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Kanpur: Just on the Nai Chungi road in the Jajmau area, there squats the vegetable vendors on one side of the road. It is so because they find ample raised space to put their various vegetables and also adjusts themselves at the gap.

Passers-by stop to buy vegetables of their respective choices. Generally, sharp-voiced women arrange different vegetables like onions, potatoes, ladyfinger, gourd, and other varieties.

Kanpur: It was the forenoon and the poor women were waiting for the distribution of food grains along with edible oil at an open space beside a mosque in KDA Colony here on Monday.

This welfare programme was done under the banner of a charity organisation. A banner hanging along the wall hinted at this factual information.

The organisers were standing at the time of videography on quick disposal of flour packet, edible oil bottle, Dal and other things. 

Kanpur: Moving on the road from Nai Chungi to the Lal Bangla of the Jajmau area, there wasn't much crowd of the usual shoppers. It used to be abundantly intensed in the evening hours but the scene on Wednesday was different. 

Not much traffic either as the vehicles were passing effortlessly on the clear road.

Was it due to rainy days? One responded that it was not so. Since the people did not have adequate money with them, they are avoiding going to the market.

When their pockets are empty so the shops look not to be overcrowded. 

New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) Communication between two girls through exchange of letters form the subject of a new book which attempts to portray life in Kashmir from the perspective of its young minds and providing a context of understanding for the new generation in other parts of the country.

"Post Box Kashmir: Two Lives in Letters" provides an insight into the minds and hearts of teenage girls, one in Delhi and the other in Kashmir, undergoing momentous points in history.

Kanpur: Bakrid is an occasion for the daily earners to make money as there is a trend among the butchers to go to other cities for earning during the three-day festival. 

Their demand suddenly increases during the festival as every person seeks help from them.

A group of about twenty or more butchers arrived in the city to conduct the act of slaughtering the goats. What they looked for was earning some money by their specialised act.

 Kanpur: "Take a total of seven thousand rupees for above one-year-old seven-kg male goat," said a shopper but the goat seller refused vehemently. He looked at another seller who also refused. The third seller was also not easy to deal with.

Disturbed with the delay in a deal that worried buyer thought it was better to pay eight thousand rupees and take away the not-so muscular goat.

However, the Sarsaul-based vendor, under the strong urge of avarice, said to finalise the deal by paying two hundred rupees more. Thus the bargain was completed.

New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) A new novel provides an insider's view of everyday life and emotions in Kashmir Valley through a number of love stories.

"Life in the Clock Tower Valley" is the debut book of Press Trust of India (PTI) journalist Shakoor Rather. Published by Speaking Tiger, it talks about Kashmir's pristine past, its grievous present and always-uncertain future.

It also includes historical and political information about Kashmir as well as environmental issues that are seldom talked about.

Kanpur: Nai Chungi crossing remains busy all the time but the crowd surges a little bit more during the evening. The devouts who fast flock to the place to buy water melon, grapes, bananas and other eatables too. The people living around the place get easy chance to get everything of their preference there. 

The traffic movement continues the whole day but the people's gathering to buy required items for Iftaar goes on for not more than one hour.

Kanpur: Sunny weather keeps us feel intensity of the higher day temperature on second Saturday of the ongoing month. The sun, as weather news informed, brightens at 40 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.

The real feel stayed at 41° Celsius, according to the weather report.

None denies that the temperature is all the more unbearable. What will be the condition in the next two months? They questioned.

Kanpur: Sharing her experience about Goa visit after marriage one young woman told that the beach looks impressive for its vast expanse but the strange fear dominates the mind standing near the sea waves all the time. The rise and fall of seawater become quite dreary during the night. " I was too scared with standing near the shore as the full force of water appeared like pulling me into the sea," the lady maintained adding that her husband kept on saying not to fear but it was not possible for her.