Mahoba, India News

Lucknow, Dec 22 : Despite Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's open appeal to the people to pursue the cause of trifurcation of the state, the demand for a separate Bundelkhand, West UP and Poorvanchal failed to catch up with the masses.

If for one campaign for separate statehood for Bundelkhand people are ending up with blistered and callused feet, then for the other one they are ready to 'spill blood' non-violently. People from all walks of life and cutting across the party lines are joining them.

A regional party, campaigning for a Bundelkhand state out of districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Thursday announced that it would start a blood signature campaign for the formation of the state.

The organisations active in Bundelkhand region launched a fortnight long agitation on Wednesday to raise the demand for separate Bundelkhand state.

Here is a rural wedding that can be of immense academic interest at Copenhagen's Climate Change summit.

A Bahujan Samaj Party leader was allegedly shot dead by over half a dozen unidentified persons in a village in Mahoba after a petty dispute over distribution of fertiliser, police said on Friday.

A seed movement has sprouted in distressed Bundelkhand. On it ride the hopes of hundreds of peasants and thousands of acreage of land across six UP districts of the region.

A teacher of an Uttar Pradesh school has been booked for allegedly forcing a girl student to perform obscene dance in skimpy clothes and filming it with his mobile phone, police said Monday.

The protracted drought in Bundelkhand has not only been forcing people to commit suicide but also coercing many to a mortgagea their wives and daughters to moneylenders in a bid to survive.

First the rains failed them, and now government officials are holding back wages for desperate farmers of Bundelkhand who have been driven to work under the National Employment Guarantee Scheme for a living.

LUCKNOW, 1 AUG: The Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government are at loggerheads again: This time over the proposed formation of the Bundelkhand Development Authority that seeks to alleviate problems of the drought-hit region through a programme initiated and implemented by the Centre.

Police fired rubber bullets and arrested 28 people for allegedly setting fire to government property during a violent protest against power outages in northern India as it reels under a heat wave, an official said Wednesday.

India Gazette Friday 10th July, 2009 With a weak monsoon bringing in only scanty rainfall, most lakes, ponds and other water bodies used to irrigate vast areas in Uttar Pradesh are drying up fast, officials said Friday.

Authorities in Uttar Pradesh have shown 'over 100 dead villagers' as beneficiaries of a central government sponsored job guarantee scheme, according to a plea filed in a court.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to provide relief to seven drought-affected districts of Bundelkhand region and eastern Uttar Pradesh, the National Agricultural Bank for Rural Development has sanctioned Rs.246 crore.