Miliband’s night out with Rahul - in a Dalit homeAMETHI - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband got a flavour of bucolic India - a thatched house and a rope cot to sleep in as cows and buffaloes grazed in the backyard — when he and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spent Wednesday night at the home of Dalits in a village. Miliband’s night out with Rahul - in a Dalit homeAMETHI - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband got a flavour of bucolic India - a thatched hut and a rope cot to sleep in with cattle grazing in the backyard - when he and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spent Wednesday night in a village here. Three of family murdered in Hapur townHAPUR - An accountant, his wife and their daughter have been murdered in this Uttar Pradesh town, the police said Saturday, adding they were probing if the two women had been raped too. I am framed up to save somebody high up: Uttar Pradesh legislatorAURAIYA - Shekhar Tiwari, a legislator of Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) who has been arrested for the murder of a government engineer here last month, Wednesday denied any role in the crime and said he was being framed up to save ’someone high-up’. Reciting Ramayana non-stop for nine months…and continuingJALESAR - Verses from the Hindu epic Ramayana can be heard as soon as one alights at the main bus stop in this small Uttar Pradesh town. They can be heard from loudspeakers in various neighbourhoods. The chanting emanates from an ancient temple and has been going on non-stop for nine months. Jayaprada courts arrest against engineer’s lynchingRAMPUR - Lok Sabha member Jayaprada Thursday courted arrest here to protest the lynching of an Uttar Pradesh government engineer early Wednesday morning, allegedly by a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator. |