Uttar Pradesh

Sultanpur (UP), Nov 6 (PTI) Former Union minister and Sultanpur MP Maneka Gandhi on Saturday welcomed the cut in petrol and diesel prices and also called for lowering the LPG cylinders rates.

Maneka Gandhi made the request to the Union government while touring her parliamentary constituency on a four-day visit.

The petrol and diesel prices have come down. The Union government should consider lowering the prices of other things, like gas (LPG cylinder), too to provide relief to the people, she said during a programme in her constituency.

Mau (UP), Nov 6 (PTI) A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth who took her to a sugarcane field here with the promise of giving her a toffee, police said on Saturday.

The girl was grazing goats along with her younger brother in a village under Kopaganj police station area on Friday evening when the 22-year-old man from a neighbouring village took her to a sugarcane field and allegedly raped her, police said.

Banda (UP), Nov 7 (PTI) A nine-year-old girl, who had gone to a farm to fetch pulses, was allegedly raped by a 14-year-old boy here, police said on Sunday.

Marka Station House Officer Rakesh Saroj said the incident took place on Friday evening.

Two other girls had accompanied the victim to the farm, he said. However, no information about them has been disclosed.

A case was registered on Saturday based on a complaint lodged by the girl's father, Saroj said, adding she has been for a medical examination.

Lucknow (UP), Nov 7 (PTI) Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday sought to know why the people should believe in BJP's slogan of 'sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas' when the government has failed to win the faith of the protesting farmers.

"The BJP says 'sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas'. But, how can people believe this 'jumlaa' (rhetoric) when the country's farmers have been so fiercely protesting against the three farm laws for such a long time and are agitated," she tweeted in Hindi.

Kanpur: Ten more people have been added into the list of patients who tested positive for the Zika virus here on Sunday. 

This has taken the total number of those infected in the district to a total of 89.

Of those recently infected with the virus, three are Air Force personnel, two are women and men each, officials said.

Till Friday, the total infections of Zika virus in the district was 66, which included 9 IAF personnel, 45 men and 21 women, according to officials.

Kanpur: The residents continued to breathe polluted air with the air quality remaining in the 'poor' category here on Monday.

According to Central Pollution Control Board, the air quality index stands at 270 here. It was categorised as the 'poor', with particulate matter 2.5 as the main pollutant in the air.

The residents have blamed the bursting of crackers on the occasion of Diwali for the thick layer of smog covering the entire city.

Kanpur: It is yet again 13 fresh Zika virus cases were revealed here on Saturday, according to the ANI.

The total tally of the mosquito-borne disease stands at 79 now as it stepped up surveillance to check its spread, health officials said.

Dr Anil Nigam, CMS, Ursala Hospital said that our team was inspecting regularly. The Municipal corporation teams have also been deployed for the fogging to destroy mosquito breeding points.

So far Zika virus infection has been spreading rapidly in Kanpur. In this case, special caution is required.

Kanpur: Sorghum (jowar) can be a wonder crop not only for all those related to the sugar industry but to a common man also in the comprehensive fight against the deadly virus of coronavirus.

The National Sugar Institute, Kanpur in collaboration with ICAR-IIMR, Hyderabad has been conducting studies to assess the potential of the crop for the last two years at the institute farm.

Five sweet sorghum varieties (CSH 22S, SSV 84, SSV 74, Phlue Vasundhara and ICSSH 28) deemed suitable for sub-tropical region are being cultivated and tested.

Kanpur: A total 30 fresh cases of Zika Virus were reported in Kanpur on Thursday, taking the total count for Zika Virus in the city to 66.

As many as 30 more people have tested positive for Zika virus in Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh.

With this, the total tally has gone up to 66, said Chief Medical Officer Dr Nepal Singh, according to news reports.

The first case of the Zika virus came to the fore in Kanpur on October 25. Later, the central government sent a multi-disciplinary team to Kanpur.

The ICMR-DHR centres of excellence have been set up at seven IITs including Kanpur.

The setting-up of the 'ICMR at IITs' will bridge the gap in technology development and commercialisation cycle for a larger public health impact.

The Indian healthcare sector is heavily dependent on imports for its medical device needs.