Mahuwara Khurd (Azamgarh), (IANS): He can't walk without support but that hasn't stopped Amarnath Rajbhar from helping others stand on their own feet. The physically challenged man has set a milestone in the field of education in this Uttar Pradesh village by running a school for poor children.  The 45-year-old man lost his left leg in 1973 while practising long jump at the age of 10. Today, the 11th-pass runs a...

-CNN-IBN   The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken BSP MLA Ram Prasad Jaiswal into custody in connection with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. Jaiswal was taken into custody after the CBI interrogated him in two separate cases related to financial irregularities in the procurement of information material. Jaiswal was under scrutiny for the supply of construction material and labour to ANM training centres in Lucknow and adjacent districts under the...

-The Telegraph The Election Commission has set January 11 as the deadline to cover statues of all political leaders and their party symbols before Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, a decision the CPI called “irrational” today. “The whole work of veiling the statues should be completed by 5pm on 11th January 2012. The district election officer of the districts concerned shall submit to the commission a compliance report in this regard by...

-Sify News   A single bamboo stick holds the thatched roof together, the discoloured floor serves as both bench and chair, the kids sit in neat rows and a man sits on a printed mattress. It is from humble rooms like this that a quiet education revolution is unravelling in this eastern Uttar Pradesh district that was associated in public memory not long ago for alleged involvement of some of its youth...

-PTI The CBI on Saturday arrested a former official of a Uttar Pradesh government-owned public sector unit for his alleged involvement in the Rs 10,000 crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam.   Sources said the accused, GK Batra, former MD of Shreeton India, was arrested following a day-long intensive interrogation by agency sleuths. The CBI has so far arrested five persons including former UP Small Industries Corporation md Abhay Kumar Bajpai, former...