taj Mahal at Agra following an intelligence input over terror threat to the monument of love.

U.S., China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter.With China pledging to cut carbon gas emission as their national policy is seen as goal of the Copenhagen talks is to set targets for cutting greenhouse gases, and to raise funds to help poor countries tackle the effects of global warming.

Intelligence agencies raided the house of a relative of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana in Hapur in Uttar Pradesh late Wednesday night.

Mumbai: Experts say that the Lashkar-e-Taiba , the Pakistan-based group that staged the Mumbai terrorist strikes of last year that claimed 166 lives, remains a threat not only in India, but also beyond.

The sun is seen rising over the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, in November 2009. The white marble monument to love was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan in tribute to his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

When constable and sportswoman Anita Yadav went to meet a top Agra police official with her prized possessions - two golds and one bronze medal won at the November athletics championships in Malaysia - she could scarcely imagine what lay in store.

After Mumbai, Kochi, and Ahmedabad, intelligence agencies have traced the link of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana to West Uttar Pradesh.

India Gazette Thursday 19th November, 2009 Eight people of a family were killed early Thursday when a tanker hit their Tata Sumo in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district.

After its resounding victory in the just-concluded assembly bye-elections in Uttar Pradesh, the ruling BSP has fielded candidates for the biennial elections to all the 36 legislative council seats that will go to polls in January.

Agra, Nov 17 More than three dozen pilgrims and priests were injured when an LPG cylinder blew up in a temple in Bateshwar, 70 km from Agra, police said Tuesday.

The first-ever ASEAN-US Leaders meeting held in Singapore after the APEC Leaders' Summit a joint statement after the meeting, which lasted one and a half hours, the leaders also agreed to increase their collaboration and establish an ASEAN-US Eminent Persons Group.It is to support enhanced ASEAN-US cooperation in addressing regional and global issues.The meeting, which included Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, was the result of a recent change in US policy to directly engage the Myanmar leadership.

The body of a 24-year-old woman was lifted by police from the funeral pyre in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district Sunday after her parents filed a complaint that she was set on fire for not mdeeting the dowry demands of her in-laws. The incident took place in the Rasoolpur village of Firozabad district Sunday afternoon.

In an apparent sign of Samajwadi Party's disenchantment with Kalyan Singh after its crushing defeat in the recent by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today said that the former chief minister never was nor would ever be inducted into the SP.

Security at the Taj Mahal here has been tightened following threats of an eminent terrorist attack.

2009-11-12 18:27:14 - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Myanmar to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Stepping up the pressure ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting with the junta's premier, she said the US will continue to call for her unconditional release. The Nobel laureate has spent most of the past 20 years under house arrest after her party won party won the 1990 general elections. The United States has urged ASEAN nations to convince Burma to hold transparent general elections as US President Barack Obama leaves on his debut presidential Asia tour on Thursday. He is scheduled to meet ASEAN leaders in Singapore for the ASEAN – US Summit this week.Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State on Wednesday spoke about Burma’s election after a meeting with foreign ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), including seven member countries from ASEAN, which was held in Singapore. "We would like to see countries individually and through ASEAN reach out to the Burmese leadership, persuade them that it's time to start planning for free, fair and credible elections in 2010," Clinton said.Hillary Clinton said Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, is in detention for fourteen years had "every right, as any person should have...to participate in the active democratic life" of her country. "We believe that her detention over so many years is baseless and not founded on any concern other than she is the leader of the political opposition," Clinton said at a news conference in the Philippine capital, Manila. Clinton called for the opposition to be allowed to take part in the reclusive state's planned 2010 election.She also said there could be high-level contacts with the former Burma's junta at a meeting this weekend of Southeast Asian states to be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama -- though no formal bilateral meeting was planned. "First of all there is no meeting," she told reporters. "There may very well be an opportunity for the leaders, including myself, including the president, to meet the leaders of Burma, something that we have not done before."Clinton said of next year's planned election: "I will underscore our skepticism about an election that does not include all of the people or their representatives who are in opposition." Further she added that there were no plans, to drop U.S. economic sanctions on Myanmar.Media agencies

Amid reports that suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley visited Lucknow and Agra, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday said that they had no information about his links with the state.

New Delhil, Nov.11 : The Government on Wednesday issued an alert warning for four cities of three States along with Delhi over probability of multiple terror attacks.

Boxers and wrestlers are being recruited by an Indian train company to intimidate thousands of ticketless travellers into paying up or getting off.

Farmers stir turns violent in Chhattisgarh A protest by farmers demanding bonus on paddy procurement turned violent here on Monday.

2009-11-07 18:12:01 - India and the European Union have signed an agreement in the civil nuclear field to give boost to collaborative research and agreed over the free trade treaty by next year to boost trade and investment .